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Moderate Muslims care as much about a mojammed cartoon as moderate christians care about the bobbleheaded jesus...that is to say, not so much. For a balanced person with genuine faith, that stuff just doesn't register.

Everybody has a right to be offended. Everybody has a right to voice that offense. But death threats? No. If you choose to be on the side of that shit, I'm sorry, but fuck you. That shit doesn't wash here, and it shouldn't wash anywhere else, either.

Ignorance? An intellectual blind spot prevents you from getting the cartoonist's point and you're calling us ignorant? Hah! As for the website, I'm just a little busy with some other advocacy issues right now. Thanks for the suggestion, though. I'll give it all the consideration it deserves.

See what I mean? I have to tolerate morons with one loose fastener barely holding their works together, but do I go issuing death threats? Hah!

Joseph's argument is the exact one used historically to persecute gays and any other group 'the majority' doesn't agree with. 'They asked for it. They knew they'd offend, and they did it anyway.' Or, in the case of rape 'with a skirt that short, the bitch deserved it.' Well, freedom of expression without death threats is an ideal I think should be promoted regardless of the consequences. Lampooning a group who believes they have the right to kill because someone drew a picture of their bobbleheaded idol is something a citizen who truly believes in a free society should support. A free society means eating it when someone else does something that is perfectly within their right to do and you choose to be offended. Offended by gays? OK, don't fuck one. Offended by hippies? Fine, get a job, insurance, and haircut. Offended by people who aren't extremist, tyrannical muslims? Tough shit. This is America. Get used to it, motherfucker.

Chrome. Firefox blows goats. Explorer blows whales.

It's always interesting when effectiveness and ignorance are confused, though admittedly the latter sometimes does have the appearance of the former. It's also rather amusing with otherwise educated folks can't distinguish between them due to "principle". Such lack of subtlety usually makes for fine orthodoxies and fundamentalists, but then of course you become no different then what you rail against. A lack of subtly makes you no different than what your rail against? What kind of absolute, meaningless bullshit are you trying to foist on us this time? A lack of subtly gets the message out successfully. Artists have done a remarkable and very effective job (um...we're talking about it on an obscure climbing forum, duh) of exposing the religious tyranny of a minority of Muslims for what it is. It's a job politicians are often too hamstringed to do, but it needs to be done, nonetheless. Your conflation of the two sides (they're both fundamentalists, right?) is a tired, tired, rhetorical trick, and one that is much overused by the far Right. Fortunately, there probably isn't a poster here who's dumb enough to buy it. There's a slight difference between a cartoonist willing to remove the religious cloak from usurpation, corruption, and tyranny and the death-threat-issuing tyrants themselves. GET FUCKING REAL, and stop insulting our intelligence with this kind of crap. I know you hate losing an argument (you may not even believe such an eventuality is even possible), but your desperation here is, frankly, embarrassing. You can do better than that. Finally, which 'delicate flowers' are you protecting, Joseph? Do you even know?

The only way to deal with a bully is to call his bluff. That's precisely why our artists SHOULD expose these totalitarian fuckers for what they really are. From a historical standpoint, the prohibition regarding the depiction of Mojo has nothing to do with the Koran or Islam. It's a completely man-made construct designed for crowd control through intimidation, and it begs for a punch in the fucking face as often and possible. This issue is about people who choose to be assholes under the guise of a religion they reinvented, not beliefs. It's not about respect, it's about exposing the usurpation and corruption of a religion for political gain. We should not respect such beliefs: we should deplore them.

you missed yer calling...not sure what it shoulda been, but something... That's got performance artist written all over it.

screw loose

Fucking idol worshippers deserve ebbyting dey get.

I believe the principle is "Hey, humorless, religious fundamentalists: Kiss my ass!" a principle I wholeheartedly agree with.

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If I had to go through life not offending anyone... ...yeah...not good.

If she says "no doll", you can respond with "no vibrators". You'll get your doll.

I can haz pork?

The cartoonist should have posted her contest on CC, where you can't swing a really large house cat without hitting a death threat.

Yet more proof that some people are more trouble dead than alive.

If Zombie Jesus and Bobblehead Mohammed went mano a mano, who would win?

New Yorker article. They don't lie that much.

I don't know. The Feds shut a 'copper mine' down that was melting down pre 83 pennies cuz they're worth nearly 2 cents each. No fraud there.

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Yeah, you're young. Lessons to learn, me boy, lessons to learn.

She looks fun to hang around with.