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Friday, February 03, 2006
Bigotry -- Not Free Speech By CRAIG S. SMITH and IAN FISHER Meanwhile, the furor continued to spread in Europe, as the French-Egyptian owner of a French newspaper apologized to Muslims. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/03/international/europe/03cartoons.html?th&emc=th .................. Were one to publish a cartoon version of: * the 14-year-old African American boy portrayed in a widely distributed post card republished in Langston Hughes' History of the NAACP -- about to be fried well done in an American electric chair -- with cartoonist exaggerated lips and other caricatured features? * an ugly hook-nosed cartoon caricature of an Auschwitz Jew about to be gassed? * a cartoon version of a Catholic priest raping a small child? One would have 'harmed' no one -- only 'offended' a good portion of the human race. Anyone who has studied art history and come to appreciate the extraordinary beauty of Muslim abstract art -- which does NOT engage in "graven images" -- must cringe at the obscene insult to all Muslims perpetrated in the name of free speech? One wonders how such idiots -- here, there, and elsewhere -- can be so stupid as to have so offended 1.2 billion Muslims. Such offensive behavior is manifestly culturally arrogant and bigoted. Boycott Danish blue cheese! -- "A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy) -- Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies] http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/ http://www.bloggernews.net Blogger News Network is advertiser-supported, and your visits to our advertisers help BNN to meet its expenses. Help keep us afloat! posted by Ed Kent at 2:54 PM |
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2 Comments:
How soon they forget. You don't seem to recall the recent US editorial cartoons of Condi Rice "with cartoonist exaggerated lips and other caricatured features". She took it and moved on.
The examples presented aren't even comparable to the "insulting" cartoons that are under dispute.
Even if it was bigotry, what gives them the right to behead people over offensive speech? People lament censorship -- what the hell do you think their response is, here?
Good grief, how can anyone support their position, much less their reaction?
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