Of course not! Stuff like this only happens in Europe.
Officials here and in Arizona stepped up their investigation into two men who opened fire with assault rifles and were shot dead by a police officer before they could invade a controversial Muhammad cartoon contest.
Here we have the First Amendment, so we can say whatever we want. And naturally, our culture reflects that in its tolerance of ideas and expressions people disagree with like flag-burning, Nazi parades, GodHatesFags demonstrations, or Muhammad cartoons.
Right?
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11 responses to “It can’t happen here!”
As long as I have been around and before that freedom has never been free in fact it is the most expensive thing there is!
Well said, Captain Arizona.
Two religious nut jobs with body armor and armed with AK-47s against one policeman armed with a 9mm pistol. Result: two dead religious nut jobs and one security guard shot in the ankle.
Pretty damned good.
I am not sympathetic with the organizers of this event. This show was designed to provoke a violent attack. Check out Pamela Geller, the organizer of this event.
Chocolatier, were you similarly unsympathetic with the Piss Christ artist after his photograph was destroyed? That particular work of art was paid for in part by US taxpayers via the National Endowment of the Arts. Do you think that particular taxpayer-funded art was designed to provoke a violent attack?
I’m not all that fond of Pam either. She’s too prone to equating all Muslims with violence – and I’ve met a LOT of – well, the Christian equivalent is called “Churchianity” – the people who go to Church to stay “ok” with their neighbors.
And there are a lot of them. There are at least as many Muslims who are like that (probably more) – with more reason – please keep in mind that in Islam, unlike modern Christianity, those who don’t “go to Church” get dead.
But – our right to free speech is just that. And she has EVERY right to say what she thinks. And that is the bottom line. NOT “oh gee, she offended someone”.
Whether anyone likes the person, what was said, or whether it was designed to offend and provoke is totally irrelevant to the right to say it. Pam Geller has as much right to offend as Fred Phelps, Angela Davis, Bernardine Dohrn, George Lincoln Rockwell, the Duck Dynasty guy, etc.
I feel as if I am stating the obvious. (But obviously it is not obvious.)
I always think of Oscar Wilde in these instances.
Guy wouldn’t have lasted a week in today’s climate, he aggravated those who needed it the most.
I don’t believe that Pamela Geller organized this event to make a statement about freedom of speech. I think she organized this event to provoke a violent and deadly response by Muslim extremists, like the ones we have seen in France and Denmark. You can’t just ignore Geller’s hatred of Islam when trying to figure out what her motive was in organizing this event. She was trying to get people killed.
chocolatier,
But what we do get to ignore is the basic matrix of Islam? The hatred of its more consistent adherents for all things non-muslim? The fact that ISIS beheaded those Coptic Xtians because they refused to pay the Jizya?
What impresses me is the capacity of the Left and their various fellow travelers to strain at the gnat of picturing Mo, but swallow the whole camel of a religion with a violent history, a murderous present, and no general tendency toward enlightenment.
The ‘western’ defenders of Islam make Neville Chamberlin look positively berserker by comparison. And I’m sure that he found Winston Churchill’s rhetoric about Hitler’s Germany to be distressing and offensive as well.
Talk about self-righteous evil all you want; the beheading religion beats Geller on that front, hands down.
And chocolatier doesn’t reply to CapitalistRoaders about Piss Christ. I wonder why.