Posted on 03/24/2020 5:08:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Facebook page NUS Atheist Society has found itself in a crappy situation after a post on toilet humour landed them in trouble.
Police are investigating after the page made a post suggesting the Bible and the Quran as toilet paper alternatives, Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam said in a Facebook post today (March 20).
A screengrab of NUS Atheist Society's post showed a picture of the Bible and the Quran, along with the caption: "For use during toilet paper shortages."
NUS Atheist Society is not an official National University of Singapore (NUS) student organisation, according to the university's directory of student organisations.
Slamming the post, Shanmugam said that "such offensive remarks have no place in multi-racial and multi-religious Singapore."
Access to NUS Atheist Society's original post has been disabled after the police and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) brought the post to Facebook's attention, he added.
In response to its post being hidden from users in Singapore, NUS Atheist Society bit back, accusing critics of convicting them of "thoughtcrime".
The page also doubled down on its original post, urging followers to use the religious texts "discreetly".
In a statement released today, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said it had received a number of complaints about the post.
MHA also urged members of the public to "be mindful when participating in online discussions and not post any remarks which are prejudicial to the maintenance of racial and religious harmony in Singapore".
NUS reported the NUS Atheist Society page to Facebook on March 19, the university said today.
The university had first reported the page to Facebook last year.
"Facebook has responded to say that the content on the reported site does not appear likely to confuse people as to source, sponsorship or affiliation, and they are unable to act on our report at this time.
"We wish to clarify that NUS has no relationship with the NUS Atheist Society and the Facebook page is not affiliated to the University."
The university said it would "continue pressing" Facebook to get the page to remove all references to NUS.
Police are investigating the matter.
If they did that in the US they’d be prosecuted only for suggesting the use of the Koran.
There was a pastor in San Francisco who would stomp on the Bible. He ran the Peoples Temple and was praised by Jimmy Carter.
He later moved to Guyana. It all worked out really well.
How are his soft drinks?
Probably a good idea to pass on the kool aid.
You must mean one of the Devil’s Apostles
aka Jim Jones. I’ll never forget reading about that November event of 1978.
Several things he pushed are now in the mainstream. Things like pushing inter racial sex. He was ahead of his time there.
The free ones that I got from CAIR are just too damned rough for that.
A corn cob would be better.
National University of Singapore (NUS) Atheist Society Facebook page.
His kool-aid was to die for.
I wonder how long it will take for an Iranian Imam to order his .....
If their intent was to ‘use Abrahamic text as toilet paper’, they forgot the last part of the triad, the talmud!
Don’t give them any ideas.
Treat all three the same, or don’t do it at all, if someone really wants ‘what’s fair’, right?
If they don’t, then you have a grievance, right?
Do these guys seem fair-minded to you?
As i have heard said on the atheist experience youtube videos, without measureable direct evidence, from historical outside references, they can neither claim nor deny the existence of either jesus or mohammed.
This includes anything either did, that would be subscribed as miraculous,i.e., jesus healings or mohammed horse to heaven.
So
And as von Bismarck, standing there with his pinchnose glasses and trademark moustache, looks you in the face, smiles, and sez: “Ja, undt so?”
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