This is for the people attacking Islam here. I'm often appalled at the ignorance on this site about cultural matters. Islam is indeed responsible for many inventions and innovations. Islam is not overwhelmed now by its right-wing side. There are so many people here type typing away who know nothing about what they write, aside from what they get in mass media, I suppose, which is worse than nothing. It's one thing to trash an OS, but to dismiss a whole religion, one of the largest in the world, and all its adherents as evil or stupid, is just bigoted. I'm not going to bother pointing you in the right direction. It's too easy to find good solid info on Islam and its history. Go read a damn book before you open your mouth again. Otherwise, repeat after me, "I have no opinion; I am uninformed, and my kneejerk responses lead me to the embarrassing end of seeming an ignorant and bigoted hick."
Yeah. Sure. I recall my dentist driving drunk into the middle of a football game. And yes, we so need ethical men and women to persuade us to purchase tooth bleach and to scrub our gums. Dentists really, really should be pillars of probity. Not tooth mechanics. Yep, I go to my dentist for moral and ethical guidance, not to get my teeth checked up. Yeppers.
What do we need more, tooth bleach or freedom of speech? What is worse, a student calling a professor (who may well be a poor teacher, human being, &c) a cockmaster or an administration of adults who are responsible for that student over-reacting? Is free speech less valuable than supposed uprightness?
I will say this quite plainly: I am an ABD at the University of Iowa. Some of my professors might well be characterized as "cockmasters"--tho I prefer to say self-involved, incompetent, and mean-spirited. But I am 35 where this guy was, what?, ten years younger? Should I be considered less upright or moral because I might have said the same thing when I was 25, being as I am from a tiny Southern town where everyone except the ministers call a spade a spade and use colorful language to express the shovel's qualities?
To people who call for uprightness: enjoy your stance and leave me alone, you cockmasters.
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This is for the people attacking Islam here. I'm often appalled at the ignorance on this site about cultural matters. Islam is indeed responsible for many inventions and innovations. Islam is not overwhelmed now by its right-wing side. There are so many people here type typing away who know nothing about what they write, aside from what they get in mass media, I suppose, which is worse than nothing. It's one thing to trash an OS, but to dismiss a whole religion, one of the largest in the world, and all its adherents as evil or stupid, is just bigoted. I'm not going to bother pointing you in the right direction. It's too easy to find good solid info on Islam and its history. Go read a damn book before you open your mouth again. Otherwise, repeat after me, "I have no opinion; I am uninformed, and my kneejerk responses lead me to the embarrassing end of seeming an ignorant and bigoted hick."
Yeah. Sure. I recall my dentist driving drunk into the middle of a football game. And yes, we so need ethical men and women to persuade us to purchase tooth bleach and to scrub our gums. Dentists really, really should be pillars of probity. Not tooth mechanics. Yep, I go to my dentist for moral and ethical guidance, not to get my teeth checked up. Yeppers. What do we need more, tooth bleach or freedom of speech? What is worse, a student calling a professor (who may well be a poor teacher, human being, &c) a cockmaster or an administration of adults who are responsible for that student over-reacting? Is free speech less valuable than supposed uprightness? I will say this quite plainly: I am an ABD at the University of Iowa. Some of my professors might well be characterized as "cockmasters"--tho I prefer to say self-involved, incompetent, and mean-spirited. But I am 35 where this guy was, what?, ten years younger? Should I be considered less upright or moral because I might have said the same thing when I was 25, being as I am from a tiny Southern town where everyone except the ministers call a spade a spade and use colorful language to express the shovel's qualities? To people who call for uprightness: enjoy your stance and leave me alone, you cockmasters.