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Actually, when I saw a newswire about "cartoon protests", I thought that it maybe involved dropping anvils on infidels, etc
Actually, when I saw a newswire about "cartoon protests", I thought that it maybe involved dropping anvils on infidels, etc
You also seem to be suggesting that preventing "hurt feelings" be something legislated
You are also card stacking the argument by seeking extremes for your assertion
Being pissed off and acting like an idiot is neither an excuse nor a justification.
And remember, Holocaust deniers, racists and homophobes are expressing feelings, too, not facts or arguments.
I certainly don't think their feelings are deserving of legislated protection, however justified they think their feelings are.
so it is a fact that mohammed wore a bomb on his head?
this is the double standard that is pissing them off soo.
i don't know about you but i don't want to have a WW3 over
freedom of speech & a cartoon
Read the history of your own culture. You may note that people died for the right to speak their minds. They died to define that very right.
The fact that you actually believe that "the media" shows good taste is an obscure belief.
No I don't fail to understand what other cultures tolerate. You fail to understand that cultures don't tolerate, individuals do the tolerating.
You say you are not defending rioting; but you appear to unwittingly sanction, to some degree, a response that is clearly excessive, a response that is being driven by religious extremism and closed-mindedness.
Riots and threats censor and kill debate and expression through intimidation and fear. They are hardly reasoned responses.
What you fail to see is that some Islamic religious leaders themselves have used Allah, the Koran and Mohammed as justifications for violence and terrorism. Do you reserve your condemnation of this fact because you want to hide behind the idea that "they" are "different" and thus somehow we are all collectively incapable of participating in some larger conversation? The whole point of the comic was to reflect what in fact too many Islamic religious leaders said Mohammed was sanctioning in the first place! Can you see this point?
You have not stated how it is a double standard. And as for "them," who do you mean by "them?" Are you speaking on behalf of all of "them" now?
I really have to hold back my laughter, considering that World War Two was, from our Western perspective, all about stopping the spread of fascism and nazism in Europe; political forces that had absolutely no use for free expression.
stopping the spread of fascism and nazism in Europe; political forces that had absolutely no use for free expression.
He has been critical of Canadian foreign policy, perceived anti-American sentiment in Canadian politicians
read between the lines. is he not suggesting that canadian politicians "shut up" in regards to their negative opinions on americans?
let them be intolerant in their own land. as long as their protests are peaceful over here
i'm not saying that they should make laws to limit speech, i'm saying that there should be self control on the part of the mainstream media. if you don't think censorship exists, i don't know where you have been all your life. i have never opened a mainstream paper and seen blacks or jews made fun of in such a manner
it's the papers that know they are enticing riots that are doing the wrong doing.
do you think that the western standard would publish the cartoon about the jew bending over to pick up the penny?
doesn't terrorism have no use for freedom of expression?
all this cartoon did was fuel more extremeism