Sri Lanka massacres

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Christians are offensive to Muslims and therefore it's Islamophobic to mention them. Political Correctness 101.

Exactly. And don't forget, it triggers the usual brigade of Islamapologists if you dare say anything that criticises Islam/Muslims, even the ones that walk into Churches and detonate suicide vests.
 
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They were, and both called that out in their tweets. Obama for example said "The attacks on tourists and Easter worshippers". So clearly, the hotel/restaurant point is irrelevant in that regard as they weren't being grouped in with the others.



True, but could you explain who else might have been celebrating in those churches that day? The locations attacked. Was it Jews? Buddhists? Hindus? Pastafarians? No, no it wasn't. It was one group with a shared identity.
I bet they certainly don't refer to themselves as "Easter worshippers'. In fact, strangely, they actually have a widely used term. Oh yes, Christians.

Actually, does this mean because some people are clearly offended by it that the mods will now ban the term 'Easter Worshippers' like they did 'Person of Colour'?
Good point, I am a Christian and do actually find this ridiculous new term 'Easter Worshipper' quite offensive.
 
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Actually, does this mean because some people are clearly offended by it that the mods will now ban the term 'Easter Worshippers' like they did 'Person of Colour'?

Wait what? Since when is "person of colour" banned? That's a politically correct term.
 
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If I go to church on Thursday am I a Thursday worshipper?

Wouldn't that be a Thursday-worshipper rather than a Thursday worshipper?

I have vague recollections of my O level English teacher explain the grammatical differences when using hyphens with the example between a dog lover (someone who loves dogs) and a dog-lover...and not to mix the two ;):p
 
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Wait what? Since when is "person of colour" banned? That's a politically correct term.

You're telling me! I tried to explain that but was told that I was wrong, despite providing multiple links and dictionary definitions. I was told it doesn't matter and that if they decide it's offensive, it's offensive.
 
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Exactly. And don't forget, it triggers the usual brigade of Islamapologists if you dare say anything that criticises Islam/Muslims, even the ones that walk into Churches and detonate suicide vests.

Political correctness personified. Islamapologists everywhere in the left wing and liberal world of media and celebrity personal. It’s a bit of a joke really. One way street.
 
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Wouldn't that be a Thursday-worshipper rather than a Thursday worshipper?

I have vague recollections of my O level English teacher explain the grammatical differences when using hyphens with the example between a dog lover (someone who loves dogs) and a dog-lover...and not to mix the two ;):p

Hmm...I'd say no as the example playing in my mind was Satan worshipper. No hyphenation is required.
 
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Political correctness personified. Islamapologists everywhere in the left wing and liberal world of media and celebrity personal. It’s a bit of a joke really. One way street.

What about the ‘islamapologists’ on the right? The ones who happily vote for governments to support Saudi terror and thus the entire reason it’s so well funded?

Nah let’s ignore that cos muh libruls.
 
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What about the ‘islamapologists’ on the right? The ones who happily vote for governments to support Saudi terror and thus the entire reason it’s so well funded?

Nah let’s ignore that cos muh libruls.
Lul wut? Show me the party manifesto that said that.

And both Labour and Tories were/are in bed with the Saudis.
 
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What about the ‘islamapologists’ on the right? The ones who happily vote for governments to support Saudi terror and thus the entire reason it’s so well funded?

Nah let’s ignore that cos muh libruls.

Islamapologist is people who will not say a bad word about the, whatever They do. Even though I agree with you with parts of the right, they are not protecting them or apologising them as such. Which was the point of my reply to an earlier post.
 
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Apparently Sri Lankans are being fined heavily for using a VPN at this time.

"The current situation is sri lanka! They r finning 10000lkr(~$60) for using vpn! Pray for sri lanka"

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Apparently Sri Lankans are being fined heavily for using a VPN at this time.

"The current situation is sri lanka! They r finning 10000lkr(~$60) for using vpn! Pray for sri lanka"

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It’s called ‘reducing the damage from unsubstantiated reports’. India, Pakistan and probably all surrounding countries have a massive fake news problem.

As long as it’s limited in scope I don’t see the danger considering the potential danger of leaving it open. That said you also reduce the ability of the public to help forces, so it’s not great.
 
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It’s called ‘reducing the damage from unsubstantiated reports’. India, Pakistan and probably all surrounding countries have a massive fake news problem.

As long as it’s limited in scope I don’t see the danger considering the potential danger of leaving it open. That said you also reduce the ability of the public to help forces, so it’s not great.
Consider me unsurprised that you'd be fine with such a measure.
 
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To be fair Sri Lanka has a "fake news" on social media system which is a million times worse than ours and now has an angry section of the population who react with violence more quickly than we do, so while I disagree with a ban in a perfect world, in the real one sadly I can see why the ban is in place until tempers settle.
 
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What's wrong with them? They're religious. They too are practising their faith.

Religion is utterly amoral and almost(*) all religions are extremely political, highly authoritarian and extremely geared towards obtaining power. The Abrahamic religions are the worst for that and Islam is the worst of the Abrahamic religions for that. Islam was created specifically for the purpose of obtaining and maintaining absolute power by fear and violence (and was and is very successful at that). The idea that it's incomprehensible that there are Muslims who are practicing their faith in the way it was created for and for the reason it was created for is weird. There are plenty of Muslims who impose their own morality on their religion and are decent people, but that's in spite of their religion and not because of it. Christianity is about as power-hungry, but it was created for the purpose of obtaining and maintaining absolute power by more subtle political manipulation. Same goal, different methods and there's a lot of crossover.


* I'm being generous by including the word "almost", allowing for the possibility of some minor religion or religions that aren't like that. Aboriginal Australian ones, maybe. If their mythologies are a religion.

The problem with what you have written is this odd underlying assumption that without religion there would be an absence of all those things you consider bad.
I think "manipulation" and "authoritarianism" are omnipresent in our present godless hellhole of a society.
 
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The problem with what you have written is this odd underlying assumption that without religion there would be an absence of all those things you consider bad.
I think "manipulation" and "authoritarianism" are omnipresent in our present godless hellhole of a society.

Godless? The vast majority of the planet believes in a god. You are incorrect.
 
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