Finally, a European with backbone

[Zkribbler]

I figured it was just the way Muslims interpret the 2nd Commandment. Here's the Protestant version:

. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

[BlackCat]

I really don't mind that belivers of a particular faith don't want to make pictures of god etc, but why should nonbelivers follow such a rule ?

[Zkribbler]

Because they don't want to be viewed as jerks?

F'Instance...you can't get a pepperoni pizza in Malaysia. Even if was just a supply-and-demand thing and it were legal to eat pepperoni in Malayia, I wouldn't do so there in public, because it would upset people.

Similarly, there are cultures in which it is okay to eat dogs and cats. Wonderful, but I'm appreciative when they come over here, and they don't do it in front of me.

[BlackCat]

Nice examples, they just lack a minor thing called relevance.

I don't live in malaysia, nor is it common to eat cats and dogs here.

In a bit awkward way, you actually have hit the hot spot - We have customs that we consider natural including making redicule of religious beliefs - why should we give up this custom ?

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
Because they don't want to be viewed as jerks?

F'Instance...you can't get a pepperoni pizza in Malaysia. Even if was just a supply-and-demand thing and it were legal to eat pepperoni in Malayia, I wouldn't do so there in public, because it would upset people.

What do the ethnic Chinese there think of that?

[Drake Tungsten]

I'd be very surprised if you actually couldn't get a pepperoni pizza in Malaysia. It seemed like you could get almost anything you wanted to eat in Chinatown and at the malls in Kuala Lumpur.

edit: Pizza Hut Malaysia offers pepperoni pizza.

http://www.pizzahut.com.my/m_dine_pizza_pan_pizza.html

That Royal Masala pizza sounds tasty...

[Zkribbler]

Admittedly, I went to only one Pizza Hut. There didn't have it.

[Az]

F'Instance...you can't get a pepperoni pizza in Malaysia. Even if was just a supply-and-demand thing and it were legal to eat pepperoni in Malayia, I wouldn't do so there in public, because it would upset people.

absurd. Do you think that two gay men should refrain from holding hands when in a muslim country, too?

in short, it's stupid and abusrd.