Well said, Tom. On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:29:54 +0000 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
