State department to spend $400,000 for camel statue in Pakistan: Our state department is paying for this statue. Please read the article and tell me if you see the same problem that I...

TrainNut Loc: Ridin' the rails

Our state department is paying for this statue.
Please read the article and tell me if you see the same problem that I see.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/01/state-department-to-spend-400000-for-camel-statue-in-pakistan/

lovesnature

What a waste! I'm sure this money could have gone to better use. Thanks for sharing.

TrainNut Loc: Ridin' the rails

lovesnature wrote:

What a waste! I'm sure this money could have gone to better use. Thanks for sharing.

Did you see anything else wrong with the statue in a Muslim country?

pbearperry Loc: Massachusetts

I hope it's like the Trojan Horse and it's filled with nuclear waste.

lovesnature

TrainNut wrote:

Did you see anything else wrong with the statue in a Muslim country?

I'm surprised there wouldn't be an uproar among the Muslims concerning the representation of the camel in the Bible New Testament Matthew 19:24. Muslims have a different idea of their way to heaven. Does that answer your question?

TrainNut Loc: Ridin' the rails

lovesnature wrote:

I'm surprised there wouldn't be an uproar among the Muslims concerning the representation of the camel in the Bible New Testament Matthew 19:24. Muslims have a different idea of their way to heaven. Does that answer your question?

Yes. That plus the "separation of Church and state " that the libs keep yelling about. If it was a statue of some other Bible story it would be big news. Is it OK because it is a camel?
How do you think the Muslims will react to that?

From the article.
"The sculpture by artist John Baldessari depicts a fiberglass camel staring into the eye of an oversized needle in play on a passage from the New Testament about the difficulty the wealthy have in entering heaven."

Matthew 19:24
"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."

bemused_bystander Loc: Orkney Islands, UK

I heard once that the "eye of a needle" was the name for a narrow gate into a city (Jerusalem??) It was possible to get a camel through that gate, but knowing the bad tempered nature of camels, it would take a lot of shouting, yelling and pushing etc to actually accomplish this. Most drovers would walk all the way round the city to get through a wider gate.

To me this makes much more sense than just "putting a big thing through a tiny hole"

One Rude Dawg Loc: Athol, ID

pbearperry wrote:

I hope it's like the Trojan Horse and it's filled with nuclear waste.

Yep let's do it, give them a whole damn caravan of nuclear camels.

rocketride Loc: Upstate NY

TrainNut wrote:

Our state department is paying for this statue.
Please read the article and tell me if you see the same problem that I see.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/01/state-department-to-spend-400000-for-camel-statue-in-pakistan/

Wouldn't that qualify as pornography?

rocketride Loc: Upstate NY

TrainNut wrote:

Did you see anything else wrong with the statue in a Muslim country?

Aside from the Islamic prohibition against art that represents humans or animals, what could [i]possibly[\i] go wrong?

mikedidi46 Loc: WINTER SPRINGS, FLORIDA

TrainNut wrote:

Our state department is paying for this statue.
Please read the article and tell me if you see the same problem that I see.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/01/state-department-to-spend-400000-for-camel-statue-in-pakistan/

Actually based on the current Administration it should be the statue of a DONKEY.

TrainNut Loc: Ridin' the rails

[quote=rocketride]Aside from the Islamic prohibition against art that represents humans or animals, what could [i]possibly[\i] go wrong?[/quote]

I don't know. I can't see a problem. :roll: :roll: :roll:
We do not want to offend them in our country, but go over to theirs.............

papayanirvana Loc: Kauai

TrainNut wrote:

Did you see anything else wrong with the statue in a Muslim country?

I believe they are our "allies" and the statue is going on US soil, the questionable thing is the Biblical theme, using government funds!! :)... particularly in the way the world views Americans as being rich and wasteful.

TrainNut Loc: Ridin' the rails

papayanirvana wrote:

I believe they are our "allies" and the statue is going on US soil, the questionable thing is the Biblical theme, using government funds!! :)... particularly in the way the world views Americans as being rich and wasteful.

That was one of the problems I saw with it. :thumbup: