No, see, my family's pretty secular, when compared to other families. But my mom gets this religious bullshit in forwarded e-mails and she passes them on without a second thought simply because it says 'pass it on to ## people and you'll get blessed' etc.
you forgot to mention misspelling "leve" and "mumber." I don't know why, but "mumber" annoys me the most, because it's the least phonetic of the misspellings.
The first part is also grammatically ambiguous.
And finally, Allah = "Big Brother" a la 1984. I know you're not a theist, but such a puerile reification of a higher deity should be offensive to anyone with any sense of monotheism.
I really hope you chewed out your mother for propogating hatred against her own people. She may counter with, "Well, clearly it meant Hindus" just like Iranians say they hate Jews, but only, "American & Israeli Jews, not the ones who live side by side with us." Only that disclaimer isn't given, and anyone one reads it out of her context will just as soon stone her and drive her from their country because of these ideals she propogated.
Arian Poles who supported the Germans were rounded up and killed by Germans along side all the other "garbage people" when Germany invaded in 1939. When the Arab SS comes for her, she shouldn't be surprised.
I was gonna mention 'leve' but I didn't wanna sound too much like a grammar Nazi. And I didn't even notice 'mumber'! It's definitely the funniest one.
I AM a theist, darling. I may not believe in Jesus' divinity or Allah or Jehovah etc., but I do think there's a god. What's that about the 1984 Big Brother thing? I didn't quite get what you meant.
You know, I haven't talked this over with my mother yet. And I don't plan to. We don't usually discuss things like racism, xenophobia, genocide etc. or even patriotism. If I try to discuss it with her, she'll tell me I'm unnecessarily starting an argument.
She'll probably read this post and understand my feelings about such stupid forwarded e-mails.
In George Orwell's book, 1984, the phrase "Big Brother is watching you" and "Big Brother is watching" are repeated numerous times to express that people should behave because some higher (governmental) persona is watching their every move and judging them every hour of the day. The last line of the picture objectifies their supreme deity as some petty, micromanaging, lower deity with nothing better to do than constantly meddle directly in the affairs of mortals. The comparison makes "Allah" no better than the imaginary higher being controlling society in 1984I'm not encouraging to argue the whole gamut of issues with your mother. Or even a deep take on it. But you should be able to convince her not to perpetuate hatred against people who were her friends and neighbors, i.e. Indians. You don't need to bring up patriotism. You should even bite your tongue on her anti-semitism. You should just tell her not to continue enflaming a hatred against herself, her family, her husband, her friends and neighbors- and the next time she
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Ah, I get the Big Brother connection now. I had no idea there was a book called 1984.. If you ever made the mistake of sitting in one of the Islamic Studies classes in any English-medium school here, you'd hear that phrase a lot. "Don't do X because Allah is watching you." "Pray 5 times a day because Allah is watching you." Well! Allah must be having a darn good time watching pretty little me prancing about, mustn't he? ;)
i thought a normal muslim (who is not an indian) would not forward it coz it seems offending - the ka'bah being blown up. isn't the height of offensive material? i assume the same people who forward this mail, must have made a huge hullaballoo during the danish cartoon controversy. how hypocritical! this is disturbing. take care JP PS: no offence to ur ma... my aunties forward religious stuff (some of them clear phonies) to me too thinking that they are true
This is offensive to Muslims, Jews and Indians. Non-Indian Muslims MIGHT forward it because it mentions the Jews' involvement in blowing up their center of worship, so they have to warn their co-religionists about this "evil plan". Yup, I guess it's similar-minded people who attacked KFC outlets, embassies etc. when the Danish cartoons controversy was going on.
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The first part is also grammatically ambiguous.
And finally, Allah = "Big Brother" a la 1984. I know you're not a theist, but such a puerile reification of a higher deity should be offensive to anyone with any sense of monotheism.
I really hope you chewed out your mother for propogating hatred against her own people. She may counter with, "Well, clearly it meant Hindus" just like Iranians say they hate Jews, but only, "American & Israeli Jews, not the ones who live side by side with us." Only that disclaimer isn't given, and anyone one reads it out of her context will just as soon stone her and drive her from their country because of these ideals she propogated.
Arian Poles who supported the Germans were rounded up and killed by Germans along side all the other "garbage people" when Germany invaded in 1939. When the Arab SS comes for her, she shouldn't be surprised.
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I AM a theist, darling. I may not believe in Jesus' divinity or Allah or Jehovah etc., but I do think there's a god.
What's that about the 1984 Big Brother thing? I didn't quite get what you meant.
You know, I haven't talked this over with my mother yet. And I don't plan to. We don't usually discuss things like racism, xenophobia, genocide etc. or even patriotism. If I try to discuss it with her, she'll tell me I'm unnecessarily starting an argument.
She'll probably read this post and understand my feelings about such stupid forwarded e-mails.
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If you ever made the mistake of sitting in one of the Islamic Studies classes in any English-medium school here, you'd hear that phrase a lot. "Don't do X because Allah is watching you." "Pray 5 times a day because Allah is watching you." Well! Allah must be having a darn good time watching pretty little me prancing about, mustn't he? ;)
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take care
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PS: no offence to ur ma... my aunties forward religious stuff (some of them clear phonies) to me too thinking that they are true
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Yup, I guess it's similar-minded people who attacked KFC outlets, embassies etc. when the Danish cartoons controversy was going on.
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