So how soon will this store start stocking chador?
I think we need to have a "Burn your Persian rugs and cats" demonstration.
this article can be interpreted in one sentence:
If it doesn't offend Jews or Christians then we don't sell it.
Meanwhile, the store announced that they would be celebrating 'Robert Mappelthorpe Day' instead.
"Basically our policy (is) freedom of expression, yes. But freedom of gratuitous provocation? No."
Unless it's against those whom you don't feel cutting your head off. Cowardly liberal.
"With something this spicy, it may be that some newsstands decline to take it for their own reasons," said Levant, noting that half of the magazine's 40,000 circulation goes directly to subscribers.
It's not Penthouse, dude. Who do you think you are fooling?
Levant says Canada's mainstream newspapers and civil liberties organizations are hypocritical by self-censoring the cartoons, which he describes as innocuous.
You forgot cowardly.
"This is a very deep, difficult issue
This invariably is followed by some vague explanation that only elite liberals can understand, but nobody else.
"It would be much better if that magazine and other newspapers open up its editorial pages to discussing how we're going to deal with freedom of expression and religious sensitivities in the new global world."
Keep your global world....I like the good ole Us Constitutional Bill of Rights, which says we'll print things as we see fit, and if Muslims riot here, they can suffer the consequences.
Levant dismisses suggestions from some editors that they don't like to offend religious groups. He points to the current cover of Rolling Stone, with rapper Kanye West portrayed as Jesus Christ with a crown of thorns.
Great example!.....followers of Christ typically don't sever limbs and heads........how brave of you!
"The difference is when they offend Christianity, Christians write a letter to the editor or maybe invite them out for lunch and try to appeal to them," said Levant, who is Jewish. "What the Muslim world has demonstrated over the last month is that they will get violent."
Right.
Mohamed Elmasry, national leader of the Canadian Islamic Congress, says he would like the Western Standard charged with distributing hate literature. violating Sharia,/font>
'Nuff said; to hell with international courts.
"They already know this is hurtful to Muslims," said Elmasry. "For Western Standard to go out of their way and re-publish them, the only explanation is provocation."
A threat, plain and simple. You might make the Muslims angry........show me one smiling (not after a bus or aircraft bombing, and I'll eat my shoes.
Elmasry says there is a limit to free speech. If no charges are laid against Levant, the Islamic group plans to lobby federal politicians to toughen up the hate laws.
Islam is a religion of hate laws; what a conundrum.
Police received several complaints after the Calgary-based Jewish Free Press published some of the cartoons over the weekend under the headline: "They came for the cartoonists first." No charges have been laid.
"They came for the cartoonists first".......how relieving to see no charges have been filed in what is obvious hate speech.
Picture Christianity as a great bear of a man, seven feet tall, 700 pounds of pure muscle; jovial, good spirited, uses that strength to benefit others. Knows his own strenght and uses it judiciously. People like to come up and kick him in the shins, but usually he just laughs it off as it really doesn't hurt this man, and he brushes such things off.
Hurt weak, infirm, elderly, or otherwise defenseless people, and watch his face turn dark.
....and that is what Islam is up against.......a huge, normally jovial man who won't sit back and watch them terrorize people. Islam is a bully who is going to be clashing (is clashing) with someone who is up to the task of dealing with bullies.