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Robots replace child jockeys in UAE camel race (More evidence of inhumane Islamic practices.)
Yahoo News/Reuters ^
| 7/18/2005
| Anonymous
Posted on 07/18/2005 7:03:58 PM PDT by Liberty1970
ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Remote-controlled robot jockeys made their debut as camel riders in the United Arab Emirates Monday, competing in a trial race after the Gulf Arab state tightened a ban on child jockeys.
Robots weighing up to 15 kg (33 lb) were dressed in the clothes of human jockeys during the race held in the capital Abu Dhabi, which officials described as "successful," the WAM news agency reported.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abductions; arab; camelracing; camels; childslavery; islam; mohammed; slavery; uae
Rights groups have said that several thousand boys, some as young as four, work as jockeys in the lucrative sport in the oil-rich state. They say many children, mainly from poor Asian countries, had been abducted or sold by their families and that the boys were kept in prison-like conditions and underfed to keep them light so the camels run faster.
To: Liberty1970
Robotic Camel Jockeys..... :D
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posted on
07/18/2005 7:08:35 PM PDT
by
Echo Talon
(http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
To: Echo Talon
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posted on
07/18/2005 7:10:43 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: Echo Talon
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posted on
07/18/2005 7:47:10 PM PDT
by
Boazo
(From the mind of BOAZO)
To: Liberty1970
But...but...but...robots technically don't believe in Allah.
Therefore, they are by definition, "infidels". And we all know what happens to infidels...But then, maybe this is a new twist: E-jihad - sending machines in to do an Imam's job...
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posted on
07/18/2005 7:53:03 PM PDT
by
kromike
To: Liberty1970
But how does a robot control an animal, that by its nature is not predictable?
To: Liberty1970
They say many children, mainly from poor Asian countries, had been abducted or sold by their families and that the boys were kept in prison-like conditions and underfed to keep them light so the camels run faster. Translation: They have a shortage of slaves now.
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posted on
07/18/2005 8:13:02 PM PDT
by
USF
(I see your Jihad and raise you a Crusade ™ © ®)
To: Boazo; bitt; pookie18
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posted on
07/18/2005 8:36:04 PM PDT
by
Echo Talon
(http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
To: Echo Talon; Boazo
boazo uses a blow-up doll, and ET uses a fish-hook!!!
LoLoLoLoLoL!!!
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posted on
07/18/2005 8:40:45 PM PDT
by
bitt
('We will all soon reap what the ignorant are now sowing.' Victor Davis Hanson)
To: bitt
LOL! it does look like a fish hook! but its not! LOL! here is the "rope" i used! HEHEHEHE
Found this picture in yahoo image search.
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posted on
07/18/2005 8:52:17 PM PDT
by
Echo Talon
(http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
To: bitt
Here maybe this one is better? :D
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posted on
07/18/2005 9:00:01 PM PDT
by
Echo Talon
(http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
To: Echo Talon; PJ-Comix
wow - you're fast on the 'draw'.....
amazing talent. now if we could just get you and the others a load of moolah for your efforts...
I KNOW!!
You could add them to PJComix' book with cd that Mary Matelin is going to contact him about someday maybe when she's ready.....
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posted on
07/18/2005 9:09:16 PM PDT
by
bitt
('We will all soon reap what the ignorant are now sowing.' Victor Davis Hanson)
To: bitt
:D Money? Whoo hooo! :P ahh I don't think i'm good enough for that.
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posted on
07/18/2005 9:13:34 PM PDT
by
Echo Talon
(http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
To: kromike
Therefore, they are by definition, "infidels". And we all know what happens to infidels...well, sawing off the hands of a robot is less painful than a child jockey's
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posted on
07/18/2005 9:16:29 PM PDT
by
InvisibleChurch
(Mr. Chambers! Don't get on that ship! The rest of the book, "To Serve Man", it's... it's a cookbook!)
To: Liberty1970
Is this not a positive step?
that the government have seen fit to ban a barbaric practice?
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posted on
07/19/2005 2:17:35 AM PDT
by
weegie
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