3 posts tagged “prejudice”
I have been a Google client and cheerleader for years, but today I was sent this story through One News Now's newsletter. I fired off a comment letter on their G-mail commentary where they are looking for kudos. I am peeved and I let them know it. I've demanded a public apology and have promised to spread this story to the four corners of the earth and cancel all relations with their services until and unless I get that apology from a public source. I will leave my blog up over there with one last entry, a copy of this story. I will be needing recommendations for comparable services so please leave them in the comments for a good mail service, a good search engine, a good video sharing service, a good everything they do, because as I said, I have been all in on their development.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Business/Default.aspx?id=75557
Google UK won't sell ads to religious sites that discuss abortion
The world's largest Internet search engine has denied a British Christian group's application to advertise because the group's website addresses abortion from a religious perspective.
The Christian Institute
-- a United Kingdom-based charity that promotes biblical beliefs --
recently applied to place ads (referred to as "adverts" in Great
Britain) on Google UK. But Christian Institute's Mike Judge says they
were denied. "[W]e wanted to place [an ad] on the issue of abortion,"
explains Judge. "And we wanted to advertise some of the articles that
are on our website regarding that issue.
The ad would have stated: "UK Abortion Law – Key views and news on
abortion from the Christian Institute" – and included a link to the
group's website. Currently searching the word "abortion" on Google UK
returns paid ads for abortion clinics and pro-abortion lobbying groups,
and that is why Google UK's response shocked Judge.
"Google banned the ad," he continues, "[b]ecause they don't allow
religious sites to place adverts on the issue of abortion. But they're
quite happy to accept abortion adverts from non-religious sites."
Judge believes Google UK's response is an infringement of free speech,
which is unlawful under British law. He says even Google admits they
rejected the ad based on religion.
But the British Equality Act of 2006 makes it illegal to discriminate
on a number of grounds, including religion. The Christian Institutes'
attorney has since sent a letter to Google UK demanding that they
publish the ad within seven days, and that they pay attorney's fees.
"We have not heard anything back from Google, and it is very rapidly approaching the end of that deadline," says Judge.
If Google fails to respond, Judge says he will "rapidly" proceed with
legal action. He adds that the Christian Institute is hopeful this
dispute will establish the right of all Christian groups to advertise
on Google worldwide, not just in the UK.
In Christendom we have a saying. Know Jesus, know peace..... no Jesus, no peace. Radical Islam is, and always has proven just the opposite for its faith. This study is historically and empirically supported. When
politically correct and culturally diverse societies agree to "the
reasonable" Muslim demands for their "religious rights," they also get
the other components under the table. Here's how it works (percentages
source CIA: The World Fact Book (2007)). As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given
country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a
threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films,
stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness: At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities
and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among
street gangs: From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. They will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic
standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims.
They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on
their shelves -- along with threats for failure to comply. (United
States). At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow
them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate
goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law
over the entire world. When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase
lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions (Paris --
car-burnings). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in
uprisings and threats (Amsterdam -- Mohammed cartoons). After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning: At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare: From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and
other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia
Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels: After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide: 100% will usher in the peace of "Dar-es-Salaam" -- the Islamic House
of Peace -- there's supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim: Of course, that's not the case. To satisfy their blood lust, Muslims then start killing each other for a variety of reasons. "Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It
was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my
family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and
the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel. -- Leon
Uris, "The Haj" It is good to remember that in many, many countries, such as France,
the Muslim populations are centered around ghettos based on their
ethnicity. Muslims do not integrate into the community at large.
Therefore, they exercise more power than their national average would
indicate. Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond's book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat.. www.frontline.org.za/books_videos/sti.htm
Australia -- Muslim 1.5%
Canada -- Muslim 1.9%
China -- Muslim 1%-2%
Italy -- Muslim 1.5%
Norway -- Muslim 1.8%
Germany -- Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom -- Muslim 2.7%
Spain -- Muslim 4%
Thailand -- Muslim 4.6%
Philippines -- Muslim 5%
Sweden -- Muslim 5%
Switzerland -- Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands -- Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad & Tobago -- Muslim 5.8%
India -- Muslim 13.4%
Israel -- Muslim 16%
Kenya -- Muslim 10%
Russia -- Muslim 10-15%
Chad -- Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon -- Muslim 59.7%
Malaysia -- Muslim 60.4%
Qatar -- Muslim 77.5%
Sudan -- Muslim 70%
Egypt -- Muslim 90%
Gaza -- Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia -- Muslim 86.1%
Iran -- Muslim 98%
Iraq -- Muslim 97%
Jordan -- Muslim 92%
Morocco -- Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan -- Muslim 97%
Palestine -- Muslim 99%
Syria -- Muslim 90%
Tajikistan -- Muslim 90%
Turkey -- Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates -- Muslim 96%
Saudi Arabia -- Muslim 100%
Somalia -- Muslim 100%
Yemen -- Muslim 99.9%
What the Western world finds when it invades Muslim controlled lands is a demonstration in anti-socialism on a grand scale. Afghanistan was divided clan by clan and in constant conflict. Iraq was undergoing ethnic cleansing of one brand of Islam against another brand. This is the Islam that was found by the British, French, and Spanish invaders in the last two centuries. This is why the West could invade at all, and even if Islam could manage to mobilize its entire 1.3 billion population around the globe to enforce conversion or death, it would merely return to its old ways of intra-Muslim killing. The evidence in history shows, unless Muslims stand up against their extremist
faction, they will incur the wrath of the Western world or they will face a world of never ending conflict, faction against faction, clan against clan, village against village.
It is a shame on Islam that the house of war knows more peace than the house of peace where Muslim upon Muslim violence claims more Muslim lives and stifles economic success than all the Crusades and the military actions of the last century in Muslim lands, combined. You are following liars, your media and your scholars and your clerics are propagating a massive conspiracy of hatred and blame on the West for the evils perpetrated on your people by your people. Break the stranglehold of fundamentalism and Sharia and call into accountability your leaders and informers. Some of you have access to the same information I do, and it is your responsibility to make the truth known to your people just as it is mine to my people.
These facts are opening the eyes of the peace activists and moderate factions in the West and their hatred and prejudice currently set squarely on the religions of the West will be redirected toward Islam and will be far greater than the so called 'crusaders' at work in Muslim majority lands today. Lies from Western and Eastern political leaders, Islamic religious leaders, news agencies, and embedded Muslim scholars in our institutions of higher learning are being revealed with the advent of the internet where people can now have information within minutes of events. The more 'in the news' violent Islam makes itself in current events, the more the public educates itself in the history of Islam and begin to shout down the ignorance of our so called tolerant and their sources of false information.
These revelations
source anger and hatred toward beneficiaries of the lies which cause great personal and financial cost to the
formerly ignorant West. Brothers, fathers, and sons are dying needlessly, economic
malaise for tax dollars and corporate profit results in funded Muslim
aggression toward the rest of the world needlessly. The end result
will be a world wide movement to eradicate Islam and in that day, the
farce of the 'house of peace' will pop and the resonance will be heard
till the end of time just as the farce of Hitler's super race resounds to this day.
Yesterday, I heard Charles Barkley slamming Christianity for judging people, calling it hypocrisy. He (Barkley) judged all of Christendom hypocrites for judging others. The lack of depth, the vacuousness of his thought processes are not unique. This is fast becoming the populist position within the very culture that is derived from Christianity. What has Western culture become?
If Christians are hypocrites for judging others, what does that make those who judge Christians and condemn them for judging? I do not condemn anyone for judging me, in fact I encourage it. However, I must condemn anyone who judges me on the basis of prejudice. Prejudice is a pre-judgment and in this case, a pre-judgment (prejudice) based on my faith, an irrational fear of Christians and it is called Christophobia.
Judgment based on understanding, facts, behavior, values, and morals is absolutely necessary to our survival. You cannot succeed in any relationship without using your judgment. Everybody uses judgment to choose their friends, their spouses, their advisors, their suppliers, their customers, business partners.......everyone is judged daily. What's more, since no one is perfect, we have to use our judgment within each relationship with every contact, every exchange of information must be evaluated for relevance and accuracy. Even my pastor, whom I respect and adore and lean on for guidance has weaknesses and holes in his knowledge and is therefore capable of steering me wrong, not because of evil intent necessarily, though he struggles with certain temptations just like I do, but lack of knowledge. So I evaluate what my mentor has to say maybe even more carefully than what my doctor has to say. Most assuredly, I evaluate what my doctor has to say since my life may literally depend on it.
I have heard more often than most Christians prejudices like Barkley's because I have tried to reach young people with some good old fashioned common sense. When I have been on Yahoo's Answers and in chat rooms and when I speak to the youth in person, I am often condemned for judging others for giving common sense advice. These young people have been taught this prejudice in our educational institutions. From grade school through college this anti-Christian attitude is rampant among the staff and the kids pick it up directly or indirectly, through lessons or by observing their teachers. Now with the legal requirements to remove God from schools, these prejudices are being reinforced by our courts and by the highest authority in the land. This schizophrenia fracturing the character of our nation and its culture is what is weakening our resolve to define and fight evil within our own culture as well as the external threats to our very existence.
Some examples of what I've been condemned for include, choosing what kind of person to date, what kind of person to be, what kind of person to follow, what kind of person to do business with. Anytime we Christians are attacked (verbally) on the basis of this prejudice, Christians should respond with a counter attack (verbally) on their prejudice and hypocrisy. Stand for what you believe in and stand for your reputation loudly and immediately. Expose the ignorance of your attacker so that all who hear will know their prejudice and shallowness of thought. Let it be a shame to them. Do not allow an unreasonable fear based on prejudice to condemn you for following the Scriptures. Certainly, do not allow a non-believer to mis-quote Jesus or to take His word out of context to condemn you.
The bigger problem is when the non-believer equates Christianity with Islam. Every week we hear of another act of terror perpetrated on Christians and Jews. In Chad and the Sudan the Islamic government and those it supports are ethnically cleansing the entire country. They are killing everyone who does not believe in their particular branch of Islam, so Christians, Jews, and Muslims are dyeing by their torturous methods. In Saudi Arabia and Iran and numerous other countries dominated by Islam, people are literally executed for leaving Islam. Where in the Christian dominated governments around the world can you claim anybody is executed for leaving Christianity? There are none. Yet, pop culture here in this nation, give Christianity, Islam, and all religions the same level of credence. We Christians make statements against lewd behavior, debauchery and defend values that have stood the test of thousands of years, but in Arabia and Persia they don't just speak out against this behavior, they take deadly steps to stop it. If you are a non-Muslim there and are caught in a sexual encounter with a Muslim woman, you will be executed. If you are caught in a homosexual act whether you are Muslim or not, you will be executed. If you try to teach a Muslim about your faith, any faith other than Islam, you will be executed.
Ok, so maybe most people are unaware of these distinctions. What about the way they conduct war? We see on the nightly news that Muslims target their own innocent civilians in order to disrupt the economy in Iraq to keep the region from trusting the stability the American forces are bringing to them. Muslims use their youth to blow themselves up in crowded shops in Israel. They target innocent civilians in other countries. They keep children around their leaders so that if they are located and attacked the children will be killed in the process, then our media play their story in our homes so that the enemy is aided by our media to make us look as bad as they are because their children were killed. Their moderates do not speak out against their extremists' obvious evil ways to protect the reputation of their own faith. Their is no comparison, but they are given equal status with the vastly more honorable by our own colleges, media, courts, and to some degree, even our president. (Religion of peace) In fact many of the Muslims who fully support these extremists have been employed as professors in our colleges. The peaceniks and the blame America types have no excuse for equating murderers and terrorists with those of us who try and occasionally fail to hold the standard, who try to convey that standard to others, who do not force our faith on others, but offer information to be evaluated for its truthfulness and who fight to make freedom available to all people. We do have real reason to fear the advancement of Islam for the things I've listed above and much more.
Charles Barkley is ignorant. No surprise, this. What is surprising is that we hear the same rhetoric coming from our youth, our media, and our courts. That is why we need to be ready to answer prejudicial attacks. That is why we need to judge right.