But seriously, if someone put up a nude picture in a Muslim neighborhood in the United States and the picture was asked to be removed because it was “offensive” to their religion is that any worse than the picture being put up in a Muslim neighborhood and it being asked to be removed because it was “offensive” to their children? I personally don’t see the difference, but I also think obscenity laws are BS.

Nonfactor on June 6, 2007 at 2:16 PM

I’m offended everytime I see a burkha-nized woman walking 5 steps behind her so-called man on American streets. I’ll remove the naked woman picture in a Muslim neighborhood when they quit treating their women like cattle! And I think you are getting it wrong about the “cute little mothers from Kansas”, as I see it, it’s the freaky-deaky left that brought the whole “offensive” argument to the forefront. I mean, who brought us diversity training and the insane concept of political correctness in the first place. Now you all are just reaping what you sowed.

James on June 6, 2007 at 2:06 PM

Apologies to you James…….trying to extract my foot from mouth now. Potato peeler or F-22 they all serve and one can’t do without the other.

If we would paint a picture of Rosie on the nose of all our planes it would scare the enemy away

Sven on June 6, 2007 at 4:45 PM

Why dumb-down the planes to just riding the bus?

I would name my jet “Makin’ Bacon” and have two pigs doin’ it like Mohammad on an eight year old.

I would go for a nice SPAM image.

…and replace the images of women with Miss Piggy.

In a thong.

Nonfactor, true to a degree

I’ll take it!

But seriously, if someone put up a nude picture in a Muslim neighborhood in the United States and the picture was asked to be removed because it was “offensive” to their religion is that any worse than the picture being put up in a Muslim neighborhood and it being asked to be removed because it was “offensive” to their children? I personally don’t see the difference, but I also think obscenity laws are BS.

So the pilots are secular liberals attempting to corrupt the minds of the women they fly with and the mother in Kansas is a political correctness nazi.

And just as an aside–as I wrote that last paragraph I realized something. If “offensive” pictures are put up somewhere it’s the secular liberals fault, if those pictures are complained about (usually) it’s because liberals are obsessed with political correctness (exception made when those complaining are cute little mothers from Kansas).

That’s the rules according to all the CBRs and REMFs everywhere.

Limerick on June 6, 2007 at 12:47 PM

We REMFs don’t care what you put on your expensive toys…it’s your ‘warrior leaders’ who are making this call.

When an officer in the RAF sees something and deems it offensive it’s Political Correctness, when a mother in Kansas sees something she deems offensive it’s secular liberalism invading our lives.

Nonfactor on June 6, 2007 at 1:47 PM

Nonfactor, true to a degree, but please try to keep in mind who our enemies are. Its far more dangerous for us to be caving into Islam then it is for us to cave into a mother in Kansas worried about secular liberalism. Why we would even be comparing the two is in some ways suicidal and intellectually dishonest.

She’ll be in a burkha soon.

Yep, she’ll disapear, like all the women if the Muslims have their way.

On a related note, I read Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s book Infidel last night. Amazing book. Everyone should read it. I would highly recommend it to these British Bureaucrats too.

WW II U.S. Pacific fleet subs had to paint out all their ‘logos’. After WWII no ‘nose art’ was allowed on aircraft until Korea. When my son’s unit returns from the desert his turret-tattoo (Cav hat with skull & crossed sabres) is painted over. This isn’t society breaking down this is the paper-machine flexing it’s muscles. Road numbers, tail numbers, hull numbers. That’s the rules according to all the CBRs and REMFs everywhere.