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The Spectacle Blog
The barbarians remain at the gates, still trying to restrict our rights to free speech. Well, no, we won’t be silenced — even if our own government denounces us. Hillary Clinton can go… uh, long walk, short pier, that sort of thing. And these Islamists can go eat pig. Stop murdering innocent people, and maybe they will earn some respect. Otherwise, let them look at the bottom of our shoes as we innocently sit with legs outstretched for comfort.
Here, by the way, is the key paragraph in the link above:
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), said the international community should “come out of hiding from behind the excuse of freedom of expression”, a reference to Western arguments against a universal blasphemy law that the OIC has sought for over a decade.
Hey, dude: We ain’t hiding behind freedom of expression; we are out front in celebrating that freedom, and we are gladly using that freedom in order to point out that there is no excuse for murdering innocents, and that Islamists who try to make excuses for such murders are deserving of nothing but contempt.
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JmsA| 9.24.12 @ 11:23PM
Well done, Mr. Hillyer. We're facing attacks to within and from without, including by some who although pretend otherwise, lend themselves in defense of radicals which cloack themselves in the unwarranted legitimacy of evil doctrines which propels them to unspeakable atrocities.
JmsA| 9.24.12 @ 11:24PM
meant to write: cloak
JmsA| 9.24.12 @ 11:27PM
meant to writ: from within.
Jack of Spades| 9.24.12 @ 11:27PM
As far as blasphemy laws go, the question to ask is who gets to define "blasphemy?" Hint: it won't be the Christians.
JD| 9.24.12 @ 11:31PM
A great many people, including Ross Kaminsky, who I respect on other issues, have bought into the mystique of the word "religion", which is today no more than the atheist's equivalent of the Christian word "heathen" or the Muslim word "infidel". This mystique is derived directly from the mystique surrounding the term "politics", and reflects nothing more than an unwillingness to endure unpleasant discussions, no matter how necessary they might be.
There must not be an arbitrarily applied label, whether it be "politics" or "religion" or "philosophy" or "ideology" or even "bias", which disqualifies that which is labeled from rational discussion. Free speech is good. Free thought is good. But no thought or speech or especially action should be immune to the judgement of others, up to and including hostility, provided such hostility does not take the form of criminal acts.
When people say that you can't treat a person differently due to their abominable ideas because those ideas are protected by a label like "religion", they are creating an entirely arbitrary immunity which they intend to exploit. There is no way that such an immunity cannot be arbitrary, for if it were to be universally applied, it would render human interaction impotent. Every idea would receive the immunity, and there could be no discussion of anything!
JD| 9.24.12 @ 11:32PM
The Establishment Clause sought to fight an injustice of its day - government bans on lines of thinking that did not harm the state. It should never have been extended to protect thoughts from private criticism or private responses, such as disassociation. That it has has revealed the consequences of such foolish policy - arbitrary nature of enforcement has become predominant, resulting in clear and blatant discrimination in the name of tolerance on the one hand while dangerous ideas gain undue protection on the other.
geronl| 9.25.12 @ 12:15AM
Good topic.
I just wrote this, I think you guys would enjoy it.
http://asspos.blogspot.com/201.....ms-to.html
spike59| 9.25.12 @ 5:54AM
I'll start caring about 'insulting muslims' when they stop murdering people over cartoons
Dai Alanye | 9.25.12 @ 3:07PM
Mohamed deserves no more respect than does L Ron Hubbard. Each created a religion for egotistical reasons, with the goal of obtaining personal wealth and power. (And in Mohamed's case, lots of women.) In fact, Islam deserves even less respect than Scientology, since Scientologists, to their minimal credit, rarely behead non-believers.
In reality, Islam is merely a successful pagan cult that slimmed down the number of Meccan gods from dozens to three, and later to one. Until it reforms itself, advancing its principles from those of the eighth to at least the eighteenth century, it should receive no moral consideration from the civilized world.
Occam's Tool| 9.25.12 @ 8:15PM
Dai: Muhammed deserves considerably LESS respect than L Ron Hubbard, and I say this as a Psychiatrist.
Let me put it more bluntly, unlike C. Bowen, who supports little girls being raped and having acid thrown in their faces, Islam, and Muslims deserve only the respect that it may take killing millions of Muslims to get them to change their minds about not beheading infants.
But, if we were able to civilize Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in that way, we should be able to civilize Islam that way, too. My warning and prediction is that is precisely the way it will need to be done. One day I will be venerated as a prophet, I am sure---not in a religious sense, but as a voice crying for a necessary approach to the preservation of freedom in a sea of craven scum like C. Bowen, Red Phillips, and Cheesehead Jack, as well as the MSM.
And you, Dai, will also be so venerated.
Occam's Tool| 9.25.12 @ 8:16PM
Sorry: Correct as follows: "acid thrown in their faces, I believe that Islam, and Muslims..."