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on Sunday May 08 2016, @11:49PM
from the I-can't-solve-DiffEq-with-a-computer dept.
from the I-can't-solve-DiffEq-with-a-computer dept.
This just in from the front lines of the War on the Unusual:
University of Pennsylvania economics professor Guido Menzio was solving a set of differential equations on a plane departing the Philadelphia airport when the woman next to him surreptitiously passed a note to a flight attendant telling them she thought he was a terrorist because of the strange things he was writing on a pad of paper. The plane returned to the gate where he was questioned. At least this time the pilot had enough sense not to kick him off the flight.
Remember folks, if you see something say something!
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday May 09 2016, @03:59PM
No matter how whackdoodle it is, or however whackdoodle you think it is, Christians today do not run about shooting little children for cursing - http://aranews.net/2016/05/isis-extremists-execute-7-year-old-boy-syrias-raqqa/ [aranews.net]
Or, paying blood debts with their virgin daughters - http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/baad-afghanistan-virgin-slaves-given-away-end-disputes-n567696 [nbcnews.com]
I could go on all day. Oh - another gay man was thrown from a rooftop in Raqqa, yesterday I think.
Christianity seems to have matured, while Islam clings to those old tribal superstitions to justify the rivers of blood they love.
I'm not much into relativism, but relatively speaking, which system would you rather live under?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by urza9814 on Monday May 09 2016, @05:55PM
No, they just go around planting bombs to kill doctors who provide medical care and executing people for showing affection towards someone of the wrong gender...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 09 2016, @06:17PM
Check out the crazy shit american christians [deathandtaxesmag.com] have exported to uganda [theguardian.com] because they didn't have enough of a majority to make it happen here. And of course there is all the shit in christian majority Russia.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 09 2016, @06:10PM
You are a broken record dude.
You cherry pick the worst of the worst and pretend it is the common case.
Someone else comes up with equally bad shit done by people of your religion and you hide behind the no true scottsman fallacy - one rule for your tribe, another rule for your enemy's tribe. You proclaim ethical superiority by demonstrating mental inferiority.
You may now proceed playing your record:
50,000 children abused, tortured, sometimes to the point of murder [ibtimes.co.uk] by christians in the congo (and London) for being inconvenient.
In 87% christian Brazil: 300 LGBT people murdered in 2012 [washingtonblade.com]
Gay youth stoned to death by mob [gaystarnews.com] in 69% christian Jamaica. They then post video to facebook. Not really [hrw.org] anything new. [archive.org]
WRT to ba'ad in afghanistan, your own citation says:
"It is contrary to Islam and humanity"
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Mohammad Salim Hassani, a Shiite cleric backing the campaign, said baad encourages "the culture of immunity" among rural communities.
If it were islamic, rather than tribal, that shit would be going on in all the muslim majority nations, not just the backwaters of one backward country.