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Sunday, April 25. 2010

Toying with hypersensitive Islamists

I have never seen the TV show South Park, but I have heard that it is clever in a goofy, sophomoric and irreverent sort of way.


You have probably heard that fanatics have threatened Comedy Central about South Park's irreverence towards Mohammed (pbuh). Comedy Central folded like a cheap camera. Hence South Park now has the Prophet appearing in a bear costume, and as Santa Claus. Kinda funny, if you can take a joke. Doubt they can.


As Kate observes:



The "extremist" is the one with the death threat.


The "moderate" is the one who explains what you've done to deserve it.



If you want to have religion in the world today, you have to be big enough to take some teasing and/or annoyance from those who don't get it. If you have a religion with vocal murderous and hateful people in it today, teasing is the least one should expect.


But Everybody Draw Mohammed Day is just teasing.

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 14:09 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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Add to the mix a superb article by the irrepressible Mark Steyn.
#1 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2010-04-25 15:58 (Reply)
Dr. Merc ...I'm with Mark Steyn, who has a nice style with a filleting knife. As for me, I gave up entirely a couple of years ago on political correctness and multiculturalism, both pernicious concepts used by Leftists to beat others into submission. My message is: no, all cultures are not equal; some are pretty good, some so-so with a chance to improve later, and some are flat-out evil. Any culture which is based on an 'instruction manual' which states that only 'true believers' are good, and non-believers are infidels and fair game to be 'offed' by the 'true believers' any time they feel like it, is evil. If, in addition, it treats half of its own believers as if they are inferior chattel and can be honor-killed for minor offenses, it is not acceptable to me as an equal to our society, which believes in goodness and mercy and kindness to strangers.

See ... when you don't buy into this political correctness thingy, it's not so complicated after all.

Marianne
#2 Marianne Matthews on 2010-04-25 17:33 (Reply)
South Park is some of the best social satire of the modern era.
#3 Animal (Link) on 2010-04-25 20:00 (Reply)
Kate nails it. Liberals engage in violence at one remove by excusing it.
#4 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2010-04-25 21:37 (Reply)
"But Everybody Draw Mohammed Day is just teasing."

Yeah. It's not near enough of a response.
#5 tehag on 2010-04-25 21:54 (Reply)
I'd draw a picture of Mohamed but I have two problems. First, nobody knows what he looked like and second there is no proof that he actually existed. Any depiction is a guess or fictitious.
#6 Ray on 2010-04-26 13:57 (Reply)
I ran across another campaign on youtube called "Have you seen this man? " All who desire to take pen or pixel to pad to create their own artistic rendering of Mohammed are welcome. Art often involves employing the shoulders, and this time is no different.
#7 James on 2010-04-27 06:11 (Reply)

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