The response is of course crazy. But the idea of insulting people's religion is common among liberals and the like.
The response is a separate issue.
The use of the pictures and inclusion of very nasty pictures not drawn by the same European but presented as such throughout the Middle East is also a seperate issue.
Islam is not a religion. It is a violent political philosophy that masquerades as a religion. Very similar to Nazism.
That statement, coming from an official State Department spokesman, makes us look more scared than France and the person who uttered it is an idiot.
"The response is of course crazy. But the idea of insulting people's religion is common among liberals and the like."
Many liberals hate religion to the point that they will go out of their way to insult it. If you are angered at pictures of crosses in urine, then you should be angered at this - both are irresponsible depictions meant only to provoke (hate-speech?). It's pretty much the same thing in my opinion. Having rights also means having responsibility which is something all too forgotten these days.
I thought I was the only one. It IS offensive for Muslims, and that part of it, I feel badly for them. It would be as if a newspaper ran a cartoon portraying Christ as a homosexual sex slave to the apostles. Alot of Americans would be quite upset by that, and threaten to boycott as well. Of course, they wouldn't be threatening to burn the place down, but that is besides the point. While the press and media have a right to offend, they have to realize that when you do, you piss people off.
But the idea of insulting people's religion is common among liberals and the like.
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I guess you've not read the comments about Islam made on this site, eh? Or is FreeRepublic now a liberal site.