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re: Shooting in Garland, Tx at Muhammad Art exhibit
Posted on 5/5/15 at 9:34 am to Stonehog
Posted on 5/5/15 at 9:34 am to Stonehog
What you said:
Not comparable to what happened in Garland. Now, it would be comparable if the art show were held in a mosque, or if your hypothetical was a woman wearing said shirt in a public place and being raped.
If I say something critical of Mohammed in a public place, I should not expect to be brutally murdered. We live in a nation of laws and rights, one of which is free speech. Yes, you can sometimes expect negative consequences for exercising your 1st Amendment rights, but murder is, in fact, illegal in this country.
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Everyone knows that Muslims kill over drawings of Mohammed.
That would be like a woman going to a Rape-aholics Anonymous meeting with a T-shirt that says "Rape me," and then questioning why she got raped for what she was wearing.
Not comparable to what happened in Garland. Now, it would be comparable if the art show were held in a mosque, or if your hypothetical was a woman wearing said shirt in a public place and being raped.
If I say something critical of Mohammed in a public place, I should not expect to be brutally murdered. We live in a nation of laws and rights, one of which is free speech. Yes, you can sometimes expect negative consequences for exercising your 1st Amendment rights, but murder is, in fact, illegal in this country.
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Posted on 5/5/15 at 9:36 am to wadewilson
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If I say something critical of Mohammed in a public place, I should not expect to be brutally murdered.
Do you have that expectation now?
Posted on 5/5/15 at 12:24 pm to wadewilson
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We live in a nation of laws and rights, one of which is free speech.
Exactly. We tolerate some morbid shite in this country. From the filthy "art" of Robert Mapplethorpe to the obscene "speech" of the Westboro Baptist Church.
What keeps us from obliterating shitheads like them is our respect for the Constitution and its guarantee of their, and our, right to be obnoxious. It's difficult to process sometimes but we have sent millions of soldiers to their deaths in defense of that right.
We expect, no, we demand that the right to free speech is fundamental. It is not reasonable that a religion expects everyone, even those who do not follow its doctrines, to yield this right. We never have and we won't now.
Islam's followers must respect this fundamental right of Americans and other nationalities who accept it. They can insist on adherence to their religious law that an image of Muhammad is blasphemy for their congregations but that's the boundary. If they cross that boundary they will meet resistance. That should be glaringly obvious to them by now.
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