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daedalus_dude (327 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 04:48 AM Original message |
Who here thinks that the Mohammed cartoons... |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 04:56 AM Response to Original message |
1. some religions...just aren't funny and that's the end of it period |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 04:59 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. There are a great many things that aren't funny when you are caught up in them.. |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 05:20 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Oh no there's a whimsical side to it: Vincent van Gogh... |
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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 05:04 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Life is about perspective. Our entire existence is a comedy... |
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Scurrilous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 05:07 AM Response to Original message |
4. In comedy, timing is everything.. |
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winter999 (530 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 07:39 AM Response to Reply #4 |
27. These were more of a 'political cartoon' type. Timing was dead-on. |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 05:10 AM Response to Original message |
5. How funny do you suppose our largely Christian nation would find it |
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winter999 (530 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 07:41 AM Response to Reply #5 |
28. Christianity is lampooned, mocked, insulted in just about |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 08:04 AM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Context is everything, though, isn't it? Serrano's piece wasn't war propaganda. |
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Duende azul (608 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 05:11 AM Response to Original message |
6. You may have a point here, the toons becoming war propaganda. |
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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 05:14 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. I unrec'd it because I think the OP is wrong... |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 05:22 AM Response to Original message |
9. You guys seem to have forgotten how people reacted to 'Piss Christ' |
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Raspberry (377 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 05:31 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Were there death threats? |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 05:36 AM Response to Reply #11 |
15. Far worse than that, there were threats to cut off funding for the arts... |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 05:34 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Chocolate Christ |
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Freddie Stubbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 05:37 AM Response to Reply #9 |
16. How many people died in the riots subsequent to the 'Piss Christ' exhibit? |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 10:27 AM Response to Reply #9 |
36. Poppycock...no one rioted and no one died over Piss Christ |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 10:48 AM Response to Reply #36 |
38. The end of funding was pretty damn close to death |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 11:42 AM Response to Reply #38 |
39. I never thought that ending funding for the arts was the equivalent to a riot |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 02:15 AM Response to Reply #39 |
40. I see it as the same in the sense that both are acts designed |
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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 05:23 AM Response to Original message |
10. Islam puts great emphasis on aniconism... |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 05:31 AM Response to Original message |
12. oh I think it's quite likely. after all, look at the fatwa against |
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Raspberry (377 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 05:35 AM Response to Original message |
14. Salman Rushdie |
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daedalus_dude (327 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 05:47 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Ok. But that was a singular person being denied freedom of speech by a government. |
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 06:01 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Yes, there were |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 07:15 AM Response to Reply #17 |
21. uh, yes. and it was all about religion and supposed blasphemy/defamation |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 09:13 AM Response to Reply #17 |
32. Its wasn't freedom of speech in one country; it was a call for his murder anywhere in the world |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 07:07 AM Response to Original message |
19. Denmark didn't wage any wars of aggression, but were targetted for cartoons. |
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KDLarsen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 09:20 AM Response to Reply #19 |
33. We were in Afghanistan and Iraq at the time |
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Zywiec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 07:10 AM Response to Original message |
20. Dutch filmmaker critical of Islam killed |
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SeriousEbony (66 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 07:17 AM Response to Original message |
22. Cue Satanic Verses and other triggers of the sick |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 07:19 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. "remove these people from society". What people, what society and just how the fuck do |
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winter999 (530 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 07:52 AM Response to Reply #23 |
29. I'll take a stab at this! |
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SeriousEbony (66 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 08:24 AM Response to Reply #23 |
31. Remove as in stop them from teaching this crap to every generation |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 07:31 AM Response to Original message |
24. Like the GOP, most religions cannot see themselves for what they are. |
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Soylent Brice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 07:33 AM Response to Original message |
25. K&U |
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Raspberry (377 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 09:31 AM Response to Reply #25 |
35. For some people, |
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dorkulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 07:36 AM Response to Original message |
26. Bullshit. |
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KDLarsen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 09:23 AM Response to Original message |
34. For what it's worth.. |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-05-09 10:36 AM Response to Original message |
37. You are wrong...muslims insist on enforcing their views on others and it must be stopped |
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Ani Yun Wiya (639 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-06-09 05:06 AM Response to Reply #37 |
41. And where is it |
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