Posted on 02/19/2006 7:18:04 AM PST by Chi-townChief
I conclude that they give an IQ test before they hire columnists, and hire the ones that flunk..."HERE'S YOUR SIGN!"
Cripes - it's not how we would feeeeeel that's the issue. It's how we act out the feeeeeelings. Duh! The left is increcibly dense.
We already have a prancing Christ in the form of a play.
I haven't gutted any actors because of it. I usually ignore puerile attempts to denigrate God. It seems rather silly in the context of who is Creator and who is createe...
The problem with Islam is that it is an externally enforced belief. Christianity is an internal belief system that changes the spirit itself.
Islam does not deal with the spirit, but the flesh. I'd have to consign it to the World instead of the heavenly realm.
Jesus Christ HAS been depicted as a sodomite. He HAS been depicted as a fornicator--and in productions a HELL of a lot more substantial than a cartoon.
The cartoonist 'Martlett' once drew a cartoon about as offensive as the 'bomb in the turban' cartoon. It was printed without hesitation, apparently, by Long Island Newsday.
It depicted Pope John Paul II. An arrow pointing to His Holiness' head and the caption "Upom this rock I will build My Church".
No one rioted.
Newsday began it's terminal slide.
I am not sure.
It looks like Muslim men converting an unwilling Christian boy to Islam. Looks like it takes six of them and a metal pipe too.
But don't worry.
The European governments and Main-Stream Media assure us that it's not about race.
It's not about religion either.
On top of that, it's all our fault!
That white boy was probably in a Muslim neighborhood anyway,
so he was certainly looking to start trouble.
</sarcasm>
The bottom line is, that despite our revulsion to what may be printed, Westerners, Christians and Jews wouldnt riot and burn Missions and Consulates over it..
...???...like it hasn't happen before?
They would have gotten a government grant and the artist would be up for the Pulitzer Prize.
Exactly.
But who knows? The day may come when Christian's 'take to the streets' -- except it would more likely be 'take to the rooftops'.
markbrown@suntimes.com
I read your article and the key line is this: "I'll bet some of you would have a slightly different reaction to that."
"Slightly" is the key word.
Yes if you ran some of the cartoons you imagined some people would be upset. Do you think they would be burning down your building trying to kill you if you ran those cartoons? Nah, but they'd be upset. Attacks on Christianity are common. Attacks on the church are common, many justified. I still am waiting for the anti-Semitic pogrom that is supposed to happen after Me Gibson's movie "The Passion of the Christ."
"I'll bet my imaginary Jesus Christ cartoon could get a few protesters outside the Sun-Times, and if we told the protesters to buzz off, citing freedom of the press, I'll bet we could get some death threats, too. Rioting in the streets? Probably not. Unless we kept it up."
Well, if that happened, the death threats, you would stand up and defend your right to free speech saying you will not kowtow to extremists. And you would be right. But the fact is though you might get death threats, I bet no one would die.
The liberal hero Bill Clinton says the publishers of the cartoons should be prosecuted. Do you agree? And the cartoons are offensive? Please tell me how they are offensive. Most are benign. One shows Mohammed with a 'bomb turbine." With how the muslim world has complete silence on Islamic terrorism, I think it is true. The problem is that the muslims think ANY depiction of Mohammed is blasphemy. We have now seen that they will riot and kill and offer large sums of money to kill anyone that offends them.
Let me tell you other things that offend them: You not bowing to Mecca offends them.
The women in this country that have jobs, or go to schools, or choose who they will marry, that offends Muslims.
In England a town government will not allow any employee to have any thing on their desk or person that represents a pig, out of fear of offending. So if you have a picture of your child with Winnie the Pooh you are offending muslims. You are a hatemonger. If you eat pork, you offend muslims. You right to free speech is offensive.
First they just wanted to destroy Israel, but I was in America so I didn't care. Then they wanted to suicide bomb any Jews, but I was gentile so I was silent.Then they wanted to make a European newspaper give up it's right to free speech, but hey, I was safe in America, so I kept quiet. Then they decided to burn and riot and threaten newspapers, then I saw their point.
You opened with the comment: "Opinions Are Like Belly Buttons (everybody has one) " Courage and guts are not like opinions though.
You don't look so hot waving a white flag Mr. Brown.
Signed,
They are so out of touch with reality to bring this up. The image of the Virgin Mary has been up on this CNN site for the last five years.
"The Holy Virgin Mary" by British artist Chris Ofili. He used elephant dung and images of female genitalia in that work. The art was paid for by U.S. taxpayers.
The question for this lame-stream newspaper is this, if the art the Muslim's object to was paid for by taxpayers and the Muslim's were complaining about that, whose side would you come down on.
Interesting in this picture...does it look like the guy on the right is trying to stop his friend from using the pipe?
And, what would have happend had the guy they were beating been carrying a handgun?
Oh yeah, because of their terrible coverage and wacko left editorials. For further proof, look at anything written by Roeper.
Jesus is the second greatest prophet of Allah (according to Muslims).
I have never, ever started a fight over it.
I never burned a flag because of it.
I never broke windows because of it.
I never threaten to kill anyone because of it.
Can we, once and for all, stop the lie that Islam is a religion of peace?
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