Posted on 05/12/2010 7:53:49 PM PDT by Starman417
What happens when you appease those who use violence to silence those they don't agree with? You allow them to shape the debate. You allow them to win and you silence freedom of speech:
By constantly buckling in to the slightest Muslim displeasure — whether by altering films, removing museum art, or canceling book launches — the West has perpetuated a vicious cycle wherein Muslim sensitivities are ever heightened and outraged at the slightest slight, and Western freedoms of expression are correspondingly diminished and trampled upon. What’s worse, such self-imposed censorship falls right into the hands of homegrown Islamists actively working to subvert Western civilization from within.
Yesterday Lars Vilks, the man who drew Muhammed as a dog and has been receiving death threats ever since, was giving a speech at a University in Sweden and was promptly attacked by fanatical Islamic idiots:
Lars Vilks, the Swedish cartoonist who drew Mohammed as a dog, was recently told that a scheduled lecture on free speech, to be held at Jönköping Högskolan, would be canceled due to "security concerns." This, of course, is a common evasion, intended to protect the brittle sensibilities of Muslim students while supposedly standing four square behind the right of free speech.Alas, the administrators in Jönköping had a point. During a lecture in Uppsala today Vilks was attacked by a pack of feral fundamentalists, one of whom managed to headbutt the artist and break his glasses. Police intervened and waged a short battle with the religious nutters who can be heard in the video below, captured by the newspaper UNT, shouting Allahu Akbar!
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Well, the violence has worked once again:
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Now that is really funny!
If pork is so evil, why does mohamed have “mo ham” in it?
ROFLMAO!
Now THAT is funny! LMAO!
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