Cultural Sensitivity 101
By Bernie on 05 Apr 2006
Blogger one cosmos shows us in Cultural Sensitivity 101 that to understand other cultures one needs only to read their book of virtues. Here are some "wise old Islamic sayings" by an imam who is sort of the William Bennett of the Islamic world.
Sticks and stones will break your bones if your words should ever humiliate me.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try to blame the Jews.
Fool me once, death to you. Fool me twice? I don't think so.
Necessity is the mother of intervention with U.N. handouts.
A penny saved will help finance a martyrdom operation.
There's something rotten in Denmark. Free speech.
Give a Palestinian a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he'll just steal your fish.
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Here are a few others:
One rooster may be good for ten hens but ten Muslims are sufficient to service one goat.
A woman is only a woman, but a good camel will last the entire night.
It's better to blow up one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
Kismet - keep it simple, Mohammed el Tazir
on the other missing hand...
there is a thin line between love and rape
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to cut her throat.
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