On 06/02/2008, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 05/02/2008, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)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).