[CREATE] Desktop menu - new category

[Yuval Levy]

Hi Mehdi,

jmehdi wrote:
> A book... that could represent either the Torah, the Bible or the Quran.
> 
> Actually in Islam, monotheistic people are called "People of the
> Book" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_of_the_Book)

That excludes polytheistic and atheistic people. moreover it is 
potentially offensive to people for whom books = science. Fahrenheit 451 
anybody?

While I do see the merits of your request it feels to me like it would 
lead to a step on a wasp's nest.

Jakob Petsovits called his a "minor note", but he pointed to the real 
problem: those are "mutually exclusive world views". A universal desktop 
should stay just that: open to all cultures and languages who accept 
that they are not the one and only truth (which implies that everybody 
else is lying). While most ordinary monotheistic people I know tend to 
be pragmatic and tolerate other views of the world, their religions 
still carry the dogma that can be resurrected at any time by extremists 
and that has been at the origin of most wars in human history.

Yuv - of Jewish heritage, married civilly to a wife of Catholic heritage 
because none of the representatives of our two heritages could 
compromise to a joint ceremony.