Muslim boy urinates on Bible, no Christians riot

Uncle Teddy

Make a cartoon criticizing Islam, you are a dead man..
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20891402-2702,00.html

Scubascott

Uncle Teddy wrote:

Make a cartoon criticizing Islam, you are a dead man..
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20891402-2702,00.html

Kids do stupid things. The school kicked them out. Everyone involved is satisfied that they've been punished. Case closed. They're kids. What else should be done? Should they be hanged?

Being Australia, if it was white kids pissing on a copy of the Q'ran I think the same thing would have happened. We don't take religion so seriously that we want to kill each over it down here.

Uncle Teddy

The pope can make a relatively non-inflammatory comment about Islam, and there is rioting in the streets in Muslim countries.

Christians are constantly under attack. They are impuned, mocked, ridiculed, scoffed at (namely by "tolerant" leftists). I don't see the Religious Right taking it to the streets, rioting, and issuing death threats..

flywallyfly

Uncle Teddy wrote:

Christians are constantly under attack. They are impuned, mocked, ridiculed, scoffed at (namely by "tolerant" leftists). I don't see the Religious Right taking it to the streets, rioting, and issuing death threats..

"Christians are so abused" is getting really old now. I'm tired of the religious pity party.

Andre_W

f*ck kicking him out of school, the lad should be awarded an OAM this Australia Day for his balls and aussie spirit!!! "F*ck the establishment"

Soooo much wrong has been done in the name of religion...

Jammin909

Uncle Teddy wrote:

Make a cartoon criticizing Islam, you are a dead man..
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20891402-2702,00.html

Get over it. You post the same shit everyday.

redrock

Uncle Teddy wrote:

The pope can make a relatively non-inflammatory comment about Islam, and there is rioting in the streets in Muslim countries.

Christians are constantly under attack. They are impuned, mocked, ridiculed, scoffed at (namely by "tolerant" leftists). I don't see the Religious Right taking it to the streets, rioting, and issuing death threats..

Making a mountain out of a molehill again. I don't really think you can compare the impact the pope has on people to this 13 year old kid! Just typical teenage behaviour.... His parents teach respect and tolerance, the school does as well in the way it acted, bringing home that what he did was unacceptable. Could you honestly say a catholic school would have expelled a kid for desecrating the Q'ran ? Coming to think of it... would they even HAVE a copy of the Q'ran in a catholic school? Don't think so.......

Lighten up.

soulsinging

Uncle Teddy wrote:

The pope can make a relatively non-inflammatory comment about Islam, and there is rioting in the streets in Muslim countries.

Christians are constantly under attack. They are impuned, mocked, ridiculed, scoffed at (namely by "tolerant" leftists). I don't see the Religious Right taking it to the streets, rioting, and issuing death threats..

well, it's easy to take things in stride when you know you're ruling the world. the christians can afford to smile condescendingly at those crazy muslims cos the christians hold all the positions of power in this world. it's why bill clinton and the dems took so much abuse when he was in power and why dubya takes so much abuse now. whoever is in charge and running the show has to accept that the people who have to submit to their control aren't going to be happy about it and will say and do some nasty things. on the flipside, such minorities tend to over-react to small things out of paranoia that at any minute they could basically be crushed under the heel of the majority. that's the way power imbalances work.

enharmonic

Uncle Teddy wrote:

Christians are constantly under attack. They are impuned, mocked, ridiculed, scoffed at (namely by "tolerant" leftists). I don't see the Religious Right taking it to the streets, rioting, and issuing death threats..

Why would they? That would be in direct dispute with the whole forgive your enemies/turn the other cheek fantasy.

darkcrow

there is very little difference between a kid pissing on a holy book and a religious school metophorically pissnig over other religions. i went to a catholic school (but am not a christian) so i have some experience. being told your religion is pointless is pretty much as bad if not worse than a holy book being pissed on. a book is only a book. but your belief is so much mroe deeper and important.

London Calling

Uncle Teddy wrote:

I don't see the Religious Right taking it to the streets, rioting, and issuing death threats..

No, you guys just start wars.....and didnt some evangelical preacher man say the cia should assasinate hugo chavez a few months ago??So much for not issuing death threats

cincybearcat

Andre_W wrote:

f*ck kicking him out of school, the lad should be awarded an OAM this Australia Day for his balls and aussie spirit!!! "F*ck the establishment"

Soooo much wrong has been done in the name of religion...

Yep, you're right, pissing on a bible certainly takes an amazing amount of intelligence and bravery...c'mon now.

miller8966

O wow what a statement. Bunch of little fucking douchebags.

Im so sick of people making fun of christianity being this huge "religious freedom" movement. Dan Brown wrote a novel depicting jesus as not being divine...nobody even called for him to die. Now how about Salman Rushdie?

I got an idea; want religious freedom? Dress up as Mohammed.

darkcrow

miller8966 wrote:

O wow what a statement. Bunch of little fucking douchebags.

Im so sick of people making fun of christianity being this huge "religious freedom" movement. Dan Brown wrote a novel depicting jesus as not being divine...nobody even called for him to die. Now how about Salman Rushdie?

I got an idea; want religious freedom? Dress up as Mohammed.

actually there was a huge campaign against dan brown around the time the film of the da vinci code was going to be released. if memory serves me correctly they even tried to get it banned.

there are bad people on both sides miller. generalisations on either side really do not help matters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_da_vinci_code_%28film%29#Protests

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1770878,00.html

also in in india due to a huge campaign by hardline christians, the government was forced to ban the new slayer album becuase apparently it would offend christians too much.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6039976.stm

jlew24asu

Scubascott wrote:

Kids do stupid things. The school kicked them out. Everyone involved is satisfied that they've been punished. Case closed. They're kids. What else should be done? Should they be hanged?

Being Australia, if it was white kids pissing on a copy of the Q'ran I think the same thing would have happened. We don't take religion so seriously that we want to kill each over it down here.

I think you are way off my friend. muslim countries would be rioting and calling for the kids head.

farfromglorified

Meh. I really fail to see how what this kid did merits attention from anyone other than his parents and school administrators.

PJPOWER

farfromglorified wrote:

Meh. I really fail to see how what this kid merits attention from anyone other than his parents and school administrators.

Agreed. In fact, I think I am now going to go take a piss on the Koran, Santa Clauses head, the Easter Bunny, and Britney Spears.............all at the same time. Trying to set a record for pissing on multiple fake things.

searchlightsoul

Religion is complete bullshit anyway I mean honestly what other ideas are simply accepted based on faith. If you say that your idea is based on faith everyone just accepts it because it is a religous belief but what gives religion any higher authority than any other idea?

farfromglorified

searchlightsoul wrote:

what gives religion any higher authority than any other idea?

God. But he's not really for me either.

Smellyman2

Christian are to busy worrying about gays

PJPOWER

searchlightsoul wrote:

Religion is complete bullshit anyway I mean honestly what other ideas are simply accepted based on faith. If you say that your idea is based on faith everyone just accepts it because it is a religous belief but what gives religion any higher authority than any other idea?

Hmmm, another idea based on faith..............When you put yourself on the operating table, you're basing your idea that the surgery is going to go well completely on the faith that that person with the "Dr." in front of his name isn't drunk and has a proper education............That's assuming you have "faith" in the idea that we have a decent education process to offer that person about to cut you open. Everyone puts a certain amount of faith in things that they do not know to be true or untrue.

farfromglorified

Smellyman wrote:

Christian are to busy worrying about gays

They don't really have a monopoly on that:

http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2006/11/09/jews_muslims_join_to_fight_gay_parade/

Uncle Leo

miller8966 wrote:

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Im so sick of people making fun of christianity...

Does this not make you a PC person that is too easilly offended?

hippiemom

farfromglorified wrote:

They don't really have a monopoly on that:

http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2006/11/09/jews_muslims_join_to_fight_gay_parade/

Wow.

Maybe the gay community should issue a statement that they're hugely in favor of violence in the middle east.

farfromglorified

hippiemom wrote:

Wow.

Maybe the gay community should issue a statement that they're hugely in favor of violence in the middle east.

Nah, they're too worried about the Christians

People are so damn silly.

Collin

How does this even make the news? I agree with farfromglorified:

farfromglorified wrote:

Meh. I really fail to see how what this kid merits attention from anyone other than his parents and school administrators.

chopitdown

flywallyfly wrote:

"Christians are so abused" is getting really old now. I'm tired of the religious pity party.

hey it's america...everyone is abused...gays, christians, atheists, those who celebrate christmas, those who dont, black people, white males, illegal aliens. I'm sick of everyone wanting a pity party.

Happy hanakwanmas solstice

soulsinging

hippiemom wrote:

Wow.

Maybe the gay community should issue a statement that they're hugely in favor of violence in the middle east.

who knew that this whole time we've been trying to find ways to get these groups to see each other's point of view, and all it took in the end was some hot man on man action.

The Illinoisemakers

soulsinging wrote:

well, it's easy to take things in stride when you know you're ruling the world. the christians can afford to smile condescendingly at those crazy muslims cos the christians hold all the positions of power in this world. it's why bill clinton and the dems took so much abuse when he was in power and why dubya takes so much abuse now. whoever is in charge and running the show has to accept that the people who have to submit to their control aren't going to be happy about it and will say and do some nasty things. on the flipside, such minorities tend to over-react to small things out of paranoia that at any minute they could basically be crushed under the heel of the majority. that's the way power imbalances work.

How many Muslims are there? Who controls the majority of the world's oil? Who is winning the war in Iraq. I'm not sure I would agree that "we are ruling the world." We might be ruling our little island, but the whole world is a stretch.

I think Mr. Teddy is somewhat right about this. If it had been a white kid doing this to a Koran, and it was covered by the media, I'm sure it would have inflamed some Muslims to start the Riot Act. Being a Christian however, I could really care less if some kid takes a piss on the Bible. I'm not the one he'll have to answer to about that.

IndianSummer

redrock wrote:

Making a mountain out of a molehill again. I don't really think you can compare the impact the pope has on people to this 13 year old kid! Just typical teenage behaviour.... His parents teach respect and tolerance, the school does as well in the way it acted, bringing home that what he did was unacceptable. Could you honestly say a catholic school would have expelled a kid for desecrating the Q'ran ? Coming to think of it... would they even HAVE a copy of the Q'ran in a catholic school? Don't think so.......

Lighten up.

if a 13 year old christian pissed on the koran, at least 2 ontinents would have come to a standstill.

lalalalaaaaaaaa

If the point here is to say that some fundamentalist Muslims would riot in the street if some kid pissed on the Koran, then I'd say you're probably right. And what does that tell us? Not much. It tells us that fundamentalist religious beliefs are not a good thing. It says nothing about Muslims in general. Just like the KKK shows nothing about Christians in general.