[Blackirish]

Easy to criticize Charlie from the safety of your home in the US. For all the t
ough guy warriors on this thread. If all your coworkers were mowed down and you had no means to defend yourself. Would you go to work?

[zencycler]

If all your coworkers were mowed down and you had no means to defend yourself. Would you go to work?

Note, I made no comment about that - my comment re lost respect for Hebdo was about this:

Charlie Hebdo Editor Rejects Pamela Geller Comparisons: ‘She Is Obsessed by Islam’
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/05/charlie-hebdo-rejects-pamela-geller-comparisons.html

[aquila48]

“Easy to criticize Charlie from the safety of your home in the US. For all the tough guy warriors on this thread. If all your coworkers were mowed down and you had no means to defend yourself. Would you go to work?”

Or, how many of the courageous typists in this thread would be willing to put up a sign in front of their yards with a cartoon of mohammed with the sign caption, “He was a pedophile”? Any typist here going to accept the challenge?

To defeat terrorism and protect our rights we need a lot more than a few foolish martyrs willingly (or unwillingly) sacrificing themselves.

If we are serious about protecting our right to free speech, we need to eliminate the people that are against it. In this case it’s the rabid islamists. Question is, how do you differentiate them from the more sensible ones?

So far we haven’t found a good way to do that, mostly because of a lack of will.

Pamela Geller actually did it right, she knew what to expect, so she prepared well for it, she exercised her right of free speech AND gave us the unexpected bonus of reducing the islamist population by two.

She’s a (smart) hero in my eyes.