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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: epicure who wrote (181279)2/6/2006 7:03:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
but more as a way to predict outcomes, and perhaps ameliorate reactions to art in the future. The burden of criminal responses to outre art and writing has to be on the person who responds criminally- that's really the only thing that makes sense if you value freedom of expression.

One would have thought that the outrage, and following deaths that occured, last year over the alledged "abuse" of the Koran at Gitmo would have been sufficient to alert editors that certain forms of satirical representations of objects and persons considered holy by Muslims would ellicit a potentially violent response.

If anything, it would provide Islamo-Fascist militants the excuse to conduct violent demonstrations aimed at further distancing moderate muslims from the secular west.

Either the editor of those newspapers is incredibly incompetent (and/or arrogant), or it's an attempt at Hearst like "yellow journalism" aimed at creating just such a response so that they achieve some strange desire to create such a cultural and political gap.

All I can say is that it played right into the hands of the Islamo-Fascists and it is THEY, not the west, who benefitted.

For even if moderate Muslims might be outraged at the violence by the I-F militants, they certainly feel considerable resentment against the Danes and Norwegians, as well as any other country that posted those cartoons.

Hawk
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