Christmas in Mosul under threat of sharia

AsiaNews.it ^ | 12/15/2006 | AsiaNews.it

[DogByte6RER]

Maybe these Chaldeans and other persecuted Cristians in Iraq should be offered political asylum...

[SolidWood]

I would do either that, or at least move them to the authonomous Kurdistan. That's only a few Kilometers away from Mosul, and safe for Chritians.

[SauronOfMordor]

I think that offering asylum to Iraqi Christians would be better for the US than accepting any more Somali Muslims.

Plus we could hire some of them as Arabic translators, and have some confidence that they would feel no loyalty to any Muslim Ummah

[bordergal]

Our State Department is "concerned" about giving the impression we favor truly persecuted Christians over Muslims.

Can we eliminate the State Department please?

[Tinman]

Thanks for the post. Looks like things could get real interesting around here, over the holidays. Guess I shouldn't be going around wishing any of the locals "Merry Christmas!", huh?

Regards

[DogByte6RER]

Stay safe Tinman.

Thank you for your service.

[Lurker]

Guess I shouldn't be going around wishing any of the locals "Merry Christmas!", huh?

For the next few days, wish 'em a Happy Hanuka instead.

L

[Tinman]

8-)

Hope you have a Merry Christmas, My friend.

As Always

[Kakaze]

Orders reach the point of absurdity: restaurants cannot prepare mixed salads with cucumbers and tomatoes because one represents the female and other the male gender

How in gods name are you supposed to reason with people who segregate vegetables by sex, or their warped interpretation of it.

Absolutely nuts.

[Mr. Jeeves]

...soap is forbidden, because “it did not exist in Muhammad’s time”.

It's easy to laugh at such idiocies, but any religion or government which exalts the past and condemns the future inevitably heads down such a path. This would be a New York Times definition of "conservatism", but it's one real American conservatives need to guard against indulging in - even if they would prefer 50's nostalgia to soap avoidance. ;)

[Tinman]

I'm just over here doing my job. My world is inside "the wire".

Merry Christmas!

[Kakaze]

Merry Christmas Tinman....May it be a quiet time for you, Thank you.

[J_Baird]

"soap is forbidden"

God these people are nasty in everything they think and do.

[Tinman]

Right back at 'cha. 8-)

[SIDENET]

and that soap is forbidden, because “it did not exist in Muhammad’s time”.

Damn, stinking terrorists.

[Gritty]

... soap is forbidden, because “it did not exist in Muhammad’s time”

*sigh*

There is something truly warped about this abominable cult.

[The Cuban]

If soap is anti-islamic, how badly do those mosques smell anyway, with all those people bent over without shoes on? I mean I always knew such practices must lead to a fetid atmosphere, but come-on.

[OldSmaj]

How in gods name are you supposed to reason with people who segregate vegetables by sex, or their warped interpretation of it.

You don't.

Thus my tagline.

These people are batcrap crazy.

[El Gato]

soap is forbidden, because “it did not exist in Muhammad’s time”.

Must mean that Old Muh didn't know about soap, which I don't doubt. His camel probably liked it that way. However soap existed well before Old Muh's mother punished the world with his birth.

This article indicates that a form of soap was known right there in ancient Babylon, as early as 2800 BC. Old Muh didn't see the light of day until 571, or 570 depending on which account one goes by.

[McGavin999]

... soap is forbidden, because “it did not exist in Muhammad’s time”

Neither did AK47's for C4 explosives.