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Bangladesh Blocks Facebook Over Muhammad Cartoons
lbalbalba writes with a BBC story about Bangladesh following Pakistan in censoring Facebook. "Bangladesh has blocked access to Facebook after satirical images of the prophet Muhammad and the country's leaders were uploaded. One man has been arrested and charged with 'spreading malice and insulting the country's leaders' with the images. Officials said the ban was temporary and access to the site would be restored once the images were removed. It comes after Pakistan invoked a similar ban over 'blasphemous content.' ... Thousands of people joined anti-Facebook protests in Bangladesh on Friday demanding the site be blocked over the contest. A telecomm regulator there said, "Facebook will be re-opened once we erase the pages that contain the obnoxious images." And how do they propose to do that?
Ever notice how close the word empathy is to pathetic?
Wow, you really are in love with how much better you think you are than everyone else, aren't you? From what I can glean from your Slashdot history you seem to belong pretty firmly with those billion people immature people. I do too, but I'm man enough to admit that.
That other article on Slashdot about people lacking empathy these days seems more credible every time I read a comments thread. Go on mods, start your "-1 I don't like you." Seems to be the going rate around here.
Well, that's all nice, and I completely agree that the lack of free speech in the middle east is disgusting and so is the fact that muslin try to impose their culture on us every time they immigrate to our countries.
Having said that, the fact presented doesn't have anything to do with you (Americans) having been attacked by them. Wake up and smell the coffee. They didn't attack you because you don't follow their fate. They attack you because for the last 50 years you have been "pre-emptively" attacking them, stealing their natural resources, suporting with billions of dollars worth or armament every year Israel and their genocide in the region, disposing their leaders and getting new ones has you see fit. Giving weapons to different clans amongst them so that they kill eachother, (Iran-Iraq war) using them and their misery to fight your could war (Afghanistan-URSS war), and downright treating them as animals.
So basically, you, the Americans have been doing in Middle East, what you have been doing in Africa. With the difference, that in Middle East, they have the resources and the intelligence to get back at you, and that's what they did.
Like a great men said almost 50 years ago: One's people terrorists are other's people freedom fighters.
You mean like this? http://jesusinlove.org/art-that-dares.php#gallery
Yes, a small smattering of idiots would probably want that website banned. If it were of Muhammad, instead of a small smattering of idiots wanting to ban it, you'd have people getting killed over it. That's the difference. While any group of large enough stature is guaranteed to have idiots in it, it seems when it comes to Islam, it's not the isolated jerkwads that go apeshit, it's a significant part of the population.
The problem is we like the idea of uncensored free speech and the notion that all religions deserve equal respect under the law. Those are great ideas. They are encapsulated in the first amendment to our (American) constitution. I personally agree with them myself. Unfortunately, they are also going to get us all killed.
There's plenty of religions in this world with plenty of problems, but for the most part, you can live peaceably enough with most of them. Only one of them in the present day flies planes into buildings, bombs nightclubs and embassies and hotels, cuts people's heads off on camera, and kills people over cartoons of their prophet.
Qur’an:9:5 - And when the sacred months have passed, then kill the polytheists wherever you find them and capture them and besiege them and sit in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they should repent, establish prayer, and give zakah, let them [go] on their way. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.
[Note: Zakah is a concept that does not have a true english equivalent. The closest word that gives a very weak idea of zakah is "tithe".]
Qur’an:9:29 - Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture - [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled.
[Note: Jizyah is the protective tax unbelievers must pay to the Muslims or be killed.]
Qur’an:8:39 - And fight them until there is no fitnah and [until] the religion, all of it, is for Allah. And if they cease - then indeed, Allah is Seeing of what they do.
[Note: Fitnah means "disbelief".]
Long story short, there is no "moderation" in Islam. Either you kill and subjugate non-believers, or you are not following the tenets of your faith. They (in general) are actively trying to do just what those verses say.
Either we drop the notion ourselves and fight back, or the Muslims remove it from us when they take control, but in either case, the idea of all religions being equal will cease to exist, and any society that holds that belief until the end, will end with it. It is not the fittest trait, and it will become extinct.
WWJD?
JWRTFM!
They just say that so that when they kill you, they have an excuse to continue to infect our planet and culture.
Fuck these 3rd world nomadic assholes.
Oh Mohammed... Camels love you too.
Lets get some more Camel Cock for Mohammed! Shove it deep in his mouth and fuck that Islamic face hole deep and hard...
The question is which happens first? Either 1) these so called islamic "civizations" learn to accept basic concepts like "human rights" or 2) they finally become a real danger. By real danger I mean they actually set off a nuke in a western city, release a ton of nerve gas, set off a dirty bomb, start the black death 2.0, or do a bunch of little things that just really piss us off. Like say, killing the South Park guys.
Or, like, killing over 3,000 people in a suicide attack utilizing commercial flight airplanes, resulting in not only the deaths but draconian restrictions of our civil liberties?
My bet is that our great great grandchildren will be ashamed of what we do. But, I'm also betting that there are going to be very very few great great grandchildren who are raised as moslems.
Sir, as a (relatively young) father of 3... I hope you're right. I will gladly accept their shame for what I've done, if it means that they will be able to live free. My death, or perpetration of such on others, is a small price to pay for the free lives of future generations.
Though, if it does come to that... hopefully we're able to get rid of the limp-wristed demographic in the West at the same time. It's that demographic which has allowed the Muslim threat to not only become as large as it has domestically, but for it to have such a voice in our political events.
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