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Originally Posted by billege
For my 2 cents:
Verbal protests over an offensive cartoon are appropriate.
Armed violence is not.
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That's what I was trying to say... the protests in response to the cartoon is extreme, certainly. But I think the cartoons are still offensive. It is not the same as portraying Moses, because there is no prohibition on portraying an image of Moses. The West KNOWS that Muslims take offense at portrayals of Mohammed, and yet Europe went ahead and did this just to "test" tolerance. That is no way to go about encouraging dialogue, and both parties are to blame if you ask me. The paper should not have printed something just to piss a group of people off on purpose (again, what kind of journalism is that?), and the group responding should not resort to these means to make their opposition known.