Off Topic, I admit, but it seems I'm forever destined to be moderated down because of the actions of my Brothers.
If you read into the text, you'll find that he's promoting a moderate statement, that of education rather than direct offensive action. The language he uses is an unfortunate necessity in order to reach out to the minority who use Islam and the teachings of Our Prophet (PBUH) as an excuse for unwarranted murder.
A Muslim was jailed for life for slitting his daughter's throat in an "honour killing" after she embraced western culture and began dating a Christian. This is a tragic story of irreconciable cultural differences between a father who had a traditional Muslim upbringing, values and background and a daughter who was a thoroughly westernized woman. Father with strict Muslim beliefs murdered "bright, vibrant" teenager who planned to runaway with Christian boyfriend.
A man with strict Muslim beliefs would certainly not kill his daughter. Such tragedies have nothing to do with faith or race. Her father could not control his emotions and his un-Islamic action is also liable for punishment under Islamic law. The tragedy could have been avoided if the poor girl was educated in a Muslim school by Muslim teachers. She is a product of de-education by state school. According to British law, the children should be educated according to the needs and demands of the parents but his daughter was educated to be a westernized woman, instead of a Muslim.
This tragedy is an eye opener for all those Muslim parents who send their children to state schools where they are exposed to teachers who have no respect for Islamic faith and Muslim community. There is a negative co-relation between home and school. The prime aim of schooling is to anglicize all children irrespective of their backgrounds. They are victim of institutional racism and Islamophobia. Already there are more than 6000 Muslim teenager girls in the custody of the social services, a product of the mis-education and de-education by state schools. Muslim youth are involved in drugs, prostitution, abandoning families, abortion and high rate of divorce. Muslim children need Muslim schools with Muslim teachers for proper growth during their developmental periods.
The silent majority of Muslim parents would like to send their children to Muslim schools but there are not enough schools to go by. The only alternative left is either British Government should introduce voucher system for parents to choose the school of their choice or designate all those state schools as Muslim community schools where Muslim pupils are in majority. There are hundreds of state schools where Muslims are in majority. Such schools may be handed over to Muslim educational Trusts or charities for their management. They are in a better position to educate Muslim children in accordance with their needs and demands. This demand is in accordance with the law of the land because there are state schools already managed by private companies.
It's sad that given the number of Iraqi civilians crushed underneath the mechanized assault of the supposedly 'enlightened' Western armed forces, that such horror has been trivialised so soon.
March 13, 2003 | Like so many stories, this one begins with an ending. Or, rather, the announcement of an ending.
Early last September, thousands of fans of the science fiction television series "Farscape" logged in to a chat room maintained by the Sci Fi Channel, which distributes the series in the United States. The Jim Henson Co. actually produces the series, mainly with licensing fees paid by Sci Fi, although Henson also syndicates the show in Britain, Germany and other countries.
"Farscape's" fans (and I'm among them) consider it one of the most innovative and best-written things on TV. The show follows the adventures of astronaut John Crichton (Ben Browder), who is marooned in space after an aeronautical accident. Buff, brainy and kinda goofy, John allies himself with a band of outlaw aliens aboard a sentient spaceship that's being pursued by the military arm of a totalitarian regime.
When fans logged on in September, Sci Fi had just broadcast the first 11 episodes of the show's fourth season, with the balance to come in the spring after a short break. "Farscape's" staffers and actors celebrate the end of each season's production schedule by communicating online with the fans -- from Australia, where the show is produced -- to discuss upcoming episodes and drop "spoilers" about the season's finale.
The fans received more than spoilers this session. Immediately following a phone conference with Sci Fi programming executives, "Farscape" executive producer David Kemper, along with Browder and co-executive producer Richard Manning, informed the "Farscape" faithful that Sci Fi Channel had just reneged on its commitment to purchase the fifth and final season of the series. Effectively, the show had just been canceled, leaving the audience with a series finale that ends in a cliffhanger.
Predictably, within hours of the cancellation announcement fans had gathered on message boards and in chat rooms to create strategies for protesting Sci Fi's decision. What began as a collective of fans bemoaning the loss of their favorite show has become the Save "Farscape" campaign, one of the largest and most sophisticated fan campaigns in television history.
The Save "Farscape" campaign is hardly the first grass-roots effort to save a television series. In 1968 NBC would never have realized that people were watching "Star Trek" if superfan Bjo Trimble hadn't encouraged other viewers to protest the series' imminent cancellation. Dorothy Swanson organized a successful letter-writing campaign in 1983 to save "Cagney and Lacey," and subsequently founded Viewers for Quality Television to assist other worthy but ratings-deprived shows, such as "Designing Women." Fans of the late-night cult classic "Mystery Science Theater 3000" brought fan-based campaigns into the Internet age when they launched a Web site to find a new home for the series after Sci Fi canned it in 1999. (The site continues to bring "MSTies" together, although efforts to relaunch the show were long ago abandoned.)
In the '90s, grassroots efforts to save canceled shows have gained momentum. Fans protesting the cancellation of the ABC drama "Once and Again" persuaded the network to finance enough episodes to conclude open-ended storylines. Creative "Roswell" fans caught the attention of WB programmers and bought their show more time by sending them bottles of hot sauce as a reminder of the condiment favored by the aliens on the series.
Each successive campaign absorbs and improves upon lessons learned during previous protests. 'Scapers have taken the best from all of them; they sent Sci Fi executives packages of crackers, in homage to the title of a favorite "Farscape" episode, "Crackers Don't Matter."
But protests are perhaps also becoming more sophisticated in reaction to the insensitivity of media monopolies. Movie buffs filed class-action lawsuits in Chicago this February against two movie theater chains for screening commercials before the start of movies. People are beginning to realize that lett
Whatever point you are trying to make has been cheapened by your excessive referral to explicit websites in your journal.
Although, contrary to popular belief, I as a Muslim am not judgemental, all I can ask is that you show more concern towards how you are perceived by the community at large.
This is yet another example of the declining standards of Western education. Say what you will about the Taliban, but every child under their regime knew how to read and write.
Why must people constantly drool over Tolkien's blatent racism? Even the supposedly 'culturally enlightened' film-makers saw fit to portray the enemies of the (white) Free Peoples as Men of Swarth.
Tolkien is disgusting childish fantasy. There is only one book that needs to be read, and we ALL know what it is.
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I find your racist attitude disgusting. Slashdot is no place for such pathetic postings.
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The last lunar eclipse was in May.
Further proof of Allah's divine will.
Go blow your fucking head off, loser.
The attitudes of people such as yourself fill me with far more dread than a thousand WTC bombings
Off Topic, I admit, but it seems I'm forever destined to be moderated down because of the actions of my Brothers.
If you read into the text, you'll find that he's promoting a moderate statement, that of education rather than direct offensive action. The language he uses is an unfortunate necessity in order to reach out to the minority who use Islam and the teachings of Our Prophet (PBUH) as an excuse for unwarranted murder.
I find your blatantly Islamophobic attitude to be disgusting, and unworthy of a science and technology oriented news site.
A Muslim was jailed for life for slitting his
daughter's throat in an "honour killing" after she
embraced western culture and began dating a Christian.
This is a tragic story of irreconciable cultural
differences between a father who had a traditional
Muslim upbringing, values and background and a
daughter who was a thoroughly westernized woman.
Father with strict Muslim beliefs murdered "bright,
vibrant" teenager who planned to runaway with
Christian boyfriend.
A man with strict Muslim beliefs would certainly not
kill his daughter. Such tragedies have nothing to do
with faith or race. Her father could not control his
emotions and his un-Islamic action is also liable for punishment under Islamic law. The tragedy could have been avoided if the poor girl was educated in a Muslim school by Muslim teachers. She is a product of de-education by state school. According to British law, the children should be educated according to the needs and demands of the parents but his daughter was educated to be a westernized woman, instead of a Muslim.
This tragedy is an eye opener for all those Muslim
parents who send their children to state schools where
they are exposed to teachers who have no respect for
Islamic faith and Muslim community. There is a
negative co-relation between home and school. The
prime aim of schooling is to anglicize all children irrespective of their backgrounds. They are victim of institutional racism and Islamophobia. Already there are more than 6000 Muslim teenager girls in the custody of the social services, a product of the mis-education and de-education by state schools. Muslim youth are involved in drugs, prostitution, abandoning families, abortion and high rate of divorce. Muslim children need Muslim schools with Muslim teachers for proper growth during their developmental periods.
The silent majority of Muslim parents would like to
send their children to Muslim schools but there are
not enough schools to go by. The only alternative left
is either British Government should introduce voucher
system for parents to choose the school of their
choice or designate all those state schools as Muslim
community schools where Muslim pupils are in majority.
There are hundreds of state schools where Muslims are
in majority. Such schools may be handed over to Muslim educational Trusts or charities for their management. They are in a better position to educate Muslim children in accordance with their needs and demands. This demand is in accordance with the law of the land because there are state schools already managed by private companies.
They ripped all that off the car and it still tips the scales at over 1700 lbs??? That engine must have a cast lead block or something.
That was with Cowboy Neal behind the wheel! ;)
It's sad that given the number of Iraqi civilians crushed underneath the mechanized assault of the supposedly 'enlightened' Western armed forces, that such horror has been trivialised so soon.
March 13, 2003 | Like so many stories, this one begins with an ending. Or, rather, the announcement of an ending.
Early last September, thousands of fans of the science fiction television series "Farscape" logged in to a chat room maintained by the Sci Fi Channel, which distributes the series in the United States. The Jim Henson Co. actually produces the series, mainly with licensing fees paid by Sci Fi, although Henson also syndicates the show in Britain, Germany and other countries.
"Farscape's" fans (and I'm among them) consider it one of the most innovative and best-written things on TV. The show follows the adventures of astronaut John Crichton (Ben Browder), who is marooned in space after an aeronautical accident. Buff, brainy and kinda goofy, John allies himself with a band of outlaw aliens aboard a sentient spaceship that's being pursued by the military arm of a totalitarian regime.
When fans logged on in September, Sci Fi had just broadcast the first 11 episodes of the show's fourth season, with the balance to come in the spring after a short break. "Farscape's" staffers and actors celebrate the end of each season's production schedule by communicating online with the fans -- from Australia, where the show is produced -- to discuss upcoming episodes and drop "spoilers" about the season's finale.
The fans received more than spoilers this session. Immediately following a phone conference with Sci Fi programming executives, "Farscape" executive producer David Kemper, along with Browder and co-executive producer Richard Manning, informed the "Farscape" faithful that Sci Fi Channel had just reneged on its commitment to purchase the fifth and final season of the series. Effectively, the show had just been canceled, leaving the audience with a series finale that ends in a cliffhanger.
Predictably, within hours of the cancellation announcement fans had gathered on message boards and in chat rooms to create strategies for protesting Sci Fi's decision. What began as a collective of fans bemoaning the loss of their favorite show has become the Save "Farscape" campaign, one of the largest and most sophisticated fan campaigns in television history.
The Save "Farscape" campaign is hardly the first grass-roots effort to save a television series. In 1968 NBC would never have realized that people were watching "Star Trek" if superfan Bjo Trimble hadn't encouraged other viewers to protest the series' imminent cancellation. Dorothy Swanson organized a successful letter-writing campaign in 1983 to save "Cagney and Lacey," and subsequently founded Viewers for Quality Television to assist other worthy but ratings-deprived shows, such as "Designing Women." Fans of the late-night cult classic "Mystery Science Theater 3000" brought fan-based campaigns into the Internet age when they launched a Web site to find a new home for the series after Sci Fi canned it in 1999. (The site continues to bring "MSTies" together, although efforts to relaunch the show were long ago abandoned.)
In the '90s, grassroots efforts to save canceled shows have gained momentum. Fans protesting the cancellation of the ABC drama "Once and Again" persuaded the network to finance enough episodes to conclude open-ended storylines. Creative "Roswell" fans caught the attention of WB programmers and bought their show more time by sending them bottles of hot sauce as a reminder of the condiment favored by the aliens on the series.
Each successive campaign absorbs and improves upon lessons learned during previous protests. 'Scapers have taken the best from all of them; they sent Sci Fi executives packages of crackers, in homage to the title of a favorite "Farscape" episode, "Crackers Don't Matter."
But protests are perhaps also becoming more sophisticated in reaction to the insensitivity of media monopolies. Movie buffs filed class-action lawsuits in Chicago this February against two movie theater chains for screening commercials before the start of movies. People are beginning to realize that lett
Legislations, counter-legislations.
Did the web die suddenly or did it just wither away without anyone noticing?
Is a crock of shit. :)
Whatever point you are trying to make has been cheapened by your excessive referral to explicit websites in your journal.
Although, contrary to popular belief, I as a Muslim am not judgemental, all I can ask is that you show more concern towards how you are perceived by the community at large.
This is yet another example of the declining standards of Western education. Say what you will about the Taliban, but every child under their regime knew how to read and write.
Why must people constantly drool over Tolkien's blatent racism? Even the supposedly 'culturally enlightened' film-makers saw fit to portray the enemies of the (white) Free Peoples as Men of Swarth.
Tolkien is disgusting childish fantasy. There is only one book that needs to be read, and we ALL know what it is.
I find your racist attitude disgusting. Slashdot is no place for such pathetic postings.