Well said, Tom. On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 12:29:54 +0000 Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi :) Phil, i know you think you probably think you are just an atheist and acting reasonably but this topic didn't arise in all the years that we have seen Christian messages in various people's signatures. The discussion only arose after the only Islamic quote in all these years. This has happened at a time when it's popular to attack Muslims for their faith, and for the stereotypes pushed out by mainstream media to demonise and vilify Muslims. Ridiculing religions in general might seem reasonable but choosing to do so right now, only after the first Islamic quote in a signature and not in any of the previous several years of Christian quotes (and hundreds of them) is Islamaphobic. It has been good to see people on this mailing-list increasingly make a stand against the increasing level of Islamaphobia in this thread - even people who don't understand or don't agree with Islam. In my opinion standing with someone who seems to be being given a hard-time by 'the mainstream' is FAR more impressive than just taking cheap opportunistic pot-shots that are LibreOffice and the OpenDocument Format are making a stand against the mainstream and although the tide may be beginning to turn for us i am sure we can all remember moments where mainstream-people have done or said things, without even realising it, that are extremely pro-MSO and their ever-changing, unreliable formats. Please can we drop this topic and get on with the questions at hand? Regards from Tom :) On 26 January 2016 at 04:37, Philip Rhoades <phil@pricom.com.au> wrote:Virgil, On 2016-01-26 07:24, Virgil Arrington wrote:On 01/25/2016 01:40 PM, jomali wrote:Please note that the original message by Nasrin was on a topic germane to this list. One member with an excessively tender sore spot objected to something in Nasrin's signature that expressed his sincerely held faith. There was no intent on Nasrin's part to proselytize or to demean another's faith, as Phil's diatribe does.I tend to agree about signature lines. They can contain all kinds of things having nothing to do with LO. Sometimes they're funny;That would be fine . .other times they are informative about the writer. Phil's signature line includes his address in Australia, which is informative, but has nothing to do with LO. Nasrin's signature line includes a a few lines about his Muslim faith,Another person with low general knowledge . . again I am not surprised . .also informative but also having nothing to do with LO. I pretty much ignore signature lines, and I can't possibly imagine being offended by one, regardless of what it might say. a Christian who loves MuslimsAnd there we have it - another person who has an agenda - they can't criticise someone else for proselytising their superstitious nonsense because they have their own superstitious nonsense . . a person who "loves" someone else but does not even know that the person they "love" is a "she" and not a "he" . . clueless . . P. -- Philip Rhoades PO Box 896 Cowra NSW 2794 Australia E-mail: phil@pricom.com.au -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
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