So your British Bangers are going to have goat instead of pork in them? :-D
On 01/14/2015 11:28 PM, salyavin808 wrote:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> wrote :
The madness is now unstoppable.
Schoolbook authors have been told not to write about sausages or pigs
for fear of causing offence. Guidance from leading educational
publisher the Oxford University Press prohibits authors from including
anything that could be perceived as pork-related in their books. [Yes
- that's Oxford University Press!]
Among the things prohibited in a text that was commissioned by OUP was
the following: Pigs plus sausages, or anything else which could be
perceived as pork
The OUP says its guidelines exist because it needs to make its
educational material available to as many people as possible.
A spokesman said: ‘Many of the educational materials we publish in the
UK are sold in more than 150 countries, and as such they need to
consider a range of cultural differences and sensitivities. 'Our
editorial guidelines are intended to help ensure that the resources
that we produce can be disseminated to the widest possible audience.’
Only a bloody revolution is going to wrest power from these half-wits.
LOL I agree totally, it's like the human race is happy to die of
over-sensitivity! Is anyone really going to take offence at the sight
of a pig? If they do they don't deserve to have their feeling pandered
to. Drag em back to reality that's what I say.
One almost wishes there was a satirical magazine that had the guts to
confront these maniacs directly!
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote :
I wouldn't worry about him too much, Seventh. It's just Turquoise,
after all, ranting as usual, distorting what others have said,
creating a straw man argument, and generally being an asshole. Nothing
new here.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <steve.sundur@...> wrote :
Okay, so just so I have this straight.
This is the same Barry, who just a few days ago was talking about the
superior Dutch approach to integrating their Muslim population, I
presume by some measure of tolerance, and, horror, respect of their
religious traditions, which, as practiced by the great majority of
Muslims does not include the slaughter of people not part of their
belief system.
And I presume that when Barry interacts with some member of the Muslim
population when he is getting a piece of pizza, or a cell phone
charger*, he will find it necessary to inform the proprietor, or
worker as to what a pile of shit is the religion he subscribes to.
Is this enough to be thankful to God, that Barry's sphere of influence
is limited to just four or five people on this site? (-:
* okay, this is light hearted stereotype. okay, just chill.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
*/Yep, as I was saying a few days ago when Feste was urging us to
"respect" Muslims' religious beliefs, how exactly are we supposed to
feel anything but disgust for a group that really believes it's
permissible to order a hit on anyone who creates an image of a human
being?
/*
*/
/*
*/I know that the Guardian ran this story because they believe that
this nut job cleric is out of the ordinary and a bit of a statistical
outlier, but it is actually *standard Sunni Muslim dogma* that
creating images of human beings is "worshipping idols" and thus
punishable by death. Technically, the Charlie Hebdo murders would have
been justified in these fanatics' eyes if they'd published completely
reverential images of Mohammed./*
*/
/*
*/So I'm sorry, but anyone who dares to tell me that I "have to
respect these people's religion" is as insane as they are. Anyone who
believes this shit is either stuck in the Middle Ages or insane or
both, and we have a responsibility to other sane human beings to point
it out. /*
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*From:* salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com>
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Tuesday, January 13, 2015 11:08 AM
*Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Snowmen deemed anti-Islamic...
I think the silly season must have started early this year. But how
sad to be art of a society where you feel you need to ask for
permission to build a snowman...
Saudi cleric issues fatwa on snowmen
<http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/12/saudi-arabia-snowmen-winter-fatwa>
image
<http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/12/saudi-arabia-snowmen-winter-fatwa>
Saudi cleric issues fatwa on snowmen
<http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/12/saudi-arabia-snowmen-winter-fatwa>
Religious leader forbids building of anti-Islamic idols that might
resemble human beings, after winter storm in north of country
View on www.theguardian.com
<http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/12/saudi-arabia-snowmen-winter-fatwa>
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