@kynaston,
kynaston;71919 wrote:They are not criticising Islam - they are deliberately engaging in behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace.
Any criticism can cause a breach of the peace. Social change often causes unrest. Rosa parks refusing to give up her seat to a white person, was a breach of the peace. Emit till whistling at a white woman, and then being murdered for it was a breach of the peace.
Should Emit have whistled at a white woman? No, probably not, but being murdered for it was an extreme injustice. I feel the same way about the Muhammad drawings. There is an underlying issue hear that simply cannot be ignored.
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Who is stopping you criticising Islam, or scientology?
Those who are giving death threats.
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What these people are doing is deliberately insulting Muslims who are doing nothing to them, who do not control them or in any way dominate their lives, and they are doing it to get people killed so as to build up racist hatred.
As i've pointed out to 92b in another thread, we are not talking about all Muslims, we are talking only of the radicals, those who are willing to kill for a cartoon. They certainly have done things in attempt to control other people's lives.
Only Muslims are forbidden from drawing Muhammad, this tradition does NOT even apply to non-muslims so why are people being killed over it?
We cannot give in to fear, we cannot be intimidated, or we lose our ability and right to say what we will no matter how uncouth without fearing for our lives.
Quote: This has nothing whatever to do with freedom of speech. On a site which prevents my using - even in explaining historical matters - an old Latin word for 'black' because it was used by racists, your position seems to me illogical.
If we base our societal rights on what we can/cannot say on an internet forum then.....society is doomed!