[Skybird]

Any such missions - idealistically motivated or differently - are neither helpful nor promising success if the give up discriminating between victims and perpetrators, cause and effect. Somebody made a movie, and the other side asnwers with chaos, torture, rape and assassination - that is not a proportionate nor a reasonable response. Calls for self-censoring freedom of speech and censoring media become loud again. Like six years ago, over the Danish cartoons, the murderous hysteria is seen as of the same severity as the action that has triggered it - IF it has triggered it, since it more seems to be that the events have been planned and staged by Salafists and Al Quaeda. The cartoonist is suddenly as evil a man as assassins, an ambassador is as evil as those torturing him to death over a movie he did not make, and Salman Rushdie just received a just consewquence when the other side imposed a call for assassination over him because he wrote a book of mediocre prose and Islam-critical content.

This petition does not discriminate this. Which is a bad failure of theirs.

I boycott thtis petition. But I will sign any petition that demands religions, inculding Islam, to accept the freedom of speech and free opinion, free media, and no special rights for Islam and any other religion to demand supression of this. In Islamic countries, Jews and Chriostzians get perpetrated, discirminated, driven away. Hate proipaganda of much wors ekind gets aired by Palestinian TV hours and hours every day. Int he West, chruches as well as Jerws are confronted with tasteless cartoons (as seen by some) and opposition, criticism - woithiut freaking out.

To speare Islam from the dewmand that it also has to learn this, means to spare it from the demand to chnage itself, and to change its supremacist self-descritpion, its racist world view, and all what if bad negative in it as well. If that is what yiou want - sign any well-meant petitions like this one, which may be well-meant, but are denying realites in an effort tgo let naivety overcome uncomfortable needs of accepting confrontation.

Accepting confrontation is good and positive and even honourful - if it is ion behalf of something of sufficient vaslue. I think free speech and secularism, preventing Islam from being given spoecial status, all this is indeed sufficently valuable and worthy to accept confrontation in defence of it.

And if needed to set up a hell of a fight.

Because without freedom, everything is nothing.

Good will is not enough, avaaz.org. Freedom, and clear discrimination between victim and perpetrator, cause and effect, is more important.