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Rackspace Shuts Down Quran-Burning Church's Sites
theodp writes "In response to a complaint, Rackspace has shut down the websites of the Dove World Outreach Center, a small 50-member church which has received national and international criticism for a planned book burning of the Quran on the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. The center 'violated the hate-speech provision of our acceptable-use policy,' explained Rackspace spokesman Dan Goodgame. 'This is not a constitutional issue. This is a contract issue,' said Goodgame, who added he did not know how long it had hosted the church's sites. Not quite the same thing, but would Kurt Westergaard's cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad also violate Rackspace's AUP? How about Christopher Hitchens' Slate articles? Could articles from one-time Rackspace poster child The Onion pass muster?"
What's interesting is that the only USians with the balls to condemn an ancient barbaric religion are members of another one!
The rest of America is gutless, and brainwashed that superstition should be respected. Fuck that.
Modern culture EVOLVED by destroying backward cultures, and should seek to improve the breed by competing. Everything secular USians profess to hate about Christianity is vastly worse in Muslim societies.
Attacking all superstition is man's duty to the human race.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
I think we should burn all religious texts in a national day of Freedom From Religion.
Rackspace, like most of the US, are terrified of Muslims. The only cure for that is to be forced to fight them by making the "dialogue" more confrontational.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
Have your Bible burning. We're used to it. People do it all the time. And while you're at it, burn some flags. We're all adults here, we can take it. Well, I guess some of us aren't. Let your 1st anal BBWR commence, it will just prove how our system is supposed to work.
But I hope you see the double standard here. People burn Bibles all the time. When it happens, the highest general in the land doesn't request for them to stop. The POTUSA doesn't go on good morning america and request that it stop. All of the attention that they are getting just makes it more important that they do it. Let the other side see how it feels. And when all the Muslims go ape shit over it, point it out. How many Christian riots have resulted from Bible burning? Muslim riots from the threat of a quran burning? Already a good number. Hell, they go nuts when someone draws mohammed in a cartoon. Talk about a glass house.
And to answer your question: Why this book at this time? Easy. Ground Zero Mosque. It's not illegal to build it there, even if 98% of Americans don't want it. Guess what, I don't want it. It offends me. It pisses me off. It's a victory mosque. The imam is doing this out of spite. Did you know there was a Greek Orthodox that's nearby and destroyed when WTC fell on it? Do you know that they haven't been given their permit to rebuild but the city has given one to the imam? They've been trying since it was destroyed.. There's that double standard again. How long do we have to put up with it?
Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.
If I own a megaphone, and I don't lend it to you because I don't agree with you, am I violating your free speech rights?
More accurate analogy - you are a megaphone rental company and one day someone walks in of a political / religious / ethnic / sexual persuasion that you don't like. You continue to hand out megaphones to everyone else, but tell this person they're not allowed to rent one from you.
On the way home, that person also has to sit at the back of the bus.
Aide-toi, le Ciel t'aidera - Jeanne D'Arc.
You must see that you're contradicting yourself.
Is it, yes or no, okay for an isp to refuse to connect a server it doesn't like for it's content ?
This is both what rackspace did here, and is the exact same thing as AT&T did in refusing SIP on it's network.
Agreed. Rackspace can do as they please, and given the noise over this matter, it's no surprise that they acted as they did.
However, the bigger issue here is: how the hell does something like this not only make the news, but keep itself in the limelight for days? We're talking about the organized action of 50 people, performing a constitutionally protected act.
It has been bigger news than the rioting in LA and the lawlessness on the southern border (of which we have seen barely any news). Does Rackspace host any thing relating to La Raza? Why have those (hypothetical) sites not been taken down (or, at least, received any news)? The internal dissolution of one's country is somewhat bigger news than the isolated and non-violent religious actions of 50 nuts.
Furthermore, how the fuck is this something of international turmoil? Has anyone even actually read what the Quran says about (for instance) jihad? Here's a hint: it says not much at all about inner, spiritual trials and a bit about conquering and defeating the opponents of Islam in war ('opponents', in the Islamic sense, meaning "not Muslims"). Why is so little made of this, or the countless atrocities endorsed via Sharia law (and which are directly supported by the Quran)? We're talking about a religion which assassinates/kills people for drawing cartoons, stones women for showing a little ankle, and considers a women adulterous in the event of rape unless there are multiple male witnesses to back her up, and various other atrocities, for fuck sake. Go read their "holy" book!
Let's have a little discernment in our hatred of religions, for crying out loud. Considering not only what is written in the Quran, but what is considered to be the prevailing dogma throughout the Muslim world as it pertains to that Quran, it could be considered roughly on par with burning, say, Mein Kampf. Sure, burning books is an offensive act - one we're conditioned against socially and culturally in the West - but let's consider this with a little more pragmatism.
Would it be a bad thing if all books encouraging the extermination, subjugation, etc. of other races, genders, of beliefs were to disappear? Probably not. A symbolic burning to say "this is bad"?
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Islamic world: "Die for insulting our moon god!"
Christian world: "Die for insulting our sky god!"
The difference between christianity and islam is that when a christian acts out in violence, he's disobeying the ideology of his religion. When a muslim acts out in violence, he's following the ideology of his religion.
Christianity is the real religion of peace. Islam is demonic creation.
Disconnect your television. Do your own research. Draw your own conclusions. They're probably lying. Don't be a sheep.