I love it how you guys always, always mention Fox News, even though I've never watched Fox News. It's amazing how you think that Fox is the only source of right wing/conservative/whatever information in the world.
Islam is a system, religion and culture that regulates life. There are many sorts of rules and attitudes that influence the way Muslims behave. This is common sense 101. The same applies to all human beings, regardless of their religion, culture or nationality. Furthermore, Islam is much, much more rigid and comprehensive than Christianity, or some other system. Islam isn't just about religion, it also regulates day to day life and political and legal matters.
Atheism does not make you predisposed to any particular behavior, or increase your likelihood of doing or not doing something. The same cannot be said of Islam.
I was going to post "DUURRRR ITS NOT AS GOOD AS A KATANA AM I RITE" but you already mentioned them, and now the nerd rage of the Japanophiles will begin anyway.
WoW is good at what it does. The author suggests a wide range of changes without considering how they will fit into the game. You can't just toss in random features. For instance, why bother with moral dilemmas in the game? Nobody cares, players will just pick the option that gives them the best loot. There's no point in adding such roleplaying features if you won't go all the way. What about player-owned land? Where will players own it? There's no room, unless you use instances (maybe an apartment complex in Stormwind, the front door is the instance portal), in which case it would probably be pointless anyway, since the most likely reason you'd want to have a home would be to show it off to everyone.
I find it disheartening that young gamers feel the need to find a single console and lock onto it with a religious fervor. We're all gamers, we all enjoy the same hobby, but a large part of the community spends its time decrying everyone else.
The most astoundingly stupid argument you can hear in a console X vs. console Y vs. PC debate is hardware. For many people, hardware by itself is everything; it doesn't matter what kind of graphics it produces or what kind of games are available for the platform, as long as the specs are, at the very least, theoretically superior to other platforms. Doesn't matter that Neverwinter Nights 2 looks and runs like shit while several GameCube and Xbox games look a lot better, it only matters that NWN2 is being played on a AMD64 with dual GF 7900s, while the aforementioned consoles have inferior hardware. Doesn't matter that Resident Evil 4 is crazy awesome and looks great, the GameCube's hardware is inferior to the Xbox's, at least on paper. I can't play shit like that, what would people think? Now I can't even play the Xbox because the Xbox 360 is better!
For a real gamer, hardware is just a means to an end (PC), or entirely irrelevant (consoles). Sure, you can be enthusiastic about hardware, but as soon as you start saying shit like "I can't play the GameCube because it has a 485 MHz CPU," you become an asshat.
I didn't bother to refute them because there is plenty of evidence available to anyone who knows how to read with a critical eye.
What evidence would that be?
The reason I mentioned the Aisha debate in the first place to hook the islamofreaks, not to indulge them.
Why would you want to "hook" them? You make it sound like they're not supposed to object to pedophilia.
More islamofreak self-identification through obvious misinterpretation. I criticized the american school system for focusing on tests and self-love rather than teaching the invaluable skill of critical thinking. Something you have evidently failed to learn too.
The random ad hominems continue. It's hilarious! You are incapable of even barebones basic argumentation, much like almost everyone else who follows or defends Islam.
Here's another thing: there's a difference between a Muslim or Christian committing a terrorist attack, and a Muslim or Christian committing a terrorist attack because of their religion. Did the IRA commit terrorist attacks simply because they were religiously compelled by Christ to do so (and did their actions enjoy very wide support among Christians worldwide)? It's also pretty telling that the IRA is (or rather, was) the sole instance of Christian or pseudo-Christian terrorism that anyone can come up with. One short-lived group is not enough to make the moral equivalency theory work.
Lol, Tawfik Hamid is a publicity hound who charges at least $13K per speaking appearance. The guy's got conflict interest written all over him - any exaggeration just means more money. Plus, his story is more than a little shakey - claiming that he was a muslim fundamentalist who married a non-muslim woman who never converted? That would never fly if he had really been a fundie.
Of course he's unreliable. He agrees with anti-Jihadists such as Robert Spencer. He's probably just some crazy person or something.
Another display of islamofreak lack of critical thinking, reinforced by blog group think.
Another display of random ad hominems without even a token attempt at refuting what I said.
You and your fellow perverts (it's always a sex crime with you islamofreaks isn't it? mohammed's a pedo, muslims are rapists, yadda, yadda, yadda) have made a very large jump from almost half of all reported rapes in Sweden are committed by people who are foreign born to almost half of rapists in sweden are muslim.
Interesting how we're the perverts, as opposed to Mohammed who had a 9-year old wife, or Muslims who commit rape.
Islamofreaks like you just love the pedo meme, probably because you are a closet pedo yourself looking to project your feelings of guilt on to someone else and away from your own perverted cravings. You love it so much that whenever anyone even hints at the Aisha debate, you can't resist going all whacko and self-identifying as a total loon.
Curiously enough, you don't actually deny that Mohammed's wife was nine years old. And why would you, when it's true? I guess it's only wrong to say it if you're an infidel.
Yeah, whatever freakazoid. You are clearly a product of the american public school system where critical thinking has long since ceased to be a taught skill, replaced with multiple choice tests and feeling good about yourself. Sure must be nice to have an irrational hatred you can share with all your buddies, it just kinda makes you feel special don't it?
You don't deny this one either. And again, you shouldn't, because it's true. You simply hope that throwing ad hominems will distract everyone long enough not to notice anything. It's also strange that you accuse the American school system, when it doesn't even teach anything negative or "offensive" about Islam. There's also nothing "irrational" about his "hatred," since he has clear reasons.
By equating the oppressiveness of a country with its being islamic, you're wrongfully stigmatizing the muslim faith, where you should be criticizing the regimes in those countries.
Yes, it must be just an amazing coincidence that there isn't a single Islamic country in existence that isn't more or less fucked, and it must also be a coincidence that Islamic countries are curiously similiar to each other.
Useless comparison. The fact is that Muslims actually execute the violent aspects of the Quran, while Christians don't do the same for the bible. Christianity is theoretically violent, Islam is actually violent, yet multiculturalists and other apologists don't seem to grasp the difference, because they're far too busy perfecting their theory of moral equivalency.
And here's what a former Muslim terrorist from Egypt has to say.
The moral, cultural and technological failures of Islamic societies are caused by Islam. That post you quote has some interesting things, though:
as for western countries, it is only lately, very lately, that they have lifted their own outstandingly sexist laws regarding the prosecution of sexual assault.
Ah, of course. Because Western countries didn't have 100% gender equality starting from the year 1 AD, Western countries are no better.
i'd like to also point out that when i was studying sexual assault in canada, perpetrators of the worst offences were often white. but what do you care?
And in Norway and Sweden, most perpetrators are Muslims, and they commit an incredibly disproportionate amount of them. Then there's the issue of culture: is rape a part of Canadian culture? No, but it's a part of Islamic culture. Significant difference.
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When all else fails, mention Fox News, as if it meant something.
This whole thing is laughable. Female gamers are nothing but a new market segment or marketing gimmick for companies. Apparently you can't even get a female clan together if it isn't sponsored and assembled by a corporation, and now it seems they even need a training facility. If you can't find any female gamers, then at least you can manufacture some (but make sure they're attactive)! I suppose it all makes sense from a corporation's point of view, but from my point of view it's just pathetic. If females don't want to play games, then I guess they just fucking won't play games. I don't really even care. Same goes for game development, or particle physics, or whatever.
I also like how video gaming is intentionally gender segregated in the interests of equality.
Yeah, and we hear about those terrorist groups all the time. They're conducting terror campaigns all over the world. They're probably even united by a shared ideology.
Troll? I'm a troll for stating a fact?! The clueless person who modded me must be under the strange belief that the majority of terror attacks are commited by Christians or Buddhists. Maybe he should actually find out about things before dumping his politically correct leftist diarrhea on a random Internet forum.
By "minorities" you must be referring to Muslims. The reason why Muslims are so "disproportionately" targeted is because practically all terrorists are Muslims. It's that simple.
Do you know the parent poster personally? Who are you to imply that the parents morals are so easily compromised that they would forget their stand on due process and hard evidence just because some hypothetical woman wanted to touch little boys (or girls or monkeys for that matter) in the hoo ha and make them put their mouth in her fish bowl?
It seems probable. When it's something like pedophilia, people will be demanding the electric chair in a heartbeat. When it's terrorism, the reaction is the opposite. Terrorism is totally hip and cool, because it's a bit like sticking it to The Man (Bush etc.), but much more exciting (alternatively, terrorism does not even exist, and it's just an excuse by the government to go after people with dark skin and beards, despite the ultra-hysterical PC-fascism of today).
I would like to nitpick by pointing out that "infamous" does not mean what "anonymous reader" thinks it means. An "infamous" game has a notoriously bad or evil reputation.
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Please tell me more. How am I ignorant?
I love it how you guys always, always mention Fox News, even though I've never watched Fox News. It's amazing how you think that Fox is the only source of right wing/conservative/whatever information in the world.
Islam is a system, religion and culture that regulates life. There are many sorts of rules and attitudes that influence the way Muslims behave. This is common sense 101. The same applies to all human beings, regardless of their religion, culture or nationality. Furthermore, Islam is much, much more rigid and comprehensive than Christianity, or some other system. Islam isn't just about religion, it also regulates day to day life and political and legal matters.
Atheism does not make you predisposed to any particular behavior, or increase your likelihood of doing or not doing something. The same cannot be said of Islam.
I was going to post "DUURRRR ITS NOT AS GOOD AS A KATANA AM I RITE" but you already mentioned them, and now the nerd rage of the Japanophiles will begin anyway.
WoW is good at what it does. The author suggests a wide range of changes without considering how they will fit into the game. You can't just toss in random features. For instance, why bother with moral dilemmas in the game? Nobody cares, players will just pick the option that gives them the best loot. There's no point in adding such roleplaying features if you won't go all the way. What about player-owned land? Where will players own it? There's no room, unless you use instances (maybe an apartment complex in Stormwind, the front door is the instance portal), in which case it would probably be pointless anyway, since the most likely reason you'd want to have a home would be to show it off to everyone.
The most astoundingly stupid argument you can hear in a console X vs. console Y vs. PC debate is hardware. For many people, hardware by itself is everything; it doesn't matter what kind of graphics it produces or what kind of games are available for the platform, as long as the specs are, at the very least, theoretically superior to other platforms. Doesn't matter that Neverwinter Nights 2 looks and runs like shit while several GameCube and Xbox games look a lot better, it only matters that NWN2 is being played on a AMD64 with dual GF 7900s, while the aforementioned consoles have inferior hardware. Doesn't matter that Resident Evil 4 is crazy awesome and looks great, the GameCube's hardware is inferior to the Xbox's, at least on paper. I can't play shit like that, what would people think? Now I can't even play the Xbox because the Xbox 360 is better!
For a real gamer, hardware is just a means to an end (PC), or entirely irrelevant (consoles). Sure, you can be enthusiastic about hardware, but as soon as you start saying shit like "I can't play the GameCube because it has a 485 MHz CPU," you become an asshat.
What evidence would that be?
Why would you want to "hook" them? You make it sound like they're not supposed to object to pedophilia.
The random ad hominems continue. It's hilarious! You are incapable of even barebones basic argumentation, much like almost everyone else who follows or defends Islam.
Here's another thing: there's a difference between a Muslim or Christian committing a terrorist attack, and a Muslim or Christian committing a terrorist attack because of their religion. Did the IRA commit terrorist attacks simply because they were religiously compelled by Christ to do so (and did their actions enjoy very wide support among Christians worldwide)? It's also pretty telling that the IRA is (or rather, was) the sole instance of Christian or pseudo-Christian terrorism that anyone can come up with. One short-lived group is not enough to make the moral equivalency theory work.
Of course he's unreliable. He agrees with anti-Jihadists such as Robert Spencer. He's probably just some crazy person or something.
Another display of random ad hominems without even a token attempt at refuting what I said.
Interesting how we're the perverts, as opposed to Mohammed who had a 9-year old wife, or Muslims who commit rape.
Curiously enough, you don't actually deny that Mohammed's wife was nine years old. And why would you, when it's true? I guess it's only wrong to say it if you're an infidel.
You don't deny this one either. And again, you shouldn't, because it's true. You simply hope that throwing ad hominems will distract everyone long enough not to notice anything. It's also strange that you accuse the American school system, when it doesn't even teach anything negative or "offensive" about Islam. There's also nothing "irrational" about his "hatred," since he has clear reasons.
Yes, it must be just an amazing coincidence that there isn't a single Islamic country in existence that isn't more or less fucked, and it must also be a coincidence that Islamic countries are curiously similiar to each other.
Useless comparison. The fact is that Muslims actually execute the violent aspects of the Quran, while Christians don't do the same for the bible. Christianity is theoretically violent, Islam is actually violent, yet multiculturalists and other apologists don't seem to grasp the difference, because they're far too busy perfecting their theory of moral equivalency.
The moral, cultural and technological failures of Islamic societies are caused by Islam. That post you quote has some interesting things, though:
Ah, of course. Because Western countries didn't have 100% gender equality starting from the year 1 AD, Western countries are no better.
And in Norway and Sweden, most perpetrators are Muslims, and they commit an incredibly disproportionate amount of them. Then there's the issue of culture: is rape a part of Canadian culture? No, but it's a part of Islamic culture. Significant difference.
When all else fails, mention Fox News, as if it meant something.
Why the hell would you go unarmed if you can use a weapon (againts some nutjob that just tried to stab you)? Life isn't a kung fu movie.
Simply put: what is an urban gaming clan?
This whole thing is laughable. Female gamers are nothing but a new market segment or marketing gimmick for companies. Apparently you can't even get a female clan together if it isn't sponsored and assembled by a corporation, and now it seems they even need a training facility. If you can't find any female gamers, then at least you can manufacture some (but make sure they're attactive)! I suppose it all makes sense from a corporation's point of view, but from my point of view it's just pathetic. If females don't want to play games, then I guess they just fucking won't play games. I don't really even care. Same goes for game development, or particle physics, or whatever.
I also like how video gaming is intentionally gender segregated in the interests of equality.
Yeah, and we hear about those terrorist groups all the time. They're conducting terror campaigns all over the world. They're probably even united by a shared ideology.
Troll? I'm a troll for stating a fact?! The clueless person who modded me must be under the strange belief that the majority of terror attacks are commited by Christians or Buddhists. Maybe he should actually find out about things before dumping his politically correct leftist diarrhea on a random Internet forum.
Please explain how this was flamebait.
How is this flamebait? It was a joke. Christ.
By "minorities" you must be referring to Muslims. The reason why Muslims are so "disproportionately" targeted is because practically all terrorists are Muslims. It's that simple.
It seems probable. When it's something like pedophilia, people will be demanding the electric chair in a heartbeat. When it's terrorism, the reaction is the opposite. Terrorism is totally hip and cool, because it's a bit like sticking it to The Man (Bush etc.), but much more exciting (alternatively, terrorism does not even exist, and it's just an excuse by the government to go after people with dark skin and beards, despite the ultra-hysterical PC-fascism of today).
Yeah. British cops are now officially going around shooting random people because of one incident.
I would like to nitpick by pointing out that "infamous" does not mean what "anonymous reader" thinks it means. An "infamous" game has a notoriously bad or evil reputation.
Yes, of course I'm a troll for expressing a negative opinion. I mean, obviously.