freediver wrote on Jun 9
th, 2012 at 10:16am:
Quote:The message is that people should obey the leader of the Muslims.
So the racial slur was completely unnecessary?
It is not a racial slur. It is an anti-racist message. It is a message that says that black man can be leader of the Muslims.
Quote:In most other societies it is the rich and beautiful elites who rule.
So the Caliph is not rich under the Islamic system? [/quote]
The Roshidoon Caliphs drew only a standard workers wage from the Islamic treasury. Their lifestyle was so humble that visitors to the Islamic capital could not distinguish the caliph from other people. There were no places for them, no fine clothes, and no bodyguards. When the second caliph, Umar ibn al-Khattab, arrived in Jerusalem to sign a peace treaty the inhabitants mistook Umar's servant as the Caliph because Umar was so humbly dressed.
Umar war a garment so old that it had fourteen patches - some made from animal hide.
Umar disliked displays of pride and wealth. On his way to Jerusalem Umar encountered a group the Muslims wearing silk garments. He ordered dust to be thrown in their faces and their garments to be tom off. He then proceeded till he, reached Jerusalem.
Then he went on and was met by the tribes, chiefs and others till he rested in the place where Abu 'Ubaidah had once camped. A woolen tent was pitched for him, wherein he sat on the dusty ground, then stood and prayed...
The man who ruled nearly the entire middle east, lived in tiny house made of rocks, wore old clothes, wore no silk or gold, had no bodyguards, and drew only the wages of a commoner from the treasury.
Islamic state under the 2
nd Roshidoon Caliph, Umar ibn al-Khattab:
freediver wrote on Jun 9
th, 2012 at 10:16am:
Do you think John Howard is beautiful? How about Julia Gillard?
Wasn't it Joe hockey complaining that he wouldn't be Prime minister because he looks like Shrek?
Quote:Discrimination By Appearance -
The Ugly Truth, And It's Not Pretty"The research makes it very clear that ... people who are better looking earn somewhat more than your average person and people who are worse looking earn less," said Professor Hamermesh, who is visiting Melbourne University's Institute for Applied Economic and Social Research and tomorrow will give a public lecture on The Economics of Beauty.
The chief executive of Victoria's Equal Opportunity Commission, Diane Sisely, said he was probably, regrettably, right. The commission fielded a flood of complaints - 130, in all - in 1999-2000 from people who believed they had been discriminated against because of their physical appearance. "It's very entrenched in our community and it's very unfair," she said.
Professor Hamermesh's studies suggest people in the top 30 per cent in the looks department can expect to earn between 3 and 5 per cent more than people in the middle 60 per cent. And people in the bottom 10 per cent, whom he described as "pretty ugly people", earn up to 10 per cent less.
"We are programmed almost from birth to think about looks ... If it's not your customers, it's the fellow employees who are revolted by working with an incredibly ugly person," he said...
http://www.rense.com/general12/notp.htm 'Uglyism' more widespread than sexism, racism, study finds
A new study sheds light on "our most invisible prejudice" as a society: Uglyism.
Coined by a Canadian sociologist, "uglyism" describes the subtle but widespread discrimination experienced by people whose appearances lie south of the beauty equator mapped out by art, literature and film.
"We don't realize the level of discrimination that we exercise against people who are less attractive than the norm," says Anthony Synnott, a professor at Concordia University in Montreal.
"In a sense, it's very visible; we're judging people by their appearance all the time. But the prejudice about it is invisible because we aren't aware we're doing it."
Those affected, however, can be devastatingly conscious of the negative bias. Indeed, growing up with a facial deformity caused by Crouzon's Syndrome, Barry Strader says people's ill-ease with him had a "glaring clarity."
"The reality is that because I look different, too often decisions have been made (about) me with finger-snap finality in the initial moment of meeting," says Strader, who has had 11 operations in order to get to a place where he feels "normal."
While the Toronto man recognizes that his worth isn't tied up in "the jagged facial bones, the uneven eyes or the underdeveloped jaw," showing people his inner beauty requires that they first give him that chance.
"I have to work harder to make people see who I am," says Strader, whose quick wit and depth of character are regrettably "not apparent in the first quick glance or a passing stare."
The annals of sociology have seen countless studies on beauty, but Synnott says those on the flip side of the genetic lottery are just starting to get their academic due. His paper on uglyism, published this month in the interdisciplinary journal Glimpse, is one of a growing number that examine the causes and consequences of
discrimination based on physical appearance -- a form of prejudice he suggests is more pervasive today than either sexism or racism."You get that halo effect kicking in where people imbue positive values to you if you're attractive, and the horns effect -- which imbues negative values -- if you're not attractive," says Synnott. "This affects your chances, both personal and professional, throughout your life."
In casting the title role of Ugly Betty, for instance, TV executives didn't hire an eyesore but rather attached bushy eyebrows and braces to America Ferrera, an actress named one of the "100 most beautiful" celebrities in the world by People magazine...
Synnott believes this "fear of ugliness" is what's helped propel the cosmetic surgery industry, which has seen the number of procedures performed annually climb nearly 60 per cent since 2000.It's also part of the reason researchers have identified such social phenomena as the "plainness penalty," which finds that
unattractive people in the labour market earn five to 10 per cent less than their attractive counterparts...
"Beauty arouses in us positive feelings of happiness, well-being, satisfaction, joy," says Rebecca Sullivan, an associate professor at the University of Calgary.
"If you pass by someone who's unattractive, they don't evoke these feelings and may even evoke negative feelings..."
http://www2.canada.com/topics/lifestyle/style/story.html?id=f459060d-8560-455d-8...
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