I think we have had it

Ivor Windybottom · Wednesday at 10:53 AM

King Billy said:
Then many, including you, would argue that UK is being subjected to becoming a Muslim state and Christianity is being lost.

I'd really like you to make sense. I've tried reading it 3 times but still can't understand what your point is meant to be.

warey4life · Wednesday at 11:10 AM

Elsa TLC said:
Ramadan breaks to be used across English football again - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c20jpvd300do

What's your problem?

warey4life · Wednesday at 11:11 AM

warey4life said:
What's your problem?

DOH, I'll probably be block from the thread for asking a question.

morqthana · Wednesday at 2:56 PM

Ivor Windybottom said:
Agree with muslims or suffer.

To what extent, and by what legal mechanism, do you think that private businesses should be forbidden from accommodating religious beliefs of their employees, if they choose to?

Should we have a law, for example, forbidding companies to offer Kosher or Halal food in their staff restaurants for employees who want it?

What about companies being forbidden to allow employees to wear a cross on a chain, or a brooch?

Making it illegal for employers to allow Jewish employees to leave work early on Fridays in the winter? Or to allow male ones to wear kippahs?

Legislation forcing employers to ban Sikh employees from wearing turbans?

Please tell us about how your rules would work, how they would be enforced, and what their scope would be.

I mean, you have thought this through, haven't you?

Ivor Windybottom · Wednesday at 3:00 PM

morqthana said:
if they choose to?

They don't choose to, they're pressured into it.

By racism accusations or other threats. Disagree sufficiently with a muslim then a death threat will be issued.

Football stadiums are for football. Stick with that and you don't need any tedious debate about whether a cross is equivalent to a turban bla bla bla.

morqthana · Wednesday at 3:02 PM

King Billy said:
Morqthana's question is a fair question based on the immediate previous anti-Muslim comments.

And should there be doubt, there's the post immediately following yours...

Ivor Windybottom said:
Sharia Rules Football it is then.

This isn't going to end well.

morqthana · Wednesday at 3:08 PM

Ivor Windybottom said:
Sharia Rules Football it is then.

This isn't going to end well.

As this will be the 6th year where they've done it, can you tell us exactly when it isn't going to end well.

IT Minion · Wednesday at 3:13 PM

That's fine and dandy, as long as your religion allows that.

diy_fun_uk said:
Keep religion out of sports.

Keep religion out of schools (other than learning the basics).

Keep religion out of workplaces (unless you work in a religious establishment obviously!)

Keep religion for church and home.

Fundamentalists of most, possibly all, religions will find some stupid rule that interferes with daily life.

In the increasingly atheist country that is the UK we're less tolerant of intrusive religions than we used to be.

IT Minion · Wednesday at 3:14 PM

morqthana said:
As this will be the 6th year where they've done it, can you tell us exactly when it isn't going to end well.

Yeah, it's absurd to allow players to take a few minutes for a longer water break before they take a free kick.

John Smith Esq. · Wednesday at 3:19 PM

It isn't even a proper fast. Don't eat all day and then stuff yourself before bed... not particularly challenging and also bad for your health. More likely to cause weight gain rather than weight loss. Completely pointless and understandably irritating for it to hold up the game with yet more stoppages.

I stopped following the modern game years ago. It has become a politicised and overly commercialised circus. Prefer to watch old games from the 70s and 80s. Better football by natives of the British Isles, no rolling around on the floor screaming for fouls or endless stoppages by millionaire idiots, and no VAR.

Just stop following it. Shun all the crap that annoys you. The TV, rubbish modern films, spectator sports. They are nothing without your attention and money. They don't even like you, hence the endless mither.

morqthana · Wednesday at 3:24 PM

Ivor Windybottom said:
They don't choose to, they're pressured into it.

By racism accusations or other threats. Disagree sufficiently with a muslim then a death threat will be issued.

I'd like you to prove that that's what has happened, please, and has happened every year since 2021.

Ivor Windybottom said:
Football stadiums are for football. Stick with that and you don't need any tedious debate about whether a cross is equivalent to a turban bla bla bla.

OK, so you don't want to have laws forbidding companies from accommodating religious beliefs of their employees, but you do want to complain that ones who do are being forced into it by death threats.

It really is imperative that you prove that that's what's happening, otherwise you know what your complaints and false claims are, don't you.

MNW67 · Wednesday at 3:25 PM

John Smith Esq. said:
More likely to cause weight gain rather than weight loss.

I don't think that's the reason they do it.

morqthana · Wednesday at 3:27 PM

diy_fun_uk said:
I hear the Celtic games up here will be stopped mid way so a condensed Catholic mass can take place in the centre circle.

Will you please provide proof that such a mass is mandated by the Catholic faith.

morqthana · Wednesday at 3:28 PM

Ivor Windybottom said:
Perhaps play a bit of footy, then have some sort of multi-religious festival. Swing some incense burners, sing a few hymns, sacrifice a goat. Then play a bit more, then a bit more random religion.

At the same time, perhaps we should incorporate football breaks into religious festivals. Perhaps some keepie-uppies during weddings, have a kickabout during a funeral.

Alternatively, perhaps we could continue just playing footy in the football stadium and keep the religious stuff in the church or mosque.

And alternatively you could stop making ridiculous posts.

morqthana · Wednesday at 3:32 PM

John Smith Esq. said:
It isn't even a proper fast. Don't eat all day and then stuff yourself before bed... not particularly challenging and also bad for your health. More likely to cause weight gain rather than weight loss. Completely pointless and understandably irritating for it to hold up the game with yet more stoppages.

How come you know so little about it that you think it's a weight loss strategy?

I'm not a Muslim, nor do I have access to any information not available to you, but I know why they fast during Ramadan. Why don't you?

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