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Originally Posted by ScruU2wice
Even you said that it was a minority group of the alread minority muslims that are that radical. Most muslims are living just dandy. It doesn't take the most radical muslims to be offended by the cartoons, nor is it an unexpected request that alot of muslims want the cartoons out of the paper. They don't see it as a political, they see it as religious, there is nothing about bush, sharon, saudi princes, imams, etc. It's the founder of the islamic religion, who should have nothing to do with it.
Now I told you that I don't think that they should take it out of the newspaper since it's their freedom of speech(or have put it in at all because it's tasteless and a cheap attempt at being "offensive"), but it should not be unexpected that muslim people want it out. If you think that most muslim people would crack up over this around a cup of cofee (or Tea), you really need to retain a grip on reality.
I'm not gonna say anything about psychotic people holding the signs, They are crazy and muslim people are not too fond of those guys, either.
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A substantial minority of muslims here are radical, about 25%, and as the Muslim population is nearly 2 million, that's half a million radical Muslims in the UK. If it was only a small minority causing trouble then there wouldn't be editors getting sacked and top politicians apologising about the cartoons.
And I don't expect Muslims not to be offended but I do expect our media and government to defend our freedom of speech. If Muslims riot, carry hate speech banners or make death threats then they should be arrested. We shouldn't let multiculturalism errode our freedom.
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