Cliff Hanger wrote:Moishe3rd wrote:Comparing stupid cartoons to "a deeply anti-Semitic book" is nuts.
Wacky.
Just plain stupid.
The conversation here swirls around the idea that it was perhaps "unwise" to publish cartoons! Cartoons dammit! Of Mohammed, because Muslims feel "beleaguered."
Tough.
Let them join the world where people argue about morality - what is wrong or right, as opposed to their world of formality - do they feel insulted or not.
I could give a rat's ass whether Muslims feel insulted. And the same goes for any group - Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists... Who the hell cares?
I do care whether any of these people want to kill me. Whether they will try and burn down my house. Whether they will murder my neighbor's children. That's morality.
And those that decide they can commit acts of violence because they feel bad are called psychopathic criminals. And those kinds of people need to be put away or killed.
Criminals. Insane, violent criminals.
Worrying about whether their honor has been offended because someone published a cartoon....
That is a world of insanity.
I don't agree, the argument isn't about the unwiseness of publishing the cartoons, the argument is: These are the fringes.
I also think your comments perpetuate the violence-- It's too reactionary, too afraid, too bitter. Sure there is a threat, no doubt, but at some point the world is going to have to learn how to usher Islam into the modern world.
Thank you.
You have inspired me.
A more complete polemic:
The newspaper industry in the United States of America is afraid to publish Mohammad Cartoons.
The United States practically invented of the idea of Freedom of the Press.
And, they are afraid of offending Muslims.
These papers, that reside in the most diverse and most powerful country in the world, are afraid to offend Muslims.
Cartoons!
We are not talking about hideously anti-Islam representations such as those grotesque lies that are published regarding Jews or Israel every single day of the year in Muslim countries.
No pictures of Mohammad biting babies' heads off; drenching the world in blood; murdering children to drink their bloodÂ… No.
Pictures of Mohammad with a bomb for a turban.
What the hell is wrong with the supposedly Free Press in America?
This is a rhetorical question. They have surrendered to the domination of the World by Islam. They have proclaimed, by their acquiescence, that the most important Freedom they have is the Freedom not to offend Muslim sensibilities.
They have decided it is "unwise" to publish Cartoons!
These are simple, stupid, cartoons.
And the most powerful press in the world, that of the United States of America, refuses to show these images because they are afraid that Muslims might be insulted. Were they afraid that Muslims might be insulted when they published photos of Abu Ghraib over and over again? When they daily publish screaming crowds of Muslims burning, looting and destroying embassies and churches?
No.
The supposedly Free Press of the United States of America is deeply afraid. They are deeply afraid of offending Muslim sensibilities - because they are deeply afraid for their lives. These journalists; these editors; these owners of American newspapers are afraid that if they publish stupid Muslim Cartoons that their livelihood; their buildings; their physical lives, will be endangered.
This may be a rational fear. Perhaps.
But normally, those that decide they can commit acts of violence because they feel bad are called psychopathic criminals.
And, normally, the Free Press of the United States of America does not cater to the whims and sensibilities of psychopathic criminals.
Normally, the Free Press tries to get these kinds of people put behind bars, or even executed.
Normally, the Free Press does not worry about whether the honor of those who proclaim violence and destruction will be offended by publishing cartoons.
It is a deep, deep lie by the "Free Press" to claim "religious sensitivity" regarding Islam in not publishing stupid Cartoons of Mohammad.
Don't publish.
But tell the truth.
You are afraid of offending the insane.
