All, I have to agree. As someone who has many Muslim friends and lived in the Arab world, I was kind of pissed.
I expect more from people involved in public/open-source projects. If you are willing to work hard with people you have never met to further the public interest, I did not think you would discriminate against any of the public's access to geodata on the basis of religion. I could go on colorful rant on the contribution of Arabo-Muslim history to scientific endeavor, especially navigation, but I get the feeling such signatures are motivated by supreme belief in your own knowledge at the expense of others. Best, _AJS On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Xan <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Rob N8JUQ > >> ICBM Address: 42*14'03"N, 85*53'30"W > >> Grid Location: EN72bf; Elev.720'msl > >> > >> "If their Muslim, don't trust'em." > >> > > > > Oh, and one last thing, Rob, OSM is an international community. The > > discriminatory tag line in your .sig file is hate speech[1] in my > > eyes. Hate speech is unwelcome on this list. Your tag line also > > mis-uses "their" when you certainly intended to use "they're". > > > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech > > > > ________ > I agree with Richard. > > Xan. > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > -- Alexander J. Stein Cell: (201) 412-9479 Email: [email protected] Skype: alexander.j.stein AIM: elduderino6886
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