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Eugene

(61,900 posts)
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 05:01 PM Feb 2016

Minnesota Revoking License Plate Offensive to Muslims

Source: Associated Press

Minnesota Revoking License Plate Offensive to Muslims

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Feb 22, 2016, 3:28 PM ET

Officials in Minnesota are revoking a resident's vanity license plate seen as offensive toward Muslims.

The plate in question reads "FMUSLMS." Soon after media reports appeared on the plates, a Department of Public Safety spokesman said they would be removed immediately.

Gov. Mark Dayton also issued a statement saying he was appalled by the plates and that the owner should be ashamed.

The plates were approved in June 2015.

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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/minnesota-revoking-license-plate-offensive-muslims-37119281
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Minnesota Revoking License Plate Offensive to Muslims (Original Post) Eugene Feb 2016 OP
i'm offended by halal meat. Can we revoke that? MariaThinks Feb 2016 #1
Well that's pretty shitty. How did that make it through the first run? Goblinmonger Feb 2016 #2
Yes, that plate is offencive Lordquinton Feb 2016 #3
It's offensive, period. Iggo Feb 2016 #4
and that the owner should be ashamed. AlbertCat Feb 2016 #5
Post removed Post removed Feb 2016 #6
Uh-huh. Act_of_Reparation Feb 2016 #7
Really? Goblinmonger Feb 2016 #8
Post removed Post removed Feb 2016 #10
Why do we get Harris and Dawkins shoved down our throat here Goblinmonger Feb 2016 #11
When I shove Harris or Dawkins bigotry down your throat you can complain to me Leontius Feb 2016 #12
Gotta give you credit. When you fabricate something, you go all-in! cleanhippie Feb 2016 #15
Bye, Felicia cleanhippie Feb 2016 #17
It's good to have folks here... trotsky Feb 2016 #18
Isn't that an oxymoron? cleanhippie Feb 2016 #19
In the same way theists are usually bigots in real life? cleanhippie Feb 2016 #14
Careful, now. Act_of_Reparation Feb 2016 #16
Other Ways of Knowing, probably. (nt) mr blur Feb 2016 #13
Why so bitter? trotsky Feb 2016 #9
 

Goblinmonger

(22,340 posts)
2. Well that's pretty shitty. How did that make it through the first run?
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 05:38 PM
Feb 2016

You'd think they'd catch that.

Backward stuff always eludes them, too.

Response to Eugene (Original post)

 

Goblinmonger

(22,340 posts)
8. Really?
Tue Feb 23, 2016, 03:56 PM
Feb 2016

You know that? How do you know that?

I thought the latest was that the "new atheists" were horrible Islamaphobes. How can we possibly go against the atheist pope you appointed for us, Sam Harris, to support Muslims?

Response to Goblinmonger (Reply #8)

 

Goblinmonger

(22,340 posts)
11. Why do we get Harris and Dawkins shoved down our throat here
Tue Feb 23, 2016, 04:53 PM
Feb 2016

like we have to defend them when they are bigots? We get they are bigots at times.

But you seem to be indicating that those of us here that are atheists that are saying this license plate is bad because of bigotry would somehow uphold other bigotry against Christians and I wonder what possible reason you would have for thinking that?

 

Leontius

(2,270 posts)
12. When I shove Harris or Dawkins bigotry down your throat you can complain to me
Tue Feb 23, 2016, 05:09 PM
Feb 2016

until then. You wonder, really? I do see quite a number of atheist posters jumping to the support of other religious traditions but always go the opposite way if that tradition is Christian. Are you one of these posters, is that why you're so defensive?

cleanhippie

(19,705 posts)
15. Gotta give you credit. When you fabricate something, you go all-in!
Wed Feb 24, 2016, 12:17 PM
Feb 2016
I do see quite a number of atheist posters jumping to the support of other religious traditions but always go the opposite way if that tradition is Christian.




Links? Proof? Evidence?

Or are you just projecting again?

cleanhippie

(19,705 posts)
14. In the same way theists are usually bigots in real life?
Wed Feb 24, 2016, 12:16 PM
Feb 2016

Sounds like your projecting again. The rage you demonstrate when anyone points out the hypocrisy of your positions seems to always elicit vile rhetoric. As demonstrated by the number of times your transparency page goes public.

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
9. Why so bitter?
Tue Feb 23, 2016, 04:21 PM
Feb 2016

I'd be equally opposed to it. Unless the person who got that plate mean FXians, i.e., referring to people who like the FX network.

You seem to have crafted a strange stereotype of an atheist in your mind, and project that on every atheist on DU.

I know cool Christians in real life, and cool Christians here. I also know of some pretty damn rotten ones in both places as well.

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