Christians are on the short list of groups that one can still openly mock and treat with derision.
Some idjits do. More intelligent people recognize they have a right to their opinions as long as they alow others to have theirs. They also recognize that Christianity in fact does inspire some people to be better people.
My guess it’s because Christians, while they may make their voices heard when something (like the Harry Potter series) clashes with their belief system, limit their weapons to exactly that - their voices are all they use. When an outrageous insult toward Christians is perpetrated in the name of art or literature, there is no violence, no rioting in the streets, no threats to make those who insult Christianity pay.
GIVE ME A BREAK!
Christians have never enforced their way at sword point or gunpoint? They've never killed out of religious motivations?
How many exceptions would you like me to cite? You yourself know that statement is not true.
Which is not to say any where near a majority of Christians are violent. Only a small minority are. And a small minority of all groups, religious and non-religious, are violent. I am simply saying that Christians, to the regret of most, are not exempt.
Rather, the government education agency that is a leading partner for the annual Bett Award gave it the heave-ho because “the use of pigs raises cultural issues.” They did this despite the fact that no Muslims had complained about the book beforehand.
The European hate speech laws are idiotic.
(Interestingly, they also said “no” to a story entitled The Three Little Cowboy Builders because construction workers might take offense. No construction workers had complained about this book either.)
The author's kidding, right? This is so dumb it's hard to believe.
Banks in Britain have already stopped handing out piggy banks to children who open savings accounts
Amazing!
and some British schools are not teaching students about the Holocaust because some in their Muslim population are taking the line from Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and claiming the Holocaust never happened.
Amazing!
Killing thousands of people in Manhattan skyscrapers in the name of Islam does, among a certain narrow-minded type of person, give Islam a bad name, and thus could be said to be “anti-Islamic” – in the same way that the Luftwaffe raining down death and destruction on Londoners during the Blitz was an “anti-German activity.” But I don’t recall even Neville Chamberlain explaining, as if to a five-year-old, that there is nothing German about the wish to terrorize and invade, and that this is entirely at odds with the core German values of sitting around eating huge sausages in beer gardens while wearing lederhosen.
LOL!!!!!!!!
Here in America, we haven’t gotten quite to the point of dumping on books about cute little piggies trying to keep from being eaten by the Big Bad Wolf. However, there have been cases reported of Muslim employees at Target refusing to ring up customers’ bacon and pepperoni pizzas
Fire 'em.
and Muslim cab drivers wanting to be allowed to refuse service to fares who might be carrying a six-pack or have a Seeing Eye dog.
Take away their medallions. They could also refuse to take a Jew to his synagogue. Same solution.
Last year, when a British schoolteacher was threatened with death in Sudan for allowing her young students to name their class teddy bear Mohammed, the brain trust on ABC’s The View blamed the teacher for not knowing the rules and customs of the country.
We all know "The View" habituees are liberal nutcases.
I wonder if they would say the same about Muslims who come to the U.S. and take jobs at supermarkets where customers purchase pork products and beer… or if they were denied a ride in a cab because they happened to be carrying a bottle of wine.
Break the bottle over the driver's head? :-)
It would be fascinating to see someone like The View’s Joy Behar try to cope with the rules and customs an Islamic country such as Saudi Arabia. I doubt this outspoken (to put it mildly) woman would be welcome with open arms in a country where men rule and women do their bidding in burqas. It’d make a great Lifetime movie of the week: Behar Behind the Burqa: A Portrait of Courage.
Joy would even be allowed on TV in that country. I wonder what she'd think of that. |
