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Airline bans Bibles to avoid offending Muslims
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| January 9, 2006
Posted on 01/10/2006 12:40:42 AM PST by Stoat
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To: Kozak
What will they do next, remove the cockpit doors, as to not offend potential terrorists?
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posted on
01/10/2006 2:36:52 AM PST
by
Husker24
To: cyborg; coconutt2000
Please see my post #15...my rhetorical sarcasm appears to have escaped some here; my apologies for not being more obvious.
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posted on
01/10/2006 2:37:09 AM PST
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Stoat
"It's outrageous that we must respect their beliefs but they're not prepared to respect ours."
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posted on
01/10/2006 2:39:36 AM PST
by
expatguy
(http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
To: Stoat
Make that nobody is concerned about offending Jews and Christians. Why they have to censor their beliefs to avoid offending delicate Muslim sensibilities... I don't see where a British airline is obligated to enforce Saudi Arabia's racist anti-Jewish and and anti-Christian laws on its flights to that country. If they Saudis don't like equality with other religions, a better bet would be to cancel flights to the kingdom altogether. When are we going to stand up for our values? The last thing Britain needs to do is impose Sharia on its non-Muslim subjects - now that's the very epitome of true intolerance.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
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posted on
01/10/2006 2:47:41 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
Agreed. Western culture has absolutely nothing that it needs to be ashamed of....we are, after all, not the ones blowing up women and children in terror attacks and flying planes into buildings. We should not feel obligated to bow down to these primitive aggressor who couldn't even build an airplane without our help to begin with.
This humiliating supplication to a bunch of inarticulate death-worshippers is the ultimate evidence of self-loathing on the part of Socialists and the Left. Ordinarily I would suggest that they deserve what they get, but the problem is that they will take us down with them.
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posted on
01/10/2006 3:04:32 AM PST
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Stoat
Umm... My comment about oil was equally sarcastic, in the spirit of your original comment.
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posted on
01/10/2006 3:09:11 AM PST
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: coconutt2000
Sorry, that post was sent to you in error....my bad. I understand your meaning, although I'm guessing that this airline would have taken similar steps even if the Saudis had no oil, such is the self-loathing of the Left. It seems that all it takes for some to cower in a quivering mass of embarrassment at their very existence is for anyone to announce that they are 'offended'.
Of course, I've never had the slightest interest in going to Saudi Arabia and so my vows to use different airlines will have no effect. Hopefully many will see the WND and Mirror articles and perhaps rethink their travel plans.....we continue down this path of excessive humility at our own peril.
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posted on
01/10/2006 3:25:18 AM PST
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Stoat
What if the crew on a muslim airline from a muslim country were forbidden to wear their awful religious getups, banned the Koran, banned praying, etc., before landing in the West?
They would go crazy.
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posted on
01/10/2006 3:35:50 AM PST
by
tkathy
(Ban the headscarf (http://bloodlesslinchpinsofislamicterrorism.blogspot.com))
To: Stoat; tutstar; caryatid; TexGuy; CindyDawg; 2Jedismom; JamesP81; Sybeck1; pamlet; aumrl; HeadOn; ..
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posted on
01/10/2006 3:39:27 AM PST
by
WKB
(If you can't dazzle them with brilliance.. then Baffle them with BS)
To: Stoat
Don't laugh! In the US airliners were forbidden to serve alcohol to passengers while flying over Kansas!
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I wasn't aware that Kansas had "restricted airspace" such as Washington DC and sensitive military installations do....
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posted on
01/10/2006 4:16:38 AM PST
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Stoat
I guess I'm an insensitive SOB. I actually would prefer to see the terrorist supporting kingdom be offended.
If they have no respect, then they should get none. In spades.
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posted on
01/10/2006 5:54:35 AM PST
by
chesley
(Liberals...what's not to loathe?)
To: american colleen; Lady In Blue; Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; Notwithstanding; ...
Catholic Ping - Please freepmail me if you want on/off this list
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posted on
01/10/2006 6:17:06 AM PST
by
NYer
(Discover the beauty of the Eastern Catholic Churches - freepmail me for more information.)
To: Stoat
Don't fly on that carrier.
To: Stoat
British Midland International also has told female flight attendants they must walk two paces behind male colleagues and cover themselves from head to foot in a headscarf and robe known as an abaya, the Mirror newspaper of London reported. I find this extremely offensive.
But I don't count. I'm not an ACLU-Protected Species.
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posted on
01/10/2006 6:26:26 AM PST
by
Allegra
(Ooooops....I've Done It Again...)
To: Stoat
Airline officials, who have sparked outrage, the paper says, explain the Islamic kingdom's strict laws enforced by religious police prohibit public practice of Christianity and figures of animals. I'm no feminist but this might explain things.
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Crawford Rix |
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Captain Geoff Linaker |
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Andy Cookson |
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Richard Dawson |
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director, engineering |
Ian Davies |
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Adrian Parkes |
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David Edwards |
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Sam McKissock |
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posted on
01/10/2006 6:31:16 AM PST
by
NYer
(Discover the beauty of the Eastern Catholic Churches - freepmail me for more information.)
To: Stoat
On one hand the Muslim faith is dangerous, on the other it is STUPID...a teddy bear may offend...GEE WHIZ what dimwits.
To: Stoat
Some of the male members who are homosexual have called in sick, because they are afraid of traveling to Saudi Arabia, where homosexual activity is punishable by flogging, jail or death. Geeeze, how hard is it to keep your pecker in your pants on a layover?
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posted on
01/10/2006 6:35:28 AM PST
by
null and void
(Coffee, little girl???)
To: Allegra
British Midland International also has told female flight attendants they must walk two paces behind male colleagues and cover themselves from head to foot in a headscarf and robe known as an abaya, the Mirror newspaper of London reported.
I'm beginning to wonder just how serious people in the West take the struggle with islam. As of right now, it appears near total capitulation is the norm.
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posted on
01/10/2006 6:38:03 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence - R. Kirk)
To: Impeach the Boy
"a teddy bear may offend...GEE WHIZ what dimwits"
A few weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal had an article about neckties being
banned in Iran. I guess some Muslims say it's because it's a "Western"
clothing item...but for some reason sports jackets and slacks don't
seem to be A-OK with these same folks. But I think that's a "cover" for
the real reason: bigotry against Christianity. I think I found this out
when I did a bit of googling and found that neckties are banned in Saudi
because it might remind them of "the crucifixion"...don't ask me
where that sort of thinking comes from.
Or maybe the Saudis just take their tips from the Taliban:
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/07/19/afghan.ban/
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posted on
01/10/2006 6:41:27 AM PST
by
VOA
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