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    Google News does a VERY insensitive thing

    Today, Google News has directly shown a website which called the recent terrorist attacks as "martyrdom attacks". I am quite disgusted, and would e-mail them about this, but I really have to go to school in a couple of minutes, so if anyone else here could do it, that would be much appreciated.
    "http://news.google.com/url?q=http://www.timesofoman.com/newsdetails.asp%3Fnewsid%3D41047"
    "http://news.google.com/"
    "You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."--General Sir Charles James Napier
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    Freedom of speech, baby. It's great to be American sometimes.
    Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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    • #3
      I don't see what the problem is. I reckon some guy died for his religious cause which would make him a martyr.

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      • #4
        They ARE martyrdom attacks

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        • #5
          Damn, that word never LOOKS right!

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          • #6
            After reading OP, and looking at the OMAN link:

            So?

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            • #7
              Let´s Bomb Oman
              Blah

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              • #8
                Re: Google News does a VERY insensitive thing

                The Oman Times?
                Google just did what you asked and showed hits.
                Last edited by SlowwHand; September 9, 2003, 18:33.
                Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
                "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
                He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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                • #9
                  And some people who read the Times of Oman probably think half the other articles they post are insensitive.

                  Google news, for it to be effective, links to late-breaking news regardless of source. If you don't like the source, don't read the article! It's not like they're actually writing it.
                  All syllogisms have three parts.
                  Therefore this is not a syllogism.

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                  • #10
                    Google News takes news from 4500 sources. None of them are edited and its front page is determined by a computer algorithm. There is no human to be insensitive along the way.
                    meet the new boss, same as the old boss

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                    • #11
                      What's the prob?
                      “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                      - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                      • #12
                        Bomb Google!!!
                        Monkey!!!

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                        • #13
                          Martyrdom-related link since y'all ignored my thread on the issue.
                          Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
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                          • #14
                            @IW Good one.
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                            • #15
                              Remember, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter...and there is no escaping that axiom.
                              Speaking of Erith:

                              "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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