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Originally Posted by martyh
Indeed ,there must be a lesson in there somewhere....... maybe it's not to deliberately insult,offend or antagonise a group of people who have a history of killing people for being offensive .
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So appease for fear of reprisal.
What a fine tribute to those who stood up for their legally provided freedom of speech and the press.
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Originally Posted by martyh
"Bottled it"? I take it from that remark that you support the deliberate antagonising and offending of Muslims ,is that because they are Muslims or because they are religious .I don't really care because in my opinion you and people with your attitude are as much part of the problem as the nutters with the guns
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You take it wrong. I support the right, in a modern and liberal society, for a free press to deliberately antagonise and leave open the possibility of offense for
any group.
May I also mention that equating 'me and people with my attitude' as being as much a part of the problem as those two terrorists who killed 12 people is an incredibly low and extremely loathsome comment to make.
I would use stronger words but this isn't the place for that.
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Originally Posted by martyh
If you think that printing cartoons that are designed to deliberately offend and mock a religion are a sign of solidarity then it is not surprising that you "have no idea"
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Evidently an awful lot of editors across Europe seemed to agree that it was a sign of solidarity given they actually did it, and in the case of some in the UK would have done it had they not, and they admitted this, feared for their staff had they done so.
You see this is what you don't get even though I made it quite clear. For me religion isn't something that can't be criticised, parodied and mocked. You may consider it otherwise, I don't, and the law shouldn't.