2.5 Million Muslims Threaten to Quit Facebook on July 21

[sgreger1]

"I must point out that my rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them." — Winston Churchill, said during a lunch with the Arab leader Ibn Saud, when he heard that the king's religion forbade smoking and alcohol.

Winston Churchill was my kinda guy. I know a lot of people hated him but that's who we need leading the country right now.

I can see it now: "Hear ye, hear ye... The federal government would like to announce a formal beer summit that will span across the nation. Due to the recession, it has come to our attention that beer is needed more dearly than ever before, and as such, will be provided to all citizens making $250k or less in liberal quantities. This program will cost 30 billion $, but the good news is the banks will get no free beers whatsoever".


5 minutes after speech: This just in, Presidential approval ratings at all time record high, somehow breaking 100%,.

[Frosted]

Great news - I might sign back up to FB then.

[truthwolf1]

Winston Churchill was my kinda guy. I know a lot of people hated him but that's who we need leading the country right now.

I can see it now: "Hear ye, hear ye... The federal government would like to announce a formal beer summit that will span across the nation. Due to the recession, it has come to our attention that beer is needed more dearly than ever before, and as such, will be provided to all citizens making $250k or less in liberal quantities. This program will cost 30 billion $, but the good news is the banks will get no free beers whatsoever".


5 minutes after speech: This just in, Presidential approval ratings at all time record high, somehow breaking 100%,.

FREE BEER vouchers would be good for moral! A us verses them argument would go a long way since we are the one's that put them there in the first place.

[danielan]

FREE BEER vouchers would be good for moral! A us verses them argument would go a long way since we are the one's that put them there in the first place.

I know it's a joke, but I wouldn't be surprised at something like this. Or a national pot decriminalization...

Nice populist move, sedate the population, opiate of the masses, etc....

[truthwolf1]

I know it's a joke, but I wouldn't be surprised at something like this. Or a national pot decriminalization...

Nice populist move, sedate the population, opiate of the masses, etc....

You are right. Dont ever underestimate them.

[texasmade]

I know it's a joke, but I wouldn't be surprised at something like this. Or a national pot decriminalization...

Nice populist move, sedate the population, opiate of the masses, etc....

why demonize pot like it can be used to control people?

studies have shown that the amount of people that smoke would stay roughly the same if it was decriminalized/legalized anyways.
not a very effective control device.

[sgreger1]

why demonize pot like it can be used to control people?

studies have shown that the amount of people that smoke would stay roughly the same if it was decriminalized/legalized anyways.
not a very effective control device.

Because it can. Not that it's bad but anything that allows you an escape from the frustrations of the day can by default be used to oppress and supress people. Like the russians with Alcohol, or like hitler with issuing copious amounts of drugs and alcohol to his troops. They will accept a shittyer reality if you can allow them some escape from it from time to time. Same goes with TV or Starbucks.

[danielan]

Same goes with TV or Starbucks.

Maybe I should have said TV in this crowd.

Make premium channels a "Basic human right". Schedule good movies for the evenings of important policy decisions and speeches.

[texasmade]

Because it can. Not that it's bad but anything that allows you an escape from the frustrations of the day can by default be used to oppress and supress people. Like the russians with Alcohol, or like hitler with issuing copious amounts of drugs and alcohol to his troops. They will accept a shittyer reality if you can allow them some escape from it from time to time. Same goes with TV or Starbucks.

Whic is why I'm against recreational use. I know that some people that smoke for recreational use aren't stupid but the majority of recreational users I know are shit stupid. I'm all for medical use and use for spiritual reasons, but the idiots that shout weed yay im stoned and high as ****, they kill the support i have for recreational use. the people i know that smoke, not for recreational uses can't stand the government and there are a few recreational users i know that can't stand the politicians in charge.

Hell te majority of people are stupid, iff you want to control them that bad create a law, tell them it's good for them, and baby jesus loves them if they do it.

[rickcharles606]

Who cares if they leave, Facebook is for infidels anyway!! Any muslim that likes Facebook is a bad muslim and will probably not get to see Allah. So it's probably for the best. Not sure I could bear the thought of so many muslims going to hell, lol...especially for Facebook


EDIT: THIS WAS A JOKE and not meant as a thread killer....just sayin

[Roo]

Shikitohno!! I can't believe I would see this day. Regardless of whether or not your post was 100% accurate, I am beside myself that there is a single person on this forum who has taken it upon themselves to openly join me as Defender of Moderate Islam and the billion+ Muslims worldwide who are just as likely as any non-Muslim to be kind, generous, socially and morally upstanding citizens of their respective countries, and who do not adhere to Sharia law, Islamic extremism, or, as you mentioned, make international news for being normal, respectable people. There are lots of folks here who desperately need to befriend a Muslim or 10. Thanks dude, I needed that. I also like to push the boundries of the run-on sentence.

PS: I'm headed to Malaysia (60% Muslim) and Singapore (15%) in September, maybe while i'm there I should post a few pics here of what someone looks like who is a) a very nice and non-threatening, friendly, respectable individual and b) believes that Allah is God and Muhammed is his messenger. Or if anyone cares to address their concerns to my friends and co-workers in Uzbekistan, I'll shoot you their email addresses. Don't worry, they won't launch jihad against you for asking if they and all their friends are terrorists.

Disclaimer: Yes, I realize there is an extremist minority in the Muslim world with "extremely" misguided intentions and justifications for their atrocities, and a growing number of those who either take the Qu'ran at it's every word or misread/misconstrue certain passages to support their extremist views. There are also people in this world who think women sprang forth from Adam's RIB, and that Jesus will return someday and people like me will go straight to hell to burn in eternity whilst Satan himself bludgeons me with a roll of Jakobsens Icefruit.

[rickcharles606]

Shikitohno!! I can't believe I would see this day. Regardless of whether or not your post was 100% accurate, I am beside myself that there is a single person on this forum who has taken it upon themselves to openly join me as Defender of Moderate Islam and the billion+ Muslims worldwide who are just as likely as any non-Muslim to be kind, generous, socially and morally upstanding citizens of their respective countries, and who do not adhere to Sharia law, Islamic extremism, or, as you mentioned, make international news for being normal, respectable people. There are lots of folks here who desperately need to befriend a Muslim or 10. Thanks dude, I needed that. I also like to push the boundries of the run-on sentence.

PS: I'm headed to Malaysia (60% Muslim) and Singapore (15%) in September, maybe while i'm there I should post a few pics here of what someone looks like who is a) a very nice and non-threatening, friendly, respectable individual and b) believes that Allah is God and Muhammed is his messenger. Or if anyone cares to address their concerns to my friends and co-workers in Uzbekistan, I'll shoot you their email addresses. Don't worry, they won't launch jihad against you for asking if they and all their friends are terrorists.

Disclaimer: Yes, I realize there is an extremist minority in the Muslim world with "extremely" misguided intentions and justifications for their atrocities, and a growing number of those who either take the Qu'ran at it's every word or misread/misconstrue certain passages to support their extremist views. There are also people in this world who think women sprang forth from Adam's RIB, and that Jesus will return someday and people like me will go straight to hell to burn in eternity whilst Satan himself bludgeons me with a roll of Jakobsens Icefruit.

Jakobsson's Icefruit, well that would be brutal, lol

[sgreger1]

HEY! All I have left is cans of Jaccobsons Ice fruit from the snuson membership. Bad Roo!


Also, Roo incase your completely blind, people make those comments here all the time, I think you just purposely overlook them. The moderate side of islam has been acnowledged here a thousand times, even by Tom.

My concern is that many of the muslims that don't make the news SUPPORT those who do make the news. Again, this is a minority, but when your talking numbers like the muslims have (billions), even a .2% minority is significant. But anyways, people here point out how most muslims are moderate and cool all the time, it's just that at the moment the radical muslims are really trying to put on a show for everyone by blowing up everything in sight so naturally this comes with some prejudice towards whatever caused that type of activity (islam). If this were the crusades, I would fully expect muslims at home to be talking about how Christians aren't as peacefull as they claim, because right now they are killing all their friends.


If right now every day in multiple countries a christian killed 100 people in a marketplace or an embassy, you would hear the same thing about Christians. Im just saying, they kind of bring it on themselves. Without the help of the moderates storing their weapons in their houses, paying money to their mosques which fund extremism etc, a lot of the terrorists could not continue their operation. If a lynch mob went and hung everyone in the town who worked for Al Quaida, I could think of things a different way, but all I ever hear is praise for the terrorists and very VERY few ever speaking out against terrorist acts.

[shikitohno]

Well, dog, I must have read from bad sources, but I could have sworn that was the primary way a good deal was lost, and that it was more than just Aristotle's works. Still, since I couldn't be arsed to google long enough, I'm deferring to you on this one. I would still argue that we owe a great deal to Muslim scholars, with some great advances like algebra and a number of medical treatises coming out of the Middle East around the time of the Crusades, when Europe was slowing down on the whole science thing. Europeans didn't come to a full stop during the Middle Ages, but the Arab world began to vastly outpace us in a number of fields for a while.

Regarding Sharia law, I'd compare that to literal v. figurative reading of the Bible. Just like there are some who maintain the Bible to be absolutely 100% factual, despite evidence to the contrary, there are some who maintain Sharia law is the absolute law that must be imposed on everyone. But just like there are some Christians who read the Bible and interpret a good chunk metaphorically, I know plenty of Muslims who don't feel the Qu'ran is 100% right in the modern world. If we go for a literal reading of the Bible,you should take your disobedient children outside your village and stone them to death, but nobody really does that these days. If you tried to use the bad passages from the Bible to discredit the whole book, most people would probably laugh at you. The Qu'ran should be treated the same.

[c.nash]

And why would I care?

It's like anything else. You don't like it? Don't use it. Now stop bitching and get a life.