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LittleBigPlanet Delayed Due To Qur'an-Sampling Audio
Several readers have pointed out that Sony's much-awaited LittleBigPlanet has hit a snag and will be delayed worldwide. The delay came after it was discovered that a song licensed for use in the soundtrack contained audio samples from the Qur'an. All advanced copies sent to retailers for the target release of October 21 in North America, 22 in PAL territories, and 24 in the UK and Ireland, have been recalled. "The post, by user 'Solid08', indicates of the specific references in the composition: 'In the 18th second: "kollo nafsin tha'iqatol mawt", literally: "Every soul shall have the taste of death' ... almost immediately after, in the 27th second: "kollo man alaiha fan", literally: "All that is on earth will perish."'"
Do you know what we call a "Prophet" whomarries a 6 year old?
A pedophile.
Oh? So are you saying that Sony pulling the God of War pre-order content (and indeed, any future God of War content) would be ok because I find God of War to be a blasphemous use of the term "God of War", insulting my own God of War, Ares Himself?
Of course, I guess the major difference between me and the followers of the Qur'an, is that a small number of the Qur'an followers have shown themselves to be terrorists, and doing shit like this will appease them, because appeasement always works.
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The difference is very simple.
Pretty much all violent religious extremists and their supporters (both open and tacit) are fundamentalists in their particular religion. In the Christian world, fundamentalists constitute a tiny minority. In the Islamic world, fundamentalism is the mainstream, and liberal Muslims are shunned and persecuted.
So, yes, I will stand by the implication that "Muslims in general" - by which I mean the majority of those considering themselves Muslims worldwide - are either directly engaging in violence on religious grounds, or encouraging others to do so (you've seen the results of all those "let's introduce Shari'a Law here" polls, right?), or at least not outright condemning those who do so.
400 years ago, the Christian Western world had the same problem. But not anymore. We got over it, and that means that so can they, and pointing out that the Islamic world is not there yet is not bigotry - it's a plain assertion of fact.
Except Muslims are tasked with doing so.
You know those 'crazy' cleric shouting for the death of all infidels? They are being what the Muslim texts say Muslims to be. They are practicing their religion properly.
Personal, I prefer a Cleric with the Mace of Cuthbert, but that's just me~
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You're clearly new here if you the that people on *Slashdot* are usually, you know, Christians. And the advocacy of terrorism by certain improtant Islamic thought leaders *certainly isn't fucking helping*.
Stop grinding your local political axe for a moment. Twisting any possible issue to point out that GWB is stupid realy isn't insightful, you know?
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Christian fundamentalists are insisting on public displays of pictures of Jesus, trying to get readings from the bible everywhere, and so on
You really can't see the difference? Christians aren't trying to compel others to do what they otherwise would not. Nobody is trying to force public displays of pictures of Jesus; they are trying to prevent others from stopping the free display of such icons. In all the establishment clause cases, the public display was tradition and voluntary and were sued to prevent the voluntary display. In most of these cases, the community supported the display.
In contrast, Muslims are attempting to compel the public squelching of public and private practice and speech in compliance with their own religious code. For instance, in Britain muslims objected to the display of Piglet, the Winnie the Poo character, at a public office because it caused offense. The Muhammed cartoons are also an obvious example of oppression of private, voluntary speech and conduct.
There's a huge difference. As a matter of fact, the ACLU and Muslim fanatics have more in common than Christians and Muslims. And as a disclaimer, I was a law clerk for the ACLU, so don't try to tag me with that.
The Q'ran is no worse than the Bible, and Islam is no worse than Christianism. What matters, however, is what PEOPLE do with those directives. Demonizing a religion won't help with dealing with people.
But the point I was trying to get across was yes, the Bible does advocate Israel wiping some nations off of the face of the earth, however, those instructions were to be fulfilled thousands of years ago, not today. And books of the Bible accepted to be canon in most Christian faiths (Romans and other books and letters by Paul) state that the Old Testament is null and void while still saying that the moral part of it (such as the 10 commandments) are still valid points to live by. You won't see a Christian sacrificing a lamb for passover (and many cases you won't see a Jewish person do that either anymore) because most Christians believe that the Old Testament is not needed to be followed anymore. Find me a piece of Islamic canon that states that Jihad and destroying the non-Muslims are over and I will believe that they are equal, but as far as I know, Christianity has many references to the Old Testament law being unnecessary several times, but not any Islamic scripture.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
Then we can get back to that "religion of peace" talk.
That is quite an important (and occasionally overlooked) point; the most dangerous people in the world are those with nothing left to lose.
But why are they poor? Surely it isn't because they force ~50% of the population (women) to wear veils in public, forbid them from having any rights, etc. All the the while "electing" and supporting violent leaders who do most of their crimes in the name of Islam. Nope, can't be any connection between poverty and Islam.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
Which is the religion of peace again?
Which one bombs abortion clinics? Which one fathered the crusades? Which one preaches a violent and painful torture in the afterlife for non-believers?
I am appalled this flamebait is currently at +4 insightful, absolutely appalled.
That being said I don't want to hear anything from the Qu'Ran anymore than I want to hear passages from the Bible when I am playing videogames but I'll put up with it to avoid yet another advance for on the censorship front.
Sometimes, life itself is sarcasm...
Now: how many death threats do you receive?
Fuck me, if your criteria is 0<death threats, then Christianity and Muslims are pretty much neck and neck. Get your head out of the sand and find me something better, jackass.
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