[WikiEN-l] Official proposes boycotting Wikipedia for sacrilegious act

geni geniice at gmail.com
Mon Feb 18 18:10:44 UTC 2008


On 18/02/2008, Raphael Wegmann <wegmann at psi.co.at> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 03:46:56PM +0000, David Gerard wrote:
> > On 18/02/2008, Raphael Wegmann <raphael at psi.co.at> wrote:
> >
> > > It is a source for an assertion that an Iranian cultural official
> > > considers the inclusion of the Muhammad cartoon images a desecrating,
> > > divisive and Islamophobic move.
> >
> >
> > i.e., it's a useful word to use against people who say something you
> > don't like, and gets less meaningful with expanded use, e.g.
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7237663.stm - a minister raising concern
> > with health issues caused by inbreeding in the British Pakistani
> > community (where first-cousin marriage is common) is told that
> > noticing this issue "verges on Islamophobia." What?
> >
>
> "Minister warns of in-breeding risk for Christians"
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/10/ninbreds210.xml
>
> I guess Christians wouldn't be amused about that Telegraph headline either.
>
> br
> --
> Raphael

Eh? well established historical fact that the family of the head of
the church of england has issues with in breeding. Doesn't seem to
cause much fuss.

-- 
geni



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