Attacks on church are a misguided effort
It is said, “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
As a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, I condemn al-Qaeda’s massacre of 60 worshippers assembled at the Our Lady of Salvation Church in Iraq.
This horrendous act was perpetrated in the name of Islam, whereas the Quran categorically sanctions the protection of all places of worship, specifically churches (22:40-41). This is yet another example of Al Qaeda’s exploitation of Islam to promote their unholy agenda.
I offer my condolences to the families of the victims. Unfortunately, we live in an age of “guided missiles and misguided men.”
Khalid Bhatti is an application developer and works at the University of Houston.
In response to the article: Perry’s unprecedented perilous tenure continues
My sentiments exactly. I am ashamed of my generation’s ineptitude in exercising our civil rights to impinge on Perry’s ingress on Texas and our future. His interests are to serve those who put him in office and keep him there — those being the corporations that hold the most financial interests in this state, read: energy.
There are at least five people I personally know who did not vote, and it infuriates me. This is the result of the apathy, cynicism, ignorance and contempt for the government that should serve you. Now you’ve chosen to let corporations give rise to a government that indentures you to its service.
You can’t have such unbridled greed and the extraordinary wealth of so few, whilst also having a free, educated and stable society. Milton Friedman, “Reaganomics,” deregulation, Adam Smith, Rand Corporation and self-interested, self-invested unbridled greed has created this global economic meltdown.
You idiots who didn’t vote — you let this happen, and you may b***h and moan, but in the end you are supplicated by minutiae designed to distract you, where you’ll happily return to being just another brick in the wall. I’m 24 and I’m not going to bring any children into this world if they’re doomed to live shoulder-deep in this ignorance and waste.
The saddest part is that I’m sure the worst of this has yet to come. It is those who are so obsessed with the end of the world, that — in all the irony — they are indeed hastening the march to just that. History, as told by the vigilant spectators of this world, will be the judge. I soulfully dream for the day where we will see humanity save itself from its own stupidity.
Aurash Fidel Kamalipour
In response to the Staff Editorial: Shoplifting is a crime — but so is killing someone
Moral of the story: Don’t steal. Don’t turn good people upholding universal values into criminals and make them live with the consequences because of the poor choice you chose to make yourself. The man that runs that shop is kind to all of his customers, has young children and works hard to run an honest family business. Before you write an editorial of judgment based on limited facts from the Houston Chronicle release, you should wait for more details.
Montrose Lefty
I am not surprised that DC editorial has backed the wrong side yet again in an opinion on crime and justice. Remember, this staff championed police brutality in its column “In a modern day and age, justice is still being served,” on Oct. 27. No jury is going to convict the shop owner. You are in Texas, and the law is on the clerk’s side. This is what the Texas Constiution Penal Code says about using deadly force to protect property.
Lisa Street
Khalid must be selectively reading the Qur'an. It's not surprising to read about the daily atrocities committed by Muslims against Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists. This is in no small part what a supremacist quasi-religion like Islam is all about. For Khalid to spin this off as something being done by a small percentage of misguided Muslims is dishonesty or misinformation or naivety.
thereligionofpeace.com/Pages/Quran-Hate.htm
To: The writing staff of The Daily Cougar: I have spoken to your UH board of regents six out of the last seven board meetings in the last year and a half. Each time I have informed them that they are not abiding by their student handbook, faculty handbook, board by-laws, or federal law. You cannot discriminate against students based upon sex (I am not talking about orientation). There are here and at most universites around the United States, Women' s Centers and no Men's Centers, Women's Month and no Men's Month, Women's curriculum, and no men's curriculum, women's courses and no men's courses. I am not talking about whether or not men are mentioned more in History or if more men are theorists in Psych and Sociology. I am talking about political opportunity like what women students get with the above mentioned.
By the way, I would like to add something I forgot to the above comments. The reason we have this situation in the United States with women's issues dominating the campuses and men's issues being non-existent is because men all over the United States value women above themselves, and they call that equality. Furthermore, men are not even cognizant that they do or think that way. They just robotically allow women to feed them a diet of victimization. Men gobble it up because they see other men gobbling it up. It is all nothing more than monkey see monkey do. If I am wrong, I would like to see you show up at the next board meeting and then write a truthful account in this paper of what you heard. I'll bet you are a no show. Even the media, including this paper won't print a story on this because I believe they are afraid of truly challenging topics. How else do you explain me sternly correcting the board of regents six times and the Daily Cougar not even reporting on that?