Second, I totally think that we’re hiding TOO much from our kids these days. At the school by my house kids can’t even play tag or red rover because “ooooh they’re touching each other how fucking inappropriate!” It’s all the parents fault for how badly my generation has turned out, and these kids are gonna be worse, because when a kid who had parents who are either over protective, or don’t give an rats ass has a kid, they’ll act either just as bad, or the exact opposite.

No, 7 is not the right time to stop censoring your kids however, but god sake let em’ play tag. Let them sing ring around the rose and bah bah black sheep, they don’t know what the fuck it means, and if another kid tells them and they ask you, that’s a good way to start up the conversation most parents now a day ignore, and that’s that people can, and will try to, hurt them.

Thank you for this post and for including the entire poem. “Remember, remember, The fifth of November” is the oldest recorded rhyme. I learned that in school, along with the story of Guy Fawkes. It’s not about political correctness. It’s about history.

(And I would like to mention that it just KILLS me that so many people believe that “Remember, remember . . . ” was created by the writers of the movie, “V for Vendetta.”) Sad.

Even though suicide is forbidden in Islam, some conservative, influential Muslim scholars including most notably Yusuf al-Qaradawi have justified suicide bombings when the perpetrators are occupied or acting in self-defense without other available means to defend themselves.[65] However, many scholars of Islam have pointed out that classically, Islam does not justify suicide bombings. For example, Bernard Lewis states, “The emergence of the now widespread terrorism practice of suicide bombing is a development of the 20th century. It has no antecedents in Islamic history, and no justification in terms of Islamic theology, law, or tradition.”[49] Respected Muslim scholars have also made statements and fatwas condemning suicide bombings as terrorism that is prohibited in Islam with the perpetrators being destined to hell.[48] In condemning suicide attacks, Muslim scholar Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri directly targeted the rationale of Islamists by stating, “Violence is violence. It has no place in Islamic teaching, and no justification can be provided to it…good intention cannot justify a wrong and forbidden act”.[48] In January 2006, one of Shia Islam’s highest ranking Marja clerics, Ayatollah al-Udhma Yousof al-Sanei also decreed a fatwa against suicide bombing, declaring it as a “terrorist act”.[66]
According to Charles Kimball, chair of the Department of Religion at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, “There is only one verse in the Qur’an that contains a phrase related to suicide”, Surah 4 verse 29 of the Quran.[67] It reads:
O you who have believed, do not consume one another’s wealth unjustly but only [in lawful] business by mutual consent. And do not kill yourselves. Indeed, Allah is to you ever Merciful.
Some commentators believe that the phrase “do not kill yourselves” is better translated “do not kill each other”, and some translations (e.g., by Shakir) reflect that view.[68] Mainstream Islamic groups such as the European Council for Fatwa and Research also cite the Quranic verse Al-Anam 6:151 as prohibiting suicide: “And take not life, which Allah has made sacred, except by way of justice and law”.[69] In addition, the Hadith unambiguously forbid suicide including Bukhari 2:445, “The Prophet said, ‘…whoever commits suicide with a piece of iron will be punished with the same piece of iron in the Hell Fire,” and “A man was inflicted with wounds and he committed suicide, and so Allah said: My slave has caused death on himself hurriedly, so I forbid Paradise for him.”.[70][71]