Quess we were not looking at the same cartoons.
I compared two different sets, you didn't suggest which one I was supposed to describe. If you want the other set it is that muslims are hooknosed hermits who spend their time killing people for virgins and obscure religious fanaticism.
Or is your point that you are just opposed to these kind of cartoons?
No I'm not opposed to them, I am simply pointing out what they are and why its no surprise that it would be offensive to some and illegal according to legal systems that ban speech which is deragatory of religions. Personally I don't like speech based on ignorant racial stereotyping, but I am not opposed to its creation or publication.
If that's the case then why don't oppose the Islamic press that is full of just such caricatures.
Someone is full of something. How do you know what the Islamic press is full of? In any case, I was aware that such defamatory speech does exist in SOME of the Islamic media and I find it equally personally undesirable. Who said I didn't?
In Turkey the top rated movie portrays American soldiers as cold-blooded killers who the sell the bodies to a Jewish doctor for organ harvest.
Hey ts, cardboard arab terrorists have been one of the more consistent "bad guys" in US movies for over a decade. Did you know that in the 90s the Japanese made a Gojira (Godzilla) movie with US soldiers as bad guys? How about the Chinese with movies like Once Upon a Time in China? I guess that gets us back for our stereotyping them.
You know what really cracked me up? Those dumbass Iranians just renamed "danish" pastries to something about flowers of allah or something like that, in order to protest denmark's involvement with these cartoons, despite the fact that such pastries are only danish in name and actually not from denmark. I mean how stupid do you have to be to do something like that?
This message has been edited by holmes, 02-17-2006 11:33 AM
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