BBC NEWS | Europe | Muslim protest at Paris book fair — Now this.
A book fair in Paris has become the subject of controversy with several Muslim countries announcing boycotts because the guest of honour is Israel. Saudi Arabia has become the latest to withdraw, following Iran, Lebanon, Yemen, Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria. The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Isesco) has also urged its 50 members to pull out from the fair, which starts on 14 March.
Isesco said Israel had committed crimes against humanity in Palestinian areas. The organisers of the book fair have said their aim is to honour literature and promote dialogue between cultures.
nd if this was not enough, a similar row is brewing over the Turin book fair in May in Italy.
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No the catholic church was not at all responsible for more deaths that Islam.
Nah they don’t routinely try and stop people from having abortions or birth control. They wouldn’t do that.
They don’t routinely brainwash their own people into all sorts of nonsense. Just like ANY cult does.
Oh of course they are so unlike Islam. So pure, so clean. So without sin.
GIVE ME A BREAK.
Perhaps you can ask the Catharrhs and Anabaptists what they think of the catholics?
Oh that’s right they killed them off. Oh better lets ask the arawaks, of that’s right spanish catholics butched them out of existence with the help of savage carib natives they paid off.
Islam is so bad and nasty. They made successful genocide of HOW many??? … hmm I can’t think of one so far. Maybe the zoastrians? No they are still around. How about the jews? Nope still here, hindus? Nope. Buddists? Nope. Coptics, nope.
Wow dang it all they have had to genocide someone shouldn’t they?
Christians? Nope not them either, hell there are Arab-Christians.
So tell me oh wise one who has islam wiped off the face of the earth?
Neither side is to be trusted. Fanatics are are the issue, not the religion itself.
Humans are the root cause of all suffering on this planet. The suffereing will end when humans cease to be. So start a nuclear war today and bring PEACE to earth!
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#15–OFTLO===silly post. At least the lead in anyway.
You suffer, in this instance anyway, from thinking that if two different things have something in common that they are the same???? Try again.
Catholics and Jews and Muslims are all the same because===they have the same head guy and the majority of their adherents would rather be at a picnic rather than at war?==ok.
Now do some actual “THINKING” and note how they are DIFFERENT. Then for bonus points, weigh the same vs the differences and make some informed decisions rather than post as you have.
I’ve heard cats and dogs are the same because they both have fur, four legs, like to be petted and such. but it is harder to herd cats than dogs because they are different. As a result, some people prefer cats over dogs and vice versa===couldn’t be any preference if they were the same?
So–how can catholics and Muslims be the same, but Arab Muslims are different than Indonesian Muslims? And picnic loving Muslims are different than Jihad loving Muslims?
Something is missing from your simplistic post?
here’s a great idea…let the f****** muslims have their own book fair…one shelf should be sufficient for their intellectual crap. then cover it with a picture of that pig faced f*** mo-HAM-med sc***ing 70 muslim virgins, if you can find them, and burn the whole f****** mess.
You guys aren’t even trying to understand their position on this.
You don’t have to agree, but you’d seem less like bigots if you at least understood who your fighting against.
For them, attending this fair would be like Jews attending a book fair where the Nazis were the honored guest. You guys can understand that sentiment, right?
Most Muslims think that Israelis — supported by most Jews — are relentless oppressors of the Palestinians. And, most Muslims identify with the Palestinians as religious family members.
So, it’s not that wacko that they wouldn’t want to attend a function where they are honored.
Again — don’t get me wrong — I’m not endorsing this position or asking you too — but goodness, try to honestly understand it.
#22 – You suffer, in this instance anyway, from thinking that if two different things have something in common that they are the same???? Try again.
And you suffer from acting like a pedantic brat. Islam, Xian, Judaism are all born of the same stupid sun gods, and are all sources of violence and hatred throughout history.
Further, you act like you’ve never left the lilly white suburbs, whereas I actually know many Muslims and Jews and Xians (and thankfully the only extremists I deal with regularly these days are of the Jesus brand, but with luck I can extract those bastards from my life soon enough too.). You appear to be parroting the typical blinder wearing middle American misinformation about religion. It’s all just history co-opted and rewritten by simple superstitious people for political control, and it’s all co-opted from older, simpler, more superstitious people…
In fact, it’s a silly, superstitious elephant standing on a silly, superstitious turtle, and it’s all silly, superstitious turtles all the way down.
Now do some actual “THINKING” and note how they are DIFFERENT.
They all have different window dressing.
And your dog and cat bit fails because, unlike the gods and stories of religion, dogs and cats are real.
#24 – Most Muslims think that Israelis — supported by most Jews — are relentless oppressors of the Palestinians. And, most Muslims identify with the Palestinians as religious family members.
I’m not sure you can even fairly make this a Muslim issue. It’s a political issue with Arabs and Persians on one side and the Israelis on the other. They always invoke their religion, but like all use of religion, it is nothing more than divisive rhetoric to manipulate and control the masses trapped under their theocratic thumb.
The breadth and scope of their various shades of religion are far wider and deeper than their regional interests… though it it is their tiresome regional interests that are going to get all of us killed in the end.