Montecresto
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Couch it anyway you like, but it sure sounds to me like picking a fight - then claiming you've been attacked once you've succeeded.
She did.
She offended the prophet mohammed which is now bad. Obama said so.
The moral of all this is don't mess with Obama's faith.
False.
You're in her same league. Do you need to draw pictures that offend somebody else in order to feel important, hmm. Do you need to color cartoons that offend somebody in order to stand up and beat your chest that you've defended your right to free speech, is that what makes Grant feel like a big man?
The Cartoon WarsIt is most important to keep on challenging these would-be censors, so that people with Kalashnikov rifles do not make our customs and laws.
One of the false presumptions of our time is that people on the political left are motivated by good intentions even when they do bad things, while people on the political right are motivated by bad intentions even when they do good things.
When people prefer to focus on the motives of the victims rather than on the motives of the attackers, they will ignore the single most important matter: that an art exhibition, or free speech, has been targeted.
It does not matter if you are right-wing or left-wing, or American, Danish, Dutch, Belgian or French. These particularities may matter greatly and be endlessly interesting to people in the countries in question. But they matter not a jot to ISIS or their fellow-travellers. What these people are trying to do is to enforce Islamic blasphemy laws across the entire world. That is all that matters.
So criticizing Geller's bigot-fest is off limits?
I mean stick to the topic and don't wander off into Sillyland.If you have a point, make it.
You feel Islam has been a success and has led to the betterment of its practitioners??Or do you generally associate it with poverty and ignorance?And some people call a spade a spade, GASP!Failures of Islam? WTF?
Good luck proving that one.
No, in the "mind of the leftists," Geller is a bigoted asshole. NOBODY is saying she deserves terrorists attacking her.
There's a lot of folks being shouted down being called bigots when they hold different views from others. A tactic used to attempt to silence them. And it is working quite well because more and more folks are becoming timid and apprehensive to say what they truly believe because of the repercussions that may follow.
You gotta love that liberal tolerance
Have you never heard the claim that "Not all Muslims are terrorists"? This is generally accepted idea but the point is that there are many who are, or sympathize with them. Why should this have to be explained so frequently??That's a load of horse apples and you damn well know it. Nobody calls critics of "radical" Islam "bigots," unless they are also roping normal, peaceful, run of the mill Muslims under their tent of BS. Of course, in conservaland, peaceful Muslims apparently don't exist.
Great stuff! Now if you didn't equivocate in other posts and left it at that then you would have shown your concern is genuinely about art critics with sub machine guns.Don't mind if I do.
Have you never heard the claim that "Not all Muslims are terrorists"? This is generally accepted idea but the point is that there are many who are, or sympathize with them. Why should this have to be explained so frequently??
Great stuff! Now if you didn't equivocate in other posts and left it at that then you would have shown your concern is genuinely about art critics with sub machine guns.
He should have been disposed of long ago.I have had the "pleasure" of seeing Choudary's rants in favour of murder and terrorism on several European channels. The man should have been deported ages ago.
Oh Christ, shut the **** UP about "Christian extremists." They're not the problem.
This is something everyone interested in censorship and violence should read, absorb, and try to understand. Understand also this is not about me.
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Freedom of speech is not freedom from criticism.
"When people prefer to focus on the motives of the victims rather than on the motives of the attackers, they will ignore the single most important matter: that an art exhibition, or free speech, has been targeted".Freedom of speech is not freedom from criticism.
You don't have to "dare" to criticize Pamela Geller. You are free to do so with absolutely no risk whatsoever. Like you, the Islamists are also being critical of Pamela Geller but they want to kill her. You call her a "bigot" while they call her a "pig".I'm going to assume by "equivocate," you mean dare criticize Pam Geller.
Sure. And they will silence anyone who tries to hold a similar gathering in the future. The Islamists are on a roll while free speech is being condemned.But what is happening far surpasses criticism, it has become a policing by elite groups in the media and academia deeming what is acceptable speech and opinions.
"When people prefer to focus on the motives of the victims rather than on the motives of the attackers, they will ignore the single most important matter: that an art exhibition, or free speech, has been targeted".
Yes, self-censoring ourselves against the possibility of an angry Muslim response makes so much sense. Their acts of intimidation and violence is best met with silence, lest someone gets hurt.I don't want Geller or anybody else to be censored, ever. But we all self censor regularly. And even if I think something to be cute or funny, if I think that I might be offending somebody with it, I may abstain. Surely you've done the same. If those people whom my cute and funny may provoke a group inclined to want to chop my head off for it, I may have added incentive to abstain. But feel free to support the completely gratuitous provocation to Islamic extremists and accept the continuos attacks by them. At least you guys can stand on your free speech.
I do as well, and hope there are many advocates of free speech who support her.The Islamic extremists don't care about free speech. They care about their prophet being openly ridiculed. If Geller or anybody else feels the urge to do so, they have a first amendment right on their side. In the meantime, hopefully gratuitously drawing cartoons of Mohamed is worth the risk of having ones head chopped off. I say she should continue staging her silly faux free speech demonstrations and accept the consequences.
Yes, self-censoring ourselves against the possibility of an angry Muslim response makes so much sense. Their acts of intimidation and violence is best met with silence, lest someone gets hurt.
Do you have a Plan B?
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