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11-27-2006, 12:11 PM
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Read that this morning. The most disgusting comment this week is that the other 144 conference attendees should have been arrested and that Muslims should not be allowed to fly. Ugh.
Yeah, they freaked people out, and they probably should have been pulled from that flight, people have gotten in trouble for less (breast-feeding mothers for example), but insinuating that if you're Muslim you don't have the same rights/priviliges as another American (or another immigrant with a different religion). Disgusting.
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11-27-2006, 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Read that this morning. The most disgusting comment this week is that the other 144 conference attendees should have been arrested and that Muslims should not be allowed to fly. Ugh.
Yeah, they freaked people out, and they probably should have been pulled from that flight, people have gotten in trouble for less (breast-feeding mothers for example), but insinuating that if you're Muslim you don't have the same rights/priviliges as another American (or another immigrant with a different religion). Disgusting.
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I totally agree with everything you said.
That said, if I'd been on that plane, and those gentlemen hadn't been asked to leave, I would've gotten off and taken the next flight. Is that racist and intolerant of me? Yeah, probably. But I'd be a living intolerant racist.
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11-27-2006, 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted by SigKapSweetie
I totally agree with everything you said.
That said, if I'd been on that plane, and those gentlemen hadn't been asked to leave, I would've gotten off and taken the next flight. Is that racist and intolerant of me? Yeah, probably. But I'd be a living intolerant racist.
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Question: So do you freak out when you White Christian males in or around federal buildings? What about White Christian males around schools?
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11-27-2006, 12:58 PM
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Question: So do you freak out when you White Christian males in or around federal buildings? What about White Christian males around schools?
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She acknowledged that it wasn't a fair thing to do. So why press the point? I probably wouldn't have gotten off the plane, but I would have been uncomfortable and would probably have been making contingency plans (such as what do I have that is stabby... ). Unfortunately chanting Allah Allah Allah is very negatively associated in the minds of your average American. They don't necessarily hate Muslims, but put them into certain situations and they'll freak out.
If I heard Christians praying audibly about how they were going to die for God I'd freak out. The problem is, I don't speak Arabic, so I don't know what the Muslim clerics are saying. I wouldn't freak out, but I wouldn't exactly be sleeping that flight either.
I personally feel our planes are safer now since no one is going to let a hijacker take control of a plane. We no longer assume that it's going to end well.
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11-27-2006, 01:13 PM
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Question: So do you freak out when you White Christian males in or around federal buildings? What about White Christian males around schools?
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So you equate white Christian men to a bunch of Arabic speaking Muslims praying to Allah in an airport before they board a plane?? Wonderful.
..............Please tell me you don't.
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11-27-2006, 01:24 PM
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Originally Posted by macallan25
So you equate white Christian men to a bunch of Arabic speaking Muslims praying to Allah in an airport before they board a plane?? Wonderful.
..............Please tell me you don't.
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please show a difference then, they both use violence to promote religion
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11-30-2006, 08:27 PM
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Originally Posted by macallan25
So you equate white Christian men to a bunch of Arabic speaking Muslims praying to Allah in an airport before they board a plane?? Wonderful.
..............Please tell me you don't.
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Brother, while I do understand what you are saying, let me play the devil:
Some people would give some thought to: Sam, Ted, Tim, Green River Killer et al.......
And I keep telling myself that I will not get into any thread started by Sock-Puppet A/K/A Ann....have to start remembering that.
Last edited by jon1856; 11-30-2006 at 08:37 PM.
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