Say?? What is the similarity to between the MissWorld Riots and those in Columbus Ohio over the weekend?
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1557/3453349.html http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/1803647/detail.html At 07:32 AM 11/26/02, you wrote: >I was following it for a while but missed the move to London. > >As far as the reactions of the moslems... it's reactionary, not >rational. Reactions don't have to be rational, and in all honesty there >are tons of cases where rationality and reaction don't meet when it >comes to humans. The biggest influence there is the mob, though. The >mob reaction can be a very scary thing indeed. > >Hatton > >Raymond Camden wrote: > >>I'm still catching up on email so forgive me if this has already been >>discussed. Anyone else following the Miss World riots? I was reading >>this URL: >> >>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=578&e=2&cid=578&u=/nm/2 >>0021126/ts_nm/religion_nigeria_missworld_dc >> >>and got pretty disgusted by this: >> >>"The Miss World pageant was hastily relocated to London, but there >>pageant organizers came up against more opposition with media and lobby >>groups accusing them of having blood on their hands." >> >>Let me see if I get this. A _reporter_ makes a comment about the >>pageant. This reporter is not associated with the pageant. The local >>folks get violent, because, as we all know, if someone offends your >>religion you have every right to go out and kill hundreds of folks. Yet >>somehow this is the pageant's fault? I'm not a big support of pageants >>but this seems rather stupid (although you have to wonder what they were >>thinking going to a country that is obviously full of wackos - and sorry >>if that offends - but if they are going to _riot_ over a comment like >>this - they need something better to do). >> >>Maybe I'm not a dedicated enough to my religion - but if someone told me >>God didn't exist, or was stupid, or whatever, I can't see killing him >>over it. >> >>-rc >> >> >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
