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Subject:	Re: Danish cartoons outrage some Moslem groups and nations
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Wed, 8 Feb 2006 18:02:08 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:

When Muslims take to the streets in protest, guns go off, things get burned, and people get hurt or killed.

Granted, in that case both the boycotters and the boycottees are usually American, but the same “thou shalt not infringe upon my interpretation” runs through the fundamentalist response, whether it be Christian or Muslim.

They are entitled to their opinions, and boycotts are perfectly legal.

Here are some additional thoughts along these lines, expressed at greater length than I was able to put together.

Dave!

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		Re: Danish cartoons outrage some Moslem groups and nations
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote: <snip> (...) (URL) Here's> more... ;) Dave K (19 years ago, 8-Feb-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

		Re: Danish cartoons outrage some Moslem groups and nations
(...) The temptation to equate intolerant Islam and the intolerant Christian Right is simply too great and self-servingly too delicious for the Left to resist. Don't fall into that blinkered, bigotted hole, Dave! I will grant to you that both sides (...) (19 years ago, 8-Feb-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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		Re: Danish cartoons outrage some Moslem groups and nations
(...) What took you? :-) (...) The er, fundamental difference, is that one is peaceful and law-abiding, and the other isn't. You can call the responses from US-based religious groups to any given issue "acrimonious" if you want, but they are rarely (...) (19 years ago, 3-Feb-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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