Posted on 05/09/2015 10:38:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 05/09/2015 11:25:33 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The recent spectacle of Pamela Geller, the erstwhile journalist who organized a provocative contest in Texas of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, gives pause to even the most passionate defenders of the First Amendment.
Not since Westboro Baptist Church
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
To the author,
There are millions of Muslims who want to saw your head off just because you exist, not because you draw their satanic god.
Why are you so dumb as to not to understand this simple evil?
“As an operating principle, mightnt we try less incendiary means of problem-solving? I dont know, maybe something less likely to lead to violence?”
Great message, wrong target. It’s not Geller who needs to take that advice to heart, it’s the Islamic fascists who keep trying to kill people who offend them for any reason.
IIRC, the ACLU defended the KKK’s right to march in the heavily (almost exclusively) Jewish town of Skokie, IL (late 80’s/early 90’s). I’m not sure this is too different from a First Amendment perspective. Same argument that WaPo and others love can be made for the ever-popular (on the left) America flag stomping.
Have we heard a peep out of the ACLU?
It doesn't change the likelihood of violence. It only changes the timeline and the location.
I can see it now- A bunch of Muzzie terrorists attack a Washington dinner party. Kathleen Parker tells them about her column defending their right to be offended...right before they rape and behead her.
What country am I living in?
Parkers parents weren’t even born in ‘73.
That is all.
“Waging a one-woman crusade against the Muslim world .... “
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Someone needs to. Hillary, Obama, and the left are talking about women’s rights while ignoring the brutality against women in the name of islam. The left is nothing but hypocrites.
The libs have finally found their religion. You could say the have had their “come to Allah” moment. They apologize for Islam while slandering Christianity...
RE: What country am I living in?
It used to be called the United States of America, Land of the free, home of the brave.
Did Parker condemn Charlie Hebdo for running their cartoons?
I just looked at the article, and Parker does have a little mild criticism of Charlie Hebdo, but nothing like her harsh denunciation of Geller.
This is very simple. The left tolerates Muslims because they are one component of the conglomerate of useful idiots that are trying to destroy America as a republic. It has nothing to do with free speech.
Diversity and tolerance are just code words that mean patriots aren’t allowed to interfere with the left’s shepherding of people who want to destroy our country. Their message is, “sit back and watch your birthright be eaten away by termites, or else!”
Muslims, just like all the other groups of useful idiots the left is using to destroy the republic, will be tossed aside when they are no longer needed.
Whether we agree or not we cannot compromise or let people like Parker tell us what the limitations are on our First Amendment Rights. Another step down the road to Censorship.
Wonder how the Press will like that when it is applied to them????????
Or, it could be the other way around ... the other useful idiots will be tossed when the Mohammedans no longer need them.
Seriously?
That has to be one of the least thought through utterances anyone has ever made.
BTW, Voltaire probably did not say that.
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