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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]
Geller's right to act is not in dispute.  You seem to believe that an act -- for instance, criticism of Geller instead of criticism of radical Muslims -- can be legal but "misplaced". Can you not conceive that the same might be true of Geller? While her actions are indisputably legal, they are insulting in a way that is not deserving of praise and support. If Geller had hosted an anti-Semitic display of some sort, she would be shunned by polite society. Polite society might well support her right to be anti-Semitic (as happened when the Nazis wanted to march through Skokie), but she would be shunned just the same. I assume that you, for instance, would not respond by criticizing critics of anti-Semetism and suggesting they should focus on the worst actions committed by other members of the group being offended. While criticism of Geller may well be misplaced, it is far less misplaced then her actions.

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If Geller had done something like burn the Koran, then I would agree with you.       But what she did was more like having a pork dinner -- against the rules of Islam (and Judaism) but not hateful or demeaning toward Islam.      If people were being killed for eating pork, would you think it was offensive to have pork banquet to demonstrate support?[/quote]

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