The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

Chula Vista · 05-23-2017, 10:05 PM

Wow, quite the ****storm I've missed today. Time to weigh in.

First off there are 1.6 billion people in the world who identify as Islamic. The overwhemingly vast majority of them don't take the Kuran 100% literally. Just like most Christians don't take all of the bible literally. Painting any religion with a broad brush because of a tiny percentage of nutjobs is just plain ignorant and wrong.

Should I hate or be bigoted towards all Christians because of Eric Rudolph, Scott Roeder, James Kopp, Paul Hill, and Clayton Waagner?

Watch this and tell me you wouldn't want to hang out with these folks:

**Exo** · 05-23-2017, 10:58 PM

Forgive me if this is a stupid question but why are there still so many kids missing in Manchester?

Is 22 dead not the final number?
Have they ID'd all the dead?
Are they still not sure who each injured person is?

Chula Vista · 05-23-2017, 11:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo

Forgive me if this is a stupid question but why are there still so many kids missing in Manchester?

Is 22 dead not the final number?
Have they ID'd all the dead?
Are they still not sure who each injured person is?

Watching the parents of Olivia Campbell tonight is ripping me apart. It took almost 24 hours for them to find out she was one of the dead. So ****ed up.

Pet_Sounds · 05-23-2017, 11:14 PM

I'm going to the UK in two weeks...

~~Cuthbert~~ · 05-24-2017, 03:59 AM

Chula you should put "There are 1.6 billion Muslims" in your sig mate. Will save you saying it in every post.

And I'm not sure what the point of that video was.

Psy-Fi · 05-24-2017, 05:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Watch this and tell me you wouldn't want to hang out with these folks:

I wouldn't tell my Saudi hosts that I was "blown away" by their hospitality, though.

**Frownland** · 05-24-2017, 08:21 AM

Rodrigo Duterte Declares Limited Martial Law As Militants Seize Parts Of Marawi City : The Two-Way : NPR

I don't like either of those things.

djchameleon · 05-24-2017, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

Painting any religion with a broad brush because of a tiny percentage of nutjobs is just plain ignorant and wrong.

Who is doing this exactly?

I don't think anyone is.

Stephen · 05-24-2017, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Rodrigo Duterte Declares Limited Martial Law As Militants Seize Parts Of Marawi City : The Two-Way : NPR

I don't like either of those things.

"if I declare martial law in Mindanao, I will solve all that ails the island."

Knowing Duterte I don't imagine that's an idle threat.

**Frownland** · 05-24-2017, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Stephen

"if I declare martial law in Mindanao, I will solve all that ails the island."

Knowing Duterte I don't imagine that's an idle threat.

He wants to expand it to the whole country as well.

My old landlord (a Filipino immigrant who's lost family under sketchy allegations of drug use) used to say that he feared an event like this that would give Duterte a doorway to martial law and outright fascism. Looks like he was right on that one.

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Originally Posted by elphenor

It's more like painting Muslims in Indonesia as the same as Muslims in Saudi Arabia

And that's where the obvious racism is, people talk about "the Muslim world" as if that's really a homogenous group

But what about Indonesia's low birth rates!!!!???!?!??!

05-23-2017, 10:05 PM	#5811 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Wow, quite the ****storm I've missed today. Time to weigh in. First off there are 1.6 billion people in the world who identify as Islamic. The overwhemingly vast majority of them don't take the Kuran 100% literally. Just like most Christians don't take all of the bible literally. Painting any religion with a broad brush because of a tiny percentage of nutjobs is just plain ignorant and wrong. Should I hate or be bigoted towards all Christians because of Eric Rudolph, Scott Roeder, James Kopp, Paul Hill, and Clayton Waagner? Watch this and tell me you wouldn't want to hang out with these folks: __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

05-23-2017, 10:58 PM	#5812 (permalink)
Exo All day jazz and biscuits Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ Posts: 7,354	Forgive me if this is a stupid question but why are there still so many kids missing in Manchester? Is 22 dead not the final number? Have they ID'd all the dead? Are they still not sure who each injured person is? __________________ LastFM SUPREME POO BAH MODERATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE

05-23-2017, 11:14 PM	#5814 (permalink)
Pet_Sounds Remember the underscore Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: The other side Posts: 2,488	I'm going to the UK in two weeks... __________________ Everybody's dying just to get the disease

05-24-2017, 08:21 AM	#5817 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Rodrigo Duterte Declares Limited Martial Law As Militants Seize Parts Of Marawi City : The Two-Way : NPR I don't like either of those things. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

05-24-2017, 03:59 AM	#5815 (permalink)
~~Cuthbert~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Black Country Posts: 8,827	Chula you should put "There are 1.6 billion Muslims" in your sig mate. Will save you saying it in every post. And I'm not sure what the point of that video was.