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2004-12-01 Afghanistan/South Asia

Islamic protest forces cancellation of Bangladeshi women's swimming contest

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Posted by tipper 2004-12-01 1:05:24 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 bare wrists and kicking feet are un-islamic

Posted by SON OF TOLUI 2004-12-01 1:09:01 AM|| 2004-12-01 1:09:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 a "triumph for fundamentalism".

It certainly was. Death to fundis and zealots everywhere.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-12-01 1:12:09 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-12-01 1:12:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I had a dyslexic moment and saw a different headline:

Islamic forces protest cancellation of Bangladeshi women's swimming contest.

Made me think, didn't it?

Posted by Bryan 2004-12-01 1:45:56 AM|| 2004-12-01 1:45:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Remember mens soccer is unislamic according the Osama and Omar.

This was well discussed at LGF for whatever thats worth. I can't see much use in a site that doesn't let you post other than for some entertaiment when things are slow.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-12-01 1:56:39 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-12-01 1:56:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 They said that they cancelled the women's swimming competition as a compromise. Sounds more like it was due to intimidation by a mob of 1000 fanatics.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-12-01 2:11:14 AM|| 2004-12-01 2:11:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Speaking of LGF... what's is the optimal blog size? I expect half of RB regulars are LGF expats.

Posted by Shipman 2004-12-01 8:06:59 AM|| 2004-12-01 8:06:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 To be fair, LGF had comments enabled way before Fred did. :-p

But yes, the LGF commentariat has become way overgrown. I am registered over there but rarely drop in anymore. I do have drinks from time o time with the DC lizardoid minions, hopwever...

Posted by Seafarious 2004-12-01 9:37:06 AM|| 2004-12-01 9:37:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Speaking of LGF... what's is the optimal blog size?

Regular commenters, you mean? I'd guess 80-150 over any 3-day period. Perhaps 30-40 within any 2-hour period. Wretchard did (or links to) some research on the question of operational effectiveness for social networks and came up with the 150 persons max figure. Effectiveness begins to fall apart after that figure's breached.

Posted by lex 2004-12-01 1:34:34 PM|| 2004-12-01 1:34:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I read this site and LGF everyday. I read this one because it covers 100+ topics a day, and I read the other because it covers 5 or 6 topics in tremendous detail (as supplied by the various respondents).

Both are very informative. I can't even recall which site I found first.

Posted by Crusader 2004-12-01 5:19:32 PM|| 2004-12-01 5:19:32 PM|| Front Page Top

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