50 Die Over Miss World Article

by William Penwell 25 Replies latest jw friends

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  searcher

  I'm confused, why can I see my user name at the topof the posted article ?

  Is it because I have a user name at yahoo ?

  searcher.
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  Simon

  I think their is a certina amount of stupidity having an event like "Miss World" in a muslim country.
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  Mary

  It's not religion in general responsible for this kind of stuff, it's the fanatics that cause all the problems. These absolutely disgusting, pathetic Islam Fundamentalists are worse than all other religions combined. These men are uneducated, backward, pathetic PIGS whose sole purpose in life seems to be repeating "Allah be Praised". None of them have any thinking power beyond killing infidels or even their own people if they do anything beyond what THEY deem suitable. Look what they were chanting in the streets "Down with Beauty!"

  These men seem to have a hatred for women that they have learned from both their culture and their relgion.

  As far as I'm concerned, I agree with LuckyLady: don't let any more of these people from these insane, backwards countries, into ours.
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  William Penwell

  I don't consider myself a "bleeding heart liberal" or a "red neck right wing wacko" but I have to agree that these fundamental Islam extremists have spoiled it for those ones that would immigrate into the US and contribute to society. US and Canada have got to toughen their stand and make it harder for these ones to come into our countries.

  Will
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  gsx1138

  It's not religion in general responsible for this kind of stuff, it's the fanatics that cause all the problems.

  While this statement is true in part it is the religion itself that offers a vehicle for these extreme behaviors. The eventuality of any religion that claims to be the one true belief is violence. This kind of stuff doesn't surprise me at all. All abrahamic religions are misogynistic at their core. Everyone knows it was Eves fault for eating the apple first and convincing Adam to do the same by using the power of her evil vagina. ;)
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  plmkrzy

  Muslim groups say the pageant promotes sexual promiscuity and indecency.

  That is one hell ofa oxymoron statement to make after burning people to death for BEING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD!

  Why am I only shocked and not surpprised that there are actually live human specimens on earth that consider this reason? They have to believe in what they are doing and "think" and I use that term lightly, they are correct and justified in their actions. i'll ck for spelling errors later.

  Edited by - plmkrzy on 21 November 2002 20:27:27
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  Salud

  Consider this, if you were to count all the deaths in the Bible that God caused either by his hand or through his direction, it would amount to over 1 million people.

  It is no surprise to see people just living out their religion the best way they know how, just like the Israelites in the Old Testament, and the Christians in the so called 'Dark Ages'. Now it just happens to be the Muslims turn.

  God is Great!!

  Edited by - salud on 21 November 2002 21:21:43

  Edited by - salud on 21 November 2002 21:23:46
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  William Penwell

  Salud,

  Thats is my point. The sooner religion is relegated to the "ash heap" of history the better it will be

  for all humankind.

  Will
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  ozziepost

  It gets worse! Here's tonite's news report:

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  	23:38 AEST Fri 22 Nov 2002
  At least 100 dead in Nigeria riots AFP - Rioting between Muslims and Christians in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna has claimed at least 100 lives, the Red Cross says, as local leaders tried to calm anger over an article on the Miss World pageant. Federal officials were in Kaduna for crisis talks with local religious leaders, who have appealed for calm following three days of bloody disturbances in the flashpoint city, state spokesman Muktar Sirajo told AFP. The fighting was triggered on Wednesday when Muslim youths burned down a newspaper office in protest at a "blasphemous" article which suggested that the Prophet Mohammed would have liked to marry a Miss World beauty queen. The international pageant is due to take place in the Nigerian capital Abuja on December 7 and the presence of the 90 beauty queens in the country has offended the conservative sensibilities of many Muslims. But since the fighting started in Kaduna the riots have degenerated into a street battle between parts of the city's rival Muslim and Christian communities, local agencies said Friday. Similar clashes there two years ago left more than 2,000 people dead. George Bennet, regional representative of the International Federation of the Red Cross, said that a 50-strong Nigerian Red Cross emergency team in Kaduna had confirmed 100 deaths. "There are also indications that the trouble has flared again this morning," he told AFP in Lagos. Earlier a spokesman for the Nigerian Red Cross was unable to confirm the death toll, but said that at least 521 injured people had been evacuated by volunteer medical teams to city hospitals. Shehu Sani, head of the Kaduna-based Civil Rights Congress told AFP by telephone from the city that observers from his agency had seen 50 dead and many injured in various parts of the city. "The situation has further aggravated, there have been more burnings of churches and mosques," he said. "Initially the attacks were mostly by Muslims, but now Christians are retaliating." Reverend James Wuye, who represents an inter-faith group set up to broker peace between the communities, confirmed that a riot that began as a Muslim protest was now a sectarian conflict. "Last night there were reprisal attacks against Muslims in the northern part of Kaduna," he said. "Now there is an uneasy calm. Religious leaders are meeting with the state governor this morning to try and find a way to restore peace." All three officials said that a curfew due to end this morning had been extended through the day, and that smoke was hanging over the burned ruins of several homes and places of worship. Troops and police have been deployed in the town and roads north and south have been blocked, Sani said. It is not yet clear how the majority of the deaths were caused. Witnesses spoke of people being stabbed in the street or burned in their homes. AAP 2002

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  plmkrzy

  has offended the conservative sensibilities of many Muslims.

  "conservative sensibilities"? !!!!

  Oh yeh right, imagine interviewing someone who is commenting on their conservative sensibilities while standing next to a man with a flaming tire around his neck!

  excuse me, .............puke

  Edited by - plmkrzy on 22 November 2002 13:5:33