A sira, you see, is a biography of Muhammad. Like this one, although of course the term more properly refers to the ancient traditional biographies of the man that were written by pious Muslims. And so the word can't be used for something as unholy as a financial organization. That would offend the perpetually offended, you see.
"Broker watchdog to change its name," by Rachelle Younglai for Reuters (thanks to Andrew Bostom):
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A name chosen to represent the merger of two major U.S. brokerage watchdogs will be changed because the acronym may be considered offensive due to its similarity to an Arabic term.The Securities Industry Regulatory Authority, or SIRA, was the name that had been announced to represent the combination of NASD and NYSE Regulation.
SIRA, which will be regulator for all securities brokers and dealers doing business with the public in the United States, is now considering the name Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA.
When NASD chairman Mary Schapiro announced the name SIRA at a luncheon in June, she was not aware that it "could create confusion or be considered offensive because of its similarity to an Arabic term used to refer to the traditional biographies of Muhammad."
Create confusion? Really? Devout believers crowding the halls of the New York Stock Exchange, looking for classes on the life of the Prophet? Lawyers in Armani suits storming into mosques and arguing positions for or against the actions of this or that broker? It is hard to imagine a situation in which this would cause any real confusion beyond a momentary diversion during Internet searching.
in from the AP: the use of the word "shithead" is now prohibited. It has been discovered that it was one of the 72 virgin nicknames for Mohammed.
:) :)
This is foolish. I would presume that most of the siras (with the exception of Roberts) were written in Arabic. Sira is just what they are called in English, isn't it. The perpetually offended can get ticked off at just about anything.
If anyone finds the acronym 'SIRA' offensive, then they should be laughed at. Like, if they write a letter saying "I find use of SIRA to be offensive", the letter of response should read "hahahahahahahaha, the office had a good laugh at your letter!". That would work, imo :P
We are being trained to worship and fear Allah. Don't you resent it? I do.
Poetcomic1: I don't worship, I don't fear allah. He's kind of like the chimpanzee in the sitcom Seinfeld. Kramer is offended at what the chimpanzee did to him, Jerry's trying to explain to Kramer, It's a chimpanzee!
reading a sira would save a ton of confusion and end the appeasement mentality for many.The reflective kowtowing is faster then traditional knee jerking ever was.
The article stated..." A name chosen to represent the merger of two major U.S. brokerage watchdogs will be changed because the acronym may be considered offensive due to its similarity to an Arabic term.
The Securities Industry Regulatory Authority, or SIRA, was the name that had been announced to represent the combination of NASD and NYSE Regulation"
Since they are offended by anything that reminds them of their
holiness, I would like them to stop using the terms 'God and monotheism' to describe the source of the force behind their fake prophets declared assault upon the rest of the world.
Oh? Was I indiscrete....? I'm sorry- Jihad was stated by mohammad thus...'I have been made great thru Jihad'
And as for his and their god, who was merely the unifying of all the 360 plus pagan dieties wrapped into one- who said innumerably stupid, vain, and murderous comments, that completely conflict with the Torah and Talmud, which is what the koran is...
80% of it I'm told, distorted and turned around and the rest is unending vile rants and threats of death to unbelievers.
Here's one I'll use as evidence- ladies and gentleman of the court:
Allah was a moon god. Qur’an 74:32 proclaims: “I say the truth and call the moon to witness.”
in contrast, G-d of the Torah, wanted us to know that life was more important than
things, and that things—even big bright shiny things—were not God.
Okay, it's one statement, but how about a couple paragraphs to evidence the impropriety of comparing the two.
From Winn's translation and commentary:
"...Isam’s account of creation is a wee bit less credible and a touch less consistent.
From the English translation of The History of al-Tabari, Creation to
the Flood, we find: Tabari I:188 “Jews came to the Prophet and asked him about the creation
of the heavens and the earth. [Allah didn’t bother to explain our beginnings in his
Qur’an so Muhammad felt obliged to help him out.] He said, ‘Allah created the earth on
Sunday and Monday. He created the mountains and the uses they possess on Tuesday. On
Wednesday He created trees, water, cities and the cultivated and barren land. On Thursday,
He created heaven. On Friday, He created stars, the sun, moon, and angels, until
three hours remained. In the first of these three hours, He created the terms, who would
live and who would die. In the second, He cast harm upon everything that is useful for mankind. And in the third, Adam, and had him dwell in Paradise.’”
Did you notice how readily Muhammad was willing to speak for Allah?
It’s as if speaking for god was a regular part of his routine, almost as if he
knew everything his god knew. Yet, judging by his answer, Muhammad may
have done better if he had solicited advice. He, like Moses, has God creating
the earth and vegetation before the sun and stars. But in Allah’s case, there is
no excuse. Allah says, “I swear by the stars and by the signs of the Zodiac,” in the
opening verse of the 85th surah. And he, unlike Yahweh, has no interest in
developing a relationship with man. In Qur’an 51:56 Allah shares, “I have created
jinn [demons] and men only to worship Me. I do not want anything from them.”
Muhammad claims that cities existed and land was cultivated before man
was created. And the idea of god “casting harm on everything useful” gives us our
first clue as to who Allah might actually be. Finally, he obliterated the stated
purpose of Islam by saying that the terms of life and death were predestined
by Allah.
If we have no choice, we don’t need a religion.
But as strange as all that seems, why did the prophet of the all-knowing
Allah contradict himself in the next passage? Tabari I:189 “The Messenger took me by
the hand and said, ‘Allah created soil on Saturday. Upon it, He created the mountains on
Sunday. He created the trees on Wednesday, scattered animals on Thursday, and made
Adam as the last of His creatures after the afternoon prayer on Friday.’” Allah begins on
Saturday rather than Sunday and Monday. After taking a much-needed rest
on Tuesday, he forgot the cities, water, and cultivation and dispenses with the
creation of the sun, moon, and stars, as well as paradise. Then Allah creates
man after the afternoon prayer. So, who was praying and to whom?
Tabari I:189 “The Jews asked the Prophet, ‘What about Sunday?’ The Messenger answered,
‘On it, Allah created the earth and spread it out.’ They asked about Monday, and he
replied: ‘On it He created Adam.’” So much for the afternoon prayer.
** “Then they asked about Saturday and mentioned God’s resting on it. Then the Prophet got very angry
so Allah then revealed to him: ‘We have created the heavens and the earth and what is
between them in six days and fatigue did not touch Us.’” This became Qur’an 50:38.
It’s interesting that Allah was of no help providing Muhammad with a
rational explanation of creation or even help keeping his stories straight, but
***when it came time to embarrass the God of the Jews, he jumped in with a
handy Qur’anic revelation.*** It says, in essence, “My god is better than your god because my god didn’t need to rest.”**
But that’s a problem. The “Gods”
are supposed to be the same. And the Bible tells us that only one spirit
thought he was better than Yahweh—the fallen angel Lucifer.
Moreover, Muhammad didn’t understand that the Genesis account was
designed to convey spiritual truth. Yahweh’s pattern of six and one ultimately
became the framework upon which his relationship with man was built.
Unfortunately, Muhammad’s testimony puts us in a quandary. It is too
foolish to be from a literate man, and yet his stories are loosely based upon
Genesis, the world’s best known written account of our beginnings. I believe
that the following Hadith provides some insights into how Muhammad came
to know these things and on whose authority he claimed to be speaking. Bukhari:
V4B55N546“A Jewish rabbi, Abdulla bin Salam approached the Messenger, ‘I am going to ask
you three things which nobody knows except a prophet: [Then how would the Rabbi know
them?] What is the first portent of the Hour? What will be the first meal taken in Paradise?
Why does a child resemble its father, and why does it resemble its mother?’ Allah’s Apostle
said, ‘Gabriel has just now told me of the answers.’ ‘Gabriel, from among all the angels,
is the enemy of the Jews.’ ‘The first portent of the Hour will be a fire that will bring the people
from east to west. The first meal of Paradise will be caudate lobe of fish-liver. As for
the resemblance of a child to its parents: If a man has sexual intercourse with his wife and
gets discharge first, the child will resemble him, and if the woman gets discharge first, the
child will resemble her.’ On that the rabbi said, ‘I testify you are the Apostle of Allah, and
that Jews are liars.’” It’s hard to believe that anyone believes this is scripture.
Salam was one of two Jews Ishaq believes sold out to Muhammad. He was
in all likelihood responsible for providing the scripture the prophet corrupted to
compile his Qur’an. And Gabriel was neither an enemy of the Jews, nor who
Muhammad claimed him to be. I am certain Islam’s prophet mistook Lucifer
for Gabriel. The totality of the Qur’an and Hadith allow no other conclusion.
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And so, would they please stop telling us that their use of G-d is the same as the Judeochristian one, and stop demanding that
everyone think they are holy, as they slaughter, butcher, assault, demean, and enslave others who like others in their 'religion' of submission, have no choice.
Submit, be humiliated, or..... die, So muslims can go to the highes.... how do they phrase than brothel of which they speak?
Heaven... Yes, please reframe from stealing others words, works, and we'll call it a day....
Mark
This is beyond silly. Any acronym in English could sound like almost any word in another language. The point is: the acronym is in ENGLISH!
In the classification of proteins there is the "PutA protein". Now "puta" means prostitute in Spanish and Italian. So how dare these scientists use that in a classification!
Sounds like a job for the Committee Requesting Acronym Preservation.
Good one Marisol!
Mustang-
OK but we ARE being taught to FEAR ISLAM. That is all that Islam has to 'teach' us. There was a time when the whole world FEARED what Hitler might do and acted accordingly. Every day in the thirties there was an endless stream of commetary and prediction in the media about what Hitler might or might not do. Islam is doing that to us now.
Greetings:
Sounds like the camel's nose going into the "establishment of a religion tent."
Why is the government even considering this. All religions are equal; some religions are more equal?
For Allah's sake, don't use ZINA!
AP ALBANY. In a related story, the State University of New York, the Empire State's network of public universities has announced it will soon stop using its famous acronym, SUNY. The state's Sunni Muslim population has complained that the New York's university system is too un-Madrassa-like and therefore the term is offensive to New York's Sunni population.
They have suggested the name be changed to: American Lyceum for Quality Advanced Educations for Disgruntled A$$holes (AL QAEDA).
Why even bother to comment on such Dhimmi-foolishness??!!
Here's something for the Mos to be offended by :-)
http://quran.fanclub.ms/
Who said Germans have no sense of humor?
PS. You don't need to know German to get this website. Islam macht Frei!
"The letter of response should read "hahahahahahahaha" .....". Well said Rogster, that's the way to do it.
Perhaps the Stock Exchange folks think if they don't antagonize the perpetually antagonized they won't be a target.
What utter foolishness!
Well if they're going to call Financial Industry Regulatory Authority = FINRA, surely they can make
Securities Industry Regulatory Authority = SINRA.
Now no Muslims need be confused. About this regulatory group, anyway.
The less we are concerned about how these lowermost bodily orifices will feel about what we say, do, or call things, the better off we will be.
When faced with 7th century ignorance, bigotry, and absence of logic, the best thing is to regard it as something belatedly rising once again from the Urschleim and sending it back to crawl in it again.
The simpering imbeciles amongst us, who try to please these slime-crawlers only feed their arrogance and overblown opinion of themselves.
Ignore tyhe creepy-crawlers demands and complaints and carry a big stick.
"Why are you carrying a big stick, grandma?"
"So I can beat these nasty wrigglers back into the primordeal slime from which they try to rise now and again."
Provoslavni :
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- In Portuguese as well, Puta means Prostitute,
While we are at it:
Italians should stop refering to the male anatomy, in Japanese, when they toast.
Hebrew needs to rework the female third person singular as it is confusing with the third person singular in English which itself is a question back in Hebrew.
France needs to change its word for prostitute to avoid offending Russia`s top politician.
This is just for starts.
We need an international comittee, governed by the EU and the UN to make sure all language is safe to use anywhere in any country.
The only thing worse than caving in to Muslim pressure is to do it preemptively. How friggin sad.
This pathetic BOOTLICKING will only encourage the ultra-violent Mahometan cultists to make more demands. Show some spine, dammit!!!
SIRA should change their name to
ALLA = Allah's Loyal Lapdogs Association
Que sira sira.
Pussyfooting around in order not to offend with such meaningless coincidences only emboldens the intolerant.
There as no such letters in any Islamic text, because they don't use our alphabet so its its only a bit of coincidental sonics.
Are we to censor every sound in every language that approaches some "offensive" parallel with an Arabic noise?
Suicide, thy name is p.c.
The whores can't risk offending any potential investors.
This all works out though right,because the islamic world is going to stop refering to non muslims as infedels.Stop calling Jews apes and pigs.Allow women freedom.Start teaching thier children to live life and gain higher education.
Plus Saudi Arabia will allow churches and synagogues to be built on every street corner.All religions will be allowed to be practiced openly and freely.
And for certain all death threats toward non muslims and non muslim nations will no longer be tolerated by the islamic world as well.
In light of International equality the islamic world has decided to allow all it's non muslim and non Arabic citizens the exact same rights as muslims and arabs.
RIGHT?????
These politicians and appeasers act like it's thier farm to give away.They are so wrong.
Whats the difference between a politicians mind and a muslims mind? Not a damn thing they all think they are superior.
The first sign they are the most ignorant.
This calls for a two pronged approach.
[Prong 1]
Go easy on wording that seems likely to lead to a Jihadist flareup.
[Prong 2]
Using concentrated stealth, kill off the Mad Mullah kingpins until such time as groups like al Muqtada blackshirts lose enthusiasm.
When Prong 2 is relentlessly carried out, then disregard Prong 1. = TG