Six Flags to host Muslim Family day, conservatives outraged
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I see nothing wrong with this
I'm pretty sure that they're not going to be turning non-Muslims away on this day.
i dont mind.the title is overblown.
[QUOTE=Meatpuppet;23530341]EVERY DAY IS GOD DAY NOT ALLAH DAY
praise jesus[/QUOTE]
Allah day and God day is the exact same, Allah is the arabic transolation for God.
[QUOTE=Carbon Knight;23530352]It would be like having a Christian family day.
It's not the practice but the elevating of one religious ideology over another.[/QUOTE]
Don't you guys have Christmas and Easter?
Plus we muslims already have a holiday. It is called the Eid ul-Fitr and Eid al-Adha
[URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_ul-Fitr[/URL]
[URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aidiladha[/URL]
1 day after a couple of muslims took the lives of 3000 people? are you fucking kidding me?
Please don't tell me that you are comparing people with jobs and families to religious bigots because they have the same religion.
Meh, conservatives may be batshit insane evangelist fucktards but they deserve to run along with this, because Six Flags is even dumber.
This sums up my feelings on the mosque thing pretty well.
[img]http://www.moonbattery.com/analogyzerocomic.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=the_KMM;23535702]This sums up my feelings on the mosque thing pretty well.
[IMG]http://www.moonbattery.com/analogyzerocomic.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
I kinda agree with how you feel but the analogy is flawed. The terrorists of 9/11 didn't bomb a church, they bombed a well-known corporate complex, and they didn't choose a religiously significant date either. If they had, shit would be different, but they didn't
[QUOTE=the_KMM;23535702]This sums up my feelings on the mosque thing pretty well.
[IMG]http://www.moonbattery.com/analogyzerocomic.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
this is such a dumb image i don't even know where to start
we have a muslim family day at king's island (a theme park) every year after ramadan and no one ever complained
Religion is really screwing us over these days.
Yeah, I like the last paragraph in the OP. Makes all this pretty funny.
[quote]History of the Event:
This event was first held at Six Flags Great Adventure, NJ, in September 2000. The event was immediately a huge success. The tragic events of 9/11 that resulted in the loss of thousands of innocent lives, also affected this event directly. The chief organizer, Tariq Amanullah, who worked on the 96th floor of WTC, Tower 2, passed away. The team was unable to come together again till year 2004, when the event came back bigger than ever before.
So, to reiterate: Six Flags Muslim Family Day began in the year 2000, and its chief organizer DIED IN THE SEPTEMBER 11th ATTACKS.[/quote]
How can anyone be outraged by this?
[QUOTE=zombojoe;23536527]How can anyone be outraged by this?[/QUOTE]
Conservatives get butthurt easily
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It's stuff like this that is going to make me snap at Americans when I go there in a few weeks. Great.. I bet I will snap at the security guards too for treating me as a terrorist in the airport.
[QUOTE=Murky42;23535367]Please don't tell me that you are comparing people with jobs and families to religious bigots because they have the same religion.[/QUOTE]
it's not that, it's the psychological aspect. every person on earth is racist or otherwise in some way. if some christians came and murdered your whole family, you wouldn't exactly have as high regard for christians as a whole after that situation.
all muslims are not bad, but when a couple of people of the muslim faith crash some planes and kill thousands of people, and then a theme park wants to give royalty to that religious group [i] a day after 9/11[/i] is fucking insane.
why the 12th? why not the 20th? or another month?
this muslim day is a direct retort to just get a reaction out of people.
[QUOTE=Amplar;23537561]it's not that, it's the psychological aspect. every person on earth is racist or otherwise in some way. if some christians came and murdered your whole family, you wouldn't exactly have as high regard for christians as a whole after that situation.
all muslims are not bad, but when a couple of people of the muslim faith crash some planes and kill thousands of people, and then a theme park wants to give royalty to that religious group [i] a day after 9/11[/i] is fucking insane.
why the 12th? why not the 20th? or another month?
this muslim day is a direct retort to just get a reaction out of people.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, about that. Ramadan is a thing they have comparable to Lent or Easter where you can't eat while the sun is up. At the end of Ramadan, they have huge gatherings where they eat as much as they can and enjoy each others company. In North America, the end of Ramadan is celebrated between the 10th and 12th and going to an amusement park is a pretty good way to celebrate. It was first done in 2000 and they only stopped doing it because they're head organiser was actually killed in the 9/11 attacks. They resumed in 2004 and only now are conservatives finding out and getting their panties in a bunch.
tl;dr, they've been doing it since before 9/11 had any significance and they were having a party on that day anyway (not 9/11 related).
Wow, religion themed days at the park. I don't give a shit that it's Muslim, but I do care about religion being included at all. A Christian day would have so many people angry.
Fuck you six flags AND Glenn.
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[QUOTE=Amplar;23537561]it's not that, it's the psychological aspect. every person on earth is racist or otherwise in some way. if some christians came and murdered your whole family, you wouldn't exactly have as high regard for christians as a whole after that situation.
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It isn't racist or even actually wrong to hate someone for their religion.
It's A) A choice and B) a belief system. Hating someone for a choice and their morality is perfectly acceptable.
Christians and Muslims are both dumbshits and I loathe each religion and the majority of its members. On a personal level I recognize that in each case they (the members) have likely be raised from an early age to believe such moronic drivel, but on a grand scheme I am forced to hate them because, regardless of the reasoning behind their choices, their actions are unforgivable. Muslim governments are among the most totalitarian and barbaric on the planet, while Christian voters take a brilliantly designed democracy and regularly ruin it with their hatred and bigotry that they attempt to veil with their pathetic holy text.
I refuse to coddle Muslims because they have a persecution complex. I will call them out for being the idiots that they are, just like the retarded fucking Christians who actively ruin my country on a daily basis.
that post couldn't be more true
[QUOTE=GunFox;23537982]It isn't racist or even actually wrong to hate someone for their religion.
It's A) A choice and B) a belief system. Hating someone for a choice and their morality is perfectly acceptable.[/QUOTE]
What the hell? I've been banned for 'racism' before for posting images making fun of Islam. When did this become mod policy?
Well said GunFox but it's not really a day celebrating Muslims, just Six Flags trying to make the most of a Muslim holiday. It's not Muslim loving any more than having an event around Easter is Christian loving.
[QUOTE=the_KMM;23538329]What the hell? I've been banned for 'racism' before for posting images making fun of Islam. When did this become mod policy?[/QUOTE]
I think garry disagrees and the mods go by his word.
If it was Christian family day instead, everyone here would be freaking out.
Hmm, Easter, Christmas and Thanksgiving are all Christian related and no-one kicks up a fuss then. Dunno any Jewish holidays where they try to enjoy themselves but no-one would have a problem with that.
It's not just about them being Muslim, it's actually a Muslim holiday that existed long before any of this. Muslim family day is just a better name than Eid ul-Fitr day.
[QUOTE=Devodiere;23538368]Well said GunFox but it's not really a day celebrating Muslims, just Six Flags trying to make the most of a Muslim holiday. It's not Muslim loving any more than having an event around Easter is Christian loving.[/QUOTE]
Fair point.
Though I should also point out the extent to which modern retail chains go to in order to avoid calling it "Christmas" or "Easter"
Moreover christian holidays are almost universally seated in pagan ritual, which is itself connected to earth and celestial movements.
Easter, while supposedly in celebration of Jesus' resurrection, has virtually nothing to do in a modern setting with religion. The Easter bunny and the eggs are secular and the holiday is more cultural than religious. Furthermore the resurrection is again only tenuously tied into the original holiday of passover. Which was a celebration of the Israelites being freed from slavery.
Christmas is, in truth, a celebration of the winter solstice and the beginning of the earth's tilt back towards the sun. It's not even remotely connected to Jesus. I mean Santa? He has nothing to do with Christianity.
Halloween is actually largely a failed attempt on Christianity's part to make a pagan holiday religious. It still retains much of its harvest festival roots. The pumpkin/jack-o-latern and prevalence of treats belie its secular origins as an end of the season celebration.
So while I agree that Christianity makes its way into too much, our culture has also in turned adopted the holidays and turned them secular. In many cases they were actually secular to begin with.
TL:DR : Christians are big fat phonies who took perfectly awesome holidays that were all about celebrating the earth, and blatantly lied in order to try to steal them and gain more members. Society has since taken the holidays and twisted them further and largely returned them to having a secular nature.
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[QUOTE=Devodiere;23538611]Hmm, Easter, Christmas and Thanksgiving are all Christian related and no-one kicks up a fuss then. Dunno any Jewish holidays where they try to enjoy themselves but no-one would have a problem with that.
It's not just about them being Muslim, it's actually a Muslim holiday that existed long before any of this. Muslim family day is just a better name than Eid ul-Fitr day.[/QUOTE]
Thanksgiving isn't actually religious. Some people choose to thank god, but there are no set rules nor is it an official church holiday.
It has become an appreciation day for those that came before us and forged the origins of a nation in what was a remarkably hostile region.
[QUOTE=GunFox;23537982]Wow, religion themed days at the park. I don't give a shit that it's Muslim, but I do care about religion being included at all. A Christian day would have so many people angry.
Fuck you six flags AND Glenn.
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It isn't racist or even actually wrong to hate someone for their religion.
It's A) A choice and B) a belief system. Hating someone for a choice and their morality is perfectly acceptable.
Christians and Muslims are both dumbshits and I loathe each religion and the majority of its members. On a personal level I recognize that in each case they (the members) have likely be raised from an early age to believe such moronic drivel, but on a grand scheme I am forced to hate them because, regardless of the reasoning behind their choices, their actions are unforgivable. Muslim governments are among the most totalitarian and barbaric on the planet, while Christian voters take a brilliantly designed democracy and regularly ruin it with their hatred and bigotry that they attempt to veil with their pathetic holy text.
I refuse to coddle Muslims because they have a persecution complex. I will call them out for being the idiots that they are, just like the retarded fucking Christians who actively ruin my country on a daily basis.[/QUOTE]
So, you just hate any and all religious people because you can't get beyond simple generalizations and stereotypes?
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[QUOTE=GunFox;23538612]Fair point.
Christmas is, in truth, a celebration of the winter solstice and the beginning of the earth's tilt back towards the sun. It's not even remotely connected to Jesus. I mean Santa? He has nothing to do with Christianity.
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Ha ha, what? Santa Claus is St. Nicholas.
[QUOTE=Trashcan_Man;23538732]So, you just hate any and all religious people because you can't get beyond simple generalizations and stereotypes?[/QUOTE]
I hate organized religion and the principles upon which it stands. The texts for Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are all extraordinarily brutal and barbaric. Willingly associating yourself with them speaks volumes about your character.
Spirituality itself isn't actually a problem. Arguably it is a source of strength. But unless approached properly and with vigilance, it is also a huge weak point which can be exploited.
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