Amen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen
Met vriendelijke groeten, Salutations distinguées, Kind Regards, DRIES FEYS CORPORATE SERVICES • Specialist Software Developer TVH GROUP NV Brabantstraat 15 • BE-8790 WAREGEM T +32 56 43 42 11 • F +32 56 43 44 88 • www.tvh.com Watch our company movies on www.tvh.tv Business Innovation through Information Technology bi2t.tvh.com On 26 January 2016 at 13:29, Tom Davies <tomc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi :) > Phil, i know you think you probably think you are just an atheist and > acting reasonably but this topic didn't arise in all the years that we > have seen Christian messages in various people's signatures. The > discussion only arose after the only Islamic quote in all these years. > > This has happened at a time when it's popular to attack Muslims for > their faith, and for the stereotypes pushed out by mainstream media to > demonise and vilify Muslims. > > Ridiculing religions in general might seem reasonable but choosing to > do so right now, only after the first Islamic quote in a signature and > not in any of the previous several years of Christian quotes (and > hundreds of them) is Islamaphobic. > > It has been good to see people on this mailing-list increasingly make > a stand against the increasing level of Islamaphobia in this thread - > even people who don't understand or don't agree with Islam. In my > opinion standing with someone who seems to be being given a hard-time > by 'the mainstream' is FAR more impressive than just taking cheap > opportunistic pot-shots that are > > LibreOffice and the OpenDocument Format are making a stand against the > mainstream and although the tide may be beginning to turn for us i am > sure we can all remember moments where mainstream-people have done or > said things, without even realising it, that are extremely pro-MSO and > their ever-changing, unreliable formats. > > > Please can we drop this topic and get on with the questions at hand? > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > On 26 January 2016 at 04:37, Philip Rhoades <p...@pricom.com.au> wrote: >> Virgil, >> >> >> On 2016-01-26 07:24, Virgil Arrington wrote: >>> >>> On 01/25/2016 01:40 PM, jomali wrote: >>>> >>>> Please note that the original message by Nasrin was on a topic germane to >>>> this list. One member with an excessively tender sore spot objected to >>>> something in Nasrin's signature that expressed his sincerely held faith. >>>> There was no intent on Nasrin's part to proselytize or to demean >>>> another's >>>> faith, as Phil's diatribe does. >>> >>> >>> I tend to agree about signature lines. They can contain all kinds of >>> things having nothing to do with LO. Sometimes they're funny; >> >> >> >> That would be fine . . >> >> >>> other >>> times they are informative about the writer. Phil's signature line >>> includes his address in Australia, which is informative, but has >>> nothing to do with LO. Nasrin's signature line includes a a few lines >>> about his Muslim faith, >> >> >> >> Another person with low general knowledge . . again I am not surprised . . >> >> >>> also informative but also having nothing to do >>> with LO. >>> >>> I pretty much ignore signature lines, and I can't possibly imagine >>> being offended by one, regardless of what it might say. >>> >>> a Christian who loves Muslims >> >> >> >> And there we have it - another person who has an agenda - they can't >> criticise someone else for proselytising their superstitious nonsense >> because they have their own superstitious nonsense . . a person who "loves" >> someone else but does not even know that the person they "love" is a "she" >> and not a "he" . . clueless . . >> >> P. >> >> -- >> Philip Rhoades >> >> PO Box 896 >> Cowra NSW 2794 >> Australia >> E-mail: p...@pricom.com.au >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org >> Problems? >> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> deleted >> > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- **** DISCLAIMER **** http://www.tvh.com/glob/en/email-disclaimer "This message is delivered to all addressees subject to the conditions set forth in the attached disclaimer, which is an integral part of this message." -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
