This whole cartoon of Mohammud fiasco seems really silly to me, to be dying over the right to publish a cartoon that offends some people.
The killing is silly, and the freedom cry is silly. As a non-muslim, I will only critisize the other side, the ones insisting that this is an important example of the right to free speach [it isn't!]
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FABLE EXAMPLE:
Its like this - A Great and Good King told all his peoples that they were free people. They could say whatever they wanted to say, except for one thing - nobody would be allowed to draw a circle inside of a triangle.
A diagram like that wasn't anything any of the people cared about, or held dear, they didn't think it was important to their way of life, so they agreed.
All, except for one group called the Conservative Whites. They demanded 'total freedom', and they insisted on their right to draw this circle-inside-a-triangle diagram, just because it is forbidden.
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Some other asked them why get riled up over this?
- They would NEVER have even thought of drawing a 'circle-inside-a-triangle' before it was banned. It seemed silly.
Well, they did go ahead and the Conservative Whites drew it, and then sent copies of it all over the world.
The reaction, what would happen if someone did draw this diagram, was not foretold by the Great and Good King, even though it was a violent reaction. The people started to fight, to kill each other, and they would continue until the diagram was not published or drawn anymore. It didn't need to make sense, that is just the way it was.
They all died a violent death.
' End of Fable.
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Maybe that Fable is silly too, but the point is that drawing a cartoon of some religious leader whose followers ask us not to draw just cannot be important in these cartoonists lives.
Not important, unless they are trying to bring on violent clashes between Islam and Christians, which is certainly true in some places.
The killing is silly, and the freedom cry is silly. As a non-muslim, I will only critisize the other side, the ones insisting that this is an important example of the right to free speach [it isn't!]
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FABLE EXAMPLE:
Its like this - A Great and Good King told all his peoples that they were free people. They could say whatever they wanted to say, except for one thing - nobody would be allowed to draw a circle inside of a triangle.
A diagram like that wasn't anything any of the people cared about, or held dear, they didn't think it was important to their way of life, so they agreed.
All, except for one group called the Conservative Whites. They demanded 'total freedom', and they insisted on their right to draw this circle-inside-a-triangle diagram, just because it is forbidden.
'
Some other asked them why get riled up over this?
- They would NEVER have even thought of drawing a 'circle-inside-a-triangle' before it was banned. It seemed silly.
Well, they did go ahead and the Conservative Whites drew it, and then sent copies of it all over the world.
The reaction, what would happen if someone did draw this diagram, was not foretold by the Great and Good King, even though it was a violent reaction. The people started to fight, to kill each other, and they would continue until the diagram was not published or drawn anymore. It didn't need to make sense, that is just the way it was.
They all died a violent death.
' End of Fable.
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Maybe that Fable is silly too, but the point is that drawing a cartoon of some religious leader whose followers ask us not to draw just cannot be important in these cartoonists lives.
Not important, unless they are trying to bring on violent clashes between Islam and Christians, which is certainly true in some places.
