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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Frankly, I think Muslima's positions have been more consistent than some of her critics.

It is outright hypocritical to defend the right to insult Mohammed on the grounds of free speech and yet have no issue with those who attempt to restrict the right of someone who chooses to offend Jews or challenge the holocaust.[/quote]

"challenge the [H]olocaust?"  Didn't know it was up for debate.[/quote]

Whether there is merit to the claims by those who deny the holocaust or feel the numbers are exaggerated is neither here nor there. We are talking about free speech and freedom of expression which is what those who defend the cartoons depicting Mohammed say is the essence of the issue.

How does one make this argument and then in the next breath not condemn any laws that restrict the right of those who choose to question the holocaust or in some other way offend Jewish sensibilities?

Here is a historian who was jailed for denying the holocaust:

[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4733820.stm[/url]

At least one of his fiercest critics had the intellectual honesty to defend his right to say what he wished about the holocaust and opposed his imprisionment.

[i]"I am not happy when censorship wins, and I don't believe in winning battles via censorship... The way of fighting Holocaust deniers is with history and with truth," she told the BBC News website.[/i][/quote]

Denying the holocaust is not an issue of free speech. It is a denial of documented, historical events purely as an offense to the millions of jews and gypsies and many many others who were murdered - and to their families, and the legions of other people who were affected in some related way. There is no editorial, or political, or comic, or satirical, or ironic value to denying the holocaust. It is hatred, plain and simple. 
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