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I get that.  You don't want the Islamic terrorists to have (more) evidence of Western anti-Muslim sentiment, spurred by this event.  Fair enough.  But I also think that tying the conversation about this to the "offensiveness" of the material lends undue credibility to that as a basis for violence.   I think that the "free speech" part of the world (which is not all Western, btw), needs to be uncompromising.  I think that when we hear "well, it was really blasphemous stuff", we should say "SO THE FECK WHAT?"  That's not relevant.  If you wanted to have a conversation about how offensive it is, you can't start that conversation by killing people.  I refuse to have that conversation under those circumstances.   You don't get what you want from killing people.

[/quote]Great post.  You can't start the conversation by killing people.  i'm not sure what else follows that.[/quote]

16:27 here. This is what I was trying to say, worded more articulately than I managed.

What follows? I don't know. But maybe it starts with something like tamping down the knee-jerk bigotry (no, not all Muslims do this), combined with "Listen to all these Muslims who say this isn't the real Islam and that Mohammed would be appalled. But in the end, whether or not you think it's the real Islam, if you live in our society, you have to abide by our values." [/quote]

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