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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (181282)	2/6/2006 7:55:55 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

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. Calm down Lazarus.. I'm not immune from harboring the same feelings and thoughts that you have. I'm upset too.. And I've never said that violence was justified, just as a violent reaction to the burning of the US flag does not justify violence. All I'm saying is that I don't feel any particular reason to defend those newspapers for what they published. Certainly the governments should not defend the cartoons, but merely the right of those newspapers to publish them if they so choose. I just don't see what point they were trying to make by putting a bomb in Muhammad's turban. If they were trying to offend 1.4 Billion muslims, then they certainly succeeded.. And now the rest of us have to bare the burden, and sacrifice, for their apparently pointless cartoons. But believe me when I say it.. I do not condone the violent reaction and we should pressure those governments to find the perpetrators and protect the remaining embassies. Hawk