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[Imitation Gruel]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11383819/

I don't have a response to that. I really don't.
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[Count_Blah]

Disturbing but still not as disturbing as naked curling.

But WTF is wrong with those people, the guy just made some cartoons, not even good ones. This is totally out of proportion.
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[Magus]

/me waits for the Muslim apologists to try to excuse all this

We hear over and over how "peaceful" Islam is s'posed to be, and yet we're seeing massive riots and Islamic religious leaders offering bounties. Yeah, real peaceful.

If the rioters and those calling for assassinations are the exception instead of the rule, why are they not denounced by the peaceful Muslims? Why is there no condemnation?

I'm fully aware that the cartoons in question are considered offensive, even blasphemous, but that in no way excuses the behavior we're seeing.
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[OscarWilde]

While I think the whole thing is completely out of proportion, and I really think that the Islamic leaders have lost control (or rather don't want to control), and while I think the Islamic community will collapse* in on itself from this ridiculous intolerance to the world around themselves, I still think what we're seeing is from three things:
1) Fundamentalist Islamic leaders that really want to stir anti-western** sentiment feelings up.
2) Islamic people who don't think for themselves and join in these riots, but also, that sorry age old beta alpha male trait that is part of all men.
3) The media just focusing on the above two and just really perpetuating the problem even more by indirectly causing the western world to slowly develop anti-islamic sentiment.



*The dark ages was about hard core intolerant christianity that didn't allow any images of god or jesus christ in churches, and I believe any where else in the christian kingdoms. Also, there were the inquisition where the leaders (ignored, and just didn't have any control) allowed for torture of any person that was found to be non-christian. That part of the christian world did collapse on it self. And so will this intolerant part of the islamic world. And I think it will get worse before it gets better.
**The oddest thing that I've ever heard from pretty much the entire western ideological world is this idea that Christianity and Islam is this divided separate theology. Lord, I wish people were less ignorant and maybe, perhaps, we'd see a more peaceful world. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are linked, are ALL considered western religions, and more importantly, Islamic (the youngest of the three) actually acknowledges Jesus Christ as one of it's messiahs, but not the last and final messiah. How weird is that? Islamic idiots think they're fighting against a christian world they don't realize their own religion actually acknowledges as part of their creed. Huh?
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[OscarWilde]

Oh, also, I'm really a hard core free speech bastard. So this reaction from the Islamic world really pisses me off.

If Islamic people that LIVE in these places where there is free speech, and then feel offended, then either just ignore it, or leave for a country or city where the political climate suits you better.
Where the country is ruled by Islamic theology, they really should not be involved in this in anyway. Lodge a formal protest, but beyond that, what exists beyond your borders is not yours to control nor to dictate. So shut the fuck up and go back to your lives and don't leave your country.
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[AllYorBaseRBelong2Us]

AYB is actually glad the cartoons were published. It shows these people for the ridiculous figures they are. It should also illustrate that *they* are the real problem. They are the one that no one has use for.

Jihading over a couple cartoons?

Lame.
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[OscarWilde]

[Thundar]

I will be completely honest. It is really really hard to not lump them all together in one group whenever you see comments such as the following (emphasis in bold):

[OscarWilde]

[AllYorBaseRBelong2Us]

[AllYorBaseRBelong2Us]

[Thundar]

[OscarWilde]

Here is my question: what does a muslim look like?
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'Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.' - Milan Kundera (Immortality)

[OscarWilde]

Before someone asks me what a christian looks like, I'll answer it. Here in HK, where we're far more mixed then in the US*, there are chinese, indian, european, blacks, philippinas, etc., that are practicing christians and they goto church every sunday. So I don't know if there is a christian look. Nor do I know if there is a jewish look or muslim look to begin with. Don't even know what a buddhist looks like. I know for a fact no one knows what a hindu looks like because I get asked all sorts of weird questions on the street, 'are you muslim?' or, 'are you buddhist?', or one time I was asked, 'are you jewish?', even though I come from a hindu family background; but more importantly, i'm agnostic. So atheists and agnostics don't have any specific look cause no one figures out what I am from my own looks.





*Just remember HK is tiny, so when I say far more mixed, I mean it's like taking all the various races and cultures and throwing them on a tiny island. So, ummm, say in HK we more concentrated, if that makes sense. The US is diverse in culture and race too, but just more space to spread that diversity around. If we spread our diversity around in Hong Kong, we'd be drowning most of it in the South China Sea.
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[Magus]

[OscarWilde]

[Mord]

I currently work with a muslim. He thinks the outrage over these cartoons is ridiculous. He thinks the leaders telling their people to overreact is ridiculous. No word yet on whether or not he himself finds the cartoons funny.
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[OscarWilde]

[the twinkster]

[Jeremy Reimer]

[OscarWilde]

[OscarWilde]

How did I end up with a double post? I only clicked submit once... weird
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[Thundar]

[the twinkster]

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