>The humor should be abundantly clear for anyone paying even slight attention to the daily slide of Christian values and Western Civilization over the past many decades.<<
Undoubtedly, there has been a slide in the values of both Christianity and secular Western Society. But the distinction to the Muslim culture couldn’t be starker — and that is the context of this whole discussion.
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Actually the context of this whole discussion originates with the sad report of a rapist/murderer.
Used to be collective punishment was against our values too.