Comments on: Rhetorical Question for My Muslim Friends

By: wri7913

wri7913 — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:02:55 +0000

@falkburger – If you wore a shirt like that you might raise the hackles on some fundamental christians but that’s about it. If you wore a Mohammad shirt in downtown Cairo Egypt, you wouldn’t last 5 minutes. I dare you to even try it.

This is the difference between Muslims and Christians with regards to issues of offending one’s religion. In the western world we routinely make fun of and criticize our own religious leaders. In matters such as Child molestation by priests, they are rightly denounced and criticized all the way up to the Pope in Catholicism. In Islam there is no criticism. To criticize Islam is to criticize Allah and Mohammad, a big no no. It will likely get you a death fatwa and a permanent new name.

By: Larry Specht

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:33:37 +0000

Do you have any Muslim friends or is that just a “rhetorical” device? If so they must be remarkably tolerant to put up with stuff like, “how much of a wuss does your God have to be”. In Islam, by the way, Mohammed is a prophet and a man, not god. This kind of language is counterproductive. It lumps moderate Muslims, who are appalled by the violence committed by extremists and who are themselves much more often the target of that violence.

By: wri7913

wri7913 — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:28:41 +0000

When Muslims integrate into their host societies and respect the laws therein, I would accept them building Minarets or wearing headscarves.

The problem with Muslim immigrants is they tend to seclude themselves from their host society, then do everything they can to antagonize their host country and its people. Just look at what’s going on in the UK and France. In France, there are “NO-GO” zones where police and firefighting personel refuse to go for fear of their safety. These “NO-GO” zones are predominantly Muslim areas. They do not respect host country laws (and seek to establish sharia law) and they do not respect the people’s of those countries.

Sorry but as far as I’m concerned Muslims can shove it if they don’t like bans against Headscarves, Minarets, or Honor Killings. They don’t respect us, why should we respect them?

By: wri7913

wri7913 — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:18:51 +0000

Paul,

Do you even know why the cartoons were drawn in the first place? They were done in response to these stifling of free speech by Jihadists in the European countries.

It has come to a point where people are afraid to speak out against Muslim problems in the west for fear of violence. If someone speaks their mind about problems with Muslims or the truths about Islam, they are given a fatwa. Just look at what has happened to Pim Fortuyn or Theo Van Gogh!

In the US, Muslims and their apologists in the media attack people who speak out against Sharia Law or Islam and if that doesn’t work, they get a death fatwa. Sharia Law and the Constitution are diametrically opposite. There is no way they can exist together. One follows the principle of Human Rights, Democracy and Freedom, the other does not.

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By: chopkoski

chopkoski — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:33:51 +0000

f-burger the humpty burger adds addleism to the World…he screws so many things together it is a hodge-podge that…well, one example is enough…The Shack…you know, the book about meeting the holy trinity in a shack. I have not read it, only about it. Imagine a book about Allah along those lines. Salmon Rushie did the Satanic Verses on an even more abstract level and he had to go into hiding for years. That would just not happen under xtianity. Quit the moronic analysis and try…beading or something more attuned to you logic.

By: falkburger

falkburger — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:33:53 +0000

What is it about the skeletons in other people’s closets? The smell and the darkness? A few years ago, there was a work of art exhibited in Santa Fe that depicted the Madonna in a bikini. There were death threats. Laughing at others is not a sense of humor – it’s derision, bullying. Imagine a cartoon of Jesus fellating a grotesquely endowed dog. Put that on a T-shirt and wear it to a Christian revival meeting, see how your sense of humor holds up.

By: Tony Chopkoski

Thu, 27 May 2010 21:09:24 +0000

So cool Carl, right on…too much literacy maybe drives some people crazy, what, with all the new ideas. Guess they need time to mature…

By: Carl Christensen

Thu, 27 May 2010 21:07:23 +0000

Oh give me a break, this “last straw” in countries such as Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, and the UK? Ooh yeah, such draconian societies, surely worse than Sudan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia et al. What they’re really outraged over is that many in the west won’t tolerate their intolerance; and give up the rights of free speech and free thought to kow-tow to a bunch of medievalists.

By: Carl Christensen

Thu, 27 May 2010 21:01:40 +0000

Colonialism? err yes, the perpetrually outraged Muslims are the colonists! They move to more enlightened places such as Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK, and then get enraged about freedom of speech, or if the citizens don’t want a “super-mosque” built next to a (smaller) cathedral.

The sad reality is that in the West, college students are the ones to “give the finger” to authority & politicians — Muslim college students on the other hand (from Iran through this latest batch in Sweden) are more prone to call for draconian & medieval Imams to run everything. That’s what’s really sad in the video — college students encouraging the stifling of speech as well as violence, over what, a wimpy cartoonist?

Just think who they’re outraged by — the Swiss, the Swedes, and the Danes. Yeah, real “bad” societies eh? Not quite as enlightened as Sudan, Iran, Yemen, Saudi Arabia etc.