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Re: Danish cartoons outrage some Moslem groups and nations
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:26:28 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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Here are some additional thoughts along these lines, expressed at greater
length than I was able to put together.
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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 are intolerant. But there is one difference
that makes all the difference and makes comparisons, while seemingly accurate,
completely and unequivocably wrong. Violence. The Islamofascists commit
suicide, murder, butchery of all kinds in the name of their God, and the
Christian Right, while screaming their agenda, however hateful it may be
perceived, do not act out violently. Now, before you start pointing to specific
instances of hate crimes perpetrated by so-called Christians, please realize
that that behavior is universally condemned by any sort of mainstream
Christian. They may even agree with the sentiments of the perpetrator, but
they will abhor the violent action taken. And therein lies all of the
difference. And all of that “envy” blather is simply wishful thinking upon the
biased little mind of the writer. Yes, wishing it were so doesn’t really mean
much IRL.
The Christian Right has the right to scream any hateful idea they want, as do
the Islamofascists. And one could argue that they both do. But what they do
with that intolerance are completely 2 different things.
So that blogger, while cute and clever in his prose, is, in the final analysis,
plainly wrong. Let us just imagine how absolutely and completely unglued the
Islamofascists would become if anyone dare create a “Piss MoHo” work of art!
And then we can compare that reaction to “Piss Christ” or any of the literally
1,000s of offensive works of art aimed squarely at Christianity and see if
they are really the same. My money says, “Hell, no!”
JOHN
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