shagster01
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Well, there you have it. You are saying right here that they did it because of a similar response they've seen in the past and they were intentionally poking that beast again.
Shots fired at Texas Mohammed art exhibit
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Well, there you have it. You are saying right here that they did it because of a similar response they've seen in the past and they were intentionally poking that beast again.
musterion
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musterion
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This beast dares civilized people to poke it. Good to know freedom of expression - which directly impacts freedom of thought - don't mean all that much to you in the name of safety. "Just leave me alone to enjoy my weed, Mohammed, and I won't offend you."
Move to France.
I was thinking of the same example.
How in the world did you drag marijuana into this
Tinark
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No, as I've already explained multiple times, the intent needn't be to provoke. More plausibility, it was to stand up for freedom of expression and to take a stand against those who threaten and murder, to stand in solidarity with those living under threats or who have been murdered. To not cower and give up our freedoms in the face of death by would be murderers who wish to take away such freedoms.
Less plausibly but still a distinct possibility, it is also to get such thin-skinned Muslims who go into a frothing rage at any such drawings to start getting thicker skins (as they become desensitized to it). When such depictions are more common, they'll be more likely to just brush it off as something not to get so worked up about. Furthermore, such events also serve to spread the risk around for those who are targets of Islamist extremists. The few people who speak up against Islamist extremism (Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Sam Harris, Maajid Nawaz, among several others) become targets, placing themselves at high risk for an attack. The more people who follow in their footsteps, the less risk each individual suffers overall, as with so many targets out there and limited abilities to carry out an attack (and limited numbers of individuals able and willing to carry out such attacks), each individual personally faces a much smaller risk.
shagster01
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500 years ago was the Spanish Inquistion.
Islam is 500 years younger than Christianity.
By my math, that means Islam is right on par with the Christianity timeline. . .
shagster01
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If all believers of Mohammed must answer for a few, why not all believers of Jesus?
musterion
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You're stoned again.
Nobody's asking all Muslims to "answer for" a few; that's as stupid as if I asked you to personally answer for atheism's 97 million dead worldwide.
No...we ask only that Muslims be the first and loudest ones opposing those they say do not represent them, if they really do disagree. And that is a totally fair request.
shagster01
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Never any actual facts in your agruments.
:yawn:
Maybe YOU aren't, but more than "nobody" around these parts are.
Especially since I consider myself taoist... :think:
Why?
I'd say if you launched an exhibit of satire aimed at a purpose, like a general reformation or maybe just taking the scary out of the notion for those who might be walking on eggshells for one reason or another I can respect it. Otherwise it makes as much sense as waving a gun around to "stand up" for the right to walk around with a gun.
I don't think so. The cartoons that upset a lot of Islam preceded violent acts on the part of the extremists who committed their stupidly violent acts of cowardice in response.
Nazaroo
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All believers must answer for their beliefs as adults with a God-given brain,
in the face of their own experience of truth and love.
All believers must stand before one LORD and King of Kings,
regardless of their personal fantasies, and be judged according to
the things they did with the talents they were given.
I'm afraid not everyone's going to pass that semester.
i read that link, i don't know the details yet, but i heard one security/traffic officer stopped both terrorists with his duty weapon. he is a hero. the terrorists had body armor ? there was a swat team and more already there ? what were they watching/doing ? this one officer should get a medal ! ! ! -
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shagster01
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I consider all humans to be animals. I am not liberal in the "leftist" sense. There is a third way.
Originally Posted by The Barbarian View Post
They better watch out. You know who lives in Garland?
Oh, sorry. For all you non-Texans:
In early 1995, after the successful run of Beavis and Butt-head on MTV, Mike Judge co-created King of the Hill with former Simpsons writer Greg Daniels. Judge was a former resident of Garland, a suburb of Dallas, Texas considered the basis for the setting of the series, the fictional Arlen.
http://kingofthehill.wikia.com/wiki/King_of_the_Hill
They better watch out. You know who lives in Garland?
Oh, sorry. For all you non-Texans:
In early 1995, after the successful run of Beavis and Butt-head on MTV, Mike Judge co-created King of the Hill with former Simpsons writer Greg Daniels. Judge was a former resident of Garland, a suburb of Dallas, Texas considered the basis for the setting of the series, the fictional Arlen.
http://kingofthehill.wikia.com/wiki/King_of_the_Hill
Why?