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When I was in first school I won the highly coveted yearly "guess how many jelly beans there are in this jar" competition. There were 374, and I guessed so. The prize was a teddy bear and a huge jar of 374 jelly beans, I didn't like jelly beans so I gave them all to my friend, which I guess is what led to his downspiral into a world of gambling, drug dealing and male prostitution to aid his obsessive jelly bean addiction, eventually ending in a near fatal sugar overdose and a period in rehab.
I could never bring myself to name the bear, it didn't have a persona, with those vacant eyes, partially concealed with fur, devoid of any form of identity. The only glimpse of character it gave off was a jumper brandishing a healthy school meals slogan and a faint aurora of the irony of being paired with a gargantuan tub of jelly beans.
Initially I nicknamed it after it's wonderful healthy eating message, something like "health bear" or "fruit bear," but I realised at some point that the bear probably wouldn't be to be identified as a bear by the clothes it had had no choice in choosing or wearing, lacking a means of communication, (and most probably, although not certainly, consciousness) as most stuffed toys do.
So, the bear sat nameless for many years, with no sense of identity or self, on the windowsill of my bedroom, temporarily being relocated for dusting and other window activities (there seem to be more in your childhood.)
Until now...
You may have heard of the ridiculous story of british school teacher Gillian Gibbons who teaches (or tought, I should say) at Unity high school in Khartoum being arrested for calling the class teddy bear Muhammad, after a school boy suggested calling the bear Muhammad, after his own name. This is similar but on a smaller scale to the danish cartoons fiasco a few years ago.
Innocent people who were not muslims were killed over cartoons, that's right, cartoons, which nobody outside of Holland would have noticed if they had not been actually added to and hyped up by muslim Imams, sickeningly so.
I wish to pay homage to the wonderful religion of Islam by calling my own childhood nameless bear Muhammad (pbuh). In the eyes of a muslim i'm going to hell for doing this anyway, so please, no violence or threats. | |
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replicalex
I had a cow once...
called her moo-hammed,
just to piss off the muslims.
Then I ate her.
Pissing off the hindus too.
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cbit
Innocent people who were not muslims were killed over cartoons, that's right, cartoons, which nobody outside of Holland would have noticed if they had not been actually added to and hyped up by muslim Imams, sickeningly so.
It was Denmark where the cartoons were originally published, not the netherlands (the netherlands was where theo van gogh was murdered while biking through amsterdam after making an islam-critical film with ayaan hirsi ali). But yeah. Whole thing sucks badly. One good thing that is slowly emerging from it all: the idea that we should 'respect peoples beliefs' is gradually being revealed for the dangerous nonsense it is.
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cbit
"Boy, 7, says he put forward his own name in class vote" link
fking backwards-assed superstitions man arghh!
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monty
this smells of political bullshit.
she taught a school called "unity"
which mixed non-muslims with muslims.
this must have pissed off someone off/stirred up tensions.
happens everywhere... theres still a political debate in Scotland about seperate Catholic schooling.
i dont think Islam is the issue. its more about people going apeshit mentalist whenever their kids education might be affected.
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cbit
monty said: "i dont think Islam is the issue. its more about people going apeshit mentalist whenever their kids education might be affected."
Could be, but be careful of projecting your feelings about religion onto others (i'm assuming you're not a fundamentalist of any stripe ;)). From our vantage point it can sometimes be hard to believe that there are people who really, sincerely believe this nonsense, but there are. We don't have to look very far for examples of barbaric behaviour carried out primarily to gain favour with Allah--examples that dont find adequate explanation by suggesting any other motivation than deep piety. So it's not as though this kind of thing is without precedent if we take it at face value.
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clarkq
I did not enjoy this blog at all. I'm a atheist and find religion to be silly what so ever, but the current bad-mouthing of muslims as a group can only be compared to jews in the thirties. I'm all about free speech and artistic integrity, thats not what im talking about. this just gives me a bad feeling.
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cbit
clarkq said: "but the current bad-mouthing of muslims as a group can only be compared to jews in the thirties."
I'm not sure if you include any comments in this thread in the 'bad mouthing' you mentioned. If so, then as far as i'm concerned that's a disgusting and ludicrous comparison (and if not, my apologies in advance ;) ).
Followers of Islam (at least many, perhaps not all) believe that a magical being sanctions the murder of people who decide to move away from Islam (the grave 'crime' of apostacy). Are we the equivalent of nazis if we object that this kind of superstition has no place in the 21th century? If that's what political correctness is then it can be thrown out imo.
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monty
i know some practising muslims, they are pretty chilled out, nice people.
so im uncomfortable with this anti-islam vibe.
religion is not the source of all the problems that ail mankind at the moment.
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cbit
monty said: "religion is not the source of all the problems that ail mankind at the moment."
No. Just a lot of them.
I know Christians and Muslims. They are lovely people, but their beliefs are preposterous, and if the issue comes up I think it's disrespectful to pretend to them otherwise.
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djugel
I think this is more of a anti-fundamentalist vibe. I think most level-headed muslims wouldn't get too angry about this...
but what do I know.. my views on the persecuted these days be a little off. Being friends with a self-hating gay on one side... and a Bosnian on the other. Neither are pretty hard to offend.
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celibacyclub
religion is just something that people with secular motives exploit to encourage violence or hatred.
its not the religion itself thats to blame, its the powers that use it to keep wars going or keep a lower class of cheep labor.
ppl are good. businesses that are given the rights of an individual but the motives of a pure profit machine (corporations) end up being bad. they function by externalizing cost on envirnoment and ppl. i think for the human species to survive in a long term sense we need to evolve or economic systems beyond capitalism to something that can have all costs accounted for and all people partisipating more equally. i call this evolved system the information economy, a part of the information age. the value of ideas surpassing the value of material goods.
that kinda got off on a rant.. huh. well.
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djugel
oh wait .. I said that wrong. Both don't get offended easily. whew!!
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djugel
Also - I believe religion is a HUGE problem on the rise and should not be taken for granted.
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djugel
Basically in an age where "god is dead". More and more fools will try and fill their empty souless bodies with religion... People will always try and be what they are not. Kind of like how most people that are "Pro-Life" .. are single middle-aged men with no hopes of having children.
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everamzah
just for the record i respect every1's beliefs. that doesn't mean i need "bare" them. when i said i couldn't bare islam, i wsa making a distinction between religion and culture. the religion i could never bare, personally, but people who believe it i don't dislike just because they believe what they want to believe and it doesn't match my own beliefs. i just move along.
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