Who the hell authorized THAT spending? Are those people in Washington all out of their minds?
difficulty the wealthy have in entering the kingdom of heaven>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Definitely a Hillery style overture, it takes a village.
Any bets on this camel art surviving more than 2 years? Its begging for an IED up its arse, with plenty of Paki jihadis available. Its amazing to watch the lefty Democrats invite the destruction of its own US diplodink facility.
Hope it’s a Trojan Camel.
I guess King Barry wants all of us to get into Heaven by making sure that none of us are rich.
Of course, Barry has his place in eternity already reserved, and you can be sure it isn’t Heaven.
Doesn’t the Koran forbid representative art? This is an ‘offense’ waiting to happen.
“...should reflect the values of a predominantly Islamist country.”
Will it be fitted with an explosive vest?
1) Fiberglas? Entire Islamabad Embassy needs to be made from ssbestos.
2) How about we “re-imagine this work” as a cigarette machine so we can make it pay?
Why are we building sex toys for moslems anyway?
Many/possibly most Sunni Muslims, practice aniconism. That means that they don’t allow any realistic deception of living creation. So, not only no people or humanized religious imagery, but no animals, either.
When you see Oriental rugs from the Middle East, you notice that they usually don’t have depictions of anything living. The geometric tiles seen in Muslim countries are at least partly a response to the prohibition on living images.
The vast majority of people in Pakistan are Sunni Muslims who may very well find this insulting or worse.
One hump, or two?
The much-quoted metaphor of the camel and the needle is probably based on a mistranslation, anyway. First, it is an uncharacteristically poor parallel; for a camel has nothing to do with a needle. Second, the Aramaic words for camel and rope are so similar that open must stare at the words for some time to tell the difference. You can see this in the introduction to Gregor Lamsa’s translation “The Authorized Bible of the Church of the East.” Next, if we read the phrase as a rope through the eye of a needle, it becomes an obvious hyperbole: an exaggeration for effect. It makes sense, whereas a camel going through the eye of a needle is just nonsense.
It is somewhat amazing that even modern translations of the New Testament have seldom caught onto this. If you do not understand hyperbole and paradox, you can hardly be expected to understand the parables and sayings of the New Testament.
First time I saw this I thought it must be joke.
Checked the calendar, April 3.
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