[MadeInAmerica]

Did anyone there bother to say it was a friggin CARTOON?

Did anyone there bother to say they FEARED death threats?

Did anyone there bother to say if you make exceptions for 1, you have to make exceptions for ALL and that would shut down FREE PRESS.


Idiots

[Congressman Billybob]

The MSM continues to report, inaccurately, on "the Danish cartoons" which "caused the Muslim riots." Both parts of that statement are false, but the MSM is incompetent in catching up with the truth of the matter.

Click below for more, and more accurate, information on this subject -- at the end of the article.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "Which, Being Believed, Was, Whether It Was or Not"

[untenured]

“Such freedoms can be abused when people have the means to utilize them to express their own personal preferences, likes and dislikes.”

So what?

[Rummyfan]

“Here is the danger of freedom when it is in the hands of people who are not sufficiently understanding of the world in which they live,” Karpat said. “Such freedoms can be abused when people have the means to utilize them to express their own personal preferences, likes and dislikes.”

Can't have freedom in the hands of people eh Kemal?

[PaxMacian]

They destroyed art over the centuries for depicting anyone.
I am surprised they ever accepted television.
They destroyed the twin towers because they thought it an idol.
But, they bow several times a day to their idol, Mecca.
And, they are offended by some scribbles they claim are blasphemous
when Mohammed is the mother of all blasphemers for denying the
divinity of Christ...

[bayouranger]

Kempe said. “By reprinting this picture, The Badger Herald — as an institution — claims the right to clearly express that it believes … [that Muhammad] is a terrorist, and that by extension it’s calling all Muslims terrorists.”

Guilty conscience Kempe?

[Kolokotronis]

"Implied in the protection of freedom of speech, Kempe argued, is that the defender of speech — The Badger Herald, in this case — is protecting speech that it believes in."

What!!!!!!!!!!!! This clown got into college?

[Desron13]

"While none in attendance questioned the Herald’s right to print the cartoon, several panelists — including University of Wisconsin history professor emeritus Kemal Karpat — argued the newspaper abused that right."

Kemal Karpat? BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAA I wouldn't take this joker seriously just from the sound of his name!

[jan in Colorado]

They sure didn't have any qualms about printing Abu Ghraib photos, even though it put the lives of American soldiers at risk!

What hypocrites.

[steve-b]

Suri Kempe, the MultiCultural Student Coalition’s representative on the panel, said the Herald made an editorial decision to endorse the anti-Islamic speech the cartoon represented.
Implied in the protection of freedom of speech, Kempe argued, is that the defender of speech — The Badger Herald, in this case — is protecting speech that it believes in.

Was Kempe born this stupid, or did he require special training to atrophy his brain to the point where he was a suitable representative for the "MultiCultural Student Coalition"?

By this idiotic "reasoning", anyone who supports freedom of religion must simultaneously believe in atheism, Buddhism, Christianity, ..., Satanism, Wiccanism, and Zoroastrianism.

[lovecraft]

I've seen "p*ss christ", I've seen Mary covered in dung, I've seen enough anti-semetic, unpatriotic, and enough religiously (christian) offensive crap, to make my blood boil.

And this.......THIS ONE CARTOON, MAKES YOU THINK YOU'VE FINALLY GONE TOO FAR!

I need an aspirin....

[weegee]

Suri Kempe, the MultiCultural Student Coalition’s representative on the panel, said the Herald made an editorial decision to endorse the anti-Islamic speech the cartoon represented.

It is not an anti muslim cartoon. It is an anti-Islamonazi cartoon and yes there is a difference.

Islamonazis are jihadists willing to kill men women and children (by suicide attack if necessary) to push their supremacist ideology of Islam on the rest of the world. Under Islamic law (not just koranic law but wahabi government) muslims are supreme. Jews and Christians hold a lower legal status in society. Atheists, Hindus, and Buddhists are at the bottom of society. The only "co-existence" is under their dominance (they'll tolerate you while it is necessary). There is no freedom of religion in that mindset. There is no tolerance among them for muslims who convert away from Islam.

Bowing to their "international" laws of blasphemy is bowing to their supremacy. Not going to happen. While depictions of Mohammed are not explicitly prohibited, you can bet that portrayals of Mohammed (even those that do not defame him) by infidels ARE prohibited. Such is the double standard.

Certainly wish all of the peaceful muslims around the world were this vocal in speaking out against the "not really real muslim" terrorists. If they aren't muslims then they defame Islam by killing in the name of Islam.

[randog]

“Here is the danger of freedom when it is in the hands of people who are not sufficiently understanding of the world in which they live,” Karpat said.

That's as far as I needed to read. These people are dangerous--very dangerous, and they're in our midst.

[Ragnar54]

A Muslim

Professor Emeritus Kemal Karpat

PhD: New York University MA: Univ. of Washington BA: Univ. of Istanbul

Area: Modern Europe

Specialization: The Middle East (modern); Balkans, Migration Movements and Nationhood; Ottoman Empire & Modern Turkey

Research and Teaching Interests: Teaching fields : Europe, Middle East, Central Asia. Current Research : “People's Houses and the Development of Turkish Populism and Nationalism" and "Settlement of Refugees and Immigrants in the Middle East, 1850-1914"

Selected Publications: The Politicization of Islam (Oxford University Press, 2001) The Ottoman Past and Today's Turkey (Brill, 2000) Studies on Ottoman History (Brill, 2002)

And a Socialist

Students from several University of Wisconsin campuses around the state began a three-day hunger strike Monday, asking state legislators to alter their stand on tuition, which has jumped 37.5 percent since 2003.

UW, UW-Eau Claire and UW-LaCrosse are participating in the hunger strike. The strike includes several Madison groups including the Associate Students of Madison, the Student Labor Action Coalition, the MultiCulturual Student Coalition, Green Progressive Alliance, MEChA and the Teaching Assistant Association.

... Students in Madison are demanding tuition be rolled back to its 2003 standing, rather than allow Gov. Jim Doyle's executive budget proposal of a 5 to 7 percent increase in the next two years.

... The raised tuition may also affect students of color.

Coordinator for the Diversity Education Program Suri Kempe said tuition hikes are not only an economic issue but also a racist policy. "Raising tuition by 56 percent only feeds a racist system that marginalizes communities of people and denies them entry into college and opportunities for a better life," Kempe said.

They should both be sent back. Instead, they are both trying to exercise censorship over a newspaper on an American university campus.

[Tzimisce]

When we (the American left) say "Free Speech/Press" - we don't mean for you.

"The People" can't handle freedom - that's why they need us.

[ncountylee]

Kemal Karpat is just another mindless Mad Moe butt boy.