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Originally Posted by altis
I've travelled enough to know that, at times, there is simply a clash of cultures. No one is right and no one is wrong. There are just different ways of looking at things and we have to work hard to get along.
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There is indeed a clash of cultures, but freedom of speech is a fundamental human right which should not be quashed because some people do not like what the media publishes. If Muslims don't like the western culture of free speech, then they are quite free to return to their own culture. And no that is NOT a racist comment, I happy live side by side with Muslim people in Toronto, one of the most diverse cities in the world, and am happy to continue as long as they do not try and dictate what I can and can't read in my own culture. In fact, I have several Muslim friends who are great people.
Unfortunately and sadly the reaction of a few fundamentalists only serves to strengthen the untrue sterotype portrayed in the cartoons. Wow, some French paper offended me, I am going to take hostage some EU buildings and stand outside firing rifles into the air and threatening to take their staff hostage. How lame.