Firas' Islam Meccathread

[Byrthnoth]

No Firas. One group using fear to compel another to act differently is terrorism.

We shouldn't be afraid of Muslims, because we should be able to trust Muslims to be rational. Your example, "1.3 million muslims in spain, watch ur back, yo~! You know at least one of those bitches has gatta be crazy!" pretty perfectly exemplifies terrorism.

What if, instead, Muslims realized that there is nothing inherently holy about names and they stopped taking everything so damned personally?

[Correction]

ah yes, respecting other cultures is considered is helping terrorism.

only in america, no, wait. only in the west.

Muslims want respect to be a one way street.
Respect our culture.
Fuck your freedom of expression.

[Yabby]

Where can tourist go, if they are looking for a good time in NYC?
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Look no further, New York's hottest club is Muhammad's Hang Out. Club promoter went all out, it has lights, physic-o's, and terrorists ready to blow your mind.
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[Callisto]

yes thats exactly what im trying to say. yesyesyes

That may not be what you intended, but if you can't look at exactly what you said, and see how ridiculously easily it can be construed the way Alleya said, something is honestly wrong with you. You literally just said that they should not do something out of fear of one crazy extremist potentially committing violent acts against them. The concept of getting someone to take, or stop taking, a particular course of action through direct use of a threat of potential violence is to a T the definition of terrorism. You cannot possibly say that you don't see how what you posted could easily come off that way.

I personally could care less about your beliefs and am not going to troll you because of them, I think all religions are a blight upon what could otherwise be a pretty productive species. Regardless of what I think though, if you are going to be a fundamentalist in pretty much absolutely any religion outside of maybe Buddhism on the internet, you're going to get made fun of. That is a 100% given concrete fact. You want to know who's really being persecuted here? Us mods who have to read thread after thread of this garbage(and by that I mean ALL religious/political threads, not just yours) and sacrifice our valuable brain cells in an attempt find where people cross the line to keep things relatively civil.

[Bingbong]

Pretty sure the only Christians that would actually be insulted at all by such places would be either radically fundamentalist or are already against drinking in the first place.

Or fucking lunatics... just sayin'.

[Stiker]

Or fucking lunatics... just sayin'.

Personally, I file them in the same category as radically fundamentalist.

[Obev]

Actually, as a member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, I find every single Italian restaurant offensive. There's like, at least twelve Pastafarians in Italy. At least one of them's crazy. Italians should be afraid.

Who's with me?

[Sepukku]

Theres 1.3 million Spanish Muslims who may be offended by the club but theres 6 billion human beings who might be offended by Firas' stupidity. Firas, you really ought to think of your family. Someone might do something.

[Altariel]

i just think its quite dangerous to name a club like this, 1.3million muslims in spain.

one of them, can be a crazy exremist and will plan an attackon the owner, the government, his family, or the club.

Oh right, so Muslim extremists need specific excuses to kill people now? Glad they are turning over a new leaf.

[ZarakiKujata]

Oh right, so Muslim extremists need specific excuses to kill people now? Glad they are burning a new leaf.

ftfy seems more appropriate.

[clobetasol]

most westerners are blinded by their governments, most think they are infallible. The biggest terrorist atm is not some where in afghanistan its back home, its called uncle sam.

[Obev]

most westerners are blinded by their governments, most think they are infallible. The biggest terrorist atm is not some where in afghanistan its back home, its called uncle sam.

lol

[Callisto]

No really, what the fuck. And people wonder why I hate this entire section.

[Conrad]

most westerners are blinded by their governments, most think they are infallible. The biggest terrorist atm is not some where in afghanistan its back home, its called uncle sam.

lol

[aurik]

still looking for the reason why i should give a fuck about firas' opinion on anything.

[clobetasol]

if they wanted to stop terrorism they need to put more effort into prevention before the airport. not by groping or using body scanners at the airport. we are slowly losing our freedoms and for what?

[Callisto]

still looking for the reason why i should give a fuck about firas' opinion on anything.

Clearly to show that you don't hate Islam. It's basically the same concept as having a black friend.

[zoobernut]

I am not anti Islam. I have an Islamic friend!

Also Firas I agree with you that those decorations could be construed as disrespectful and it makes it clear which meaning of the word mecca they are using in the title of the club. I do agree with the other points brought up that giving in and being so worried about stepping on peoples toes because they might attack you or your business is giving in to terrorism and I thought Islam was against terrorism (at least the good portion of it you are always talking about) I thought Islam wanted to distance itself from extremists.

If that is true and the case then Islam should be even more supportive of things like this to show that as a whole it is not full of extremists nor run by extremists.

[Meat]

Right here in Dallas, one of the local clubs does something called "The Church" every weekend: http://www.thechurchdallas.com/. Heart of the bible belt, no one bitches.

The Vatican Bar: http://www.clubvibes.com/listings/Me...tican-Bar.html

Quick search of "the church bar": http://www.google.com/search?q=the+c...ient=firefox-a

My personal level of care that such places exist as a Christian: zero. Pretty sure the only Christians that would actually be insulted at all by such places would be either radically fundamentalist or are already against drinking in the first place.

It's a freakin' bar/club, not a commentary on a sacred land.

the limelight in nyc was a hugely popular club in my day, converted church

[Meat]

hi, apparently it didnt cure your idiocy, and what about the scarf?

silly wopa, scarves go around your head not your neck