Here's an example of free exercise of really dumb speech. they wouldn't publish a cartoon of Jesus thumping blacks with a burning cross, but they think this is a big prinicipled stand. They should print whatever they want. and they should feel like the shitheals that they are.
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Subject: [Newsletter] The Conversation Today - The Mohammed cartoon: cultural sensitivity versus free speech
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with Ross Reynolds
Weekdays 1-2 pm PST
Thursday, February 2, 2006
It began as a Danish newspaper cartoon of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed. His turban was shaped like a bomb with a burning fuse. It's turned into an international incident on the fault line between cultural sensitivity and free speech. The cartoon outraged many Muslims. Pictures of Mohammed are considered idolatry. There have been demonstrations from Turkey to the Gaza Strip, a boycott of Danish products throughout the Middle East, and even calls in some quarters for a religious decree to attack Danish troops serving in Iraq. For their part, defiant newspapers in Europe reprinted the cartoons. They asserted a right to blasphemy. Now right wing talk shows are getting in the on act, stirring up a 'Buy Danish' campaign. When does cultural sensitivity trump free speech, and when doesn't it?
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