Over pc-ness

[LauraS]

Fair enough, I just wondered what the specific religious reason was.

 

[جوري]

Fair enough, I just wondered what the specific religious reason was.

God said so!

 

[Muezzin]

What do you think about how politically correct things are? Because obviously it's all intended not to offend other cultures, but I'm quite sure other religions/cultures wouldn't even get offended by the rubbish do-gooders are coming up with. For example red cross shops being made to take down Christmas trees and the word Chritmas being changed to "winterfest" in a village. :heated:

Yeah, that kind of thing is simply stupid.

Like: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...void-offending-Muslims.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Mind you, one customer did complain about the pig, but I imagine that must be rare because it is a bit over-sensitive.

Ah, Daily Mail, how I love the violent jerks of your figurative yet probably inky knee.

It's funny how the headline singles out Muslims, but the article itself says the plastic pig was removed so as not to offend 'Muslims and Jews'.

In any case, the Early Learning Centre is a business. Its products make children happy and more importantly make the business money. The half-hearted removal of the pig figurine while leaving the sound effects intact indicates the Early Learning Centre's decision was made more out of cynicism than sympathy or fear.

Unless it was the fear of losing a potential customer.

And besides, if any customer objects to any particular product or elements of it thereof, that customer need only purchase a different, more suitable product.

 

[S_87]

chance are the people who are over PC are probably not muslims
but then i take what the daily mail says with a pinch of salt, funny how their title screamed muslim but in the article it mentioned jews too. imagine what a storm it woulda caused if the title was jews

 

[Ramadhan]

I was just wondering what it is about the pig that makes it forbidden to eat.

I don't think anyone can fully answer that question.
Allah SWT has decreed that it is haram to eat it. All abrahamaic religions and abrahmaic prophets have taught that it is haram to eat it.
We can only guess, of course, but we will never know the full hikmah behind the decree.
some say because pig is super filthy animal, some say because pig contain all kind of diseaseses including certain type of harmful worm that is quite indestructible, some say that pig's dna is too similar to human (you've heard about organ transplants from pig donors, I'm sure), etc.

Just like when Allah SWT has decreed to not drink alcohol: there's small benefit in drinking it, but the harmful effects are far far greater than the benefit.
We will never know the full benefit, that is, until we die and resurrected during the judgement day where everything will be revealed for us.

naidamar- Why was it necessary to kill all those pigs?!

I don't know. Maybe because pigs are worthless animals? maybe because demons love being around pigs?
But it is reported in the gospels that jesus sent demons to the pigs, causing the pigs to fall off the cliff into violent deaths!
You need to ask either jesus pbuh about it during the judgement day, if the event did indeed take place, or to the authors of gospels of they made it up.

 

[IAmZamzam]

Fair enough, I just wondered what the specific religious reason was.

Nobody knows, and it's kind of useless to speculate or debate what the reason may be (though that certainly doesn't stop people from doing so). It's one of the few important doctrines for which the Koran does not offer its reasoning.

 

[LauraS]

Thanks for the replies.

 

[M.I.A.]

i like the idea of political correctness, although i think it is a case of PC gone mad at this stage.

as a person who gets foot in mouth often i can definately see the benifits of engaging the brain before you speak. there will always be those that pick holes in the things you say but its nice to have the intention of not hurting the person you are talking to... its arkward not following the script that your tongue has in store for you but from an islamic point of view i would say its better.

 

[Beardo]

Thanks for the replies.

lol, I wonder if you read them all. :ermm:

 

[LauraS]

lol, I wonder if you read them all. :ermm:

I did! They were nice on the whole.

 

[Pygoscelis]

Political correctness is one of the lesser in grievousness yet more absurd ills of our age. It gets people hung up on labels and it chooses the irrational and the presumptuous over the proper and calls these things “proper” just so as to cater to people’s unreasonable emotional responses to certain words. (It just now struck me that this is also a perfect description of the problem with the concept of there being such things as curse words.) A good example of this would be the term “Oriental”. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the term whatsoever: its actual literal meaning is “eastern” and it’s describing a people from the Far East. And yet because a lot of people had a bad taste left in their mouth after hearing people speaking of “Orientals” in a racist way during a racist age, and were too stupid or oblivious to recognize that the word itself was not a slur, now you have to call them all “Asian-Americans”, even though most of them are not American and any number of Asian peoples are not Oriental, including Siberians, Russians, Indians, and Pakistanis, to name just a few.

Political correctness is, however, just one tentacle of the beast that is the real problem—that we are living in an age when being hyper-focused on minutiae and too fond of euphemism is considered “progressive”, and anybody who tries to look at the big picture instead is primitive. Which is true in a way given that if there ever was any pragmatism in our species then it fell by the wayside a long time ago.

Just read this post and I completely agree with it. Yahya and I agree on something. Is that a sign of the apocalypse?

 

[sister herb]

Just read this post and I completely agree with it. Yahya and I agree on something. Is that a sign of the apocalypse?

Yes, definately. The last days of the world are at hand.