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Whats with all this angst with Palin anyhow.
Are they threatend by her somehow? (They=Liberal elite)
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Oh? If that's the case (that attention is proportional to angst), one wonders why everyone is so petrified of Obama, Al Gore and Kerry.
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Most people wouldn't find any joke about rape funny
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Oh? Making juvenile jokes about rape, unfortunately, seems to be incredibly popular these days in my eyes.
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Up theirs... Bring it on. Jokes about anything and anybody should be made, and as long as they are meant as jokes, I really can't see the harm...
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The problem is that we Westerners don't understand how important Islam is to Muslims - even in the US, you rarely if ever see people believe in and practice religion with the same fervor. Certainly not in Scandinavia. A blogger I followed once published an essay about how she had lived in Oman, and a friend of hers there recounted to her that once he dropped a Qur'an to the floor accidentally once. His classmates were outraged (even though it'd blown over by the end of the period, after apologies and whatnot). Islam is life itself to these people, and we Westerners forget both this
and that we, too, are incredibly easily offended when values
we hold to be vital to our society are in question. Imagine some politician stating that rape of children should be legalized. With values important to us questioned, Would there be a huge outcry, or would everyone sit in a circle, sing kumbaya and praise freedom of speech? Aren't there a lot of people who want prison sentences for burning flags?
Also, it's easy for us to make this a question of principles and publish the cartoons because we see the alternative as some kind of arbitrary defeat, but a bit less so for the people who are actually
harmed, physically, by bombings and other threats to their persons due to the actions of some "freedom of speech advocate" half a world away.