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Jews, Hindus, and Buddhists have rules against consuming pork, beef, and alcohol, respectively.

However, you don't see any of these religious minorities giving grief to restaurants or shops that sell these foods or beverages.

Why does it seem that Muslims are the only religious minority that tries to impose its rules upon non-members?

example: going into a shop and demanding that a picture of Piglet, a cartoon pig dressed in overalls, be removed

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/10/04/do0402.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/10/04/ixportal.html

[khyber]

[Troll_Bait]

Dear khyber:



I'm sorry, but you've lost me.

Either you didn't understand the point that I was making in my last post,
or I'm not getting what you're saying.

Could you re-read my post and get back to me?

[wannago]

[Gorgias]

[bucheon bum]

[Satori]

[bucheon bum]

I blame non-muslims for that more than muslims.

Why? Because us infidels are the majority and are looking pathetically weak. As the cliche goes: give them an inch and they'll take a foot (or however it goes).

They probably would stop their whining if they were never successful.

[Teufelswacht]

[Cthulhu]

You have to love the excesses of multiculturalism. The majority must bend to the will of the minority even if that means cutting out traditions that seem relatively innocuous. It especially grates when it is done simply because a single person was offended--as opposed to a generally accepted offense, such as the Koran having a particularly heartfelt proscription against the porcine denizens of the Hundred Acre Wood. Is it any wonder this peculiar condition called multiculturalism hasn't caught on the world over?

If someone told me to remove a box of tissues from my own workspace because it had an image of Piglet on it I'd tell them to shove cardboard Piglet where the sun don't shine.

Sensitively, of course.

[Barking Mad Lord Snapcase]

Here are some tips for a good life.

Buy what you want.

Read what you want.

Watch what you want.

Listen to what you want.

Eat what you want.

Drink what you want.

Write what you want.

Draw what you want.

All within the bounds of your country's law, of course.

If your choices are reduced to appease those who would not respect your own sensitivities in kind, then start a black market and get on with life. (A British black market in Winnie the Pooh - oooh, how radical.) If that doesn't work, then you could take it to the streets and beat the PC zealots at their own game. People are supposed to rally for more freedom, not less. Find creative ways to revive the spirit of the '60s that the radicals themselves have long since betrayed.

For now, the best way to deal with Western PC zealots is with apathy. Trust me, they are actually more annoyed when you are NOT in their faces (just read your local student rag). So let's "confront" them with their worst fears by turning our backs and closing our doors. If they can't possibly mind their own bloody business, then let them tear their hair out and imagine the worst. Let them imagine us consuming, consuming, consuming. Because - guess what? - that's exactly what we'll be doing.

[Teufelswacht]

Yet another example of the European uhhhh I mean Asian insensitivity towards the ROP. Darn those insensitive Thai's. Or since it's Sony is it insensitive Japanese? I'm getting confused. Could someone please construct an "Insensitivity Scorecard" so I can keep track of this pandemic of insensitivity that has spread throughout the world.

Quote:

Thai Rap Song Mocks Koran Tuesday, February 07, 2006 KABUL, Afghanistan — A music distributor recalled two Thai rap CDs from stores Tuesday after Muslims complained the tracks insult their faith. An article on the Thai-language Muslim Web site www.muslimthai.com said a song recorded on CDs in 1998 and 2005 "clearly insults the Koran," the Muslim holy book. It said the CDs contain verses from the Koran and "the Koran strictly forbids the use of its verses in songs." The Council of Muslim Organizations of Thailand said rapper Joey Boy and songwriter Kamol Sukosol Clapp, also known as Suki, should not have used the Koranic verses. The song, "Maya," was released in 1998 on a Joey Boy CD called "Bangkok Boy" and appeared again on the 2005 compilation "The Conclusive Collection." Sony BMG Music Entertainment Thailand has recalled both CDs, and they will probably be destroyed, said Saharat Vanchompoo, the Sony marketing director. Joey Boy and Clapp apologized at a news conference to "all Muslims" for producing the song. "I did not intend to insult the Koran in any way," said Joey Boy, whose real name is Abhisit Opasiemlikit. "If I knew that there was an insulting sound or element in my song, Suki and I would not have created it." The rapper, the songwriter, and Sony BMG's Saharat said they have requested a meeting as soon as possible with Thailand's top Muslim leader to formally apologize. In Europe, drawings of the Prophet Muhammad published in a Danish paper have sparked violent protests in the Muslim world.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,184113,00.html

[Nowhere Man]

I'd just like to put a few things in perspective here.

I grew up in a town with roughly 4000 people and 22 churches.

As a child, when i told classmates that I didn't attend church, more than a few of them told me I was bad. This happened regularly, and the last time i remember it happening was when I was a junior in high school at the age of 17. One classmate was interested in my case because he was supposed to "bear witness" of sinners, because at his church, bearing witness of sinners allowed the congregation to look out for their welfare. Save them, if you will. So they had this whole prayer network set up where they could report sin by telephone and pray for the bad people. In other words, a whole gossip network. Not that not going to church is a sin, but I certainly wasn't saved. And I lived in a community special enough for someone who I told I didn't go to church to tell me that he was going going to bear witness for me. Thanks!

And it was also a place where you didn't work on Sundays. All shops had to close on Sundays. If they didn't, the united church posse came to pressure them into it.

And then it happened. A Pizza Hut opened when I was about 10. The posse came. The local owner declined to close shop on Sunday. They came and they came. They didn't succeed in closing the Pizza Hut on Sunday. For many years, it stood alone.

Then came the KFC and the McD's.

Now, everything is pretty much open on Sundays.

At the same time, there was a club in my public high school called Pathfinders. It was Christian and people prayed regularly at its meetings on public school grounds. For all I know, it's still there.

This is, by the book, unconstitutional.

As a college freshman, I moved to the east coast, where PC was in bloom. Visiting on the holidays, I told my family about PC. They just kind of giggled. 2 years later. they were all on about PC and how stupid it was.

That may all seem a bit scatter-brained, but it leads to 2 points I'd like to make:

1) I don't like the PC movement in terms of its replacing words like freshman with "first-year-student" or the hysterical concept of replacing "history" because it supposed has a masculine emphasis. HOWEVER, what the PC movement did accomplish was a tightening of the leash at the other end. Here I refer specifically to blacks and homosexuals.

It's now taboo to use the word n_igger or g_ay in a demeaning fashion. That is thanks to the PC movement. It certainly isn't due to bigots and homophobes voluntarily cleaning up their acts.

My friends and I even used "gay" to refer to stupid people/things until we were openly confronted by the fact that other friends of ours were GLB.

Our stopping, and the overall stopping of that, was a turn for the better.

That's my statement about sensitivity.

As for Islam, it's important to remember that the majority of Muslims are not the ones out burning embassies. They aren't. And, when an embassy gets trashed, that's with the permission of the local government. Embassies in Pakistan didn't get trashed. Pakistan has a nuke and a very militant populace.

To sum up, I don't condone the recent actions of militant Muslims. Violence should, in no way, be recognized or tolerated as a viable way to curb freedom of expression, but I don't believe the actions of a few should be taken as representative of what is a religion of the other millions NOT burning embassies.

Choose your enemies wisely.

[AbbeFaria]

[bigverne]