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Saudi Arabia Objects To Proposed .gay gTLD, Among Others
Qedward writes "The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has objected to a variety of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) ranging from .porn and .sexy to .wine and .bar and .bible, according to records of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The organisation said in June it had received 1930 applications for gTLD 'strings,' of which 911 came from North America and 675 from Europe. Saudi Arabia's Communication and Information Technology Commission, the IT and communications regulator, has objected to the .gay string and asked ICANN to refuse the application for the new gTLD. 'Many societies and cultures consider homosexuality to be contrary to their culture, morality or religion,' CITC said. 'The creation of a gTLD string which promotes homosexuality will be offensive to these societies and cultures,' it added."
Awww did some Chik-Fil-A fanboi get his feewings hurt. Keep eating that shit, please, so you'll die of either a heart attack or your morbid obesity sooner rather than later.
Ah right ... muslims show some more disgusting habits and of course a completely beside-the-point moral equivalence has to be brought up.
Why ? Islam has a number of completely disgusting parts, including rape of women, "honor" killing, paedophilia, slavery, ... but we are to ignore all that to be tolerant.
Just like the wikipedia page on islamic slavery first presents 5 boring passages about how limited slavery is (please, please only force black people and people perceived to be of other religions into slavery, and of course there's the "completely freely entered into" slavery as repayment of loans, gotta love how limited that is, right). And of course, the obligatory passages that muslim society was so extremely dysfunctional that governments often trusted slaves more than citizens (even today in Egypt the point is often made that a near-theocratic government trusts Christians more than muslims). Like the "famous position" of Jews in muslim Spain. Well, until their turn came and massacres started of course. Please not that that is but one of thousands of massacres against the local population by the muslims in Spain.
Then it mentions in passing that islamic slavery (not mentioning that it is unique in this):
* is the sole known slavery law that allows open sexual abuse of slaves
* there is some disagreement on what the minimum age is you can rape a woman. The range is starting at birth (Iranian or Shi'a islam), or 6 years, and whether that 6 years minimum applies to slaves is a matter of contention.
* is the sole known slavery law that allows killing slaves for fun, on a whim (which was historically done)
* is the sole known slavery law that allows open public torture of slaves, which was often done at muslim palaces
You may say, but that happened in America too, but you wouldn't really get the point. Sure, 200 years ago some Americans did this, while the police often wasn't looking. These laws, however, meant that in large parts of the middle east the police actively helped "owners" torture (often to death), kill and rape slaves.
Another very important point you're missing is that what a muslim is, well he's someone who's trying to recreate that situation today.