X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,6dc8a25c7e8a1ea X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-28 16:01:38 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!d6e39.d.pppool.DE!not-for-mail From: Josef 'Jupp' Schugt Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: REQ: Any Islamic Art Asciis? Date: 29 Nov 2003 00:01:37 GMT Organization: none Lines: 50 Message-ID: References: <5fj5svss8ddhd38bd8kmg3cm4vu8njilf9@4ax.com> <9kNxb.1282$OL3.13@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d6e39.d.pppool.de (80.184.110.57) X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1070064097 67723509 80.184.110.57 ([53633]) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:633 * EvilAllah(tm); Fri, 28 Nov 2003 19:27:01 GMT > Bateau wrote: > >> Islam is fucking sick with its "ISLAM KNOWS BEST" and "KILL NON >> MUSLIMS" and all the other crazy brainwashing shit. It was >> designed to make a cult leader very powerful, not to help people. >> I think Islam is the greatest threat to the world today. > > The same can be said for christianity, judiasm, hinduism, etc etc. > > It's not just Islam that's dangerous. It's /religion/. Islam *is* dangerous - e.g. for muslims living in Palestine. As was judaism for the jews in Germany, as is chritianity for the christians living in certain parts of Africa, as is hinduism for the hindus living in certain parts of India. I think that the most important threat is supposing that there is simple one-size-fits-it-all one-and-for-all time solution to any problem and then putting a taboo on it. To give an example: Democracy. In order to be functional a democracy requires that a large majority of the people actually understands the implications of a decision they make. Nowadays many issuses are so involved that this requirement often cannot be met. Nevertheless it is a taboo to ask for alternative solutions that do not have that disadvantage. Such an alternative perhaps means that we need to delegate the power to people who did *proof* that they know what the best decision is. No, I don't suggest a dictatorship. If that is dictatorship then how does one call 'delegating the power to people who try to give us the feeling that they know what the best decision is and often fail miserabely'? - I do *not* have the situation in the USA in mind (I know to little about it) but the situation in Germany. I will never understand why people protest if a party they did vote for does what it announced to do. The greens announced: We will increase the fuel prices. Afterwards many of the people who voted for them protested against the raising fuel prizes. :-| Something seems to be going terribly wrong with mankind... Ob fuel price : __ __ 9 ,- : | |__| |__| |-- : | o __| __| `- Josef 'Jupp' Schugt