Airbnb for muslims

[Dominus]

We have always stayed at traditional hotels. Never tried Airbnb. We travel quite a bit, so we probably should try it out.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Yeah Airbnb - the whitest website ever made.

 

[HoodedRat]

Read any good Leviticus lately?

I don't think there is any good Leviticus.

 

[KaraBulut]

I don't think there is any good Leviticus.

Exactly. A life spent trying to live in literal interpretation of books written centuries ago misses the point.

Hopefully all these orthodox types will rediscover why there was a reformation in just about every religion. Most of what they're doing is all just fashion and self-involved pretense.

 

[KaraBulut]

Yes, but the difference being the application and range. The sects of Judaism that follow Levitical law strictly are few, as are the relative numbers of Jews in general to other religions.

Um, you might want to talk to someone who is Jewish. The birth rate for Orthodox Jews is about 3 times what the birth rate is for Reform and secular Jews. Take a trip down to any city with a large Jewish population on Shabbat eve and see who is on the street. You'll be surprised how many people are doing the strict Leviticus thing.

 

[rareboy]

I don't think there is any good Leviticus.

Leviticus should have been burned on the bonfires of human history about 2000 years ago.

 

[HoodedRat]

Leviticus should have been burned on the bonfires of human history about 2000 years ago.

I don't normally agree with book burning ... but sometimes exceptions are justified.

The OT, the Koran, Mein Kampf, and all the rest of those hate books are only fit to be fuel for the fires.

 

[Telstra]

I don't normally agree with book burning ... but sometimes exceptions are justified.

The OT, the Koran, Mein Kampf, and all the rest of those hate books are only fit to be fuel for the fires.

umm,
the root cause is god.
Governments should put these ideas into fiction section if no evidence is provided.

 

[Dominus]

I don't think there is any good Leviticus.

I read a book long ago that argued old testament stuff like Leviticus, if reqd in conjunction with the time it was meant for, made more sense than people realize.

For example, the Israelites were surrounded by their enemies. So, it made sense, twisted as it was, to forbid homosexual acts in the hope of men and women breeding more prodigiously.

Another example was forbidding people from eating shellfish. Nowadays, we have lots of options when we want to eat dinner. If we don't feel like cooking, we could choose from literally thousands of different things to eat. But it was completely different for most people during the bronze age. For most peasants, what was available was what they ate every meal every day. Shellfish in that region had high concentration of mercury. If consumed occasionally, then it's fine. But if it is consumed constantly by the people of the bronze age who had no other option as a staple diet, the effects would have been obvious.

I'm not exactly sure why some people nowadays think rules written for bronze age people would be applicable today.

 

[HoodedRat]

I'm not exactly sure why some people nowadays think rules written for bronze age people would be applicable today.

Because they are mentally ill, perhaps.

 

[Zeno Lorea]

Most of what is being published about this site is coming from the site's marketing efforts. The guy behind the site is a convert who lives in DC (his name is a big clue that he wasn't born into Islam). He used to be an IT guy at a not-for-profit.

Ah, yes, a convert. How typical. No believer more fervent than a convert. Whether a convert to maoism, neo-naziism, mormonism, islam or any other political ideology, the converts are always the ones who need to reinterpret everything through the lens of their new glasses. Most ordinary muzzies would look at airbnb and think "What's in it for me? Can I work with this thing too?" But a muzzie convert will think "We need this too! We have a right to have our OWN airbnb, only for us!"

There would be a mormonbnb.com if there were enough practicing mormons.

It's also typical how a techie who converts to a religion starts working on something techie for his new religion, just like Gladys Knight started singing for mormonism, and just like Cat Stevens did not sing for thirty years because he thought it haram.

 

[Zeno Lorea]

Come see all this .. then feel envious that all these wonderful freedoms are considered haram according to your religion... feel jealous that you too cannot be free ... become angry that we do not care what your prophet said about anything ...then get radicalised and fight to force the West follow your religious dictates and become just as shackled as you are.
Happy jihad.

If anyone is a potential jihadist, a bit of travelling down to Times Square or Ibiza will not trigger it any more than surfing internet porn will. But for people who grow up in a religious bubble, it will open their eyes, free their mind, and change their lives.

 

[Zeno Lorea]

For example, the Israelites were surrounded by their enemies. So, it made sense, twisted as it was, to forbid homosexual acts in the hope of men and women breeding more prodigiously.

By that reasoning, it would have made more sense to prescribe weekly gangbangs in which every girl was tied up for every soldier on Active Duty to have his way with. Yet Leviticus does not allow for that. It's all work and no play.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Um, you might want to talk to someone who is Jewish. The birth rate for Orthodox Jews is about 3 times what the birth rate is for Reform and secular Jews. Take a trip down to any city with a large Jewish population on Shabbat eve and see who is on the street. You'll be surprised how many people are doing the strict Leviticus thing.

But I meant the total number of Orthodox Jews in the West is very small compared with the competing religions. It's concentrated in those few sects, so occurs in pockets, but not broadly across countries.

As for the discussion on Levitical wisdom being rationalized (in others' posts), I find it offensive, whether proferred by apologists for Judaism or by Fundamentalist Christians who must defend it due to a warped concept of infallible scripture NOT unlike that propounded by Fundamentalist Islam. Imputing wisdom through tortured, reverse engineered logic is silly. Mercury in food was unknown by the ancients, so there would need to be someone, somewhere writing on effects of diet back then, specifically seafood diets, which abounded in the coastal regions. Simply suggesting that ancient wisdom knew this but masked it in capricious Levitical laws with no explanation given is propaganda, pure and simple.

Suggesting that homosexual acts depressed birth rates is idiotic. That imputes to the ancients that homosexuality was a choice and would displace the organic incidence of heterosexuality in the general population. In addition, homosexuality was not seen as a lifestyle pattern in the ancient world by the Greek culture which surrounded the Levant. Homosexual acts were often excursions by ostensibly heterosexual married men.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

This reminds me of BET (Black Entertainment Television). *White people spent years telling us we weren't welcome on their channels, and still had the audacity and arrogance to get mad when we created a channel for ourselves. Muslim Bnb is probably necessary because I don't imagine many bnb welcoming them with open arms and making whatever accomodations are necessary to honor their religion.

*Some, because I know there's going to be that one asshole who sidetracks with the "some not all" speech

 

[rareboy]

This reminds me of BET (Black Entertainment Television). *White people spent years telling us we weren't welcome on their channels, and still had the audacity and arrogance to get mad when we created a channel for ourselves. Muslim Bnb is probably necessary because I don't imagine many bnb welcoming them with open arms and making whatever accomodations are necessary to honor their religion.

*Some, because I know there's going to be that one asshole who sidetracks with the "some not all" speech

Quoted for the obvious truth.

 

[Zeno Lorea]

I don't imagine many bnb welcoming them with open arms and making whatever accomodations are necessary to honor their religion.

And rightly so. The list can be quite impressive: no pork meat at breakfast, no dogs in the house, no alcohol in the minibar, no immodestly dressed women, no uppity women who speak their mind, no jews, and most of all: no gays. Don't comply and they will call you a racist, an islamophobe and, obviously, a filthy whore.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

And rightly so. The list can be quite impressive: no pork meat at breakfast, no dogs in the house, no alcohol in the minibar, no immodestly dressed women, no uppity women who speak their mind, no jews, and most of all: no gays. Don't comply and they will call you a racist, an islamophobe and, obviously, a filthy whore.

Which is true because there are no moderate Muslims who only live by the more practical laws, just like there are no moderate Christians, they all refuse to wear clothe made from different fabrics and eat shellfish and they don't let women speak at church, and hopefully no children disobey their parents around them because they'll stone the child to death.

 

[Zeno Lorea]

Which is true because there are no moderate Muslims who only live by the more practical laws

Reductio ad absurdum.

No-one here says there are no moderate, secular, liberal muslims. However, those would usually feel more comfortable in an airbnb setting than in a muzbnb one!

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Reductio ad absurdum.

No-one here says there are no moderate, secular, liberal muslims. However, those would usually feel more comfortable in an airbnb setting than in a muzbnb one!

Thank you, spokesperson for moderate Muslims. Gosh I dunno what other cultures would do if we didn't have white people explaining everything to and for us.