Social distancing vs Prayer

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

It was a dig at those Pakistanis who crowd into mosques when the scientific consensus is that it's dangerous to do so.

I remain unconvinced that referring to religionists who insist on putting themselves in danger as 'twatwaffles' qualifies as bigotry.  We're getting ready to read about those Filipinos who crucify themselves at Easter.  These people are twatwaffles.  There are plenty of stories about parents who prefer prayer to medical care for their kids.  More twatwaffles.  You know those snake handlers who get bitten and die?  Twatwaffles.

The Pakistanis in the story are no different.

Boru

Emphasis being on Pakistanis, not people in general. Reread the OP.

The OP has a posting history here that we all have access to, I don't know why some of us want to pretend this wasn't just another opportunity to denigrate people different from "us".

BUT - not in Pakistan.

I have re-read the OP.  The case for bigotry remains weak.

From the article:

But in Karachi, Pakistan's biggest city, mosques were crowded as a religious scholar told his congregation via loudspeaker: "We are not too weak to let this one virus empty our mosques."

OLB was referring to people who crowd together in mosques, not to Pakistanis in general, not even to religionists in general.

Boru