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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (181276)	2/6/2006 5:34:51 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Got some reading for you, mate. suntimes.com Now I'd say the man does have a point several of them in fact. How much more inoffensive can you get than DENMARK???? Images of Mohammed? I provided a link that had numerous of those PRODUCED BY MUSLIMS! You think they are trying to insult themselves maybe? You like political correctness? You're welcome to it. I say the first amendment protects me from any attempt on your part to foist it on me. While were at it, why is it OK for them to burn our flag and the Union Jack, but not OK for a Danish paper to run some cartoons? There are Americans and Brits who find such actions offensive, after all. I think almost all Americans and Brits found Muslim cheering of the attack on the WTC offensive. I know I did. There is NO difference between insulting Muhammad, Jesus, Buddha, or any other spiritual leader. I'm an atheist. There are more of us than you might think. I have a license to insult ALL of them as far as I'm concerned. I don't believe in the tooth fairy or easter bunny either. They should be AGGRESSIVELY (in a vocal and political sense) protested so that militants are shamed by the moderates amongst them. Yeah, I think we've ALL noticed just how well the moderates have done. But violence is not the answer, obviously. But free speech, while a right, does not provide someone the right to infringe upon another person's right not to have their beliefs humiliated. Free spech is free speech. It DOES include the right to call a religion whacko. Yes.. that was disgusting. And as I recall, there were protests about it, with people threatening to stop donating money... etc, etc.. I never said that they had no such right. It is their money and they may decide where it goes. I guess we all can assert our right of free speech by insulting others. But I dare anyone to go through a hispanic gang-dominated neighborhood yelling "Tu Madre es una Pta"....* Are we reduced to "Might is right"? Then let's just launch and settle this matter.