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The Muslims who get "incited" to violence by cartoons are fools and deserve no sympathy. Any Muslim leaders or teachers who encourage this mentality should be punished by law. The proper response to anti-Muslim speech is to understand how media power works and strive to improve the media...

As I have said numerous times, everything ultimately comes down to "might is right". Definitions can be tweaked and exceptions can be enforced if one has the necessary muscle. If Muslims had military, economic and media power, the European leaders would be grovelling for forgiveness about...

The distinctions are artificial and self-serving since these distinctions are used to justify restrictions on speech and to protect some sensibilities and not others. There is nothing in the concept of "free speech" that makes a distinction between religious speech and any other. The issue...

The question is about freedom of speech. YOU are making an artificial distinction about speech around religion and speech around other subjects. As long as the speech doesn't incite violence -- which is already covered by other laws -- the distinctions are artificial and self-serving.

I don't see how anyone can deny that the Nazi Holocaust actually happened. One can debate whether the figure was 6 million or 5 or whatever. However, I suppose anything is possible and there would be people who would have such extreme views. It still falls into the category of speech...

Duh! No one here is justifying the violence. What we are discussing is the fact that there is a hypocrisy -- something which so many people aren't even willing to accept.

You will know when I decide it is time for you to know.

My English comprehension is just fine. What YOU seem to have trouble understanding is that, when a country's laws are hypocritical, then it is legitimate to point out the hypocrisy. No one is telling France what laws to pass, but we can certainly comment on any inherent hypocrisy.

The only delusions are in your brain which has trouble with plain English and English sentences. When you couldn't sustain the debate by yourself, all you could do was call in the peanut gallery, including the Indian-American troll. By the way, I am collecting your threats -- explicit and...

Of course, any country can enact any laws it wishes. And others can point out any hypocrisy inherent in those laws. No one is telling France what laws to pass. We are merely highlighting their hypocrisy.

Unlike you, I don't confuse quantity with quality. If one line conveys the message, then so much the better.

Why do you need his respect? He is an inconsequential nothing, deluded by his own self-importance. Make the Islamic world strong, dominate their media, and the European leaders will grovel for YOUR respect. Ordinary European citizens will either adapt or be marginalized as extremist fanatics...

We have shown that numerous European countries have laws restricting speech around specific subjects which they consider sensitive. But I don't expect you to understand plain English. Best to move along...

I guess Netanyahu didn't see this cartoon by an Israeli cartoonist. (We can't blame him. Facebook, which showed Muhammed cartoons, censored these cartoons). The Hebrew on the back of the muscular man has all kinds of popular racist slogans: “A good Arab is a dead Arab;” “Death to the...

Once again you prove why you are a clueless schmuck. Your entire post misses the point that double standards exist in the matter of freedom of speech. I am sure you will continue blabbering, propped on by the clueless parade, and oblivious to the fact that you have failed to address the core...

Objective analysis and independent thought is difficult for those who have become dependent on spoon feeding. The irony is that these same sheep then thump their chests about living in a free society when they don't recognize their own mental shackles.

The point is that French law forbids certain speech in the first place, so the offenders will be prosecuted by the French legal system instead of protected by that system. If the French/Danish/German laws had forbidden mocking the Prophet and punished the cartoonists for breaking the law, this...

It's a self-serving definition. Western countries decide what is "internationally recognized". The Armenians have claims about their holocaust; the Turks have counter claims about their own holocaust. The West promotes the Armenian version while denying the Turk version. At the end of the...

I am not a scholar of his life, so I can't answer that question and, in any case, it is not relevant to the topic of European hypocrisy.

Precisely. If you believe that Islam is defined by God, then it is automatically sacrosanct and any human actions have no impact on the definition of Islam. If you believe it is the work of Man, then it is still defined by its authors. Einstein's General Theory of Relativity is defined by the...