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Muslim Groups Attempt to Censor Wikipedia
Nom du Keyboard writes "The New York Times is reporting that Muslim groups are attempting to censor Wikipedia because of images of Muhammad contained in the article about him. 'A Frequently Asked Questions page explains the site's polite but firm refusal to remove the images: "Since Wikipedia is an encyclopedia with the goal of representing all topics from a neutral point of view, Wikipedia is not censored for the benefit of any particular group." The notes left on [online petitions against the page] come from all over the world. "It's totally unacceptable to print the Prophet's picture," Saadia Bukhari from Pakistan wrote in a message. "It shows insensitivity towards Muslim feelings and should be removed immediately."'"
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I'm reminded of a (legendary) announcement from a British Airways cabin crew member on arrival somewhere in Saudi Arabia.
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Riyadh (or wherever) please set your clocks back five hundred years.
Once I was a four stone apology. Now I am two separate gorillas.
... by severing all their access lines. Wait... what's that? (whisper in the background)... sorry, someone has apparently already followed that suggestion. Well then, if that doesn't work, perhaps they can start logging in from China.
1) Target Wikipedia 2) ? 3) Prophet
Silly humans... they should know Cthulu, the one true God, after which the FSM was created, doesn't care if you speak its name!!!
They should complete this survey so we know exactly how far we can go before offending them.
Bogtha Bogtha Bogtha
Given the laws of thermodynamics, wouldn't you look... Rather negative?
I guess most people wouldn't want to look at that bleak countenance.
I choose to remain celibate, like my father and his father before him.
No we dont. Alot of us are atheists. Fuck Jesus and his fucking whore of a mother. There? See. I'm not offended at all.
This is my sig. There are many like it but this one is mine.
Sorry, was that obvious?
an ASCII art of Mohammed? I need a new sig for message boards.
My work here is dung.
Kindly go fuck yourself you medieval retards. And if you think I'm being unfair, you have NO idea of my wrath towards the hypocritical bible thumping Xian morons. So, kindly go take your stupid little dipshit religion, step away from the computer, and go home to your burkha clad women and the 11th century where you seem to be happiest And once you're there, please do us all a big favour and stay there and STFU. I'm tired of your whiney ass bullshit.
AC
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
How else could they be Holier than Thou?
I read the internet for the articles.
I think they should replace airline security with the option of drawing a picture of Mohamed and then pissing on it, then eating pork, denounce any existence in god. Maybe watch 12 minutes of two men kissing.
I'd fly on that plane and feel perfectly safe.
"Welcome to Atheist Airlines."
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
This is why I prefer atheism. It's a non-prophet religion...
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what your country did to you
I still want to make one of those pin-on buttons that simply consists of a red circle-slash on top of a simple stick figure.
When people ask what it means, I can explain that it's an iconic representation of the idea that there should be no graphical representations of Mohammed.
Some people will be offended because the button promotes censorship, and other people will be offended because the button uses a (poor) representation of Mohammed to do so! Everybody wins!
Somebody braver than me should register Muhammadse.cx and teach these crybabies what disrespectful pictures really look like. Come on, you know you want to.
I don't usually make posts like this, but the term "You-niverse" made me throw up in my mouth a little bit.
"To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!"
ah crap. I meant Genocide. Damn you Orson Scott Card.
Correction: Those are Cthulhu worshipers
Too many zeros, not enough ones
Frankly, I am appalled by the irreverent joke comparing Mohammed to Super Saiyans. This is exactly the type of disrespectful behavior that the article is complaining about, and you ought to be ashamed for making fun of other people's religions. Is it that hard to have a little respect and basic tolerance for other human beings? I find it disturbing that people are so ignorant and prejudiced as to mock our Prophet in this fashion. We faithful take our Prophet, the Super Saiyan known as Goku, very seriously.
C'mon. Muslim is a very peaceful religion, and if you don't believe that, they will kill you!
-- By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
"Being unable to use either computers or electricity hath made our task quite trying", said Brother John.
With the help of the entire community, the were able to build a server entirely of wood and mud, but attempts to connect it to the secular internet have so far been unsuccessful.
"Getting our horses to carry packets was quite easy, but teaching them to shake hands with each other has proven nearly impossible", the Elder continued.
"At this point, we're considering scrapping the whole horse protocol and using dogs instead, as shaking hands is something they do quite well. The problem is were not 100% if it's the Muslim's who hate dogs, or us, or both. We'd look it up on Wikipedia, but..."
In light of set-backs, another Amish community farther north has taken different approach. So far, they've managed to forge no less than 87 cast-iron "token rings", and are getting quite good at passing them around.
"Once we figure why exactly we we're doing this, we should be well ahead of our brothers to the South with their fancy-schmancy wooden server", lead researcher Brother John (no relation, yet) commented.
"But", he continued, "if Muslims can figure out who's publishing pictures of their prophet, when by definition they'd not have an original picture to compare it to - I'm sure we can figure out what we're doing too".
I'm offended by martyrs. They must stop immediately.
Move all sig!
We faithful take our Prophet, the Super Saiyan known as Goku, very seriously.
And to quote our Prophet "You hurt my friends and you *tried* to hurt me."
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
It wouldn't take much to be holier than me. Can holiness go into negative numbers?
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
While I agree with you that he didn't want anyone to worship him since only God serves worship, his prohibition was on idolatry, not actual pictures.
Money, video games, statuses of Zeus, movies about Moses, and songs about Jesus are all okay as long as you don't worship *them* instead of the only thing that has any permanence, i.e. God.
It's a teaching that's common to all inspired religions and a form of it even exists for secular humanists.
Ironically, by prohibiting any and all pictures of Muhammad, people are violating the idolatry, commandment by making the obsession with pictures of a prophet more important that God.
> Does Georges Washington's marriage to a 12 years old take away any of the man's achievements?
1. Martha was 26 when she married George.
2. In our society, pedophilia *is* considered to diminish a man's accomplishments.
Frankly, I am appalled by the irreverent joke comparing Mohammed to Super Saiyans. This is exactly the type of disrespectful behavior that the article is complaining about, and you ought to be ashamed for making fun of other people's religions. Is it that hard to have a little respect and basic tolerance for other human beings? I find it disturbing that people are so ignorant and prejudiced as to mock our Prophet in this fashion. We faithful take our Prophet, the Super Saiyan known as Goku, very seriously.
We'd take either Jesus, Mohammed, or anyone seriously if they could destroy the moon or planet by themselves without a death star!
there are whole categories of evil acts that are by definition only the product of religion. ... Religious crusades, pogroms against jews, none of these things happen absent religion.
I eat bacon.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.