Posted on 06/12/2008 5:29:42 PM PDT by forkinsocket
Peace be upon his arse!
Go ahead, tell the Irish that they can’t have whiskey and pubs...
Damn.
Still waiting for muslims in Mecca and Medina and Saudi Arabia in general to be accepting and welcoming of non-muslims.
Oppose Islamic imperialism.
No need to be unreceptive. This is merely the Western side of the exchange program, while Catholics in Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Syria freely work on an Arabic version of the Bible.
There be nae god but allah?
My Mother’s family came from Colonsay in the Inner Hebrides. The thought of Muslims invading that Island is really sad. Hopefully they never will succeed.
My family roots are in the Scottish borders. As an American of Scottish descent, this burns me.
Oh I see a great opportunity...
I think some Gaelic writers and scholars should jump on this one. A few words mistranslated here, there and everywhere would be hilarious. The possibilities are endless, lol.
“..accepting and welcoming of non-muslims.”
Am I missing something? Did hell just freeze over? The likelyhood of Muslims welcoming non-Muslims in Mecca is as remote as the West growing a spine and telling these barbarians to go back to their hellholes.
Will they translate passages about killing infidels and Jews into Gaelic?
William Wallace and Robert the Bruce just sat up in their graves.....
My understanding is that Scots (living in Scotland) are among the most left wing individuals in the Western world so they should take nicely to the Religion of Pieces.
Talk about absolute, complete cultural tone deafness!
Gaelic is spoken now almost exclusively in the Western Isles and Skye and points nearby on the mainland.
The Western Highlands and Islands -- with the exception of a couple of Catholic pockets like Barra -- are the stronghold of the most doctrinaire, hard-core, take-no-prisoners Presbyterians - the "Wee Frees". These guys pretty much adhere to the Two Johns' (Calvin and Knox) ideas on enforcement of religious uniformity, although they haven't burned anybody at the stake lately -- to my knowledge.
Example: George MacDonald Fraser once asked one of his Wee Free soldiers how he could bring himself to kill Japanese on a Sunday. The soldier replied that it was a work of necessity and mercy.
The nitwits from Dubai are walking into a buzzsaw. I'd love to have the popcorn concession.
But this is the Western Isles!!!! These folks are emphatically NOT liberal, certainly not in their religion.
The thing about Ireland is that everyone’s invaded it, and they’ve all become Irish. I just got back from there, and it was wonderful. Everyone always asks, “are you Irish/’, but then you start to realize that they’re all originally French, Germanic, Viking, English, Welsh, Spanish or whatever, but they’re all more Irish than each other. It’s like invading Russia. They just feed you Guiness till you settle down and get over yourself.
I wonder if these Koran beaters know what “pog ma thon” means?
Aside from the area around Mecca and Medina, the "Arab world" was mostly Christian (and part of the Byzantine empire) when Muhammad was born.
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