http://www.unifreethought.com/2010/03/blasphemy-friday-danish-newspaper.html
Reason and freedom of speech has given into fear. The Danish newspaper responsible for publishing the cartoons that depicted the Prophet Muhammad has apologized.
“Five years after the Jyllands-Posten printed the infamous cartoons lampooning the “prophet” Muhammad, sparking deadly overreactions from European Muslims, the paper has officially apologized (see video below) for publishing the cartoons and offending Muslims (read: the paper has given in after 5 years of intimidation and bullying).”
Jyllands-Posten should have stuck to the principles of free speech. The precedent set here is troubling as it says that we may print opinions or cartoons that offend others but if you scream loudly and threaten us with violence we will give in to your demands. Unifreethought does a good job of calling out the Muslims on this issue.
“I’m all for people not dying, but these are lives that should be saved by radical Muslims ceasing their childish antics, not by a legitimate newspaper appeasing reactionaries.
In demanding that their ideas be immunized from criticism not by their own merit, but by censorship, Muslims have simultaneously become the screaming toddler who throws a fit whenever she doesn’t get her way and the schoolyard bully who fails so utterly at social negotiation and discussion that his only tool for social interaction is the threat of violence. Jyllands-Posten has given in to the screaming, spoiled brat that is Islam.”
Incredibly, for the past five years Muslims have been unable to see the irony in threatening violent after being accused of violent. Wouldn’t peace protests have been more effective than the murders and riots that came in the wake of the cartoons being published? Instead of seeking respect and recognition for Islam, Muslims increased the distrust towards their faith with their senseless acts.
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