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Originally Posted by Josef K
I've responded to the "they mocked everyone" above, but I just want to reiterate that they weren't just attacking extremists - they were attacking all Muslims and attacking Islam as a faith.
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Although I don't think religious people are stupid or especially violent (even the best of people are prone to thinking and doing stupid things), I think religion as a phenomenon is wrong, dangerous and ridiculous and should be fought against and one of the ways to fight it is ridicule. Even if it sadly hurts the feelings of religious people. The fact that religion is prominent and respected hurts atheists' feelings as well.
I do think those french cartoons were crude and unfunny, but that doesn't change my opinion about mocking religion.
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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Grindy, I have absolutely no idea what you're asking. So one guy doesn't salute: what does that prove and what does that have to do with this discussion?
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Too bad you eventually decided to ignore my post, although you might have misunderstood my motivation. It's not that I was trying to bait you to say that this guy is an idiot so I could say something stupid along the lines of "So you support Hitler then?"
On the contrary, I kind of do see your point, although I still can't fully agree with you and tried to explore your opinion a bit more, by presenting another example, although, as I said, bringing Nazi germany into a totally different topic isn't a good thing, but I couldn't think of another example.