The Religion of PEACE......... (NOT)

[nero_bolt]

Wonderful people from the religion of peace..

It must be so much fun to be a woman in  the religion..... 

Taliban threatens Nobel laureate Malala 

A POWERFUL breakaway faction of the Pakistani Taliban threatened teenage education activist Malala Yousafzai with "sharp and shiny knives", hours after she was declared joint winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.

JAMAAT ul Ahrar, which in August separated from Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) also known as the Pakistani Taliban - posted its response to the win on Twitter late Saturday.

"Characters like Malala should know that we are not deterred by propaganda of [non-believers]. We have prepared sharp and shiny knives for the enemy of Islam," tweeted spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan.
 
"Malala speaks so much against guns and armed conflicts. Does she not know that the founder of her recent Nobel award was the inventor of explosives," the spokesman said.
 
Malala, a 17-year-old education activist, survived a gunshot wound to the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012.
 
The mainstream TTP, an umbrella organisation of over a dozen groups, has not commented on Malala's accolade.
 
Malala has received praise in Pakistan for becoming the youngest-ever Nobel Peace laureate, with all major newspapers running front page stories on her achievement.

[karliandjacko]

FGM, or any other form of genital mutilation has no place in this century. It is not legal in most countries, including Australia.  Unfortunately cultural change doesn't happen automatically or overnight.  As the women and girls get better educated and experience other cultures they are fighting for change and change is slowly creeping in.  Let's hope it dies off before the second half of this century.

[azureline**]

Male circumcision is legal here but it too, is dying off.

[iapetus_rocks]

I'm just to comment on the first few lines of that article by Dr Tim Soutphommasane,because i think he raises an interesting question.

Race and religion

I turn now to the relationship between race and religion. It is troubling to find that in our public debate some have been justifying anti-Muslim bigotry by resorting to a distinction between race and religion.

Some say that they are perfectly entitled to direct scorn at Islam – or for that matter, any religion. Some say that this involves something fundamentally different to racial prejudice or discrimination: Islam, they will say, is a religion and not a race or ethnicity. The same logic, they say, applies to any other religion. We would not, for example, class bigotry against Christianity as racism. Therefore, it makes little sense to suggest that anti-Muslim sentiment is tantamount to racism.

I want to question this view. In the first place, there is little to commend about militant hostility towards faith. A civilised society must not celebrate barbarian values. We should all be capable of respecting others’ beliefs, even if we may disagree.

This part especially . . .

Some say that they are perfectly entitled to direct scorn at Islam – or for that matter, any religion. . . . A civilised society must not celebrate barbarian values. We should all be capable of respecting others’ beliefs, even if we may disagree.

Ok, I am going to disagree strongly with him here on this point he made. . ."A civilised society must not celebrate barbarian values. We should all be capable of respecting others’ beliefs, even if we may disagree."

I refuse to offer any respect to any religion or to any cultural belief which teaches and celebrates barbarian values.

[ufo_investigations]

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@azureline** wrote:

wiki

Race is a social concept used to categorize humans into large and distinct populations or groups by anatomical, cultural, ethnic, genetic, geographical, historical, linguistic, religious, and/or social affiliation.

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Islam does not fit into that.  Indonesia which is just north of Australia has nothing to do with Arabs and they are mostly muslim.

What race are Christians?

[cherry*135]

What race are New Zealanders as you claimed above?

[azureline**]

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@ufo_investigations wrote:

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@azureline** wrote:

wiki

Race is a social concept used to categorize humans into large and distinct populations or groups by anatomical, cultural, ethnic, genetic, geographical, historical, linguistic, religious, and/or social affiliation.

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Islam does not fit into that.  Indonesia which is just north of Australia has nothing to do with Arabs and they are mostly muslim.

What race are Christians?

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why doesn't it? Man

[azureline**]

lol, ignore the man................... no idea why that is there.

[i-need-a-martini]

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@ufo_investigations wrote:

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:

Most Muslims, like most people everywhere, are peaceable and law-abiding. So why are we continually inundated with images and hate speech perpetuating this harmful lie?

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And I also find it apalling, particularly given the political climate, that the ebay mods are allowing the boards to be continually spammed with the same racist anti muslim messages.

Sadly for many people, boards like these and the Murdoch versions are the only exposure they get to muslim culture.

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Racist? Islam is not a race don't you get it?

Australians are a race.

Americans are a race.

New Zealanders are a race.

Chinese are a race.

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Seeing as you are going to be so pedandic about the semantics of the word 'race' and can't accept Ams definition (which by the way, is the modern definition so therefore includes religious groups), then perhaps now is a good time to inform you that

Australians are not a race.

Americans are not a race.

New Zealanders are not a race.

[i-need-a-martini]

A bit slow. Apologies to iapetus who already pointed that out...

[iapetus_rocks]

What i'd really like a comment on, is my post #63