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Originally Posted by ScruU2wice
Death threats and riots are illegal, but sign making isn't. I don't condone what they sayl, but hate speech is in the same branch of freedom of speech as caricatures of "how evil muslims are".
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The point is, you can't respond to insensitivity by being equally as insensitive and think it's anything but ...hypocrisy. If they want to enjoy free speech, they have to tolerate the free speech of others too.
There are parts of the world where they are protected from the sin of illustrating Mohammed through an artistic rendering....and it's not the Western world.
Democracy in a Cartoon
By Ibn Warraq
Best-selling author and Muslim dissident Ibn Warraq argues that freedom of expression is our western heritage and we must defend it against attacks from totalitarian societies. If the west does not stand in solidarity with the Danish, he argues, then the Islamization of Europe will have begun in earnest.
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/inte...398853,00.html
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