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13 Aug 2007, 2:30 pm

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/163 ... o-Muslims-

DOCTORS and health workers have been banned from eating lunch at their desks - in case it offends their Muslim colleagues

When exactly will this madness end? Will they only cease with their PC dictats when we are all, in fact, Muslims?
Does this even actually offend any Muslims at all?


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13 Aug 2007, 3:11 pm

I am not the best at answering moral questions. But religions generally have so many double standards. No religion is the truth of the universe.

But muslims do have deep faith in what they believe and the do believe that the truth of the universe is Muslim and muslim is the only way. If I was Muslim, I would not be a moderate thats for sure.



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13 Aug 2007, 3:13 pm

Aren't most doctors' desks in separate rooms anyway? This is stupid.



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13 Aug 2007, 3:14 pm

It's BS anyway, I had two Muslim 'friends' in my first year of uni, who would sit and eat in the cafeteria like anyone else.



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13 Aug 2007, 3:19 pm

This comes into the same bracket as banning hot cross buns, or toy pigs, or advent calendars, or calling christmas winter break and a raft of other daftness, which only succeeds in alienating the average citizen from his islamic neighbours. I'm sure something like this could be taken on a one-to-one politeness level. ("Does this bother you? Yes it does a bit. Ok I'll take it elsewhere if its a problem.. etc") Forcing people to do it will simply breed resentment. (Already I have the urge to eat great amounts near a mosque, just on principle.) Ramadan is a muslim festival, celebrated by muslims. It should not be forced upon people who are not.


The reason people take working lunches is because they have work to do that they wish to complete. In our overworked NHS, this is probably the last thing they need.


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13 Aug 2007, 4:24 pm

Offense is never sufficient reason to ban anything. At all.



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13 Aug 2007, 4:29 pm

Europe has no hope.


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13 Aug 2007, 4:30 pm

wiggerbeater wrote:
Europe has no hope.

LOL
I'd rather live in Europe than the US.



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13 Aug 2007, 4:39 pm

Sopho wrote:
wiggerbeater wrote:
Europe has no hope.

LOL
I'd rather live in Europe than the US.


I might be able to take this claim seriously if you werent on an American website, with an American as your avatar. :roll:


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13 Aug 2007, 4:44 pm

wiggerbeater wrote:
Sopho wrote:
wiggerbeater wrote:
Europe has no hope.

LOL
I'd rather live in Europe than the US.


I might be able to take this claim seriously if you werent on an American website, with an American as your avatar. :roll:

Oh yeah, so I use American sites and watch American films, so I must think the US is a better place to live. :o ROFL. Idiot.



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13 Aug 2007, 4:50 pm

Sopho wrote:
wiggerbeater wrote:
Sopho wrote:
wiggerbeater wrote:
Europe has no hope.

LOL
I'd rather live in Europe than the US.


I might be able to take this claim seriously if you werent on an American website, with an American as your avatar. :roll:

Oh yeah, so I use American sites and watch American films, so I must think the US is a better place to live. :o ROFL. Idiot.


"All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight America, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out."


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13 Aug 2007, 4:51 pm

wiggerbeater wrote:
Sopho wrote:
wiggerbeater wrote:
Sopho wrote:
wiggerbeater wrote:
Europe has no hope.

LOL
I'd rather live in Europe than the US.


I might be able to take this claim seriously if you werent on an American website, with an American as your avatar. :roll:

Oh yeah, so I use American sites and watch American films, so I must think the US is a better place to live. :o ROFL. Idiot.


"All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight America, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out."


Well its that or Japanese goods. Not a lot of homegrown businesses are in the UK anymore lol.


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13 Aug 2007, 4:54 pm

wiggerbeater wrote:
Sopho wrote:
wiggerbeater wrote:
Sopho wrote:
wiggerbeater wrote:
Europe has no hope.

LOL
I'd rather live in Europe than the US.


I might be able to take this claim seriously if you werent on an American website, with an American as your avatar. :roll:

Oh yeah, so I use American sites and watch American films, so I must think the US is a better place to live. :o ROFL. Idiot.


"All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight America, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out."

lol Since when was I 'fighting America???' All I said was I'd rather live here. :lol:



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13 Aug 2007, 5:36 pm

wiggerbeater wrote:
"All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight America, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out."


Why do you think I have mostly British TV shows in my DVD collection and Japanese made video games, hmmm? :P


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16 Aug 2007, 9:53 am

Quatermass wrote:
wiggerbeater wrote:
"All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight America, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out."


Why do you think I have mostly British TV shows in my DVD collection and Japanese made video games, hmmm? :P
Yes, and I also have Australian music and movies in my collection. There seems very few US sitcoms that are any good but lots from the UK are funny.


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16 Aug 2007, 10:05 am

wiggerbeater wrote:

"All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight America, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out."

Hmm.... I remember giving someone else that quote to piss off her coworkers. Of course, I used the original words instead of your substitution. :)