The Pitters' Place

Oppressive laws should never change. Big mistake getting rid of those segregated bathrooms and letting gay people get married. No one is above the law! If there have been black people who shot Hollywood producers because of racism; or gay activists who shot religious leaders because of anti-gay hat...

sikax wrote:

phe_de wrote:Petition that depicions of Muhammad are considered hate speech

It's been done. To no avail.

Then Muslims have to live with drawings of Muhammad. No one is above the law.

It isn't the threat of violence that should compel someone not to depict Muhammad for no other reason than "artistic expression", it should be simple compassion. The threat of violence is an easy added bonus reason. It's not "Cartoonists' Freedom of Expression vs. Terrorists". I...

sikax wrote:Not doing something because of threat is not the same as "letting the terrorists win". It's just keeping the fucking peace and probably saving lives.

In my opinion if you let terrorists dictate your behavior, then the terrorists have won.
Guess we'll have to agree to disagree on that one.

There's just something inherently fucked up about a cartoonist who would deliberately depict Muhammed when a large chunk of Muslims have historically and explicitly told the world that depictions of their prophet are considered extremely blasphemous and forbidden. In my opinion there's something in...

Derived Absurdity wrote:Muslims have been the primary targets of Empire for the last hundred years at least, Hindus have not.

Wow. Guess I must have lived in a parallel universe. In my universe, India was a British colony for centuries.

Cassius Clay wrote:They won't consider the fact that a vulgar/blasphemous drawing of Christian prophets has a completely different meaning because Christianity is a pretty fundamental pillar of the Western empire...Christians have the power.

And what about Hindus? Are they more powerful than Muslims?

Even a broken clock is right twice a day; and I agree with captainbryce2 on this subject.

Hi all, and thanks Gendo!