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    Mohammed drawing contest outside Phoenix Mosque

    Americans seem a tad provocative



    Ritzheimer is the organizer of Friday's "Freedom of Speech Rally" outside the Islamic Community Center in Phoenix.

    It's the same mosque where Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi attended for a time. They're the men who drove from Arizona to a Dallas suburb to shoot up a Prophet Mohammed cartoon contest there. Both were killed by police early this month
    How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

    #2
    And the winner is:

    I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful. [Christopher Hitchens]

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      #3
      I'd have more sympathy if the confronted their own religious nutters, the only solution is to move beyond religion

      And if we can't turn away religion we need to split society apart and isolate the god botherers so they can only harm themselves
      Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state.

      No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent.

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        #4
        Various people responding to extreme intolerance by suggesting schemes even more intolerant. Plus ca change...

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          #5
          Originally posted by unixman View Post
          Various people responding to extreme intolerance by suggesting schemes even more intolerant. Plus ca change...
          Not really comparable - one group will use deadly force to support it views... the other draws cartoons
          How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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            #6
            Some of these in support of Charlie hebdo are amazing:

            Cartoonists show solidarity after Paris Charlie Hebdo attack, in pictures - Telegraph

            Save freedom of speech!
            "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "


            Thomas Jefferson

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              #7
              Will terrorists burst through my front door now that I've viewed those cartoons?

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                #8
                They have a long tradition of being provocative when they feel their freedoms / rights are being challenged.

                Throwing tea in Boston Harbor.

                Declaring war on the British Empire over Royal Navy impressment of US citizens.

                Anti-war demonstrations in every war since at least the Mexican war in 1849.

                Firing on Fort Sumter.

                Susan Anthony (woman's suffragette) illegally voting.

                Rosa Parks refusing to give up her bus seat.

                Sit-ins by unions and the civil rights movement.

                Stonewall riots.

                Vietnam war, riots and draft dodging.

                If Americans think their freedom of speech is under attack either politically or by threat of violence, there will always be some who will choose the loudest and most provocative way to say, "You can't silence me."

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by WordIsBond View Post
                  They have a long tradition of being provocative when they feel their freedoms / rights are being challenged.

                  Throwing tea in Boston Harbor.

                  Declaring war on the British Empire over Royal Navy impressment of US citizens.

                  Anti-war demonstrations in every war since at least the Mexican war in 1849.

                  Firing on Fort Sumter.

                  Susan Anthony (woman's suffragette) illegally voting.

                  Rosa Parks refusing to give up her bus seat.

                  Sit-ins by unions and the civil rights movement.

                  Stonewall riots.

                  Vietnam war, riots and draft dodging.

                  If Americans think their freedom of speech is under attack either politically or by threat of violence, there will always be some who will choose the loudest and most provocative way to say, "You can't silence me."
                  And whether you agree with them or not they have the right idea....

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by unixman View Post
                    Various people responding to extreme intolerance by suggesting schemes even more intolerant. Plus ca change...
                    How is that intolerance manifested?

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