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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous]CNN just said that Charlie will be published next week and instead of 60,000 copies printed, there will be one million.

I find some of the cartoons questionable but I would gladly purchase a copy if I could.[/quote]

And Yasir Qadhi couldn't have said it better:

"Can you imagine if a racist cartoon, or an anti-Semitic cartoon, caused some physical attack, that news agencies around the globe would reprint those cartoons?! 
Somehow, when it comes to offensive images against Muslims, it becomes necessary to display those images continuously in order to make a point: "You had better allow us to say and do whatever we will, without the least care and concern of decency and morals!"[b]
Again, this is NOT to justify these brutal attacks, but it is to point out the double standards that do seem to exist when it comes to mocking Islam. It will come as absolutely no surprise to us to find out that a satirist in the EXACT SAME newspaper was fired, and then put on trial, for an anti-Semitic article that he had written (See: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/…/French-cartoonist-Sine-on-tria…). And previously, I had quoted a story of a similar nature regarding the Danish cartoon controversy: the same newspaper had refused to print cartoons mocking the Holocaust.[/b]
There is no doubt that killing these cartoonists is not allowed (firstly, the entire issue of blasphemy laws and its application in the modern world of nation-states is being discussed by leading scholars, and there are multiple views on this; secondly, all those who quote incidents from the Seerah: I reiterate, it is impermissible for a person to take the 'law' into his own hands and be judge, jury and executioner even in an Islamic land - how much more so when Muslim minorities are living in a land that is not ruled by their laws). 
At the same time, it is also idiotic to continue provoking a group of people who have a long list of their own internal and external political and social grievances that stretch back for many decades (here I mean the N. African Muslim population of France), and then expect that nothing will happen.
As usual, we are stuck between a rock and a hard stone. On the one hand, we have the excesses of our own internal angry followers, who always justify every violence because of what 'they' have done, and on the other hand we have the arrogance, intransigence and hypocrisy of segments of the Western world, who cannot see that they as well have a huge part to play in the rising tide of anger and violence."[/quote]

Nope.  Sorry.  No.  You don't get to say it's idiotic to have offensive satire about Islam.  No.  You don't.   That same publication had satire about Catholicism, Judaism, etc.  There's no special targeting of Muslims.  And you don't get to say "well, if you satirize Muslims, you're idiots not to expect violence".  No.   
The truth isn't that people make a point of satirizing Muslims.  The point is that EVERYONE gets satirized.  And only Muslims seem to get violent about that.
If your God can't deal with satire, your God is too small.[/quote]

+1. I love how some muslims like to pick and choose what to get incensed about. Somehow it was ok for these terrorists to go completely against their religion and view child porn, drink, use drugs and commit crimes. Yet it was absolutely not ok (to the point that you have to kill!) to see cartoons violating their religion. Guess what? You cannot control how other people view you, your religion, and choose to talk about it. It's not persecution. It's a matter of life. Suck it up and move on. Since when it's ok to expect murder as a price to pay when you disagree with someone? [/quote]

I think the point of the post Muslima quoted is valid. Why does demonstrating support for freedom of expression require publishing offensive cartoons? I understand sticking it to the terrorists, but is it necessary to offend non-terrorists in the process? I don't remember newspapers publishing photos from Hustler after Larry Flynt was shot. This is like the point I was trying to make yesterday. It is one thing to say that you disagree with what someone says, but defend their right to say it. It is a completely different story when you are the one saying it. 
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