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Too me, this isn't really about the cartoons. Rather, the cartoons are a match in a pile of very dry tinder.
To point to the hooligans pictured above with signs calling for beheadings and the like, is like using pictures of neo-nazis protesting to sum up the feelings of the white majority. They are idiots who should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. No question.
Regarding the cartoons directly, yes you can cry freedom of speech, but was this an example of a responsible use of freedom of speech? I think Jack Straw has summed it up nicely: 'There is freedom of speech, we all respect that, but there is not any obligation to insult or to be gratuitously inflammatory... I believe that the republication of these cartoons has been unnecessary, it has been insensitive, it has been disrespectful and it has been wrong.'
These cartoons only served to further divide an already divided community.
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