Posted on 02/08/2006 2:29:51 PM PST by weegee
If this guy's company is getting paid by our government, there's something amiss.
Um...correct me if I'm wrong but weren't the cartoons published in the WEST, not the ISLAMIC WORLD?
I guess beheading the infidels doesn't count as "insulting".
But, bash Jews every chance they get.
The West does not care about the state of culture in the ME, so long as the oil can be produced. Columbus was trying to find an alternate route to Indian and China so shipping didn't have to go through the ME. Nobody wanted to ship through the ME. Still don't.
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What global village is missing this idiot?
"Muslims make a point of not insulting Christians about their faith. "
Broke my BS meter.
No mention of the Jews I note.
Hey, Einstein, you're missing the point. The problem is that Islamic absolutes are not limits on the West. At least they weren't until the MSM was taken over by cowards and hypocrites.
(steely)
In the West, freedom of expression is considered sacred. For some, that freedom is absolute, even allowing someone to insult a person's faith. In Muslim countries, there are equally absolute standards regarding Islam, and there, nothing and no one is above Islam, and love and respect for the Prophet are requirements for adherents to the Muslim faith.
In Islamic nations, nothing is above Islam, other faiths are beneath Islam (in respect and civil rights), and everyone must have love and respect for "THE Prophet" even if you are not an adherent to the Muslim faith. Supremacist belief system at its finest.
To me, your sacred prophet is just another Antichrist figure leading the flock astray.
Now, now, they are very respectful and don't make blasphemous statements against Christians as they saw through necks.
Uh, blatantly false!
Virtually every week newspapers throughout the Muslim world run stories and cartoons, nasty, disgusting cartoons, about Christians and Jews.
These are also printed in books, taught to school children, etc.
This author is making excuses for barbaric behaviour.
His whole premise, that in the West freedom of speech is an absolute, is wrong. Even here in the US where freedom of speech is still being fought for more successfully than some other areas in the Western world, we put limits on speech such as the much trotted out "can't yell fire in a crowded theatre."
Bully for them. Move back there if that is so important to you.
Otherwise, realize the absolute fallocy of expressing views in an American newspaper that freedom of speech is subservient to your religion.
Everything muslims say insults my faith. They deny Jesus' divinity (which can be challenged), they deny His crucifixion and death (but they don't deny His existence), and they deny His resurrection. Then they tell me Jesus is still an important figure to them.
I let them go on with their false prophet, but I don't have to embrace their false path. When people ask for reformation of Islam, I say return to the original Judeo-Christian Bible as either Jews (if they still won't accept Jesus) or Christians.
Fundamentalist Islamic fascism is not the global yard stick by which those in free societies measure their liberty.
Where have all these apologists for violent Muslim reaction to CARTOONS,for pete's sake,been when Christian icons have been insulted and Christians offended? Oh that's right,offended Christians will at most boycott their commie papers-they probably don't subscribe in the first place-they certainly won't burn buildings and decapitate people. So the apologists are on solid safe ground when Christians or Jews are offended. Now all of a sudden they're defending a concept that has heretofore been foreign to them-with freedom comes responsibility. Because they're SCARED. What a lot of two-faced hypocritical cowards.
The difference is that in muslim countries, if anyone disagrees the muslims threaten, intimidate or murder them. That's more than a subtle difference.
Sooner or later the Muslims (if allowed) will attack the west with WMD and will be defeated by massive retaliation.
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