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Ugh, Havoc please don't tell me you follow the Daily Mail crap where every Islamic person is on a Jihad against the western world?
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Well, no. It's just that it's only those Islamic people who keep making the news all the time. It's either Islamic people using violence to push their retarded belief system, or Islamic people using violence because someone offended them.
I haven't seen the clip that caused the latest stir, and I don't care what is in it. No matter what it says about the Islamic faith, NOTHING warrants people going to the streets, beating people up and setting buildings on fire. If every group of people who got offended did that we wouldn't have a planet left.
I think I've said this before somewhere but I'll put it down again.
First and foremost, since we live in a free world, people have the right to offend others. It may not be the nicest thing to do, but when we live in a world where we can't offend other people scary things start happening. Secondly, still living in a free world, we have this thing called freedom of speech. And while that term is being used a lot in the past few years, sometimes fitting and sometimes not, it is still a right that most people in the world have. Freedom of speech allows a person to have an opinion and to express that opinion without legal consequence, no matter how extreme it may be. Those two rights intertwine a lot and the result is that someone's opinion might just be offending to someone else. Not to mention that for certain people and cultures, an offending opinion might simply be a truth they don't want to hear. Would that mean we can't talk about it then? We can't point it out or ridicule it, just because someone somewhere might take offence to it?
The problem is that religion and Islam in particular thinks that being offended and being sensitive to insults is something only they are entitled to. People get offended all the time, religion gets offended all the time. Christianity gets offended ALL the time. Not even fanatic christians start rioting when their god or jezus is made fun of for the millionth time. Not to mention that Islam rarely wants to realize that THEIR culture and way of doing things might also be offensive to other people. Women all around the world take offence to how women should be treated according to Islam. Almost the entire planet, including other Muslims, take offence to the fact that a small faction of Islam thinks they can convert the entire planet to Islam by show of force and by killing thousands of innocent people. Do you see us beating up Muslims on the street and burning down Islamic embassies because of that? No. We hate it and we voice our opinion on it, but no-one riots about it on the scale that Muslims do on regular occasion.
I remember a few years ago a cartoonist made a cartoon that implied Islam is a violent and dangerous culture. Obviously Muslims did not take this very well and to prove him wrong they sent him hundreds of death threats and assaulted the embassy of the cartoonists respective country.
And while I realize that not every Muslim is like this and there are those who do not think like cavemen, I do think Islam in general is an arrogant, hypocritical, violent, dangerous and above all childish culture/religion that has absolutely no place in modern society the way it currently behaves.
And now,
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The innocence of...Islam.
