On 3 Dec, 01:53, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting development. Perhaps, despite tremendous efforts from the > PC crowd, some folks are beginning to see the connection between > Islamic militant terrorism and your friendly neighborhood mosque. In > the chatter in the control room(water cooler) I heard something about > some politician offering to allow it when Saudi Arabia allows > Christian churches to be built there. No going, apparently. > > Another problem is the Islamic schools popping up all over western > culture. All funded by rich Arabs for the most part. A study done on > the text books supplied these kids was a little alarming. Little > Osamas are being indoctrinated on our home soil. Unless laws are > changed this problem will increase. I'm still flabbergasted we didn't > start profiling at the airports after 9/11. I'm shocked folks are > still whining about the Patriot Act. >
It could just be a numbers game. Given a Muslim population of 1.6 Billion (1,600,000,000), if 0.01% of them are militant terrorists (i.e., 99.99% good people), then there are 16,000 problems out there. And 16 thousand people can, if organised, cause a great deal of trouble. However, that shouldn't paint the other 99.99% of good people with the paintbrush called 'Terrorist Potential'. We are ALL potential terrorists, given the right impetus, so the profiling should be for ALL. > If we could get these other countries to open their borders and allow > freedom of religion I'd feel a lot better about allowing them to build > more here. I am not, by the way, in favor of interment camps or > shutting down the mosques already here that have proven themselves > peaceful and are a compliment to the community. I have to say that or > some of you would be jumping down my throat accusing me of genocide. > > -Don > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:28 PM, 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.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- 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.
