Mornin' Lexi,

It seems the likes of you and I have been diagnosed as having "closed minds and eyes - and we're apparently "not receptive"...

Well I for one own up to "not being receptive" to bigotry and the purpose-driven rhetoric of division.

So, yes, those that engage in the above can do so till the cows come home. On a relatively obscure forum in the scheme of the broader community, one can absorb such views and speak in opposition to them.

I don't think they'd last ten minutes in the MSM.

Dear runner,

I have grandsons whose success will depend
entirely on their own abilities to work hard
and achieve. And, like their parents, I have
no doubt whatsoever that they will be instruments
of inspiration to their children, as their parents
were to them.

Hope this clarifies things for you

Dear Poirot,

You're absolutely right!

I feel that we've wasted enough time on this thread.

Better to simply move on.

By staying - and arguing, you run the risk of being
brought down to their level.

Lets end the thread here.
Lexi that always nice lady has lost me.
Poirot too, no more for me.
Yes I pushed too hard.
But men must sometimes.
It in the end is us who die on the front line in wars.
Yet too it is us who in past wars received the white feather of cowardice, sent by women.
No easy task, talking of the sins of SOME followers of a God that never existed.
As our country faces just the very beginning of its problems, with SOME of this creeds Children.
We too face a very real danger here you have seen it, an insistence we do not speak of the concerns we truly hold.
Yesterday, forgive spelling, I heard again of the Horror Salman Rushdie endured.
And having never read his book, how inoffensive it was.
Real Aussies, from what ever racial background, should defend the right to say what you think.
Cartoons, films all done by a few and RIOTS WORLD WIDE?
Sickening daily murders of Muslims by Muslims in the name of a God that never existed?
Maybe it is me? but we must insist on not becoming victims of such.

What an indictment of failure of Multiculturalism this thread has turned.

Belly –rather bravely, I thought—started this thread to criticize a “fatwa” which appeared on the Lebanese Muslim Association Facebook. That fatwa instructed the faithful that they should NOT exchange Christmas greetings with NON-Muslims aka infidels, kafirs, or the unclean. And for his good neighborly concern Belly got shouted-down and boxed around the ears.

Two things are worthy of note: The first is this sort of ruling is not out of character for Islam. The Taliban after having blown-up the Buddha’s were well down the road to making their Hindi minority wear star patches on their clothing to set them apart from the believers—and before you snort: “Ah! but we know the Taliban are extremists” , they (as did Hitler!) borrowed it from “enlightened”, golden era Islamic Baghdad. The second is that as pointed out earlier –though, Poirot is still even at this late stage in denial – the author of Facebook fatwa could not have been just anyone, since only someone with authority would have had the access to their Facebook.

But an even more damning are the maneuverings of the Multicultural defence aka Poirot, Paul 1405 & Lexi.
They were able to exquisitely twist things so that those who criticized the fatwa where presented as the real villains.

This is Poirot sermonizing about it: <<Looking back through your many posts on this thread (seems to be around 30 odd), I have to say that I've never seen on OLO a more sustained, bigoted and hate-filled diatribe>> .

And this is “golden hearted” Lexi: <<What I'm advocating is not neutrality – but tolerance, compassion, and understanding>>.

Whoa-up a minute, whose Facebook did the fatwa appear on?
From the sounds of that it can only have been Belly’s!

But Lexi did get it right in the end: <<As everyone knows, the world is divided into two categories:
Other People and Us.>>
Though her terminology is a little off.
There are indeed TWO categories-but they are: “true believers” and “infidels”.
Though, like all advocates of Multiculturalism, Lexi wasn't to know that.

>>the world is divided into two categories<<

The world is divided in 10 categories: those who understand binary and those who don't.

Cheers,

Tony