pharlap said:
I think this thread has gone a little off topic, not there's anything wrong with that necessarily.
But just returning to the origin of the discussion briefly, it's pitiful to pander to a minority and establishing some sort of prayer area within a sports stadium. If prayer is so important to them, then dont go to the bloody game. Pretty simple choice.
That's probably the most correct post that this forum has ever seen!! :clap: :clap:
mr c....again,trying to equate moral equivalence between protecting a society from a throwback 14th century mass murder cult and some athlete exercising his right to expression is a ridiculous comparison...
But no...see, I know I've dragged this thread way off topic...but far from me eqauting what you said...don't you think that early on here, the comparison was distinctly made between a small group of men standing near an air-duct, to the western world's greatest threat??!!
Pretty big leap I would have thought. :shrug:
Why do athletes have a right to express, but Muslim's don't?
As I said, athletes are lauded for making very public Christian gestures...People in the stands unashamedly (and rightly so if that's their thing!) pray....yet imagine if a Muslim pulls out his mat, faced East (or West... Mecca anyway!!), gets down on his knees....you know the drill....
...all of a sudden there are people yelling abuse and wanting to throw beer bottles.
Just seems to me that some people get to 'express their rights' a whole lot more freely than others.
but,unfortunately,it`s impossible to discern the criminals from the law abiding
Absolutely it is!...But you don't see your white neighbour being 'profiled' on the off chance he robs a bank next week...or kills his ex-wife down the track.
after all,they chose to come here...
That's just the classic train of thought isn't it...Do we know what % US Muslims are actually born in America?? (I don't, but fair chance 75+% of them didn't CHOOSE to come here at all?In fact, quite the opposite. They quite freely CHOOSE to adopt Islam as their religion)
continuously citing and comparing a handful of "christian weirdo`s" to the over 3200 muslim terrorist attacks around the world since 9/11 is a straw man...i think you know that...
Pretty sure we've had this conversation before....a HUGE % of those attacks aren't random...SE Asia, Africa...obviously Israel, aren't so much about 'religion' as they are century old fueds about land....rather than disrupting society as a whole.
Now clearly 9/11, the Bali bombing and the recent London attacks stand out, and are absolutely every bit as you describe.
Horrific?.totally 100% un-necessary deaths?but in real terms, a drop in the ocean.
88 Australians died in Bali, and we have anniversaries?tributes?the works?yet every year 300 Australians get murdered (presumably by Good Ole Ordinary Citizens!).
Martin Bryant (a every day regular Joe) killed 35 people on a shooting spree here in Tassie in 1996.
Out last plane hijacking here (probably our only one!), was some middle aged, ?regular? Aussie male, who was drunk and wanted to die ?cause his wife had left him!!
Just imagine for one second if by pure coincidence he happened to be a Muslim!!...instead of a near disaster that got 2 days of news time, suddenly it?s an international incident that goes through the wringer for months on end.
One of the biggest ?public? attacks ever (besides 9/11 obviously) was the Tokyo subway incident?.only 12 died, but about 5000 were injured and quite lucky to survive?.An attack by a whacked out Japanese national.
Anyway...I do appologise for the pretty large tangent I went off on....
...My one man crusade for a more understanding world is now officially at an end. :mj14: