Or perhaps Google have instigated a policy of respecting religious beliefs and have randomly picked Islam to be the first.

Don’t be so naive, Malcolm.
The reason, when you type “Islam is” into Google, that the auto-complete doesn’t follow up with any negative options (or any at all in fact) is the same reason that the MSM will not present much of what myself and others have openly expressed about Islam/Muslims in this thread. Islam must be pandered to.

Of course type in “Christianity is” or “Buddhism is” or “Hinduism is” and watch the autocomplete prompt with such things as:

Christianity is … a cult, … bullshit, … a lie, … a joke, … dying, … wrong, … false, etc.

Are we really surprised?

Kris et al would have us believe that Christianity is the answer. It hasn’t worked. I accept that Christianity currently generates less violent nutters than Islam, however it hasn’t worked and is unlikely to suddenly start. You can’t disabuse people of one set silly ideas based on myths by giving them another set of silly ideas based on myths.

Really?
I think you’ll find, Malcolm, that the reason (typically) the West has been protected from Islam et al is because of its Christian heritage, and, until recently (~40 years), the fact that the majority of the populace embraced Christianity, or at least biblical values. There is also a link, I believe, between the prosperity the West has enjoyed and its Christian heritage.
Basically God (of the Bible) blesses those nations that submit to His rule; His word.

The recent decline of our (the West) prosperity, and the reduction of spiritual protection afforded against the likes of Islam are resultant of the recent deshackling of Western culture from submission to God and His word IMHO.

The West is hamstrung in the fight against Islam’s worst features because of our history of giving respect to nonsense. Our particular religions are reasonably harmless and house-trained, so this has been a workable political compromise. Except now it leaves us powerless to attack Islam at it’s weakest point; namely the whole absurd basis.

You’ve got that ’round the wrong way, Malcolm.
It is more the case that the West is (was) “house-trained” because of its traditional submission to God and His word.
The moral decline, increasing promiscuity, increasing violence, reducing respect for others, etc., have ALL come about, once again, since the West has deshackled itself from Christianity.

That someone of your intelligence denies what is recent history truly astounds me – although you aren’t alone in that.

PS The battle between Islam and Judaism/Christianity is a spiritual one which manifests itself physically in the world – this is where the battle will be lost or won. Man made peace treaties, giving up land for peace (Israel), attempts to assimilate/integrate Muslims, etc., are ALL doomed to failure, and can be observed to have failed rather spectacularly to date.

Bottom line:
Man is NOT in control of his own destiny; God is.
Our choice is to either submit to Him or not – those that do not will, ultimately, suffer the consequences of that choice.

Yeah, NZ, so, say no more.

And will regret it in the future at some point.

Need I point to England as an example?

“This is a bug and we’re working to fix it as quickly as we can,” a Google spokesman told Wired.com.

Google says it filters out “pornographic terms, dirty words, and hate and violence terms.”

That means it’s most likely someone at Google got a complaint, added the phrase to a list of skip words, like f**K, seeing the results as hate and violence — perhaps without even looking at suggestions for other religions.

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/01/google-islam-censorship/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29

The sort of respect many were demanding here re the St Matthew-in-the-City billboard.

It seems very clearly to be Google being scared of offending Muslims.

What did you think I was trying to prove?

Try the same exercise using Bing (go to Bing.com and type in the same phrases), and you’ll get a different result.

Proves: nothing.

On Google, start typing “Christianity is” or “Buddhism is” or “Hinduism is” and watch the autocomplete showing you common search phrases.

Then try “Islam is”.

Kris et al would have us believe that Christianity is the answer. It hasn’t worked. I accept that Christianity currently generates less violent nutters than Islam, however it hasn’t worked and is unlikely to suddenly start. You can’t disabuse people of one set silly ideas based on myths by giving them another set of silly ideas based on myths.

The West is hamstrung in the fight against Islam’s worst features because of our history of giving respect to nonsense. Our particular religions are reasonably harmless and house-trained, so this has been a workable political compromise. Except now it leaves us powerless to attack Islam at it’s weakest point; namely the whole absurd basis.

We do insist Muslims live within our laws as much as anyone else regarding equal opportunity and non-violence.

Was this a Muslim family? http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2010/01/barbaric.html

This is its biggest hurdle in adapting to modernity.

This thread is about Islamic integration in NZ, not about alcohol problems.

Here’s a pertinent question: now that the language-training schools are bringing in Saudi students to NZ, are any Saudi females coming to study, and if so what proportion of the total number?

That is hilarious!

Then you’ll love the lolcat Bible Translation Project

Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem.

That is hilarious!