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Originally Posted by Pierre
How do you differentiate between the Muslims that take offence and the ones that don't?
Do you draw a cartoon of Mohammed and write on it for Jihadists only?
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Isn't that the point? You can't. So there is a valid argument that to display the pictures is to insult a bunch of people most of whom didn't do anything wrong. Extending it further you could say it feeds the terrorists narrative that this is a battle of Islam vs the West rather than a fight against extremism.
Making that argument doesn't mean you're against free speech. Free speech also includes things you disagree with.
I mean personally I like the idea that they're coming back with the same picture as a statement they won't cede to violence but I can see the logic in the other argument.
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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
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I don't buy a lot of that. He points out that many papers and magazines have refused to run cartoons they find distasteful but that isn't a violation of the principle of free speech, it's people deciding what they want on their platform.
He is right about the Poppys though. Maybe. Slightly different setting fire to them though.