On 06/02/2008, Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
On 05/02/2008, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I can't see how advising people to turn off something which offends them can be considered racist.
You're almost asking them to turn off the wikipedia entirely. I would say that that was racist to some degree.
There is no legal or moral right to use Wikipedia. If a devout Muslim can't view Wikipedia without violating the rules of their religion, then they shouldn't view Wikipedia. There are religions which ban the use of computers - their existence doesn't mean we are forced to provide a paper version of the site.
If that's racist, then so is a non-Halal butcher's shop, and plenty of those exist.
The point is that there are Halal butchers they can go to, so they aren't significantly disadvantaged.
So if all the Halal butchers closed down, the non-Halal ones would have to become Halal? I don't think so. If the Muslin community want Halal butchers, it's up to them to sort it out (it could be racist if the non-Halal ones tried to prevent them in some way, but that's not relevant).