Author Topic: A cute little puppy: Muslims offended, British police apologise
Boba_Fett_2001 
Registered: Dec '00
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Date Posted: 7/2 4:14pm Subject: RE: A cute little puppy: Muslims offended, British police apologise
Everything offends me.

 

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Kyle Katarn 
Registered: Jul '98
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Date Posted: 7/2 5:34pm Subject: RE: A cute little puppy: Muslims offended, British police apologise
Jabba-wocky posted:
KyleKataran posted:
I'll be sure to go complain about the lack of decent pork chops next time I'm in Saudi Arabia and then say it's due to a lack of cultural sensitivity on their part and how they're biased against me because I'm from Iowa.


Yes, because the obligation to do right and treat people fairly is only actually an obligation to do marginally better than one of the worst countries around on the issue, not, a principle we should all be striving to meet in the abstract.

Oh, wait.






I'm offended that you misspelled my screen name.

 

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George_Roper 
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Registered: May '05
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Date Posted: 7/2 5:38pm Subject: RE: A cute little puppy: Muslims offended, British police apologise
I'm offended because I went to a baseball game and they didn't play football even though I'm a football supporter!

 

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anidanami124 
Registered: Aug '02
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Date Posted: 7/2 5:47pm Subject: RE: A cute little puppy: Muslims offended, British police apologise
Jabba-wocky posted:
DarthLassic007 posted:
Remember, they were not doing anything offensive on purpose. How the hell should that British Police force know that a picture of a dog would offend anyone? They shouldn't be held responsible to every single different culture that lives there.


I would agree that the British police shouldn't necessarily have been expected to know in advance, or even to have double-checked before launching the campaign. But I think it's perfectly reasonable for Muslims to have complained when it did turn out to be offensive, and for the police to take steps to try and fix that in the affected communities. That's how civil society works. It's certainly not worthy of all the exasperation and eye-rolling in this thread.


Um why? that's the most point less thing ever. That majority out rules the minority. Why should ever country on earth change there culture just to please the minority. Heck I guess I should go to Japan and start getting them to change things so I won't be offended.

The world is getting why to P.C. for my taste here.

 

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Date Posted: 7/2 5:47pm Subject: RE: A cute little puppy: Muslims offended, British police apologise
Kyle Catamaran?



Kyle Cataract?



Kyle Catalogue?

 

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Darth_Guy 
Registered: Aug '02
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Date Posted: 7/2 5:49pm Subject: RE: A cute little puppy: Muslims offended, British police apologise - Date Edited: 7/2 5:49pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Darth_Guy
anidanami124 posted:
Jabba-wocky posted:
DarthLassic007 posted:
Remember, they were not doing anything offensive on purpose. How the hell should that British Police force know that a picture of a dog would offend anyone? They shouldn't be held responsible to every single different culture that lives there.


I would agree that the British police shouldn't necessarily have been expected to know in advance, or even to have double-checked before launching the campaign. But I think it's perfectly reasonable for Muslims to have complained when it did turn out to be offensive, and for the police to take steps to try and fix that in the affected communities. That's how civil society works. It's certainly not worthy of all the exasperation and eye-rolling in this thread.


Um why? that's the most point less thing ever. That majority out rules the minority. Why should ever country on earth change there culture just to please the minority.


Yeah, it's not like the United States has undergone drastic change in order to please its minorities.

 

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Date Posted: 7/2 5:51pm Subject: RE: A cute little puppy: Muslims offended, British police apologise - Date Edited: 7/2 5:51pm (1 edits total) Edited By: GrandAdmiralJello
Damn those wheelchair ramps and handicapped parking!

 

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Darth_Guy 
Registered: Aug '02
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Date Posted: 7/2 5:54pm Subject: RE: A cute little puppy: Muslims offended, British police apologise - Date Edited: 7/2 5:54pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Darth_Guy
I take up as many handicapped spaces as I can; I also use a hammer and chisel to turn every concrete ramp into stairs; and I destroy every brail sign I see. That'll teach those whiners!

 

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DarthPoojaNaberrie 
Registered: Jun '05
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Date Posted: 7/2 5:54pm Subject: RE: A cute little puppy: Muslims offended, British police apologise
i pleased a minority today

 

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anidanami124 
Registered: Aug '02
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Date Posted: 7/2 5:56pm Subject: RE: A cute little puppy: Muslims offended, British police apologise - Date Edited: 7/2 5:57pm (1 edits total) Edited By: anidanami124
Darth_Guy posted:
anidanami124 posted:
Jabba-wocky posted:
[quote=DarthLassic007]Remember, they were not doing anything offensive on purpose. How the hell should that British Police force know that a picture of a dog would offend anyone? They shouldn't be held responsible to every single different culture that lives there.


I would agree that the British police shouldn't necessarily have been expected to know in advance, or even to have double-checked before launching the campaign. But I think it's perfectly reasonable for Muslims to have complained when it did turn out to be offensive, and for the police to take steps to try and fix that in the affected communities. That's how civil society works. It's certainly not worthy of all the exasperation and eye-rolling in this thread.


Um why? that's the most point less thing ever. That majority out rules the minority. Why should ever country on earth change there culture just to please the minority.


Yeah, it's not like the United States has undergone drastic change in order to please its minorities. [/quote]

Which is why I'm getting sick of the P.C. stuff going around and getting worse. Ever country has there own culture and if I were to movie to Japan I'm in the minority. But I'm not going to go around and start telling them to change ever thing to fit my needs. That's ruining a long running culture and makes it hard for other people to learn about those country's and there people.

[quote]How does pointing out that something offends them represent a "failure to assimilate?"[/quote]

Where to being here. Well I will keep this really short the majority in England like and or love dogs THE END. wink

 

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Darth_Guy 
Registered: Aug '02
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Date Posted: 7/2 5:57pm Subject: RE: A cute little puppy: Muslims offended, British police apologise
Oh, sure, it's quite a recent development.


THE WORLD IS GOING TO HELL!!!

 

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Whitey 
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Date Posted: 7/2 6:00pm Subject: RE: A cute little puppy: Muslims offended, British police apologise - Date Edited: 7/2 6:01pm (1 edits total) Edited By: Whitey
DarthPoojaNaberrie posted:
i pleased a minority today


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That is my contribution to this thread.

 

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anidanami124 
Registered: Aug '02
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Date Posted: 7/2 6:05pm Subject: RE: A cute little puppy: Muslims offended, British police apologise
Ok just to make one thing clear I don't mind when people from other country's come to the US, UK, or where ever. I welcome them but what offends me is when they start trying to change that country's whole culture because they are offended by it.

Why move there if your offended by that culture and they way they do things?

 

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Andalite-Bandit 
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Date Posted: 7/2 6:10pm Subject: RE: A cute little puppy: Muslims offended, British police apologise
Tell me in the article where it states anybody is trying to alter British culture? It sounds like some people didn't want the posters in their specific communities. Nothing is mentioned about banning them everywhere or trying to convince the rest of Britain to hate dogs. The article isn't very informative to begin with, I think a lot of people here are making a lot of assumptions.

 

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Quixotic-Sith 
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Date Posted: 7/2 6:11pm Subject: RE: A cute little puppy: Muslims offended, British police apologise
So where is the line between trying to preserve self- and cultural-identity and trying to force the host community to change?

 

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