I have noticed recently in a couple of posts that a link to an English translation of the Quran is being appended to posts dealing with non-religious topics in World Affairs. The message: “Pass this website onto non-muslims please” is the text under the link.
If I added links to the Bible in Arabic http://www.arabicbible.com/ and the Bible in Urdu Home - Bible League International and requested at the end of all my posts to pass these websites on to all Muslims, my guess is that a lot of people would find this objectionable. Frankly, I, myself, would think that I was being rude to Muslims for doing this.
Do you Generalites think this is appropriate? Should anyone be posting links to religious books in our topics that deal with such unrelated things as guys having sex with chickens?
^ Not sure if I have my answer or not. Seems as if the offending posts have been permitted to escape the moderators blue pencil.
If, in fact, that kind of thing is objectionable (and as I said I think it should be and wouldn't presume to offend my Guppy brothers and sisters who are of the Islamic faith by promoting Urdu or Arabic versions of the New Testament to them), it seems to me the easiest thing to do is edit out the objectionable content. Having seen my own posts figuratively beheaded on numerous occasions when I have included content that I think is relevant, the tools are certainly available to edit posts that contain clearly irrelevant info. (Although I must confess that I have not seen any blood dripping from my beheaded posts and might conclude that they either weren't edited or alternatively were edited in a staged event by someone other than the moderators. :) )
I really did want to have a general discussion on the idea of this kind of "missionary" work. Clearly, on relevance grounds they violate the GS rules when posted in a WA thread having nothing to do with the religious scripture. I sort of wanted to discuss it on a level beyond relevance. Might be appropriate topic in religion.