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Originally posted by Kushboi
reply to post by wikileaked
Please dont take my post the wrong way. i did not explain what the meaning of infidels was. i simply pointed that we were taught and given the impression that all foreigners are infidels. (excluding arab and muslim countires)
Again if you had read my post carefully you'd notice that it wasnt my opinion, but merely a recount of how childhood was ina moderate muslim country (imagine the more serious ones).
As kids we didnt understand what Christianity was we just knew to steer away from. you just do as ur told (or be rebelious)
For the record i do not hate anyone because of their religion, ethnicity or nationality. and don't tell me how morocco is because i grew up there.
you're right; ignorance is the word. but make any moroccan person ask a moroccan kid what Christianity is and you'll be quite suprised.edit on 22-11-2010 by Kushboi because: (no reason given)
On the other hand, a movie is different from a school teaching sharia garbage. Even if Western civ was in 100% on the ball, Sharia is incompatible. It is antithetical to our culture that DEMANDS freedom. Our nature is to destroy anything that prohibits the same.
Certainly they won't be well-adjusted, contributing members of society.
Originally posted by yrwehere1
Like this doesn't happen in other religions or countries. Skin heads, white power advocates, neo-nazis and extremeists of every sort put children through this type of brainwashing/training/schooling. Who can say how these children will turn out? Certainly they won't be well-adjusted, contributing members of society.
Originally posted by oozyism
reply to post by felonius
On the other hand, a movie is different from a school teaching sharia garbage. Even if Western civ was in 100% on the ball, Sharia is incompatible. It is antithetical to our culture that DEMANDS freedom. Our nature is to destroy anything that prohibits the same.
There is nothing wrong with teaching kids beliefs.
Sharia is a belief.
Some people have beliefs that those who do not believe in GOD will burn in hell for eternity. That doesn't mean people will go around burning people for eternity.
This is the same, when they say thieves hands should be cut off, that is just a belief. You have to counter that belief through speech, not through fists, stones and drones, or worse by outlawing such beliefs.
If you outlaw such beliefs, then your last freedom will be taken away, and that freedom is your will to think freely without having someone over your should telling you don't think about this, don't think about that.
Originally posted by yrwehere1
Like this doesn't happen in other religions or countries. Skin heads, white power advocates, neo-nazis and extremeists of every sort put children through this type of brainwashing/training/schooling. Who can say how these children will turn out? Certainly they won't be well-adjusted, contributing members of society.
Originally posted by oozyism
reply to post by felonius
A parent would argue:
Who are you to tell me what to teach my kids or not.
How would you argue against that?
What if I say, you shouldn't teach your kids physics, because physics equates to atom bomb, and atom bomb kill hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children.
Originally posted by angrydog
like one guy in the comments sayd:
"Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world, and that is a fact. Deal with it. Mainly because they breed like roaches, but lets be politically correct."
Originally posted by oozyism
reply to post by felonius
A parent would argue:
Who are you to tell me what to teach my kids or not.
How would you argue against that?
What if I say, you shouldn't teach your kids physics, because physics equates to atom bomb, and atom bomb kill hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children.
Originally posted by oozyism
reply to post by Steam
Who decides what is evil or good?
Don't tell me you
No this logic doesn't work, this just shows how you do not understand logic. Science is amoral and is neither inherently evil or good. When you go to a physics classroom, your professor doesn't teach you how to make an atom bomb and who you should blow it up in.
Now, if your professor did do this and said you should detonate it in Mecca killing millions of Muslims, then yes this should not be taught since it is advocating violence and is against the law.
Originally posted by felonius
When what you teach your kids effects MY life and culture in MY part of the world, I have plenty to say.
I wouldn't consider going to Saudi and telling them I think they are a bunch of backwards savages that treat women like hell.
Honor killings? Killing a woman because SHE was raped? Cutting the hand of a child off because they were hungry and took a loaf of bread?
As much as it disgusts me, that is THEIR house and their rules. When you come into MY house and set up a dangerous dynamic, we start to have an issue.
I've mentioned before that I've little use for the church (especially in the early days!). While its still screwed up, at least they dont burn people for heresy any longer. Stronger minds prevailed. Things changed. Yes, blood was required to do so.
The physics / A bomb thing? Really? You can do better than that oozy. come on dude. I've shown you respect, please return in kind.
Originally posted by Steam
Originally posted by oozyism
reply to post by Steam
Who decides what is evil or good?
Don't tell me you
Please, stop being so naive.
Do you think that advocating violence and murdering people is good?
Originally posted by oozyism
Originally posted by felonius
When what you teach your kids effects MY life and culture in MY part of the world, I have plenty to say.
I wouldn't consider going to Saudi and telling them I think they are a bunch of backwards savages that treat women like hell.
Honor killings? Killing a woman because SHE was raped? Cutting the hand of a child off because they were hungry and took a loaf of bread?
As much as it disgusts me, that is THEIR house and their rules. When you come into MY house and set up a dangerous dynamic, we start to have an issue.
I've mentioned before that I've little use for the church (especially in the early days!). While its still screwed up, at least they dont burn people for heresy any longer. Stronger minds prevailed. Things changed. Yes, blood was required to do so.
The physics / A bomb thing? Really? You can do better than that oozy. come on dude. I've shown you respect, please return in kind.
So you are suggesting you have more rights than Muslims, hence you can tell British Muslims how to live, but they can't tell you>?
Last I checked, British Muslims have the same citizenship as you, and they have the same rights as you.
A British parent will argue again: Who are you to tell me what to teach my kids.
The physics thing just shows that different people have different realities, no two people have the same exact belief system, that literally means no two people.
The above being said, if you are gonna tell them what to teach & what not to teach their kids, can't they tell you is well? I mean force, because you are suggesting that those parents should be forced to not teach their kids these laws.
One day a person will come and force you to not teach your kids physics because that person doesn't believe physics is good, or good for society, or good for anyone in that sense, and can cause millions of deaths.
Originally posted by Steam
Again with the poor physics analogy.
I think you should drop this since you are starting to make a fool of yourself.
Like I said earlier, it is illogical for anyone to come to your house and say you can't teach your kids physics since it could potentially lead to millions of deaths. Again, science is neither good or bad, it doesn't teach you to harm anyone.
Originally posted by oozyism
Originally posted by Steam
Originally posted by oozyism
reply to post by Steam
Who decides what is evil or good?
Don't tell me you
Please, stop being so naive.
Do you think that advocating violence and murdering people is good?
I think freedom of speech is good. If someone is advocating violence, your job is to prove that him, advocating violence is wrong, your job is not to shut his mouth by force, but by words. Get it?
There is a huge difference between words and actions.
By the way, where do you cross the line? You can advocate violence and murder indirectly, next thing you will ban books, ohh wait a minute, that is already happening in Europe
I mean, next thing you will ban music.
It seems you want UK to be under Sharia lawedit on 22-11-2010 by oozyism because: (no reason given)
In law, hate speech is any speech, gesture or conduct, writing, or display which is forbidden because it may incite violence or prejudicial action against or by a protected individual or group, or because it disparages or intimidates a protected individual or group. The law may identify a protected individual or a protected group by race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, or other characteristic.
Originally posted by Steam
Have you ever heard of hate speech??
In law, hate speech is any speech, gesture or conduct, writing, or display which is forbidden because it may incite violence or prejudicial action against or by a protected individual or group, or because it disparages or intimidates a protected individual or group. The law may identify a protected individual or a protected group by race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, or other characteristic.
Hate speech
Hate speech is illegal and you can be charged with it under criminal or civil law. So yes, free speech does have a certain limit, you can't go into a crowded theater and cry "fire!!" and you also can't advocate violence or hate towards a specific group.