Another violent Islamic reaction

[Elok]

http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2011/11/france-and-islam

Summary: Satirical newspaper in France has an issue dedicated to mocking Islam, with a cartoon of Mohammed on the cover threatening to whip people if they don't read it. The newspaper's office gets firebombed. A lot of people act shocked.

Yes, this is very bad, etc. But FFS, what did they expect to happen?

[Dinner]

I support any publication which forces religious nutjobs to get a sense of humor. It's clear there is much work still left to do in that department.

[Fake Boris]

Charlie Hebdo is an archenemy of everyone in France. It could easily be someone else.

[Dinner]

The article says the paper has been sued 13 times by Catholic groups upset that they made fun of wacky Christian beliefs and only once for making fun of wacky Muslim beliefs. It sounds like their equal opportunity satirists but some of the Muslim immigrants are violent with no sense of humor. ****'em. Put the arsonists in jail and jail any preacher who supports such violence since they're unfit to live among civilized people, violent nutjobs belong in jail.

[Elok]

Charlie Hebdo is an archenemy of everyone in France. It could easily be someone else.

This is possible, from what I understand. I don't know if they have any other suspects, though.

[Sava]

from the article:

François Fillon, the centre-right prime minister, not only denounced the attack, but declared that “freedom of expression is an inalienable value”. Bertrand Delanoë, the Socialist mayor of Paris, deplored the “act of violence against the freedom of expression”.

Freedom of expression... yes... except for wearing a headscarf.

The French paper in question sounds like a bunch of *******s trying to sell papers by being trolls. I reserve my pity for people who aren't *******s.

If it's okay to kill unarmed people with drones from UAV's without a trial, then I don't have a problem with ******* newpapers getting firebombed.

If this were a publication in a Muslim country that was "collateral damage" in an airstrike, the same people that are rabble-rabble-outraging about this would be cheering.

Personally, I'm of the mindset that you shouldn't bomb things period... the exception perhaps being hostile armored vehicles rumbling across your border.

[Az]

ahahaha shut the **** up Sava.

[Dinner]

They can wear headscarfs but not in government buildings, I believe. It's suitable for a secular state to ask people to keep their religion private in official government buildings.

[loinburger]

Sounds like a good way to collect on insurance money.

[Sava]

ahahaha shut the **** up Sava.

Fine. I'll make an exception for campaigns of ethnic cleansing. But just for you.

[Sava]

They can wear headscarfs but not in government buildings, I believe. It's suitable for a secular state to ask people to keep their religion private in official government buildings.

It's nice to know that it is suitable to lose your freedom of expression in a public place.

In fact, why don't we just put a dress code into the Constitution... to simplify things.

[loinburger]

Would you object to a law against hairy old men masturbating in public? Because if you do, and yet you oppose laws against head scarfs, then somehow you're a hypocrite.

[Sava]

Would you object to a law against hairy old men masturbating in public? Because if you do, and yet you oppose laws against head scarfs, then somehow you're a hypocrite.

Not only do I support hairy old man masturbation, I think we should subsidize it.

Clearly, the laws we pass against hairy old man masturbation are stopping the hordes of would-be public masturbators from exercising their God given rights. I know before I think about masturbating in public, I say to myself, "Crap. This is illegal. I shouldn't do it."

[loinburger]

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[Sava]

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