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Originally Posted by Sparkle
Its clear, regardless of what the Vogelenzangs actually said about Islam - that this is hardly a matter worthy of criminal proceedings. If someone walked up to me and said Jesus lived in the playboy villa just down the road from his carpenters workshop, I seriously doubt I'd be involving the police. Sticks'n stones and all that. I would just take pity on the fool, and walk away.
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I think this reflects a modern interpretation of the Christian faith and is an admirable outlook. However, I would argue that current islamic doctrine is not quite so lenient about people having a pop at their god. I would be shocked if the people saying these things did not appreciate what offence this might cause. I can think of two reasons why they may have said this and thought it was OK - they didn't know and have been living under a rock or they were being deliberately inflammatory and therefore guilty of the offence as charged.
Using Dad speak - 'what did you think was going to happen?'. Being culturally sensitive isn't really that hard.
Oh, on the free speech thing - you don't have the right of free speech on this forum, it's moderated and rightly so, so why the problem out in the real world?