[Blue Lion]

You can't support these people unless you're willing to overlook the disgusting hypocracy, intent to harm and pure racial hatred that they embody.

Wait, who are you talking about? That sounds like.... oh I dunno, everyone.

[Jetmech Jr.]

You can't support these people unless you're willing to overlook the disgusting hypocracy, intent to harm and pure racial hatred that they embody.

Wait, who are you talking about? That sounds like.... oh I dunno, everyone.

Speak for yourself

[Blue Lion]

Riiiiiiiight. Everyone else is pure innocence 

[Jetmech Jr.]

Riiiiiiiight. Everyone else is pure innocence

Well I am .

[Flipside]

The problem is that this situation is being wound up out of all proportion in many respects. The cartoons were 'sexed up' by adding more offensive comment and most people only really took this as an offence to Mohammed after they had been told it was an offence to Mohammed by ringleaders.

Threatening to join Terrorists if we ever do anything similar again shows either stupidity or ignorance on the part of the person saying it. I'm flattered that they think we are organised enough to control the output of every single news and media agency in several continents, and as I've said before, it would be interesting to see if any Anti-Christian or Anti-Jewish cartoons have featured in Middle-Eastern papers, I am more than certain they have.

[FireCrack]

BURN THE HEATHENS!!!!!

[WeatherOp]

Threatening to join Terrorists if we ever do anything similar again shows either stupidity or ignorance on the part of the person saying it. I'm flattered that they think we are organised enough to control the output of every single news and media agency in several continents, and as I've said before, it would be interesting to see if any Anti-Christian or Anti-Jewish cartoons have featured in Middle-Eastern papers, I am more than certain they have.

As I posted in another forum, I think that would be kind of hard to do, I guess the would have to use the Bible or the Ten Commandments. The probley wouldn't use Jesus since he as far as I know is part of Islam. But, I don't know what else is in there as well.

[aldo_14]

Let's not forget the groups that raised these protests didn't just include the ones from the danish paper, but 3 others that weren't even of Muhammed (one was a picture of a man with a pigs snout and ears from some entirely different topic).  So it's even more stupid.

Now, if anyone called me a terrorist, I'd have to blow them up.

[WMCoolmon]

At least they're not protesting against stereotyping of Muslims as terrorists.

[Turambar]

they should really just form a big mob, and go punch the one guy at the root of this in the face

freedom of speech is no excuse for being an asshole

[Cyker]

I think we need to invent something that gives people a Sense of Humor.

If I was a wise person I would quote that quote about wise people being wise enough to laugh at themselves but I forgot what it was... 

[TrashMan]

Heh...teh westerners are too soft when someone is ridiculing their religion, and the muslims (the protesters) are going into the other extreeme.

Balance is soomewere in between (actually,. more on the western side)

[Ghostavo]

Heh...teh westerners are too soft when someone is ridiculing their religion, and the muslims (the protesters) are going into the other extreeme.

Balance is soomewere in between (actually,. more on the western side)

Most westerners are agnostic...

[Dough with Fish]

The problem is that this situation is being wound up out of all proportion in many respects. The cartoons were 'sexed up' by adding more offensive comment and most people only really took this as an offence to Mohammed after they had been told it was an offence to Mohammed by ringleaders.

Threatening to join Terrorists if we ever do anything similar again shows either stupidity or ignorance on the part of the person saying it. I'm flattered that they think we are organised enough to control the output of every single news and media agency in several continents, and as I've said before, it would be interesting to see if any Anti-Christian or Anti-Jewish cartoons have featured in Middle-Eastern papers, I am more than certain they have.

Now, I don't know if it was printed or not, but I remember a week or so ago that some Middle Eastern papers were toying with the idea to  print comics that made light of the Holocaust, insisting that they weren't trying to insult Jews or anything like that.

[aldo_14]

The problem is that this situation is being wound up out of all proportion in many respects. The cartoons were 'sexed up' by adding more offensive comment and most people only really took this as an offence to Mohammed after they had been told it was an offence to Mohammed by ringleaders.

Threatening to join Terrorists if we ever do anything similar again shows either stupidity or ignorance on the part of the person saying it. I'm flattered that they think we are organised enough to control the output of every single news and media agency in several continents, and as I've said before, it would be interesting to see if any Anti-Christian or Anti-Jewish cartoons have featured in Middle-Eastern papers, I am more than certain they have.

Now, I don't know if it was printed or not, but I remember a week or so ago that some Middle Eastern papers were toying with the idea to  print comics that made light of the Holocaust, insisting that they weren't trying to insult Jews or anything like that.

An Iranian paper.... and we all know what the bloody Iranians are like.

[Turnsky]

oh the irony. 

stupid childish little wankers, they are.

[Ford Prefect]

Most westerners are agnostic...

Yeah, wasn't there a poll a couple years ago that found only forty percent of Europeans consider themselves religious?

[Sandwich]

Now, I don't know if it was printed or not, but I remember a week or so ago that some Middle Eastern papers were toying with the idea to  print comics that made light of the Holocaust, insisting that they weren't trying to insult Jews or anything like that.

http://www.boomka.org/

And please, this whole thing is (read: should be) a MAJOR embarassment to the Western world, or heck, to ANYone who is fooled into thinking that these riots are because of the cartoons. Like has been said, they were printed over 4 months ago to no fanfare whatsoever - in an Egyptian newspaper (IIRC) no less! Yet they sparked no protests, no nothing. Why now? Does it not enter people's minds that it is perhaps a diversion from something else?

[Martinus]

Now, I don't know if it was printed or not, but I remember a week or so ago that some Middle Eastern papers were toying with the idea to print comics that made light of the Holocaust, insisting that they weren't trying to insult Jews or anything like that.

http://www.boomka.org/

And please, this whole thing is (read: should be) a MAJOR embarassment to the Western world, or heck, to ANYone who is fooled into thinking that these riots are because of the cartoons. Like has been said, they were printed over 4 months ago to no fanfare whatsoever - in an Egyptian newspaper (IIRC) no less! Yet they sparked no protests, no nothing. Why now? Does it not enter people's minds that it is perhaps a diversion from something else?

Yes! We Irish have beaten our drink affliction and are set to conquer the planet... Oh wait, Tom has decided to discuss those cartoons over a pint.

Oh well...

[vyper]

While you listen? Or are your fingers stuck in your ears?

If this is some attempt to imply I'm ignorant of their cause, I'm not. I don't agree with a lot of what's gone on in the east at the hands of the west, but trying to take away my right to free speech and threatening to blow me up while doing it is going over the line between friendly debate and asking for an arse kicking. They've crossed that line.