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We must talk about Islam: A faith that affects everyone should be susceptible to critique by all
Salon ^ | August 2, 2015 | Jeffrey Taylor

Posted on 08/03/2015 7:26:03 AM PDT by OddLane

Eight months after it suffered one of the worst terrorist attacks in French history, the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo continues to provoke wrongheaded, confused and even cowardly analysis that disregards the facts and betrays a failure to understand – or a refusal to recognize — the stakes we in the West all have in what the publication stands for: freedom of expression.

Lest we forget those facts: on Jan. 7, the brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi burst into the Paris headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, and, shouting “Allahu akbar!” systematically gunned down staff members and others present. After doing so, they announced “We have avenged the Prophet Muhammad! We have killed Charlie Hebdo!” Their motive: the cartoonists had satirized, on many occasions, the Prophet Muhammad, whose depiction Islam forbids. Put succinctly: inspired by their religion, the Kouachi brothers murdered cartoonists for drawing cartoons. They murdered for Islam.

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TOPICS: Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: islam; salon

1 posted on 08/03/2015 7:26:03 AM PDT by OddLane
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To: OddLane
A faith that affects everyone should be susceptible to critique by all.

This is a landmark observation, exactly what is needed in the argument!

2 posted on 08/03/2015 7:37:57 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: OddLane
The Plague of Islam

If the civilized world is to survive, we must recognize Islam for what it really is: It’s not a religion, form of government, or anything recognizable to the civilized mind. Islam is a disease, an incurable disease of the mind that is highly contagious among the feeble minded and is now spreading among the world’s feeble minded at an epidemic rate. As with any disease, one can’t reason with this disease, negotiate with it, or treat in any manner other than how one would treat any other incurable disease.

Past efforts to contain this disease have failed. Now, carriers of this Plague of Islam must be eradicated wherever they're found, for if they're not, this disease will eventually end not just Western Civilization, but it will undo over 5,000 years of human civilization.

3 posted on 08/03/2015 7:54:42 AM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: GingisK

This is a landmark observation, exactly what is needed in the argument!

&&&
Indeed.

And it came from “Salon”. Color me stunned.


4 posted on 08/03/2015 9:04:15 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: Bigg Red
I liked Michael Moynihan's observation on Twitter.
5 posted on 08/03/2015 7:48:09 PM PDT by OddLane
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To: OddLane

Jeffy is going to be looking for a job.


6 posted on 08/03/2015 7:51:05 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: OddLane

Good one!


7 posted on 08/04/2015 5:54:39 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: DJ Taylor

BINGO!

Even more to the core issues....
1. islam is a satanic death cult
2. allah = satan
3. Moohammud was a savage, satanic monster & pedophile who murdered and beheaded to grow his “congregation”


8 posted on 08/04/2015 6:04:21 AM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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