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Firebombed French Paper Is No Free Speech Martyr
Time ^ | Nov. 02, 2011 | Bruce Crumley

Posted on 01/08/2015 1:49:54 PM PST by detective

Okay, so can we finally stop with the idiotic, divisive, and destructive efforts by “majority sections” of Western nations to bait Muslim members with petulant, futile demonstrations that “they” aren’t going to tell “us” what can and can’t be done in free societies? Because not only are such Islamophobic antics futile and childish, but they also openly beg for the very violent responses from extremists their authors claim to proudly defy in the name of common good. What common good is served by creating more division and anger, and by tempting belligerent reaction?

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 201111; 20111102; france; moralabsolutes; msm; terrorism
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To: detective

This TIME?

http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20130408,00.html


21 posted on 01/08/2015 2:16:30 PM PST by mylife
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To: detective

So tell us Bruce what would you call putting on display a Crucifix in a vat of urine?


22 posted on 01/08/2015 2:16:46 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: muir_redwoods; 185JHP; 230FMJ; AKA Elena; APatientMan; Albion Wilde; Aleighanne; Alexander Rubin; ..
 

How far is this from “Well, she shouldn’t have worn that miniskirt, she was asking for it”?

Well now. That's a good question. Perhaps our M/A Freepers would like a shot at answering.

 

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23 posted on 01/08/2015 2:20:05 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: detective

“What common good is served by creating more division and anger, and by tempting belligerent reaction?”

#1 - It makes appeasers like the author uncomfortable.
#2 - The reaction to the provocation reveals the idiocy of the positions that the appeasers advocate.
#3 - It tells our enemies that their attacks on us are futile and won’t accomplish their goals.


24 posted on 01/08/2015 2:21:00 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: detective

Stunningly stupid

Pretty sure he would find fault with a beautiful woman for dressing in any manner that shows off her assets and is then raped, beaten, murdered...

Po Moslems.


25 posted on 01/08/2015 2:23:15 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: sitetest

A large part of the problem would remain though if we don’t destroy these types of media institutions as we know them along with islam...

These people would regurgitate these same PC, infantile arguments all day long and spawn a whole new lineage of enablers if they’re not given the same as islam.


26 posted on 01/08/2015 2:23:52 PM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: detective


27 posted on 01/08/2015 2:24:08 PM PST by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: SampleMan
The author of this piece is inciting me. I’m angry.

Therefore, by his own logic, he justifiably a target for violence.

Comment of the thread!

28 posted on 01/08/2015 2:26:06 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: detective

The only way you can identify our enemy is to lure him into a response. Problem for the French is the only thing they have to fight with are their hands... they’ve disarmed themselves and given away their country AND heritage. They are done, it’s over. Only another civil war (literally) will fix it... an that’s only if they act soon. Another 20 years and it’ll be far beyond the point of no return.


29 posted on 01/08/2015 2:29:32 PM PST by FunkyZero (... I've got a Grand Piano to prop up my mortal remains)
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To: detective
This Crumley?


30 posted on 01/08/2015 2:31:21 PM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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To: detective

At first I thought this was onion, or something like it.


31 posted on 01/08/2015 2:37:04 PM PST by samtheman
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To: detective

When I thought I had already read and heard the zenith of idiocy today, I ran into this little gem.


32 posted on 01/08/2015 2:37:24 PM PST by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood.)
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To: mylife

Oh, mercy, I didn’t want to see two women and two men kissing. Even though they are attractive and young, I bet that issue did not sell well on the stands.

Time Magazine, it’s what is on the back of the commode in most liberals’ bathroom.


33 posted on 01/08/2015 2:37:51 PM PST by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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To: lulu16

I’m sure none of that was offensive to Muslim radicals.


34 posted on 01/08/2015 2:42:03 PM PST by mylife
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To: mylife

A Freeper put on this site, videos ( I guess from street cams) of French people, many times women, getting punched in the face, just by walking by a Muslim.

They get set off just by our existence.


35 posted on 01/08/2015 2:45:03 PM PST by lulu16 (May the Good Lord take a liking to you!)
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To: IronJack
What common good is served by creating more division and anger, and by tempting belligerent reaction?

What this Crumley doesn't understand is that our very existence is tempting belligerent reaction. The Muslims want to kill us, all of us, simply for the fact that we are not Muslims. There is no way to appease them or live with them. They must be separated or destroyed.

36 posted on 01/08/2015 2:45:33 PM PST by Blennos
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To: detective

If Time magazine had been around in 1775 we’d still be sending tribute to Queen Elizabeth.


37 posted on 01/08/2015 2:46:40 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (You're either in or in the way.)
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To: detective
What common good is served by creating more division and anger, and by tempting belligerent reaction?

What common good for us Infidels is; maybe seeing the reaction of the Muslims, the dumb naive Infidels might wake up and realize what a violent threat that religion is to non- Muslims. - Tom

38 posted on 01/08/2015 2:47:52 PM PST by Capt. Tom (Don't confuse U.S. citizens and Americans. They are not necessarily the same. -tom)
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To: lulu16

TRue.


39 posted on 01/08/2015 2:48:44 PM PST by mylife
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To: lulu16

“videos ( I guess from street cams) of French people, many times women, getting punched in the face, just by walking by a Muslim.”

Do you have a link?


40 posted on 01/08/2015 2:49:04 PM PST by detective
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