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What is your stance on the cartoons, and the following protests.

Just to clarify, the protests were the violent ones, stating behead those who insult Islam.

taking into account your formatting you clearly have an agenda you wish to push

it is quite clear that the publication of these cartoons is being used as an excuse for violence by some of the islamic community and i fail to see how anybody can justify such behavour for what is essentially a drawing. it's nonsense.

however, if you accept that those cartoons were a manifestation of free speech and that the protests were not then your position is untenable and you cannot truely be a supporter of free speech, in fact, you are no better than those muslim protesters in the first place.

freedom of speech cuts both ways.

Without wishing to be self-promoting, for those who haven't seen them (which seems to be a surprisingly high proportion of those passing judgement around and about), the full set of cartoons is here.

Edit - It amuses me that I'm claiming not to be self-promoting right above this sig...

Well with their cartoons insulting the jews, I feel they deserved a taste of their own medicine, besides its just a silly cartoon, quit over reacting.

martindtanderson wrote:Well with their cartoons insulting the jews, I feel they deserved a taste of their own medicine, besides its just a silly cartoon, quit over reacting.

I could not agree more.

Is it freedom of speech to shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater?

Jaron wrote:Is it freedom of speech to shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater?

We spell it "theatre" over here, Jaron.

"Theater" is the Florida spelling.

Nick Harvey wrote:

Jaron wrote:Is it freedom of speech to shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater?

We spell it "theatre" over here, Jaron.

"Theater" is the Florida spelling.

For goodness sake, Corin is NOT Jaron!!!!!

How many times do we have to tell you! :roll: