WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW?

author=SnowOwl
I don't want to live in a country where the majority of the people there thinks that throwing stones at women who didn't obey their father/husband is a good thing.

author=SnowOwl
And don't come dragging with stuff like "but the bible tells you to do something horrible too"! Sure it does, but even priests choose to ignore those parts, and only a very very small majority take it literally, while stonings and such stuff are public things in countries where the Quran is the law.

{{citation needed}}

You guys want to talk religion, that's fine, but please do so in a civil and respectful fashion.

bahleted

I feel like the actions, reactions and counterreactions are all overblown for this specific situation, and that the resultant mass public shaming will negatively impact all of the lives it touches, far surpassing what this wrongdoing would merit.

I am seeing a LOT of ye people without sin casting that first stone!

author=Corfaisus
{{citation needed}}

Links to videos of stonings, that are obviously public (graphic):
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And just for good measure, some (also public) lashings:
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Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great.

- President of the USA, Barack Obama





Also heard he got some invites from people in MIT. Good to know there's still decent people around


No charges will be laid

At a press conference this morning, Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd said charges won't be filed against Ahmed Mohamed, the MacArthur High School freshman arrested Monday after bringing what school officials and police described as a "hoax bomb" on campus.

bahleted

"I tried making a phone call to my father. They said, ‘You’re in the middle of an interrogation. You can’t have a phone call,'" he said. "I really don’t think it’s fair, because I brought something to school that wasn’t a threat to anyone. I didn’t do anything wrong. I just showed my teachers something and I end up being arrested later that day."

From here

I hope the family sues them and makes them shit bricks. I heard any lawsuit would be federal too, thank fuck. I'd bet a state case would go nowhere in Texas.

author=Yellow Magic
Um, not all Arabs are Muslims dude.

Luckily. The majority is, though (over 90%).

author=SnowOwl

author=Yellow Magic
Um, not all Arabs are Muslims dude.

Luckily. The majority is, though (over 90%).

Well, 10 percent are Christian, and again, the world isn't divided between Christians and Muslims. That doesn't even count the Jewish tribes that dominate Israel and Jordan. Then there are the Druze tribes dominating Lebanon and Syria, and having a strong presence in Israel and Jordan. That's not to mention the massive amount of Arabs worldwide who have joined the Baha'i faith.

Now, it's true that I'm a mixed breed, but I am still Arab, and I am Thelema, which is a form of Hermeticism (which experiments with sorcery, alchemy, witchcraft, and the like). My mother and grandfather, both Afghan, are both Baptist. I am fairly certain that most Israelis would be surprised to learn that 90 percent of them are Muslim, especially as they've largely wiped out the Muslim population within Israeli borders.

You make a great deal of sweeping generalizations. It is true that much of the hate in Islam is fed by passages in the Qu'ran, and the same is also true of Christianity and the Bible, and of Judaism and the Tal'mud. Have you ever even read the Qu'ran?