There was a movement to kill the artist. We don't do kill movements like they do, but there was one....
I can’t and won’t defend the Revolutionmuslim website. But violence against those who depict the Divine is not just
an Islamic problem. It is worth
pointing out that Christianity has a long history of violence against visual
depictions of Jesus, the saints, and God.
In 1987, Serrano’s Piss Christ provoked
death threats and violence from Christian fundamentalists and conservative
Catholics across the U.S. and Europe and caused political outrage on two
continents.
Read more: http://blog.beliefnet.com/christianityfortherestofus/#ixzz26TUN1ALk
"Picture angry mobs of Chasidim storming every McDonalds in the world"
Picture Mickey D serving bacon in Jerusalem. The only other country with enuf Chasids to do damage is New York City.
I've got a theory. Jews are the oldest. We kid God. We're pretty familiar with Him. Christians are younger. They joke about God, but they are still afraid to give him any lip. Getting mature, so you get individual bad guys acting out on religion, instead the roving gangs of high testosterone teenagers you find in the least mature, the Muslims. They still take everything seriously (I'm not sure you could find a Tevya in Saudi Arabia), and literally, and don't like it when an individual flips them off. Doesn't make it right, but they haven't matured yet, and don't take kindly to being dissed.
Thing of it is, we can now flip them off from the relative security of the internweb, so Flipper Satanspawn can make trouble, in order to serve his own particular goal, without getting stabbed in the liver.It's EZ to think of things to inflame people.How about having an "Obama is taking your gun, so bring yours here and we'll show him" rally, and then, after about 6 speakers, crawling into a fox hole and firing off a blank? It'll, prolly work better if you give out free beer first. EZ to stir people up. I think I could set the Muslim world on fire if I tried.
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