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2010-12-23 Home Front: Culture Wars

Anti-Israel ad on Seattle buses sparks response in kind

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Posted by ryuge 2010-12-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 If your serious about banning hate speech, ban the Koran.

From Islam on Trial: The Prosecutions Case against Islam By Amber Pawlik:

I originally did a small study. I wanted at least 30 samples because statistically, so as long as there are 30 samples, the central limit theorem applies, i.e. the sampling is large enough to be statistically significant. I tried to think of a fair way to pick samples. Had I gone through and just pointed to verses, I likely would have gotten accused of cherry picking. So I took verse 10 from randomly chosen Suras. I did this to show I was not picking one verse over another. I ended up with 34 verses. You can read the verses I took along with commentary regarding what context the verse is in, why I assigned it to the category I did and the calculations of my confidence interval here.

I was really quite pleased with the results: I felt they provided a nice broad overview of the Koran and even captured one good verse! It also hit some of the bigger but smaller aspects of the Koran - the fact that it mentions Noah's Ark many times (where it gleefully describes how the infidels drowned); that it thinks infidels are utterly thankless; that Allah actually makes nonbelievers not believe, etc. These were the results

18/34 (52.9%) - over half - of these random verses is vitriol aimed at infidels.
6/34 (17.6%) Deal with Allah
5/34 (14.7%) Deal with believers
4/34 (11.8%) Deal with Day of Judgment or Day of Doom
1/34 (3.4%) ... is a good verse! (Do not steal from the poor / Give to the poor)

Posted by Rupert Chirt2546 2010-12-23 14:21|| 2010-12-23 14:21|| Front Page Top

#2 The local Seattle press is taking a cautious stance on this, but reading between the lines they seem to favor the anti-Israeli ads over David's. go figure.

Posted by USN,Ret 2010-12-23 18:38|| 2010-12-23 18:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Latest is that the ads will NOT be allowed.

Posted by USN,Ret 2010-12-23 21:59|| 2010-12-23 21:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Controversy prompts Metro to ban all non-commercial ads (link)

SEATTLE - The uproar over an inflammatory anti-Israel ad proposed for Metro buses has prompted King County officials to not only reject the ad but to temporarily ban any and all non-commercial ads on buses.

The new ban applies to any non-commercial ads, including political advertisements and ads by Planned Parenthood, the Humane Society and other non-commercial organizations

Note that it temporary. I take that to mean that as soon as the uproar ends they will put up the planned parenthood, pro-abortion, and other leftist ads back up.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-12-23 23:04|| 2010-12-23 23:04|| Front Page Top

#5 sorry that last paragraph shouldn't be italic - its not part of the quote - messed up closing tag.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-12-23 23:08|| 2010-12-23 23:08|| Front Page Top

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