GySgt said:
I had no idea they did that. I am surprised, unless they printed them earlier and not during the riots. It is not acceptable to celebrate freedoms, except when it might upset a group of people who will employ violence in emotional reaction.
It is also not acceptable for the West to have to define their freedoms to the restrictions of another civilization. The sentiment that it is OK to print cartoons depicting Jesus, but not OK to print cartoons depicting Muhammed, is simple hyprocritcal appeasement. Perhaps if Christians rioted in the streets, burned buildings, took hostages, and murdered, the press will bend to their wishes as well. If it hurts their feelings...oh well. Suck it up and act civilized like every other religious individual around the world who looks the other way whenever they are offended. Their behaviour is unacceptable and should not be allowed to intimidate the free.
I hate the press. My distaste for those vultures of global media and entertainment gossip knows no bounds. However, freedom is freedom and it should not be selective to a group of individuals who wish their religious restrictions to define said freedom. The western world has not fought, bled, and died so that relifious zealots may define what we have progressed to.
[This is mostly a point I've posted in another similar topic]
The issue of freedom of speech regarding the cartoons, doesn't even arise. The Danish journal
Jyllands-Posten(Jutlands Post) refused to print cartoons of Christian practices because it would offend the Christian community and "provoke an outcry," something they would rather not do, shortly before they then decided to print these particular caricatures mocking Muslim practices. The cartoons, weeks before, were instigated by the Danish Minister for Culture, particularly reflected in his "Danish cultural struggle's new front" speech, regarding immigrant minority Muslims, given at the Conservative National Conference. A number of Muslim orginizations around the world responsed to the caricatures by writing to the Minister for Culture - who refused to answer, standing by his racist rants.
The European record regarding practice of freedom of speech is essentially horrendous. The mere posturing of freedom speech in Europe is outright laughable, and fundamentally a lie. In Britain, where I live, it's almost at the point of being simply a joke. So, In the US today, where there is a high degree of protection, the press has a legal right to publish vicious anti-Semitic caricatures of Moses with disgusting racist captions. Have you seen it?
Muslims have every right to form protests against the ludicrous idea of publishing the cartoons and the crooked stance of the press, as this being something to do with freedom. We've witnessed the sick, tiny-minded, degenerate creatures, whom consider themselves to be the real so-called "conservative Muslims," use the protests to further their demented agenda and vile lies. Although, one needs only to undertake the relatively simple task of also looking for the expansive strife that other Muslim organizations are constantly embarking on against these idiots, and whilst also interminably exposing the radical groups bullshit. Unfortunately, such stories rarely ever emerge from the realms of the sensantional orientated and commissar-class mainstream press, so you have to look elsewhere.
