We call them do-gooders Don, though I did briefly think of a bunch of poor souls Gabby took the knife to. Genocide is usually all right if your team wins - a bit like handball in soccer perhaps? I'd be OK with the Minarets if we just had all our kids go to the same schools.
On 3 Dec, 01:54, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > What, pray tell, is a Gutmensch? Paranoid? Sounds vaguely Yiddish... > > dj > > > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:06 PM, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > > Argh, Francis, with your Irish-catholic background you have morphed > > into such a Gutmensch that it is almost unbearable. > > > On 2 Dez., 23:28, fran the man <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2 Dez., 17:58, Ian Pollard <[email protected]> wrote:> Fantastic > >> news and, despite what you say, very progressive! :) > > >> Er, Ian, I don't believe I personally put forward any opinion as to > >> the progressive, or otherwise nature of the decision of the Swiss > >> people in my original post. I simply formulated some of the questions > >> which are being publicly discussed in Europe following the referendum. > > >> Formally, the Swiss simply decided to forbid the building of minarets > >> in their country. No more, no less. Symbolically, of course, writing > >> this prohibition into Swiss law means much more - indeed, many > >> different things to different people. Personally, I would incline to > >> the view that what can and cannot be built is more a matter for local > >> authorities and their procedures for granting planning permission. A > >> well-designed mosque with minaret may well improve certain urban > >> landscapes from an architectural/aesthetic perspective, just as many > >> badly designed and situated Christian churches are simply ugly and > >> just don't fit in where they are. > > >> The much deeper question of Islam and the relationship between it, as > >> a religious-cultural-political Weltanschauung and western societies > >> and the values they (we) see as being basic to their (our) self- > >> understanding is complex and multi-facetted. My hope is that this > >> thread may take up some of these issues. > > >> Francis > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > ""Minds Eye"" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en.
