I'd be shocked, huh? Let's look at what some Muslims are saying on Twitter. Ones from the Middle East, even: fifarahman from Bandar Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur "So sad that #Malaysia has deported #HamzaKashgari.I cant imagine standing there sending some1 away to sure death. It's against human nature." Hala_Aldosari This is a sad world, we haven't moved far from the Middle ages #HamzaKashgari asteris Asteris Masouras What'd it take for your people to call for your murder & your country to order your arrest for tweeting? For #HamzaKashgari, 3 poetic tweets Hmm, so it looks like plenty of Muslims *over there* don't even support this. My best friend and also a coworker of mine, both Muslims, are also completely opposed to this. Religion isn't some inherently evil thing. You need to look at which parts are cultural and separate those out.

I'd mod you up if I had mod points right now. I'm a Thelemite, which is a religion that doesn't require belief in a god or the supernatural, and many of us are atheists. As it stands, I can't go anywhere without some Dawkins or Hitchens type atheist telling me that I'm "delusional" for being religious. Every time a news article mentions religion, a bunch of atheists have to chime in about how destructive "religion" is. At this point, at least where I'm standing, it's worse than Christians who try to force their views on people. Honestly, if it weren't for religion, any philosophy or political ideology (even democracy, capitalism, etc) would be used to justify the same fucked up things that a tiny minority of people use religion to justify.

There's a reason Upton Sinclair wrote "The Jungle" and a reason we have regulation in the first place. Unregulated business turns into corporate tyranny. Competition would disappear overnight through monopolistic hoarding of resources, price fixing, and other forms of collusion and founding a company to compete and change the industry would go right out the window with it.

It's not legal, actually. It's illegal under the name "parading without a permit."

The place my neurologist sent me for testing only tested with fluorescents, but it did show up on the EEG. Psychogenic seizures don't show up. Also, I've had seizures when friends accidentally forgot to screw in incandescent lights instead of their normal CFLs when I came to visit. I didn't have any prior knowledge that they were using CFLs and we only discovered it *after* I reacted to them. It's hard enough to get an appointment for testing (let alone getting to the appointment; my girlfriend is the only way I can get there since I can't drive and need to best escorted in with a blindfold), let alone asking them to set up something specific with multiple lamps, different types of lights, lampshades, etc, which may not be all that accurate anyway because the people slamming me on /. would just claim it wasn't truly blind because maybe I could distinguish between the bulbs based on the colour of the light. I don't get why people are attacking me on here. I have a serious health problem and I'm not asking for a ban on CFLs or a change in anyone's lifestyle... I do however want people to be aware of what I'm going through.

As far as the people who say everyone would know about this if I truly had this problem, it's simply not true. The media had no interest in picking this up, I wrote to all of the politicians in my state (California) and only got generic template responses, I tell everyone I meet, but the information just doesn't spread. I'm not looking for handouts, to push some agenda, or anything. I just want to be able to see in my house after dark.

Mine is one of the many that uses LED backlights. CCFL (cold cathode fluorescent) is on the way out.

I can't enter buildings. I work from home and have to go blindfolded when I see a doctor or dentist. My girlfriend has to lead me into buildings and people constantly stare and ask rude questions. My LCD monitor with a DC-powered LED backlight is just fine.

I never said anything about banning CFLs, I said I should be able to use incandescent lights. The kind of seizure you describe is called a grand mal seizure. There are other kinds of seizures that are also pretty horrible. I do in fact lose consciousness and fall to the ground under these lights. Don't think I've bitten my tongue, but I've hit my head pretty hard. I think my neurologist knows a lot more about this than you do.

You are just about the rudest person I've ever met. Guess what? I can't drive a car, go into office buildings, etc. I wear a blindfold to the dentist and can't go bowling or to the movies with my friends. I can't look at old "box" style TVs either. It's pretty awful and people like you don't help. Computers are fine because my LED-lit flatscreen monitor runs on DC power and doesn't flicker.

Mod this guy up. That's exactly it. Stating that they are "technically" not banned doesn't change the reality of the situation. Also, whoever modded me as a troll, I'm not trolling. I have serious adverse health effects from CFLs.