What's really ironic, too, is that, if the word on the street in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban meant anything, the two aren't necessarily incompatible.
Before 9-11, when relationships and dialogue were destroyed, a Lebanese Muslim I worked with told me that it was a standing joke that when birds flew over Kandahar, they did so with one wing covering their tailfeathers.
We did, in a friendly way, discuss Islam and its culture...but that was Before...
I wasn't necessarily implying a connection between gayness and Islam ( I have heard otherwise though, haha ), I was simply saying I'm SICK TO DEATH of hearing about GAY stuff all the time. Islam is another thing I'm SICK of hearing about.
Here is a list of the stuff I'm SICK TO DEATH of hearing about all the time!!!!! ------>
1. Gay stuff
2. Islam (and the peacefulness of Islam)
3. Spanish
4. Every woman in the media going out of her way to remind you that she is, in fact, a MOM
5. China
6. India
7. Lindsey Lohan (1 semi-successful movie and she's all over the media? Why?), Britney Spears (hasn't had an album in how many years?), Jessica (I don't sing any more, I'm a huckster on Home Shopping Network) Simpson. Every other no-talent forgettable hack that we are forced to put up with as a defining aspect of our culture.
8. The Beatles. This group was popular almost a HALF CENTURY ago!
9. Sports. I'm sick of hearing about half-educated 20-somethings that make more money in a year than 99.9999% of the population will make in several lifetimes for doing something completely insignificant like playing a game.
10. TV, radio, magazine, etc commercials that make men either bumbling morons or evil child molesters. This also applies to movies, TV shows, etc etc.
11. Global Warming
12. Every action movie with a special tactical assault team (or something along these lines) always has a 115 lb. badass female as a member. She will also be one of the few that survives till the end. I'm tired of BUTT KICKIN' CHICKS !!!!! Give me Rambo and The Terminator, not Charlie's Angels ! !
13. Trans Fat
14. Breast Cancer Awareness and those damned pink ribbons.
15. Women's Heart disease. It's the #1 killer of women. We need special research and funding for this cause. I see advertisements all over the place for this. There is even a red dress symbol, just like breast cancer has the pink bow. However..... HEART DISEASE IS ALSO THE NUMBER ONE KILLER OF MEN, TOO ! ! ! !
16. Rosie O'Donnell, Cindy Sheehan, Donald Trump, Sean Penn and all the other people that shouldn't get any publicity at all if it weren't for hacks like Greta Van Susteren.
17. Speaking of Greta, I'm sick of every nationally publicized missing person story always has to be about an attractive, white, middle to upper middle class female. Don't black girls and guys go missing, too?????
18. Whenever some freak kills his wife in a nation of 300 million, it makes the national news. Why not report other murders, rapes, robberies, etc????? Why focus on the "evil husband kills poor wife" thing ALL THE DAMNED TIME????
19. I'm sure I'll think of more.......
20. American Idol, Dancing with the Stars and every other idiot show like them.
21. No cool stories in Iraq about our boys kicking terrorist ass.
22. Every time the media has to interview somebody in the military, it's always a black female or some Navy cook. If you looked at the media, you would think the entire military is comprised of single mothers or guys with cheesy mustaches! Why not put some hard-chargin' Rangers or Infantry/Armor/Artillery/Combat Engineer types on TV every once in a while?
21. I'll think of more, I'm sure.....
Those are the things I'M SICK OF HEARING ABOUT ! ! ! !