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Originally Posted by martyh
99% of Muslims in the UK or France or any other Western country are not offended by the country they live in and lets face it ,you yourself have not been over generous in your views of the country you live in .
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78% of British Muslims asked thought those who made the Danish cartoons in 2005 should've been prosecuted for causing them offence and indeed blaspheming against them.
That is actually from a survey, not pulled from my hindmost.
78% of British Muslims find the idea of free speech, which isn't causing anyone any physical harm or putting them in danger, offensive, because Sunni Islam tells them to.
In common with the vast majority of the UK I do not share those beliefs, in common with much of the UK while I have no problem with those holding them I do not respect those beliefs as I find all religions absurd to one degree or another.
Our society doesn't give offence, people choose to take it. Are we to pander to this and indefinitely modify our own laws, as we have been, whenever enough decide to take offence at something?
How many other religions do anything beyond rolling their eyes when they are criticised, parodied or mocked, and what makes this one so special that the BBC should go out of its way to explicitly avoid offending it beyond
threats of violence anyone in the public eye questioning it seem to get?
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Originally Posted by Russ
This is what I think is key to how things go from here.
On one hand publications and broadcasters generally won't want to be seen as intimidated by what happened so will likely not back down from showing more religious satire however there may well be a feeling of wanting to do it more as some kind of show of strength but that might be taken as antagonising or 'revenge' from fundamentalists, potential terrorists and others who supported the killings.
As I mentioned earlier, I have the feeling it's all going to kick off this year.
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They had a chance to all stand together and publish cartoons on the day after the attack and all bottled it.
I have no idea why our press are so much more cowardly than those in Germany and other European nations.
I'm concerned that, rather than kicking off, Labour will come into power and bend over backwards to impose their multicultural, ultra-PC view of how the UK should be with a string of illiberal laws to go alongside the existing set making even the rather weak shadow of freedom of speech we have now seem like the panacea of fredom.
We need a written constitution with freedom of speech that does not endanger life and limb, and I don't consider nutters
taking offence and going on a murderous rampage as being included in that, absolutely codified in it.