Swiss Mercenary on 21/1/2006 at 20:59
Yeah, I missed that funneh, my funneh was the way they went up the 'hardkore' ladder. Poorly said, not thought through. :tsktsk:
Fingernail on 21/1/2006 at 21:01
Don't go all apologetic on me. :(
frozenman on 21/1/2006 at 21:03
Quote Posted by Gingerbread Man
It's the hypocrisy and fickleness that makes me rolleyes.
I dont see how people changing religions is any evidence of hypocrisy or fickleness. Ignorance, maybe...
I took an American Studies class last year- my professor was a graduate student working on her doctoral thesis. She was telling us that she had found a suprisingly large group of women in the Washington DC metropolitan area who converted to hardcore/fundamentalist Islam. The kicker was that these women were, as she described them, 'Cheerleader' types.
Unfortunately as of 9/11, the US Govt came to her asking questions regarding these women, threatening to confiscate her work. She had to destroy all of her ethnographic research (hours and hours and hours of interviews, mostly) to protect it from the govt. :(
Briareos H on 21/1/2006 at 21:03
RE : SM and Fingernail on excuses
haha, damn this christian charity
Renzatic on 21/1/2006 at 21:19
Quote:
I took an American Studies class last year- my professor was a graduate student working on her doctoral thesis. She was telling us that she had found a suprisingly large group of women in the Washington DC metropolitan area who converted to hardcore/fundamentalist Islam. The kicker was that these women were, as she described them, 'Cheerleader' types.
Islam is the new Wicca I guess.
SD on 21/1/2006 at 21:29
Yeah, you don't even have to change your wardrobe either.
Agent Monkeysee on 21/1/2006 at 22:01
When it comes right to it, praying 5 times a day, every day, in the middle of any activity, is downright creepy.
quinch on 21/1/2006 at 22:13
how come? it's got to be more important than going to the can
TheGreatGodPan on 21/1/2006 at 22:49
I'm too apathetic a Christian to care all that much. I am dissapointed by how lame much of Christianity has gotten, but there's plenty of other sects one could choose before going to Islam. I did just recently (alright today) hear about the "Quran Only" (slogan: the Quran, the whole Quran and nothing but the Quran) movement. Kind of like Protestant fundamentalists, except they wind up being way more progressive than most schools of Islam. If only we could turn them all into that there'd be a lot less friction.
Quote Posted by GBM
I bet if a white guy from New York suddenly converted to Islam, he'd be on the wrong side of a fence in Cuba before he could say OH HOLY SHIT WHAT.
I bet you a bazillion buckazoids the first part already happened without the second following.
Aja on 21/1/2006 at 23:20
Quote Posted by quinch
how come? it's got to be more important than going to the can
Try not doing either and weigh the results.
