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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,500764,00.html

"Hello, my name is Waleed, and I have a suicide bombing problem."

Why didn't anyone think of this sooner?

Also, it sounds like Bible camp, except going the other way.

This....is.....pure....awesomeness!

x2 Wilgrove. Not just extremists, but all non-violent fanatic Muslims should take a page out of their program:

12 Steps to Stopping Terror

1. Who is Allah: His Mercy to all.
2. Using verses from the Holy Koran that speak of peace and good conduct.
3. Who is Muhammad: His mercy, kind manner, humble attitude, wisdom, patience.
4. Using hadith: Commentaries that provide ethics and other moral training.
5. Using stories of Companions: A knowledge-based pursuit.
6. Stories from history: Contexts and underlying factors, not always glory of God.
7. Islamic scholarship: What it seeks for the individual to know, and how.
8. Abrahamic Faith: The interconnectedness of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
9. Other faiths: common ground, not fighting ground.
10. Open Society of Canada: What it means for the majority (how to reconcile dogmatic idealism with pragmatic realism)
11. Seeing the whole as one: Global challenges affecting us all.
12. Advocacy: Actively countering extremist ideology through education, public speaking and writing.

Win.

A very good start and the US should follow suit.

Epic win. Also, good that they're going against the negative image of Muslims in our modern world. Maybe this could be the beginning of the end of the negative 'All teh ebil m0slems are terrorists!!11!' stereotype. Or at least the end of widespread anti-Muslim sentiment.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,500764,00.html

"Hello, my name is Waleed, and I have a suicide bombing problem."

Why didn't anyone think of this sooner?

Also, it sounds like Bible camp, except going the other way.

Considering how little faith some people on NSG put in faith, I wonder what their opinion of the effectiveness of faith-based intervention will be.

Considering how little faith some people on NSG put in faith, I wonder what their opinion of the effectiveness of faith-based intervention will be.

:rolleyes:

Of course. If we want faith to GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE STATE it surely must mean we're all Atheists who would make Atheism (as opposed to no faith at all) state religion, innit?

:rolleyes:

Of course. If we want faith to GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE STATE it surely must mean we're all Atheists who would make Atheism (as opposed to no faith at all) state religion, innit?

Obviously, you want to believe that Muslims can fix themselves, but you're having trouble with the "faith based" approach. :hail:

Obviously, you want to believe that Muslims can fix themselves, but you're having trouble with the "faith based" approach. :hail:

So, in need of remedial text interpretation classes, are you?

He makes a valid point. A VERY large amount of NSGers have no faith, or even openly mock faith. Don't try to twist around his statements into something he didn't say.

Could it be that conservatives of all styles, here in NSG itself, try to press their beliefs and force them into law, eliciting the kind of reaction seen in some posters?

They're usually the people with no problem with what Muslims do with airliners, explosives, and small children.

They're usually the people with no problem with what Muslims do with airliners, explosives, and small children.

As opposed to the person that wants to commit genocide against an entire religion, INCLUDING SMALL CHILDREN (since you want to make that little piece of appeal to emotion) because of the actions of less than a tenth of one percent of said religion?

The difference here? MINE is truth. Yours isn't.

Cool

As opposed to the person that wants to commit genocide against an entire religion, INCLUDING SMALL CHILDREN (since you want to make that little piece of appeal to emotion) because of the actions of less than a tenth of one percent of said religion?

The difference here? MINE is truth. Yours isn't.

They're usually the people with no problem with what Muslims do with airliners, explosives, and small children.

Hey guys, can you stop having your whiny girlly hissyfit in my thread?

Rare as they may be, sometimes there really are good people of (various) faiths.

Rare as they may be, sometimes there really are good people.

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Geert Wilders would really benefit from this program.

Of course. If we want faith to GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE STATE it surely must mean we're all Atheists who would make Atheism (as opposed to no faith at all) state religion, innit?

The way I understand it, it seems that in this day an age, everyone wants to do everything to hinder Christianity, while allowing other religions to get what they want. A case in point (and I don't have the link at the moment, unfortunately), in a part of Britain, you had a church unable to ring its bell, yet a mosque was allowed to broadcast its call to prayer for all in sundry to hear.

A case in point (and I don't have the link at the moment, unfortunately), in a part of Britain, you had a church unable to ring its bell, yet a mosque was allowed to broadcast its call to prayer for all in sundry to hear.

I wonder which part of Britain would have such retarded prohibitions :rolleyes:

On a completely unrelated note, the persecution complex some Christians have is remarkably similar to the attitudes of skinheads who believe that white European-Americans are being oppressed.

...and I don't have the link at the moment, unfortunately...
I am surprised.

The way I understand it, it seems that in this day an age, everyone wants to do everything to hinder Christianity, while allowing other religions to get what they want. A case in point (and I don't have the link at the moment, unfortunately), in a part of Britain, you had a church unable to ring its bell, yet a mosque was allowed to broadcast its call to prayer for all in sundry to hear.

Yeah, well, Christianity, mixed with the state, allowed for a law to be used in Massachussets to burn a person accused of witchcraft as late as 1988. I don't have a link, but it was this sexy woman that dressed in black and I am, of course, referring to a work of fiction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvira,_Mistress_of_the_Dark_(film)

See why is it that hearsay means shit without something to back it up? At least MY lie has a link.

Edit: Here, though, is an ACTUAL link so you stop making these BS claims about how Christians are prosecuted just because the Burning Times are over: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_discrimination_against_Neopagans

Yeah, well, Christianity, mixed with the state, allowed for a law to be used in Massachussets to burn a person accused of witchcraft as late as 1988. I don't have a link, but it was this sexy woman that dressed in black and I am, of course, referring to a work of fiction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvira,_Mistress_of_the_Dark_(film)

See why is it that hearsay means shit without something to back it up? At least MY lie has a link.

Edit: Here, though, is an ACTUAL link so you stop making these BS claims about how Christians are prosecuted just because the Burning Times are over: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_discrimination_against_Neopagans

So because Christians were allowed to persecute others before, we should persecute them now?

So because Christians were allowed to persecute others before, we should persecute them now?

No: We just should NOT accept their cries of "you are persecuting us" whenever THEY aren't allowed to persecute.

For instance:

Burning people at the stake for witchcraft = Persecution.
Not allowing a Ten Commandments slab to be placed in a public building with taxpayer money = Church and State being duly separated.

Some Christians treat the former like a frat prank, and the latter like the former.

is it just me or does the mosque look like some sort of prison??

is it just me or does the mosque look like some sort of prison??

<Admiral Ackbar>It's a trap!</Admiral Ackbar>

is it just me or does the mosque look like some sort of prison??

It's just you... I think...

It's just you... I think...

"Sir, we've captured Nanatsu. She just walked in the door..."

<Admiral Ackbar>It's a trap!</Admiral Ackbar>

someone shop a jihadist akbar for the /thread

"Sir, we've captured Nanatsu. She just walked in the door..."

Oh shi...!:eek2:

Oh shi...!:eek2:

anyone want to rent a Spanish girl with cat ears for the night??

anyone want to rent a Spanish girl with cat ears for the night??

<.<

Don't overstep your limits, bucko.

<.<

Don't overstep your limits, bucko.

you were the one who called me a pimp :p just playing my role.

you were the one who called me a pimp :p just playing my role.

I was, you see, joking with you. Besides that, I ain't for rent, dude. I am too expensive and caged so...:tongue:

I was, you see, joking with you. Besides that, I ain't for rent, dude. I am too expensive and caged so...:tongue:

that's the beauty of prostitution in the Maldives no where to run cause its a tiny island and the police don't care if we torture you to keep you in line.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b283/jtkwon/akbar.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b283/jtkwon/akbar.jpg

you win the thread.

that's the beauty of prostitution in the Maldives no where to run cause its a tiny island and the police don't care if we torture you to keep you in line.

I know how to swim.;)

I know how to swim.;)

its a long swim to India

its a long swim to India

Crap, I was trapped by the architectural beauty of the damn mosque! Curses, foiled again!:mad:

I know how to swim.;)

It's hard to swim when you're dragging a cage.

It's hard to swim when you're dragging a cage.

Not a cage in the literal sense, my dear.

No: We just should NOT accept their cries of "you are persecuting us" whenever THEY aren't allowed to persecute.

For instance:

Burning people at the stake for witchcraft = Persecution.
Not allowing a Ten Commandments slab to be placed in a public building with taxpayer money = Church and State being duly separated.

Some Christians treat the former like a frat prank, and the latter like the former.

Fair enough, but if it's true that other religions are being allowed to do things Christianity is not, is that not persecution?

Fair enough, but if it's true that other religions are being allowed to do things Christianity is not, is that not persecution?

It is persecution, no matter how one looks at it.

Not a cage in the literal sense, my dear.

My super power is the ability to make what is figurative become literal.

My super power is the ability to make what is figurative become literal.

That, my dear Canuck, makes you quite dangerous. *nod*

Vade retro, Canadians!:eek2:

That, my dear Canuck, makes you quite dangerous. *nod*

Vade retro, Canadians!:eek2:

Especially dangerous around churches. Ever seen someone who was literally on fire for Jesus? Or those poor suicide bombers, who, when showing up to claim their 72 virgins, are given a bus-load of high school Star Trek nerds.

Especially dangerous around churches. Ever seen someone who was literally on fire for Jesus? Or those poor suicide bombers, who, when showing up to claim their 72 virgins, are given a bus-load of high school Star Trek nerds.

So that was your doing, you Canucky extremist. I am unto you, ey. *glares*

Fair enough, but if it's true that other religions are being allowed to do things Christianity is not, is that not persecution?

Yes.

Yes.

So if Alexandria whatever is right (if), then would such a situation be persecution?