“...Muslims can reasonably be angry about pictures of him being buggered.”
That's a little bit of moving of the goal posts. The original Danish cartoon to which the filth initially objected - and murdered over - was a depiction of the stinking fake prophet as a bomb. Considering that moslems are by and large violent, raging, human-hating terrorists when given the opportunity, it was an accurate depiction of reality. It's tough to make the case that they have a right to be offended by reality. The cartoon that set them off a few years back was the one with the caption, "100 lashes if you don't die laughing," which is hardly obscene, except in the sense that it's a pretty obscenely-weak pun.
Part of the problem is that it takes almost nothing to offend to the frenzy of mass murderer these savages. Just depicting the fake prophet at all sends them over the cliff. Even if they deserved any respect whatsoever (which they don'), they're so objectively over-the-top in their expectations in a world that's 80% non-moslem, that their very thought processes are an offense to civilized society.
But even if they were responding to a picture of their fake prophet in such a position, no, they may not legitimately be angry.
That is a privilege that accrues only to the civilized. The mohammedans are savage, uncivilized barbarians.
Those willing to show respect for others, and willing to discourse civilly deserve civil discourse in return. Those willing to discuss differences, rather than murder over them, deserve that others will not tear down their holy objects with ridicule and mockery.
Those who assert a right to murder, rape, pillage, plunder, and enslave others in the name of God do not deserve these courtesies. In fact, what they deserve is belittlement, scorn, contempt, return anger, vituperation, shunning, exile from humanity, and even death. They are murderers, their father is Satan, and they will return to their father at death.
“As far as they know, you're just blaspheming a man of God, and they feel humiliated and violated by it,...”
That's irrelevant. The criminal may be angry when sentenced to a long prison term, but he has no right to his anger. They may feel it all day long, but as they are uncivilized savages, they have no right to the feeling. As they are murderers and rapists who harm innocents for being infidels, they have no right to these feelings, or any respect for these feelings.
Donahue is an apologist for murderers, rapists, and enslavers.
“...just as we feel violated by the way CH portrayed the Most Holy Trinity and the Blessed Virgin Mary, demeaned by obscenity.”
The day I start using rusting blades to saw off Bill Maher’s head for his offenses against Catholicism, I lose my right to feel angry by any abuse of my Catholicism.
The right to respect is earned. The right to indignation or anger for having one’s sacred things blasphemed is earned through reciprocity, by being willing to be tolerant of the other. The moslem filth blaspheme the Most Holy Trinity all day long. I've never advocated that a hair on their heads be harmed for that blasphemy. Far from it. Although they are all filthy blasphemers, if they were to live in peace with us, I would count them good neighbors, share the Gospel as best as I could, respect them, and pray for their souls.
That is the respect that is earned by not murdering, raping, pillaging, plundering, looting, buggering, and enslaving those whom you consider infidels.
As for your student at East Tennessee, I have already stated that it is unfair that it is the “extremist, fringe” 95% of moslems that make it hard on the “moderate, mainstream” 5%. But this vast (lol) “moderate, mainstream” group will just have to suffer until they finally put down the 95% that want to kill us all.
Even if there are 10 such good and “decent moslems” on the earth (an iffy proposition), islam itself OBJECTIVELY deserves ridicule for the murdererous ways of nearly all of its adherents. If these 10 “decent moslems” have hurt feelings because of that, then THAT'S GOOD. Let them understand why their filthy religion is so hated by civilized men. Let them feel the just anger and the contempt that normal, non-barbarian peoples, the loathing and contempt that we feel toward their sick, evil, demented cult, so that they may investigate the cause of this near-universal despising, which is that the nature of the cult is evil, and they and their religion come from the devil, and they must flee it to avoid eternal damnation.
"Let them put down the... guns."
Unfortunately, they will likely not put down theirs until we have taken up ours and killed them in large numbers. That is what barbarians understand - force and violence.
Islam must be destroyed.
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They are not rightly inspired to murder, but they are rightly angered.
Second, "Donahue is an apologist for murderers, rapists, and enslavers."
No he's not. He condemned the atrocities. Your charge is contra-factual.
Third, "Those who assert a right to murder, rape, pillage, plunder, and enslave others in the name of God do not deserve these courtesies." All Muslims can rightly be angered by obscenities; most Muslims are not rapists, murderers, etc. nor supporters of such crimes.
You may say that is not relevant because their so-called "sacred texts," the Koran and the Hadith, plus 1400 years of Islamic jurisprudence, require them to be either jihadists or supporters. Well, a lot of them don't live down to the "ideals" of their religion. You could call them hypocrites: they are better than their creeds would dictate. This is a divergence from creed I would like to warmly encourage at every opportunity.
Fourth, "Although they are all filthy blasphemers, if they were to live in peace with us, I would count them good neighbors, share the Gospel as best as I could, respect them, and pray for their souls."
You and me both.