[Daralundy]

This may be true,but it is very hard to keep our feelings to ourselves. Especially when they get to say anything rude and nasty they like.

[fizziwig]

"we can never win the friendship of these people if they believe our words of respect for their religion cover up a sneering contempt"
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They want us dead or Dhimmi you idiot. We can never win their friendship except under those circumstances. Censoring our press while allowing them to do all manner of evil against all that are not them is just incredibly stupid. But then, you Mr. Buchanan, are incredibly stupid.

[farlander]

Long war ? What long war ? If we turned things really on (but remaining conventional) it could be over within a couple of months.

That said, it is not *US* that are attacking anyone's culture. You don't see us saying "be tolerant or die", or "behead those who say we're violent". This is being brought to our door. And god help them and us if they make us cross that line. We wouldn't be able to forgive ourselves for a generation. But at least there would be the next generations of Western civilization and enlightenment.

[GSlob]

As every greenpisser can tell, the planet is seriously overpopulated. Especially when they breed like rabbits.

[Capt. Tom]

For we can never win the friendship of these people if they believe our words of respect for their religion cover up a sneering contempt.

Koran "5.51": O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.

[JimSEA]

[W]e must separate the Muslim monsters from the masses.

This is becoming increasingly difficult and not because of our actions. My Thai friends spouted the above rhetoric with great sincerity and Buddhist equanimity over a year ago. At that time, the Muslims there were beheading Buddhist Monks, School teachers and Muslims who cooperated with the government. There are just a few bad apples, they said. Now, after entire Muslim villages have joined together to torture and kill young soldiers, kill Buddhists living in their midst and bombing restaurants, the Muslims have escalated to attacking and burning Buddhist villages. The killing rate is 2 to 4 each day. This has accomplished one thing. My friends are no longer talking about the "peaceful majority". There isn't one.

[Gordongekko909]

I'm surprised that it took Pat this long to surrender.

[Unam Sanctam]

Patrick simply does not understand freedom of speech. It may be a moral good to be respectful of others, but it should not be legally required. No one has a right not to be offended by others. Courtesy and politeness cannot and should not be legislated, and any law will be selectively and hypocritically enforced. Pat certainly did not learn the lesson of Salman Rushdie.

[Birmingham Rain]

"...a cartoon of Mohammed with a bomb in his turban..."

Let someone disprove that Muslims bomb the innocent, blowing away their own asses in the process, then I'd agree that the "cartoon" is offensive. Until then, it's no cartoon; it's a factual depiction of their ways due to their beliefs in their Mohammed.

[elhombrelibre]

Pat Buchanan will defend to the death the right to free speech as long as it doesn't upset wacky Islamic radicals. He's a phony conservative in my view. To him, his own "conservative" Catholic views and traditional values are supposed to give him some supposed insight into the aggrieved feelings of equally traditional Muslims. There is at least one flaw in this. Traditionally Muslims and Christians fought each other. They're not kindred spirits; they're traditional enemies because Islam's Koran and its prophet accepted no other God and no other way of worshiping that God even if they both are the God of Abraham. It's simply not like the difference between, say, Greek Orthodox Christians and Protestant Fundamentalists. So on this subject, Pat proves himself a dolt and a philistine.

[Tailgunner Joe]

[NutCrackerBoy]

It would be better if throughout the West more respect was paid to legitimate sacred objects and symbols of major religions. Transgressive art that trades on blasphemy is like an insufferable child who can't control his impulses.

However, this respect has to be fairly and freely given. It is not permissible to let the threat of violence from Muslims be shown to be controlling expression. Besides, those original cartoons, while insulting, have a reasonable message which is to condemn killing of innocents by radicals in the name of Islam.

[jocon307]

You know I like Pat Buchanan, really I do. But is he really saying "Bush's fault!" over those stupid cartoons? Because that would be so stupid, I think I might have to not like him anymore.

[Lurker]

Pat Buchanan is a fool.

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[capitalist229]

This is political correctness run amuck.

Smacks of the Church in the early middle ages before its Reformation.

When will Islam end its Inquisition ??

BUMP