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Originally Posted by Wippit Guud
If you find a killer bee hive, you don't walk up to it and start beating it with a stick.
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Very bad analogy. Your analogy would be about denying Muhammeds status as a prophet in the Middle East, which is what the Coptic Christians in Egypt are doing and dying by the hundreds for. Using your free speech in the west is like telling one of your friends "You know what I really hate? Bees!" and having the bees retaliate by stinging everybody in a 100 km radius, even though said beehive is in a different country than you are in.
I can't believe how willing some westerners are to forfeit their hard earned liberties because it hurts the feelings of people they have nothing to do with. Was Salmun Rushdie "beating a beehive with a stick" when he wrote his book "The satanic verses"? Was it justified and totally forseeable that Ayatollah Khomeini exclaimed a fatwa over him, basically ordering all muslims in the
United Kingdom to kill him despite him being in
Iran?
On top of that, your comparison of muslims to bees is not only wrong, but downright offensive, as if muslims are animals that instinctively attack everything they don't like and must be treated as such. A bee can't help but sting anything it considers a threat. I assume muslims are humans like you and I and thus capable of reason.
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Originally Posted by Wippit Guud
The point of a killer bees reference... if you know doing something is going to piss people off, and you go and do it for the sole purpose of pissing those people off... what kind of person does that make you?
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It makes you a critical person that believes certain ideas need to be criticized. Imagine if there was only one political party in your country that couldn't be scrutinized in any possible way, you'd be apt to call that totalitarian. Then what should we call this idea when it applies to an ideology thousands of kilometers removed from our geographic location and without any bearing on our political, religious or moral system? What about Christian minorities in countries like Nigeria that get prosecuted not for making mean cartoons about Muhammed but simply not being Muslim? Are we supposed to take the feelings of savages that kill other people for having different beliefs into consideration when deciding whether or not we value western culture and values? And please don't call me ethnocentric, killing other people for not having the same beliefs as yourself is savage regardless of culture or geographic location.