So the pinheads at PETA (may peace be upon them…) are reaching out to Muslims in the hope that the Religion of Peace™ will go vegetarian.
Does that mean that the next round of “naked chick” protesters will have to be covered up from head to toe?
I’m just sayin’.
And while we’re at it, what’s up with the vegetarian scriptures from the Quran on PETA’s new website? It took me about 5 minutes, thanks to the PETA Kills Animals people, who wrote a report on this sort of stuff (see page 24), to figure out that Islam’s holy book isn’t exactly PETA-friendly. Here’s a few of my favorite suras:
[When] they ask you what is lawful for them to eat, say: “Lawful for you are all good things, including what trained dogs and falcons catch for you. You have trained them according to God’s teachings; eat what they catch for you, but pronounce the name of God over it. [Sura 5:5]
And God created the cattle for you; you have in them warm clothing and many benefits, and of their meat do you eat. [Sura 16:5]
[God] has committed the sea to serve you; you eat from it tender meat, and extract jewelry which you wear. And you see the ships roaming it for your commercial benefi ts, as you seek His bounties, that you may be appreciative. [Sura 16:14]
And in the livestock there is a lesson for you: We provide you with a drink from their bellies. From the midst of digested food and blood, you get pure milk, delicious for the drinkers. [Sura 16:66]
PETA is based in Norfolk, Virginia. If it comes down to an all-out holy war with Al Qaeda, maybe we should sacrifice Norfolk for the greater good.
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No, my best friend and his NAvy buddies live in Norfolk. I say just bomb their headquarters. And they are reaching out to Muslims? Yeah, they are so peaceful and loving. Well, some of them are, then you get to those who want to meet their 72 virgins…
My husband has his own “Meet your 72 virgins” matchmaking company.
It always amazes me that the gay community has given Islam a complete pass.
There is no religion more intolerant of homosexuality than Islam, yet the same people attacking Catholics nonstop would consider similar statements about Islam some sort of “racism.”.
A little off topic, but do you think Health and Human Services chairman Kathleen Sibelius is for or against the proposed cosmetic procedures tax?
Though her office claims this is a side effect of a “basal cell carcinoma removed from her forehead”, which she may actually have done on Tuesday, she clearly has had inexpert Botox injections that caused her left eyelid to droop.
Any dermatologist can confirm this.
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And just a brief headsup, the tips@deceiver.com account is rejecting email.
Feel free to delete this msg.
I’m no fan of Islam, but PETA’S attacks on religion and those quotes show why I’m against animal rights extremists.
Thanks Fortunate Son — our tech god looked into it and it should be working again.
Let’s go with “tech demi-god.” He’s been demoted because of this e-mail outage. (What are we, Google?)
Let me guess: Rejected by eHarmony, right? Heh.
This is like putting two Siamese fighting fish in a very small tank together. Well, if one of the fish wears a burqa and has explosives strapped to its teensy chest. And if the other fish is naked and stupid.
Fortunate Son, I share your amazement about the gay community giving Islam a free pass. Islam also gets a free pass from the scientific community, despite the fact that much of the Creationism/anti-evolution propaganda comes out of Turkey these days.
But does the media pick up on this? Not really. It’s still all about “those dopey evangelicals and their loopster creationist beliefs.”
Something tells me that the smart, thoughtful Muslims are going to have the same reaction as other smart, thoughtful people:
STFU, PETA!!!
Let’s just stick the crazy Islamists (who follow Islamic beliefs as well as atheists do) and the PETA people in one of the caves in Afghanistan and “dispose” of our nukes in there. Three good deeds: rid the world of terrorists, rid the world of PETA (but I repeat myself) and lower our nuclear stockpile. Think I’ll get a Nobel for my idea?
Please, God, let PETA insult some whackjob so they can be on the receiving end for a change. Maybe said whackjob will dispose of them in a dumpster.
I certainly hope Al Qaeda doesn’t declare Jihad on PETA, Salman Rushdie-style.
That would certainly be troubling.
seriusly deceiver, thank you for lumping me in with Al Qaeda, i’m a muslim so i must be a terrorist! its amazing how you expose peoples hyprocicy yet propegate some yourself. oh and “fortunate son”, maybe you should actually find out what the word “jihad” means (hint hint, it doesnt mean “holy war” like the idiots at faux news say) before using it in a sentence.
Considering that Rushdie is still alive and spewing crap in written form, you’re right, Fortunate Son. That particular fatwa got lifted or revoked or something. That, or they contracted it out to the lowest bidder. You get what you pay for.
Back during the days of the “Jesus was a vegetarian” campaign, PETA’s website had a Q&A section set up. One question was “Well didn’t Jesus eat fish in the New Testament?” PETA’s answer? “There is evidence that that account was a later edition to the Gospels.”
So being the stickler for accuracy, I pulled out my copy of Novum Testamentum Graece, 26th edition, and looked up the various manuscripts which include the account of Jesus eating fish.
Guess how many contain it? Virtually all of them.
So I wrote to PETA and asked for a listing of manuscripts which *DON’T* contain the account, I got silence back as a response.
Big surprise, eh?
Thanks for the shout-out, Amy, and welcome to Deceiver.
My coworkers and I were discussing something, and everyone was pretty sure of the answer, but maybe you could help?
What religion are 95% of President Obama’s extended family members?
Thanks again, FS
I love the “TM” after “Religion of Peace.” Very clever.
“Does that mean that the next round of “naked chick” protesters will have to be covered up from head to toe?”
Not all Muslim women or women living in Muslim countries are “covered up from head to toe”. Quran doesn’t require anyone to wear hijabs/chadras/abayas. Headscarves and/or dresses are required to be worn only in certain (very few) Muslim countires. For Muslim women living elsewhere wearing a headscarf or a full dress is a choice – they are not required to wear that by country’s law nor does Quran require that they dress that way, some choose to wear them, but in most Muslim countries (Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt, Dubai, etc.) you can wear pretty much whatever you want. And Religion of Peace TM??? Islam is a great peaceful religion, just because some people interpret it the wrong way doesn’t mean you should brand all those who practice Islam “terrorists”.
Considering the fact that women and the infirm are forbidden to take part in jihad, it would seem that it is, in fact, a form of “holy war”. Also see hadith 1:35. And as a female, Amy, maybe you should bring a friend or sister to comment with you, as your word alone has only half the weight of a man’s. Viz. hadith 3.826.
I mean, yay for you if you’re peaceful in your faith; I know plenty of Muslims are. But try and discount the thousands or more who aren’t? Good luck with all that. I haven’t noticed the peaceful Muslims doing anything to be of much help against the ones who aren’t peaceful. It’s one thing to say “Hey, I’m not with them” and quite another to do what you can to stop the violent practitioners from besmirching your religion. I’m a pro-life Christian, an utterly flawed one, but if I found out one of my friends had bombed an abortion clinic or was planning to do so, dude is going to jail if I can help it, because while we might share a loathing for abortion, murder is murder.
From dictionary.com
Jihad – a HOLY WAR undertaken as a sacred duty by Muslims.
Is there some other meaning?
PETA is a desperate organization that thinks if they talk enough they will somehow make their lives meaningful. Just because Muslims refuse to eat pork, doesn’t mean that tomorrow they’ll refuse to eat other edible animals. Was this their natural reaction to Obama’s fly slaughtering? To reach out to the Muslim community? Save the mosquitoes too!
Don’t Jews (Orthodox ones, anyway) also refuse to eat pork? I’ve got a SIL who’s a Seventh-Day Adventist and won’t touch pork, either. PETA is totally ignoring THOSE market segments.
Amy,
“seriusly deceiver, thank you for lumping me in with Al Qaeda, i’m a muslim so i must be a terrorist! its amazing how you expose peoples hyprocicy yet propegate some yourself. oh and “fortunate son”, maybe you should actually find out what the word “jihad” means (hint hint, it doesnt mean “holy war” like the idiots at faux news say) before using it in a sentence.”
In this particular deceiver article, Al Qaeda isn’t actually mentioned nor even anything about violence in the Muslim faith nor terrorism (unless it’s been changed between when it was posted and what I’m seeing now) so don’t blame deceiver.com for whatever those who comment on it may say. Also, Fortunate_Son never said specifically that Jihad means holy war. Rather, it was merely referenced that that’s how the term is often used. And indeed, it arguably could be considered to mean a holy war, albeit in oversimplified terms and only if referring to Jihad as-sayf. True, it might not be specific as it maybe should to say Jihad when referring to Jihad as-sayf, but that doesn’t make it incorrect.
Nati,
“And Religion of Peace TM??? Islam is a great peaceful religion, just because some people interpret it the wrong way doesn’t mean you should brand all those who practice Islam “terrorists”
Not that I speak for the author of the post, of course, but does the TM really have to mean that the religion is the complete opposite of whatever phrase comes before the TM? Couldn’t it be at all conceivably possible that the TM simply means that a lot of religions consider themselves to be religions of peace despite what individuals in the past and present may preach about their religions and is just pointing out that Islam isn’t the only one yet identifies itself as the Religion of Peace? That is to say, while it may not be any more violent than other religions, is it really any more peaceful so as to deserve such a title? Maybe what you suspect is indeed what was meant, but you know what they say about people who assume since, again, ‘terrorist’ was not mentioned in the post at all (at least as I see it now). Remember, the term may often be used as a pejorative now, but not so long ago the term was meant specifically to differentiate between peaceful and violent followers of Islam. The TM may just be something as simple as a general mockery of the term for that post-9/11 use just as so many poke fun at “Freedom fries” or the older “Victory cabbage.” It was, after all, only a matter of a few years before the term “Religion of Peace” started to shift meanings and even then, only incompletely. And so perhaps we should ask, because, perhaps it’s just me, but at the moment there’s too many very possible and legitimate alternatives to just dive right into the idea that it was used to associate the whole of Islam with violent behavior.
The Oversneer, would you please be so kind as to clarify the purpose behind the TM after your use of the phrase, “Religion of Peace”?
Fortunate_Son,
“There is no religion more intolerant of homosexuality than Islam, yet the same people attacking Catholics nonstop would consider similar statements about Islam some sort of “racism.””
Zoroastrianism is more intolerant. At least of homosexuality. It may not be one of the largest religions out there (though it used to be), it’s arguably the oldest still practiced religion out there with some pockets even in Canada and the US. As for its views as a religion on homosexuality? One of the four groups of people one is allowed to kill immediately without consulting a high priest is homosexuals. Two of the others are those who burn corpses and those who are caught in the act of other crimes normally punishable by death, but I can’t remember the fourth.
MC Mom,
“Islam also gets a free pass from the scientific community, despite the fact that much of the Creationism/anti-evolution propaganda comes out of Turkey these days.”
I note that Eastern religions also get a pass on their views on how old things are, albeit for the opposite reason. Hinduism, for example, has the age of the universe marked in holy texts as more than 155 trillion years. As opposed to the scientific community’s model of less than 14 billion. But I don’t recall hearing anybody ever mention that.
@ pastafarian, you referenced dictionary.com for the meaning, seriously? thats like asking glenn beck for a balanced view on mexicans. yes there is another meaning, or to be precise the actual meaning of Jihad is struggle as in the struggle one has with themselves to make themselves a better person. unfortnalty this has been twisted by al quaeda and now the media use it and it just sounds wierd when they say it.
Oh really Amy? Is it wrong? And it’s just like asking Glenn Beck for a balanced view on Mexicans!? Is it? Why? What does Glen Beck have against Mexicans? Do YOU know Glen Beck’s view on Mexicans? Or is Glen Beck a name you hear bandied about on the intertubes so you think that he’s someone you should dislike.
Do you think “Arrested Development” should be made into a movie too? Do you think Zach Galifinakias is the funniest comedian since the invention of comedians? Do you think Comedy Central is a great place to get news? Do you laugh at bacon jokes which seem to be all the rage?
I love how the internet was supposed to be this great market place of ideas, and ideals, and was supposed to give people the freedom to learn, and speak, and on, and blah… and instead it’s given voice to joiners, and followers, and mindless nut-bags like Amy, and 15 year old know-it-alls who idea of brilliant political discourse is to call Republicans Nazis, and think a dimwit like Sean Hannity is the pinnacle of all that is evil. Idiot.