Yesterday, when King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia arrived at Buckingham Palace to meet the Queen, the military band decided to play him a rather unique welcome. Hit play or go to the Link [youtube] to view. Given Saudi Arabia's horrendous human rights record (detailed to some extent in the remainder of the video), Darth Vader's theme music seems rather appropriate.
via The National Review
Comments (19)
More Prophet comics!
Please try to cover up your ignorance a little more in the future.
My main concern about Islam is that most of the believers go by the book. Strictly. It's a tribal book whose teachings are not adapted to modern western standards.
I know it well because as a Christian I believe in the Old testament. I believe in the message, not strictly in the writings. Or I wouldn't believe in the dinosaurs (sorry creationists), I would believe it's ok to stone somebody for improper use of "God" (Leviticus 24:10), and for working on saturday as well (Numbers 15:32), or ok to stone your child with ADD (Deuteronomy 21:18) or I would even ok genocide (Numbers 31:1), etc, etc.
I mean, come on! Those Holy stories, although holy and respectable, are based on tribes that lived thousands of years ago. It is, IMO, not something to take litterally, but a base for thinking, prayer and life improvement.
It is not because prophet Muhammad married a 9 years old that it's ok to do it today! O tempo O mores! You have to go beyond the text and look for humanity improvement!
Lastly : did they really play the Star Wars bad guys theme???? Even true, how unPC!!!
They will continue to say - and maybe even believe - crazy stuff like that as long as they're unchallenged. Muslims need to challenge their ideas and themselves. Trouble is, they're happy in their hatred. Look how that educated British Muslim on the TV show was quick to bring in comments about Jews.
I worked with a young Muslim who believed that no Jews were harmed during the World Trade Centre attacks - apparently, they all knew in advance...
What sort of intelligent reasoning can you have with people who are that myopic?
Either that or the rest of us develop technology that lets us leave them behind here on Earth as we venture out into the universe and forget that whole stupid caliphate and sharia thing ever existed...
just leave them to do their thing and we'll do ours. don't let ignorant hateful thoughts cloud your better judgement.
Awesome! While we're all getting this shit off our chests... I hate racist dumbasses! Damn, that felt good!