Posted on 02/20/2006 5:54:24 AM PST by SJackson
Childish. Irresponsible. Hate speech. A provocation just for the sake of provocation. A PR stunt. Critics of 12 cartoons of the prophet Muhammad I decided to publish in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten have not minced their words. They say that freedom of expression does not imply an endorsement of insulting people's religious feelings, and besides, they add, the media censor themselves every day. So, please do not teach us a lesson about limitless freedom of speech.
I agree that the freedom to publish things doesn't mean you publish everything. Jyllands-Posten would not publish pornographic images or graphic details of dead bodies; swear words rarely make it into our pages. So we are not fundamentalists in our support for freedom of expression.
But the cartoon story is different.
Those examples have to do with exercising restraint because of ethical standards and taste; call it editing. By contrast, I commissioned the cartoons in response to several incidents of self-censorship in Europe caused by widening fears and feelings of intimidation in dealing with issues related to Islam. And I still believe that this is a topic that we Europeans must confront, challenging moderate Muslims to speak out. The idea wasn't to provoke gratuitously -- and we certainly didn't intend to trigger violent demonstrations throughout the Muslim world. Our goal was simply to push back self-imposed limits on expression that seemed to be closing in tighter.
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
Bump!
Muslim extremists have moral (immoral?) clarity about their cause. We have mush-minded moral non-clarity. Setting a force with moral clarity against one without it is like setting a lion after a lamb.
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The reactions from the muzzie is a pure VALIDATION of the cartoons! Hmmmm???
Buy Danish products, they are of high quality!!!
Question:
How many Christians rioted over the "Piss Christ"?
Piss Christ. Artist: Andres Serrano Artist's Lifespan: c. 1950- Title: Piss Christ
Date: 1989. Location of Origin: United States Medium: Esoteric medium ...
http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/502.html
How many were killed in an anger over "Madonna"?
madonna is The Holy Virgin Mary, a 1996 collage by Chris Ofili, an award-winning British artist, which incorporates elephant feces. ...
www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/csj/991008/madonna.html - 10k -
The cartoons were to counter the self-censorship in Europe caused by widening fears and feelings of intimidation in dealing with issues related to Islam.
Welcome to the 21st century. Chi-coms tell google, Yahoo, and other "American" corporations how to run their businesses (here as well as in Red China?) and radical Islam dictates what can or cannot be covered by our MSM.
Yet, we have Canadian university students in a student-led newspaper who drew up a cartoon with Jesus and Mohammed kissing each other lovingly but only with Jesus' face showing.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2006/02/cartoon-of-mohammed-and-jesus-kissing.html
Hypocrisy is just dripping over there.
Take the point further: what would the Muslims of New York City (and the world) have done if an image of Muhammed in a container of human waste appeared in a museum justified not only as freedom of expression but vaunted as "art"?
can-it-be-that-a-european-journalist-has-balls-alert?
Good on you.
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