01-07-2009, 09:41 PM | #81 |
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Just came across this:
http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/Art...651783,00.html Hamas is not behaving as a government at all.
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01-11-2010, 10:43 AM | #83 |
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Americanization of Mental Illness
This is a very interesting article from the NYT about how mental illness is viewed in various cultures and the impact of the particularly American views. I had no idea that this was occurring.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/ma...0psyche-t.html Fascinatingly, the result seems to be other than the intended one due to various cultural assumptions embedded in the basic assumptions regarding mental illness. Very thought-provoking.
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06-03-2010, 06:45 PM | #84 |
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Gee, Saudi Arabia is gonna ask the age of the bride on marriage licenses! What an invasion of privacy. This is gonna raise the bride price/dowry on those 8 year olds.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/10217619.stm
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They need more like this one:
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06-04-2010, 08:50 AM | #86 |
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Unfortunately the poor girl's probably going to be arrested for assault, and if the guy she was with was not her husband or brother, she's likely to get some more punishment on top of that as well. But for a short moment, that 'cop of virtue' certainly got his just reward.
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06-04-2010, 01:50 PM | #87 |
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06-04-2010, 02:54 PM | #88 |
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06-06-2010, 04:15 PM | #89 |
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Multiculturalism is definitely a bane in Egypt by court order which cannot be appealed...
http://www.seattlepi.com/national/11..._israelis.html
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06-06-2010, 07:17 PM | #90 |
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Yes, it's terrible when countries pass marriage laws singling out one particular nationality or ethnic group for discrimination.
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/mariner/20030811.html
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06-07-2010, 01:38 AM | #91 |
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...and then there's the few who really are...too bad there's no difference, everyone just likes to wear green. I'm sure 99% of the people wearing green on that day have no idea who St. Patrick was...it's a disgrace to him and what he accomplished.
(sorry I just realized I quoted from 5 pages ago )
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When a culture meets a culture, a runnin' through the rye, eh?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/02/...potter.attack/ "London, England (CNN) -- The father and brother of a Harry Potter actress will appear in court later this month in Manchester, England, on charges of threatening to kill the young star, prosecutors said Friday. "Abdul Azad, 54, and his son Ashraf, 28, are accused of attacking actress Afshan Azad earlier this month because of her relationship with a Hindu man, a spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service said. The family is Muslim. "The alleged attack happened May 21. The father and brother are charged with threatening to kill the actress, and her brother is also charged with assault, the prosecutors' spokesman said."
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What a nasty racist little troll you are, inked.
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07-07-2010, 10:43 PM | #98 |
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Really? I don't think so...
http://hosted2.ap.org/WORAM/GeneralN...d6ca1d9fe95488 That's the AP, Associated Press, report. It's not like one has to make this stuff up, Gaffer. It's just that somehow reality gets missed. Unless of course honor killings are the wave of the future or some such. Because even the Archbishop of Canterbury has recommended Sharia Courts for England. It was all the news last year or so.
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And now, suddenly, the ABC has started taking more conservative stances, promising to fight for English conservative Anglo-Catholics for some modicum of allowance given to their views, and things like that. Can't make up his mind. That's what happens when you follow the via media, I guess.
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In accordance to the recent trends in this thread, perpetuated by certain individual posters, I've found an article recording recent events that seems to meet the right criteria of these trends to the letter. These criteria being:
1) A report of a story about religious fanatics using the rule of law to impose ideas or practices, often to the cost of other peoples liberty, that hark back to the ignorance and barbarism of centuries ago. Or alternatively, a story about something that due to our own prejudices, we just don't happen to like, and don't have to provide a rationale for posting it here. 2)This story must take place in a country or civilisation other than our own. We have a right to sneer and tut-tut at events beyond our responsibility and control, and it distracts us from the more honest effort of looking at what is happening in our own spheres of influence, something responsible citizenship requires us to be concerned about. Strap yourself in and get your exclamations of faux-outrage ready! http://ncse.com/news/2010/07/comer-loses-appeal-005612 Quote:
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