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Two weeks ago, twitter was the only company willing to publicly commit to not aiding the government in building a database of muslims or any other religious minority. At the time, many criticized the Intercept for a click-baity, misleading headline.
But the public shaming had an effect and now more companies have come forward to vow non-cooperation in repeating one of America's biggest mistakes - when the census bureau provided the names of Japanese to be rounded up for internment camps.
One company notably missing from the list is Oracle which owns the big-data profiling company BlueKai and whose CEO recently joined the president elect's transition team. Also absent is IBM, a company with a history of aiding the German government with their execution of the Holocaust.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by ledow on Monday December 19 2016, @11:46AM
You lumped muslims into a group. You collectively refer to over a quarter of the world's population as if they are like-minded, identical people with the same opinions.
It's at that point that I stopped reading.
Is SoylentNews really going to mirror that other green website in its tolerance of racism / religionism?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @01:56PM
Have you read soylent?
This place is far worse slashdot when it comes to bigotry.
Mainly because the bigots are just as loud but there are less decent people to hold them back.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @10:34PM
It's far easier to argue with a bigot than it is with a SJW.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @02:55PM
Maybe because all self-proclaimed Muslims by necessity claim to obey Islam, which is not the religion of peace you probably believe it is. Islam is in fact a sociopolitical system that literally demands its adherents wage a worldwide war until "all religion is for Allah".
If you are not familiar with the following key concepts, I strongly encourage you to educate yourself. The best single-source is Prophet of Doom [prophetofdoom.net], a now sadly-diminished site which only offers a free PDF of its titular book (it does seem that seeds for the audiobook exist on torrent sites, and an archive might have the HTML version cached).
- taquiyya, "moral lying"
- abrogation, "the new replaces the old", and all those peaceful Quranic verses? They're old.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday December 19 2016, @03:15PM
The best single-source is Prophet of Doom
Sounds like a sunny site. For counterpoint, check out Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] (nobody can ever agree how to Latinize this stuff):
Since the 2000s, taqiyya has become a frequently invoked concept in debates surrounding criticism of Islam and especially Islamic extremism. Islamic scholars tend to emphasize that taqiyya is only permissible under duress, and that the inflationary use of the term qualifies as "a staple of right-wing Islamophobia in North America" (Mohammad Fadel 2013), or "Taqiyya libel against Muslims"[45] while their critics accuse them of practicing "taqiyya about taqiyya" (Raymond Ibrahim, 2014).[46]
For some reason they spell it with one Y in the page title and 2 Ys basically everywhere else.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @01:42PM
Once you start learning about accurate historical accounts (from any source) of the formation, transformation, and continuation of the sociopolitical system of Islam, you will realize how apt the "sunny" site title is.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday December 20 2016, @02:59PM
Whether or not it's an apt name, you're not likely to get that many people "converted" with it, since the only people not turned off by the title are probably in your camp already...
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: -1, Troll) by BigotDetectorGoesBing! on Monday December 19 2016, @06:18PM
Maybe because all self-proclaimed Muslims by necessity claim to obey Islam, which is not the religion of peace you probably believe it is. Islam is in fact a sociopolitical system that literally demands its adherents wage a worldwide war until "all religion is for Allah".
The best single-source is Prophet of Doom
Bing!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @01:37PM
A naked ad hominem insult is not a rebuttal.
(Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Monday December 19 2016, @06:41PM
+1000. Next step it to start posting links to that fucking bigot-fest that is thereligionofpeace.com or the like. How do people not get that if even the tiniest percentage of that population where the radical jihadists we're supposed to believe they all are, they'd outnumber the combined military of just about every major nation of the world?
Interesting related note: During the height of the Iraq war I decided to look up some numbers, and at that time the estimated membership of Al-Qaeda as a percentage of the Islamic population of the world happened to be identical (down to like 3 decimal places) to the membership of the KKK as a percentage of Protestants worldwide.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Monday December 19 2016, @09:21PM
I don't know about the other site, I do know that I don't tolerate it at all. I will stand up to the bigotry and racism, as you just have.
Thank you.
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