Displaying 11,161 To 11,190 Of 11,789 Comments Actually, I really respect Pepe’s point of view, and generally stay mum, but it is the double-standards that get to me. Look at the health consequences and cost of obesity vs. smoking. Alcohol vs. smoking. And I cheer the tanning bed tax! Last thing I need is a blonde who spends hours in the sun or tanning salon getting self-righteous. And the taxing for SCHIP is a sort of mixed signal as well… just sayin’. » Posted By Khirad On December 27, 2009 @ 4:57 pm Nominations – The Planet’s Top Posts of 2009 The problem with these things, is that quite naturally we’ll nominate more recent ones – or least I will. Political commentary: Marion’s Festivus message » Posted By Khirad On December 27, 2009 @ 4:39 pm And yet we harbored Haitian human right’s criminals, and a terrorist for a few years. Irony. » Posted By Khirad On December 27, 2009 @ 5:27 pm This would have been better on Marion’s post, but, hey. Pssst, btw. Satire. » Posted By Khirad On December 27, 2009 @ 11:34 am This is the kind of thing that worries me more: http://images.ucomics.com/comics/db/2009/db091226.gif » Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 5:43 pm I totally believe the McCartyhite Bircher part. Who knows about the others. Urban legends work when there’s an air of credibility to them, after all. No one is sure about the Sparky thing, for example, but it makes a good story, » Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 5:29 pm Apparently they started the tradition of adding naughty things in Disney movies? What a dick move by Walt, would sound in character. I want to see the cartoon now though… (yes, I’m that immature). » Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 5:26 pm Brilliantly said. Agree on all counts (you read my mind – and formed a more coherent statement from it). » Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 4:27 pm No way! And I thought the Goth Cruise was the height of irony! Well, at least it was at night, so they could leave the parasol at home. » Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 4:24 pm Complicated, since it goes back so far and is secretive in nature (compare with Freemasons). A wider dissemination of its stress of love and tolerant attitudes through its poets, for instance, would definitely calm Islam though. As such they have been persecuted for not being “true” Muslims. Or heretics. Bin Laden would consider them worse infidels than Jews, quite possibly, for being apostates and innovators (especially ones who melded Islamic philosophy with neo-Platonism and science). » Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 4:21 pm Like they say, he was not a pleasant man. The ASU mascot was designed by a former Disney employee. Resemblance? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/eb/Sparky.png » Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 4:10 pm I didn’t even tell you how much I prefer, nay insist, that such books have the original text. By far the best suggestion I’ve gotten for an intro to the Talmud! ‘Tis bookmarked. Plus, knocks off the Maimonedes I wanted to get to as well. » Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 4:02 pm I love the Pollyanna defense. My lord. It all hinges on the belief that if we were to halve our military that China would their’s, etc. I think we overspend on our military, but lord, I think some used lead based paint when making their tie-dye shirts. » Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 3:56 pm I think it is true. And yeah, I remember that Family Guy one too. » Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 3:50 pm That sounds like it was wonderful. » Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 3:45 pm I was actually saying that I’ve seen articles on this before, and it would have made an interesting articel – the whole history of Christmas and such. The sanctity of Christmas tradition is also a joke, if you go back more than a hundred years, as well. » Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 3:45 pm He re-published the Protocols? Wow, I knew he was an anti-Semite, but geeze, that’s hardcore. And yeah, totally noticed that about a lot of those audit people. – the subject gets over my head, but I can sniff some of them out who really are more interested in the Bilderberg group and the NWO. » Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 3:42 pm I’ve read a couple books from Turkey, but would love to get back and finish my Idries Shah book on Sufis. Yeah, Sufis are totally cool. As far as the orders go, they wouldn’t get involved. But the lay person of Sindh or Punjab has that more tolerant attitude infused within, what was until the recent spate of attacks, the dominant strain of Islam found in South Asia. It goes back to the first conversions of the subcontinent being made by Sufis and the more eclectic and tolerant (with some exceptions) Mughal rulers. Interestingly enough, Somalia has had a similar history and relaxed practice of Islam. It is those few who use terror that can hijack a whole society. » Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 3:36 pm Yeah, in Somalia the fishing trollers sorta took away their livelihoods. That never seems to get mentioned. » Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 3:27 pm On that account: We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person – unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land – it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our apostles with clear signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit excesses in the land. – 5:32 It’s okay, I’ve read the Qur’an twice and I couldn’t tell you all that was in there either. If there is similarity, well, there’s good reason for that and that Talmudic passage is likely where it comes from. What is the Qur’an, after all? By the way, have a good intro to the Talmud (I don’t need an Idiot’s Guide, but a compendium would be nice, or an introduction – preferably a combination)? I, of course couldn’t afford or digest a whole library of the books that make it up (after all, one becomes a Rabbi to do so, no?), but would like the “highlights”, as it were. In any case, the Islamic mujtahids – or jurisprudents – are like lawyers, they can piece together some weak Hadith here and some obscure Qur’anic passage there, take it all out of context, then get a fatwa to make just about anything halaal. It’s all very cynical at best, hypocritical and dare I use the ‘e’ word, evil, at its worst. In the above passage you can see how they could ignore the sentiment and broadly brush anything as ‘spreading mischief’. » Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 3:19 pm Nailed it. 😉 » Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 3:03 pm Exactly. As someone who reads “Dawn” editorials (and there are some great ones) sporadically – that is a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy. We ask why they don’t speak out, and when they do, we don’t pay attention. Not that it matters I suppose, this is their battle which needs to happen with or without the West. As Reza Aslan contends, they need a Reform. I don’t see a great one worldwide, but for Pakistanis this merely means heeding back to Ghalib, Iqbal and Jinnah – Jinnah himself, for the founder of an Islamic Republic, has some marvelously secular and inclusive quotes. Plus, Pakistanis have historically been more Sufi in orientation, with such things as dargahs, or Sufi shrines where a saint was buried being minor pilgrimage sites. Such things are most definitely considered bid’ah (innovation) by the folks in the northern frontier areas causing them so much problems. Takfir means more apostate, but yes, traitor – killing fellow Muslims fits this. After all that would make you a heretic. The Urdu word you might also come across for bandit in this regard, though it is more secular, is dacoit. » Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 2:59 pm Absolutely there does. And on a site like this I feel more comfortable saying so. I think those often making the point do it to make a point that their religion is more inherently violent or that they are more inferior or subservient as a people. I think the complexities and situations of the governments get lost on people. I also say a lot that whenever someone like Ebadi speaks out it doesn’t get any play, thus continuing the cycle. But, yes, to deny there is a problem in the Muslim world (a nebulous term in itself) is dishonest. I just wish that Islamist parties in Indonesia losing out last round, or Deobandi centers in India denouncing the Mumbai attacks, etc, got more play, as well. The positive thing about this all is, even for completely different motives, the outrage we see covered in Iran, is an example of this — though I have yet to see it in Palestine, apart from more secular groups which do actually get profiled in pieces, I must commend the media for. The biggest problem is the situation in Europe, most notably Britain, I do wish they could separate pride and defensiveness of being a minority group and that solidarity with one of feeling betrayed and undercut by those who mar and perpetuate the sentiments the non-Muslim population feels. It is odd that this is sometimes harder to do than in Pakistan, where criticism of extremists is fairly regular in newspapers and on the street. » Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 2:44 pm Ask the British Empire why they chose it for their Aden port. » Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 2:12 pm No, it most certainly, more than others, is religion-based. The grievances originally transcended this, but more than the Palestinian/Israeli issue, IRA or any others, their ideology is founded upon their extreme interpretation of the Qur’an and Hadith and their ultimate goals are rather vague. That’s my opinion though. » Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 2:11 pm I just want to know what has happened when wussifying us happened in only a year of Obama’s America. Why was it a clog-wearing, tulip-sniffing, pot-smoking Dutchie who subdued the suspect? This plane was going to Detroit, right? It’s all part of the master plan to have us bow before OBL, I tell ya. On a tangent, anyone see that one of OBL’s daughters escaped to the Saudi Embassy in Iran? That was interesting. » Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 2:08 pm I just remind them of Iranian protesters (it really has screwed with the Islamophobic worldview, forced to see distinctions and not a monolithic group) when they do the old “religion of peace” saw. One guy actually was on a Shirin Ebadi thread talking about how uncivilized all Muslims were. Reminding him she was Muslim just had him changing the subject endlessly. In any case, I can see those threads a mile away. I did a few of my threads this morning in World, and have stayed away today. One time I was suprised was after the Fort Hood shootings. A fellow Muslim soldier wrote something – which should have made it EVERYWHERE – it was that good. He went to mosque with the guy and they and the Imam thought he was extreme and unbalanced. It was on the front page but generally quiet and positive. But when it comes down to it, hatred of Muslims has replaced racism against blacks and Jews as socially acceptable in my view. This is apropos:
» Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 2:02 pm 😉 » Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 1:51 pm By the way, I hate it when anything like this happens ’cause I have to listen to Peter King. Maybe it’s my born-and-bred far West-coasterness, but that smugness and accent combined gets under my skin. » Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 12:45 pm Somebody should check those Muslim ornaments though just to make sure! That’s my suspicion as well though, as you likely gathered. » Posted By Khirad On December 26, 2009 @ 12:44 pmComments Posted By Khirad
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