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So you think everyone should be welcome?
Or are you just trying to make me out as a racist?
And there it is, it's not the actual item of clothing that bothers you, it's the breed of people you associate it with.
Value Collector said:In regards to the morality of the burka, the factors that are relevant are the principle of personal freedom, eg you shouldn't take someone's right to wear it unless it is causing real harm.
I am also not cool with the government going around and destroying personal freedoms any more than they already do in the name of security.
Oh ey, there's also robberies by people just wearing normal clothes. What should we do?
Nib the bud might need to go further than clothing. Maybe people are bored, need quick cash, can't get no job in this economy etc. etc.
Can't imagine a criminal would sit around planning their crimes then... wait a minute, the burqa is banned, how the heck are we going to pull this off now? Back to the drawing board... heck, back to find legal employment or financial services and investment banking, haha
Actually, I'm beginning to agree with you, lets just get over it and let everyone in.
Why be paranoid? Why not just accept everyone, we have a very big country with a small population.
We should be more welcoming of other cultures.
Let's bring in heaps of Indians, Sri Lankans, Nigerians, Somalians, Syrians, Iranians, just open the border, let's get the population moving.
That will move the economy.lol
Actually I think us old farts, that believe there is something worth protecting, are dinosours.lol
so why are you so keen to defend a small minority who want to hold on to bizarre superstitions and promote distrust in the community ?
Not to mention as I said before, I don't want to cause polarisation of the our society.
So you think everyone should be welcome?
Or are you just trying to make me out as a racist?
Society is already polarised by religion.
Get rid of that instead of pandering to it, and perhaps we call all start working together.
You can see it happening even with Christians in the USA.
Hey the question asked and I candidly provided the answer. Everyone is a potential criminal in the eyes of the other, but criminals do use camouflage to conceal their identity and now we are bigots and xenophobes if we stare at someone wearing a sack head to toe it would have to be a must have fashion for armed robberies and the like..... someone with hoody and a gun bulging out of the side pockets ain't gonna cut it in the obscuration stakes these days.
I'm sure there are criminal acts going on here with people donned in the burqa. Didn't some woman back a few years in Adelaide conceal her identity to gain a drivers licence for her muslim friend/relly?
The courts probably mandate that burka crimes be sealed from public scrutiny to avoid hate retaliation, for the good of the community of course. Remember the Carnita Matthews case in Sydney?
... And don't mess with Asians either, they're usually unarmed but could be extremely dangerous (tag line from a Brandon Lee movie)
You giving me a warning?
The founder of a popular Singapore church was found guilty Wednesday of misappropriating more than $35.5 million in donations to support his wife's singing career in Asia before helping her break into the U.S. market for evangelization purposes.
Kong Hee, the founder and senior pastor of City Harvest Church, was found guilty with five other church leaders of stealing 24 million Singapore dollars ($17 million) designated for building and investment-related purposes through sham bond investments.
The State Court also found that they used another 26 million dollars ($18.5 million) to hide the first embezzlement from auditors. It is a rare case of corruption of such magnitude in the city-state, which has an image of being highly law-abiding and largely graft-free.
The last few weeks will have been deeply frustrating for the Governing Body, as multiple leaks have exposed a growing resentment of their attitudes and policies among an increasing number of bethel workers.
And now a fresh leak from a Watchtower insider has blown the lid wide open on how the organization deals with issues affecting the rank and file.
“Correspondence Guidelines” is a 118-page document issued to key staff at bethels around the world, giving cookie-cutter responses to a long list of scenarios involving various doctrines.
Previously only available to a privileged few, a 2011 edition of the document is now freely available, effectively meaning that anyone who has the document knows how Watchtower will reply to almost any letter they write before they even put pen to paper.
Christians ~17 meg
Non Christian ~1.12 gig
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A court in the Hague revoked Scientology’s status as a “public welfare institution” this week – and the tax exemption that goes with it.
Janine Pieters, reporting in the NL Times, said the court has ruled that sales of Scientology’s courses and therapy sessions are aimed at profit-making and that it does not therefore belong on the tax authorities charity list.
Scientology, which has its UK HQ in East Grinstead, is a belief system invented by pulp fiction writer L Ron Hubbard who claimed human beings need to be “cleared” of the invisible spirits of thetans who were blown up in a nuclear explosion on earth by the evil dictator Xenu 75 millions years ago.
To rid themselves of these thetans Scientology offers its adherents courses and “auditing” which cost thousands of pounds.
But the Dutch court found the courses cost considerably more than those offered by secular commercial institutions, equating the cost to prices students would expect to pay for “top education from top teachers in prime locations” reports Pieters.
The organisation can appeal against the Dutch decision, but it is not yet clear whether it will.
In the meantime, a Scientology spokesman called the ruling “discrimination based on religious beliefs”.r
Dutch court revokes Scientology’s tax-exempt status
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