Posted on 12/01/2009 9:08:23 PM PST by Steelfish
No, the Swiss are tired of hearing that caterwauling ... SoCal residents would be the first to complain of noise pollution.
Aristotle: “The greatest equality is to treat unequal things unequally”
Yeah, right, LA Slime Molds. How about a major cover story on the ACLUnatics trying to tear crosses down from monuments all over the place?
I don’t understand why discrimination is such a terrible thing; everyone does it. I, for instance, always discriminate against snakes with rattles on their tails and spiders with red hourglasses on their bellies. Call me a bigot, but it works for me.
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“I missed their editorial on religious discrimination in Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, etc.”
You didn’t miss anything.
“I don’t understand why discrimination is such a terrible thing; everyone does it. I, for instance, always discriminate against snakes with rattles on their tails and spiders with red hourglasses on their bellies. Call me a bigot, but it works for me.”
Why is discrimination “bad”, yet being “indiscriminate” is also bad?
If I didn’t “discriminate”, I wouldn’t be around to type this. I’ve shown FAVORITISM (another dirty word) towards persons and situations that will do me good, and discriminated against persons and situations that will do me harm. I won’t apologize for this behavior.
“Why should Saudi Arabia allow Christians to worship openly if a supposed paragon of pluralism such as Switzerland requires Muslims to efface their identity?”
Well, DOES Saudi Arabia allow Christians to worship openly?
The article states building a mosque without a minaret is like forcing a church to build without a cross. Maybe the LA Times should visit the center of the muslim world and check out some churches to see if they have crosses - oops, they don’t even allow the building of churches, do they?
Try to build a church in a Muslim country.
You cannot even visit Mecca if you are not a Muslim. You are restricted from visiting.
Pure, unadulterated H.O.R.S.E. S.H.I.T.
Yep. You can’t stop an invasion with a zoning ordinance.
You can't even maintain a church in a Muslim country, without permission of the mullahs. You just have to let it fall down around you.
And if the mobs come to burn it, you can't rebuild.
Go to 2° 2'8.58"N 45°20'29.89"E on Google Earth. See what happens to churches in Muslim countries...
hypocrites
Precisely! Where was the outcry when in North Andover, MA, an annual "Merry Christmas" sign on a fire station had been ordered removed?
See Story here
I lived in a Muslim country for two years. The prayer shrieks, what Obama calls the “sweetest sound in the world,” were to me a sound akin to fingernails on a chalkboard five times a day. Besides, those ugly minarets ruin the beautiful Swiss landscape.
The Swiss do not have "cultural anxiety".
What the Swiss have is "Cultural Confidence". They have run their country the same way for centuries. It works for them. Maybe other countries can't or won't agree, but the Swiss do not care what others think about their system. It works for them.
Diversity IS good — but slam is not a culture. In the US you have Italian culture, Irish,’eck even Texan culture. None wants hegemony and all learn from each othere and live and let live. Izlam DOESN’T.
It is only 100% Muslim because Islam is a tyrannical political system masquerading as a religion.
Imagine if Hitler had declared that he was only executing the will of his pagan gods (after he had renounced Christianity), and that thus Nazism qualified as a "religion". Would "religious tolerance" demand that we not fight against his efforts to take over the world as Islam demands its adherents do?
Yep it sure is and we need a lot more of it along with common sense which we have lost all semblance of in pursuit of Western Civilization destruction.
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