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tod
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response 25 of 432:
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Feb 3 20:35 UTC 2006 |
Catch as Catch can
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mcnally
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response 26 of 432:
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Feb 3 20:40 UTC 2006 |
re #24: That's not what it means, but if you should find yourself in
Ketchikan you're welcome to stop by.
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jep
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response 27 of 432:
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Feb 3 20:49 UTC 2006 |
I'm not too concerned about any holy war coming of a newspaper cartoon,
other than the entertaining prospect of wondering what it would be
called. ("The Cartoon Invasion?")
If it is against Islamic Law to see a cartoon of Mohammed, then we have
an easy way to end the war in Iraq and all terrorism from those who
consider themselves devout Muslims. Ah, if only the world were that
easy.
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tod
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response 28 of 432:
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Feb 3 20:53 UTC 2006 |
re #27
"Remember the Maine!"
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richard
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response 29 of 432:
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Feb 3 21:06 UTC 2006 |
re #23 we are talking about islamic fundamentalists, NOT most muslims. What
a fundameentalist considers to be blasphemous is going to be far more sweeping
than what a non-fundamentalist considers blasphemous.
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tod
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response 30 of 432:
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Feb 3 21:38 UTC 2006 |
re #29
You said "no muslim"
Are you rescinding that claim?
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scholar
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response 31 of 432:
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Feb 3 21:58 UTC 2006 |
Re. 29: You have no idea what's going on.
First of all, ALL Moslems are fundamentalists.
Second of all, there isn't a Moslem alive who wouldn't find the pictures
(which went way further than just portraying Mahomet) offensive and insulting.
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tod
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response 32 of 432:
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Feb 3 22:00 UTC 2006 |
Is a Muslim in Turkey going to think the same way as a Muslim in Pakistan?
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richard
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response 33 of 432:
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Feb 3 22:05 UTC 2006 |
All muslims are not fundamentalists. Many muslims abhor the kind of
terrorism/violence that the fundamentalists sanction. Your statement is the
same as if you said there are only orthodox jews. Clearly that isn't the
case.
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kingjon
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response 34 of 432:
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Feb 3 22:49 UTC 2006 |
(I would say it's more like saying there are only Hasidic Jews -- as far as I
can tell, "Orthodox Jew" means the same sort of thing as just living in a
Muslim country does in practice for a Muslim -- keeping most of the details of
the practical matters of the faith.)
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scholar
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response 35 of 432:
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Feb 3 23:04 UTC 2006 |
Re. 33: Orthodoxism isn't the same thing to Judaism as this 'fundamentalism'
you've made up is to Islam. Know any Orthodox Jews who advocate inflicting
violence and torture on people because they're not Jews or because they make
fun of Jews? Yet there are plenty of Moslems who do this, and it is in fact
a core part of their religion, as anyone who bothers to read Alcoran.
Re. 32: I don't expect a Moslem to think exactly the same was as his neighbour
down the street does.
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tod
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response 36 of 432:
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Feb 3 23:06 UTC 2006 |
re #33
You're thinking of extremists. Fundamentalism means the basics.
re #34
Prior to the 20th century, all Jews were considered Orthodox. Today, you can
have conservatives which is considered the more liberal of Judaism.
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kingjon
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response 37 of 432:
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Feb 3 23:09 UTC 2006 |
True -- but orthodox versus Orthodox. There's Reform, Conservative, Orthodox,
(C)hasidic [depending on how you transliterate it], I think in that order (from
most liberal to most conservative), but I might have gotten the first two mixed
up. (Not that I'm an expert, but my parents have made sure that I know more
than average, and I've read Chaim Potok's _The Chosen_.)
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tod
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response 38 of 432:
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Feb 3 23:38 UTC 2006 |
Good, now go read Night by Elie Wiesel.
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kingjon
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response 39 of 432:
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Feb 3 23:44 UTC 2006 |
Read that too. (_Chosen_ was something I picked for AP English Lit & Comp;
_Night_ was for American History in eleventh grade.) Too depressing to read
again.
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slynne
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response 40 of 432:
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Feb 4 00:31 UTC 2006 |
Oh wow, now both Oprah *and* tod are telling us to read _Night_
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tod
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response 41 of 432:
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Feb 4 00:37 UTC 2006 |
I am where I am because of the bridges that I crossed. Sojourner Truth was
a bridge. Harriet Tubman was a bridge. Ida B. Wells was a bridge. Madame C.
J. Walker was a bridge. Fannie Lou Hamer was a bridge. Now go treat yourself
to some Apple jeans!!
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kingjon
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response 42 of 432:
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Feb 4 00:40 UTC 2006 |
Re #40: I think it was perhaps worth reading. Once. Just like _Lord of the
Flies_, _Red Badge of Courage_, and perhaps _The Scarlet Letter_ (though I like
that because I like that sort of writing). The one addition to that list that I
think nearly no one agrees with me on is _To Kill a Mockingbird_ -- but I don't
like it because it was read *to* us at about half a chapter per class period
(every other day) in ninth grade, so I'd read it about five or six times before
we'd "finished" it.
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naftee
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response 43 of 432:
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Feb 4 05:48 UTC 2006 |
whoa !
the newspaper Le Devoir printed ONE of the comics.
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sholmes
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response 44 of 432:
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Feb 4 15:32 UTC 2006 |
come to think of it , if god was really unpleased over this incident , he/she
can prolly do far better damage if he/she wants to. So leave it to t he god
eh ...
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rcurl
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response 45 of 432:
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Feb 4 18:17 UTC 2006 |
I've never heard of a religion that says "leave it to t he god
eh".
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naftee
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response 46 of 432:
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Feb 4 22:47 UTC 2006 |
that's because there is no god, eh.
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crimson
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response 47 of 432:
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Feb 5 12:49 UTC 2006 |
Re #45:
That's because most religions have better spelling and grammar.
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naftee
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response 48 of 432:
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Feb 6 02:44 UTC 2006 |
gagaga
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richard
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response 49 of 432:
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Feb 6 05:35 UTC 2006 |
Yesterday the netherlands and denmark embassies in Damascus, Syria
were torched and burned down by irate muslims screaming that they were
defending the honor of the Prophet from the evil media. These guys
sound like they'd be right at home in the GOP, where they love
religious people and hate the evil media.
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