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brynndragon) wrote2006-02-07 12:07 pm
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From Time: Freedom means learning to deal with being offended. Although the three additional cartoons that show things like a pedophile demonic Mohammad (these were never published in any paper, but found their way into the informational pamphlets that were spread throughout the "Muslim world") make the reaction less completely bugfuck insane. However, as
doctorellisdee noted, this event demonstrates that the Muslim world is Not Ready for Primetime.
For them what haven't seen the cartoons in question (which would be a whole slew of my American friends, since no one here has the balls to publish the cartoons and only ABC deigned to show us what the hell the flamefest was all about, and only during the first mention of the story), you can find them here. I really like the one with the the moon and star intertwined with his face - I find it aesthetically appealing. Incidentally, you can try to keep up with events via wikipedia.
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For them what haven't seen the cartoons in question (which would be a whole slew of my American friends, since no one here has the balls to publish the cartoons and only ABC deigned to show us what the hell the flamefest was all about, and only during the first mention of the story), you can find them here. I really like the one with the the moon and star intertwined with his face - I find it aesthetically appealing. Incidentally, you can try to keep up with events via wikipedia.
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I don't think either that hypothetical reaction, or the actual reaction to the Danish cartoons, is acceptable, of course. But before we label others barbaric, we should check to make sure our own houses aren't made of glass.
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The problem with "houses made of glass" saying is it says that if we fail to live up to an ideal we aren't allow to ask anyone else to aim for it either. Since humans are never perfect, we will never fully achieve any right completely, but there's a distinct diference between those who are trying and those who are not. We are *trying*, despite ourselves, to allow anyone to speak their opinion or do things that others consider taboo (I've never seen a Jew get pissed off that someone else was eating pork). I don't see why it's OK to say it's wrong to stone a woman who isn't wearing a Burqa but it's not OK to say that cartoons shouldn't incite violence.
I refuse to tolerate harm done to people. Count the bodies when this whole thing has blown over and I'll bet you money that more Middle Eastern people will be dead than Europeans and at their own hands. Whoever published those pamphlets with the horrible offensive cartoons are the ones who should get the blame for those cartoons, not the papers and the countries where those cartoons were never published. This pises me off for exactly the same reasons that the spying program and the Plume case and the Abramoff scandal and the Iraq war piss me off - people were taken in by lying leaders, and it's causing harm to them.
Our houses can be damaged by thrown rocks, but that doesn't mean they're made of glass.