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Telling the truth is now "hate speech" according to the Times. This explains why there is so little truth in this newspaper.
1 posted on 05/06/2015 2:45:27 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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There is no question that images ridiculing religion, however offensive they may be to believers, qualify as protected free speech in the United States and most Western democracies. There is also no question that however offensive the images, they do not justify murder, and that it is incumbent on leaders of all religious faiths to make this clear to their followers.

But it is equally clear that the Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest in Garland, Tex., was not really about free speech. It was an exercise in bigotry and hatred posing as a blow for freedom.

Translation: free speech protects only attacks on the "host" religion, not on the sacred (to liberals) "other."

The author could have saved a lot of ink.

92 posted on 05/07/2015 6:25:34 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The "end of history" will be Worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
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drawing a cartoon is not free speech... but stomping on the American flag is??


95 posted on 05/08/2015 9:27:19 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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