Posted on 02/19/2006 7:18:04 AM PST by Chi-townChief
What a dumb article. The reactions wouldn't even be close. You would probably see some letters to the editor and some people would pull their subscription and boycott the paper if the cartoons were really bad. You would not see ambassadors being recalled because the paper choose to print a cartoon. You would not see deadly riots in the streets. You would not hear calls to shut down the free press.
Why doesn't Brown put his ideas where his mouth is and publish some obscene cartoons about Jesus -- find out what happens?
Does he really think Christians will act like Muslims by rioting in the streets, and burning buildings?
Brown should either put up or shut up.
The Chicago Sun Times just figured out how to put this this incredibly filthy image into the minds of its readers in a context they can claim was 'benign'. The msm just never ceases to amaze me. They are the face of the enemy within.
Clueless in Chicagoland.
Jesus and Christianity are not above criticism, many people have mocked Jesus, even the Koran mocks Christianity, claims Jesus was not the Son of God, and he was even a Muslim and not a Jew.
However, Christianity and Christians always stands firm in the heat of criticism. In fact as christens we are called to continually test that what is presented as truth.
1 John 4 1Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
If something is true then it can within the test of criticism, while a false prophecy cannot, therefore one needs to question the motive to silence the criticism of Islam, as if what are they afraid the world or themselves will find out?
If America was a Christain Theocracy and New Testament was civil law, then editorialists would have every right to mock them with cartoons, oped criticism, etc. without being stoned to death for "blasphemy"
Christian riots to come. /sarcasm
This column carefully avoids mention of the many murdered and or maimed by the peaceful followers of Islam and that they espouse a worldwide Jihad by any means available. The argument put forth is phony and insulting. All cultures/religions aren't equal and anyone buying into that nonsense is likely to end up dead.
I guess crazy Christians would be justified in the contemporary sense for burning all of CNN down to the ground then.
Very true.
Never mind even that... would they do it in the Muslims' own home countries? They are doing it in France. They are doing it in England. Holland, Denmark and Sweden too.
Goodbye Europe.
Does this sentance offend SLimes?
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Sura 9:5 of the Koran, Slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush.
Written the other way IT OFFENDS EVERYONE!!!!!!!!
What is that photo? If you tell me they are mohammedans assaulting a non-mohammedan youth over these cartoons, I will have a 5-cap answer and then a 5-cap follow up.
I would have a slight different reaction to the one I had about the cartoons mocking the child-raping spawn of Satan. I'd be a bit annoyed and move on. I don't think I'd be joining thousands of others and rioting in the streets. Such behavior is inappropriate to civilized people but not that unusual for illiterate, meteorite worshiping, moon-god lovers
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To Mr. Brown.
I wouldn't want to be in your shoes in the End times.
I admit that I don't know much about Islam. But the more I learn the more I think it's some kind of murderous cult that needs to be stopped.
Deep in their hearts most Muslims must know that too, or they wouldn't be so violent when protecting it.
I wonder how many millions of Muslims would be receptive to the words and life of Christ? Guess we won't know because of the censorship of the Islamic world.
What an IDIOT!
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