CJ cracked me up when he wrote 'Most regulars here would acknowledge that I'm a pretty tolerant person'. He's not very tolerant of anyone who holds views different from his. This is apparent from his spewing out of insults instead of engaging in an exchange of ideas.
To be fair, I agree with his 'we'd be far better off removing all religious trappings and symbols from public schools'.
See, CJ, even we can sometimes hold the same view.

I see Frank's still wasting time, now with Shockadelic. BTW Shockers, I don't think turnips have arses, you'd have to ask BugsyGinxBrian.

Jack the Lad

For once I agree with you. I'm wasting time with Shockadelic.

Merry Xmas.

FrankGol making sense?
Can't think of a single instance!

That paint around your feet really makes you hysterical!

"You're a rank amateur."
And you're an elitist charlatan.

"Your analogies are not just false, they are preposterous."

And your argument isn't preposterous?:
Kirpans should be legal, because they're legal.

I'm not the one who defined Khalsa as a military order of "saint-soldiers".
*They* did!
Twisting my words into distorted pretzels doesn't invalidate them.

You accept kirpans as an element of Sikhism.
Well, 13-year-olds being adults is an element of Judaism.
Why is one acceptable but not the other?
Because it's "legal" or "illegal"?
That's not deductive logic, that's hypocrisy!

My questions about Jews and Satanists aren't "inconsequential".

Kirpans are *religious*.
That's the *reason* for the exemption!

If Sikhs are exempted from standard laws, why not Jews exempted from compulsory school attendance after the age of 13, or Satanists exempted from anti-vilification laws.

"'Can Satanist schoolchildren wear an inverted cross which insults the beliefs of other students?'
That would probably be a ruling each Principal or governing body would make."

Wimp!

Why can't principals decide whether Jewish 13-year-olds can leave school?
Or whether Sikhs can carry kirpans?

Why is offending Christians permissible, but not offending Sikhs?

So Khalsa Sikhs are innocent angels who wouldn't hurt a fly?

Exhibit A: Babbar Khalsa, terrorist organisation.

1. Punjab Chief Minister assassinated in suicide bomb attack.
2. Bombings of cinemas in New Delhi.
The arrested possessed 1kg of RDX explosive, a timer, detonator, .303 rifle, 20 rounds of ammunitions, a Punjab Police head constable uniform, and several fake driving licences.
3. Babbar Khalsa's India Operations Chief arrested for escaping prison (accused of masterminding the above assassination).
Recovered during arrest: 10.35kg of RDX, four pistols, 207 live cartridges, remote control devices, and a hand grenade.
4. Member charged for planning assassination of a retired army general and providing shelter to a prison escapee.
5. The Canadian government deport a member for planning assassinations of a former Punjab Chief Minister, his son, and a former Punjab Police Chief.

Oh, those Khalsa Sikhs.
So cute, so adorable.
Perfectly harmless!

Shocker

Go easy on the dynamite and arsenic over Xmas. And watch out for kirpans under the skirts of those 13 year old Jewish truants.

All those adolescents - kirpans at the ready - looking to bring down Australian democracy while we feast on our turkeys and plum puddings.

Be alert - Australia needs more lerts.

I hope we all make it into 2008!

I'll concede that I'm somewhat intolerant of knuckledragging boofheads :)

Having said that, I only engage in such intemperance when confronted by obdurate bigotry. When reason fails colourful language is sometimes effective.

I think anybody who is familiar with this forum knows my position on multiculturalism.

Compliments of the season and a very happy Saturnalia to you all!

I expected as much.

When faced with irrefutable evidence that his case is groundless, FrankGol just skips along his merry (i.e. braindead) path as if nothing happened.

His whole case is based on the "peaceful harmless Sikh", but presented with evidence of *aggressive violent terrorism* by Khalsa Sikhs (no doubt wearing kirpans at the time of the explosions) he just *ignores* it!

And, of course, doesn't really address the issue of Jewish and Satanist schoolchildren being entitled to their own legal exemptions, or religious expression in school.

The black hole strikes again!

I recommend all schoolchildren attend the first day back in school next year in the most *offensive or controversial* attire they own.
(If you've had your Bar Mitzvah/Bat Mitzvah, just don't go!)

Let's have a self-expression/offensiveness free-for-all and see what happens.

(And no, Frankie Wankie, I'm not referring to dynamite or arsenic, just clothing and accessories. Perfectly harmless!)