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Originally Posted by Christian Benteke
TH I get what you're saying but so what?
They drew a cartoon. If they didn't like it then protest or draw your own cartoon back or something but deaths over a cartoon?  |
My point is that if you do something that you know is likely to provoke this kind of reaction, you can't really then cry about it. Okay, the reaction was extreme and abhorrent, and I condemn it. But this has happened before, almost exactly the same thing, in Denmark. Don't people learn? And if they don't why does everyone get in such an uproar over "free speech" when this happens? What was so important about lampooning Islamist beliefs that they had to risk their lives for it? How stupid is that?
You can't control how these nutjobs react, and yes I agree a far better and more considered response would have been preferred, but we all know how this goes down: there is no such thing as restraint among the violent element of Islamic radicalism. We've seen it before. Why should it change now? And knowing that, why provoke them? How is the world saved by a cartoon? Answer: it isn't. It's just people wanting to force their own arrogance and perceived superiority on others regardless of the consequences.
And again, anyone: the cops? Any way to end your life, defending some arrogant twat who ignores death threats and keeps doing the thing that is putting his life in jeopardy?
Anyone?