--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "do.rflex" <do.rflex@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], MDixon6569@ wrote: > > > > > > Actually Lurk I thought the little boy was quite cute and > > > sang beautifully, but for somebody to say "they were almost > > > converted to Islam on the spot", based on a cute child, > > > sweet voice and alluring melody was pretty emotional and > > > lacked reason. Words have meaning. What was he actually > > > saying? That is why I commented, was this the verse about > > > the rocks crying out "there is a Jew behind me , come and > > > kill him!" > > > > Predisposed bigotry, plain and simple. > > Actually, MDixon is making a very valid point, and > I hear *you* demonstrating predisposed bigotry, plain > and simple, not him. > > His point is a good one. What did the verse *say*. For > Judy to make such a remark as "I was almost converted > to Islam on the spot" about hearing a voice *and not > having any idea what it was saying* was stupid to the > max. He could have been singing the Koran's counterpart > to the Biblical verse you cited for all she knew. And > believing every word of it. He could have been singing > the verse from the Koran that MDixon cites above. > > The thing is, *you don't know*. And neither does Judy. > And yet she was willing to allow emotion to color her > thinking enough to say something silly like she said. > And you've been even worse, trying to paint MDixon as > a bigot when, from my point of view, he hasn't said > anything the least bit bigoted. He was just pointing > out yours and Judy's knee-jerk reactions to certain > things that you tend to become knee jerks about.
> The bigot in this scenario is *you*, John. You're > actively trying to characterize MDixon's position as > being very different than it is. I don't agree with > many of his political leanings, either, but unlike you > I don't feel the need to demonize him for holding them. > You do. Right, instead Barry demonizes John for calling MDixon on his bigotry, and me for purportedly being so caught up in emotion that I'd consider converting to Islam on the basis of two and a half minutes' worth of a kid's recitation in a language I have no knowledge of. I mean, what amazing hypocrisy. That Barry and MDixon both assumed my comment was anything but obvious *hyperbole* (look it up) is the real stupid knee-jerk reaction. I said to start with: "Put aside any Islamophobia you may have and just listen to the extraordinary beauty of his voice." MDixon couldn't manage to do that. People who refuse to demonize bigotry, IMHO, are unwitting enablers of it. As my father used to say, "Don't let your mind be so open your brains fall out." John's quite right, MDixon's reaction was bigoted to the max. Like most bigots, he's appallingly ignorant of what he's bigoted *about*. The words he quoted weren't even from the Koran, nor does he have any idea whether they were an accurate translation. And Barry thought MDixon was quoting from the *Bible*, for pete's sake, speaking not only of ignorance but of being so eager to demonize two of his "enemies" that he couldn't even be bothered to read the exchange.
