Probably not new, but it was weird enough that I had to bring it up.
http://www.newsarama.com/film/090822-MickeyFatwa.html
In a story that’s so weird his has to be considered true, a leading Saudi Arabian cleric has declared Mickey Mouse to be an “agent of Satan.†As such, he has put a fatwa, or death sentence , on the Mouse’s head.
This is not the first time the Mouse has come into conflict with the Muslim world. A few years back, the Palestinian political group Hamas used an almost exact duplicate of the Mickey, named Farfour, as a sort of host of its own TV show. From this pulpit it used to preach death and destruction to its audience, young Palestinian children.
In 2007, the character was also “murdered†on air. A co-host of the show declared Farfour was killed by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour's land. At one point, the mouse called the Israeli a "terrorist."
"Farfour was martyred while defending his land," said Sara, a teen co-star. He was killed "by the killers of children," she added.
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they never had it so good
what the hell
that is so screwed up it's not even funny
Jerry Falwell was the man. He didn't take no shit from no satanic homosexual alien purple fuzzy things.
be tasked for the job.
this guy is apparently one of the highest ranking muslim clerics in australia and hes been in the news a bunch of times for shit like blaming victims of rape for not being at home wearing their hijab, instead of walking around the street in normal clothes like exposed meat
and calling women tools of the devil and publicly praising jihadists and stuff
i think maybe they tried to deport him at one point but im not sure
and then this ad comes on tv that starts off with this aussie guy going 'hi im nick and i got a special talent where i can count the number of letters in words really quick. muslim -thats 6 letters. thats about all i know about that religion'
and then they mentioned that he lived with the cleric for 6 weeks i think and i thought it was a bad joke with the same awful writing until it showed them hanging out together
hmm
People were making jokes about not traveling on buses after that. I reminded them it's pretty much the only time it's ever happened so actually having something like that happen again would be pretty damn slim, like being struck by lightening since there's not really any history of violence on greyhound buses.
Then, a week later some shit happens, and just now there was yet ANOTHER STABBING on yet ANOTHER greyhound bus to winnipeg.
What the fuck
I made a TD for iphone and windows phone!
I don't know.
Christianity sucks, Islam sucks even more. Buddhism is pretty cool I guess. The end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igIBSeaJ9YI
Give me a break I am anti-religion and trying not to look like a total tool.
They all blow pretty bad.
way to be ignorant, dude
lets declare fatwa on mickey mouse!
I really hope that URL isn't taken
have a look at more on youtube
oh shit this one seems a bit more relevant last one guys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4RyzFjQbHE
People claim that the fundamentalists are the issue--but really aren't they just doing it right?
You're painting an entire religion with the brush of a very small minority of fundamentalists.
I know plenty is Islamic people who are no different from you or me. Heck, they wear suits to work and can throw down in Mario Kart like nobodies business.
Islam isn't this wacky thing out in the desert somewhere.
The Old Testament is lame as shit.
ka-ding
i'm a pretty religious dude
but my religion also doesn't call upon me to be a fuckle to people
so there you go
Nah people in the old testament got shit done.
dont let my people go free? oh well im going to cover your lands with death, suffering and plagues of ever increasing inventiveness.
did jesus ever do that? fuck no he was all 'love thy neighbour'. what a homo.
The issue is that the Religious right is dominated by politically active evangelical fronts and baptist fundamentalist groups which do believe in literal interpretation and I don't know if you read the OT but that shit is hardcore
The problem is that most people in the US may not be fundamentalists--but most do believe in a "God".
A pseudo legitimacy is seized upon from there and then all of the sudden we are a "Christian Nation" with a bent towards radical Christian ideology knownst or unbeknownst to the citizens. The argument over Gay Marriage is just the beginning of what the Falwell types have in store.
I expect that Islam would be much the same except that Middle Eastern society mostly forgoes any pretense of secularism.
edit- To follow up on Scarabs point Islam is very much indeed a global religion (the fastest growing in the US in fact) I just percieve that the issue of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Middle East is particularly pressing right now.
You have people taking worth from an idea in an extreme way, or a moderate way, or whatever in between
If you asked a christian what they thought was the most important message from the bible you'd get answers like
god hates gay people
we should treat everyone well
helping the poor is paramount
all other religions are false
the argument shouldn't be about whether the bible is legitimate or not; the ideas are the same no matter how they're worded