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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
Now maybe we can move on. Perhaps you can address my earlier post asking why you said Muslima's quote made a good point - but you ignored one of its key themes, which is that the journalists should have been smart enough to cave in to threats of violence. And whether the point of the cartoons was not to deliberately insult people, but rather to defy those who are threatening violence.[/quote]

I disagree that journalists should have caved into the threats of violence. I also disagree that threats of violence should be countered by lifting normal content guidelines. If a newspaper wouldn't have published one of the cartoons last week, it shouldn't publish one of them this week. It is wrong to let people with guns change your behavior one way or the other.
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To the PP, do not distort the words on my posts. It doesn't say anywhere that journalists should have been smart enough to cave in the threats of violence.  It said:

[quote]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.[/quote]

This is in reference to the re-printing of the offensive pictures not the cartoonists. Satire against the powerful and mocking the oppressed, minorities, weak are two very different things. Muslims are an underclass in France, constantly ridiculed , with little to no power and these cartoons  increased the racist prejudice against them. Islam and most muslims condemned the attack. Its against our doctrine and teaching of the prophet(SAW) but the failure of justice and simplicity of freedom may put peace in everlasting detention. [b]If you call a man a bad name and he felt uncomfortable, why must you call him same name again with the impression of expressing your freedom of speech? Tolerance should recognize individual dignity. The truth is, this awful attack can not be explained in a vacuum, absent of the context around it[/b].[/quote]

Nope, not helping your cause, Muslima. Something can be in poor taste, or extremely offensive. That is exactly what freedom of speech protects, the hard, ugly stuff. It's not just for the easy questions.[/quote]

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