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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not condoning the gunmen showing up to shoot up the place, but this is the height of cultural and religous insenstivity.

Not only is there a "contest" to draw the prophet with everyone knowing full well the angst it causes among Muslims, but you have this "event" in a part of Texas that has substantial population of Somali Muslims. What did people expect to happen?  [/quote]

Yes, it is very insensitive to organize such an event.

But guess what? That still doesn't make it okay to try to kill the people who do that.

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Didn't say it was "ok" did I?  In fact I said that I am not condoning it - said that right there in the first line.

My point was given what has happened in other places in the wake of these types of cartoons, what did people expect to happen?

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"What did people expect?"  Seriously?

I'll tell you what America expects:

We expect that we can publish a crass, tasteless cartoon like Cahlie Hebdo without the editorial staff being murdered in cold blood.

We expect that a woman on FaceBook can propose "Everybody Draw Mohamed Day" without being forced into hiding for over 4 years by constant death threats:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Draw_Mohammed_Day

We expect that idiot neo nazis can lawfully apply to march through a predominantly Jewish neighborhood and they won't be denied their right to free speach, but only because an ACLU lawyer, a Jewish one at that, defends their rights:  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_America_v._Village_of_Skokie

We expect that Westboro Baptist crazies will show up in an "insensitive" fashion, and we expect counter-demonstrations (I would hope so anyway).

THAT is what we expect, PP.  Nothing less.

America is a diverse place.  If you come to America, we demand you peacefully tolerate that diversity.  If you don't like other people's views, then speak up.  Get a permit and hold a peaceful demonstration.  Write a letter to the editor.  Start a blog.

But if your response to other people's viewpoint is to drive their with AK-47s, then I hope they shoot you dead before you hurt anybody.

NOW you KNOW what we expect, you intolerant, narrow-minded prick![/quote]

You guys are so wrapped up in your rhetoric, that you are toally missing the point.  If violence happened in other Western countries becuase of stuff like this, why would you expect America to be immune to it?  THAT is my point.  [/quote] You seem comfortable with people bowing to terror by one religious group.  Perhaps we should bow to terror by any group that feels offense. [/quote]

Np here. Well, I am not comfortable with an anti-Islam organization intentionally having a contest that they know will be offensive and will provoke a reaction.  Because I know that most Muslims are peaceful and it seems un-American to insult them.  Sure, it is your right or the organization's right to have such an event.  But if you have an event designed to provoke a reaction and an extreme variant of that reaction is what you get, you have not bowed to terror but you have helped create it by inflaming tensions on a whim.  There is a reason this event was held in THAT neighborhood. Would you want an event like this at the school your kids attend?  How about the neighborhood rec center?[/quote] Is it unamerican to insult Jews and Christians? No.It happens every day snd with increasing frequency. Islam is not s protected class just because it has radicals who chose to kill and terrorize.  [/quote]

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