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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2006
     

    Interesting choice for an avatar.

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      CommentAuthorpopthestack
    • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2006 edited
     

    i agree.

    but... who needs to be normal? or predictable?

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      CommentAuthorgeek4life
    • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2006
     

    thanks. Hopefully, the radical islamists won't burn down my place.

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2006
     

    i'm hoping that too...

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      CommentAuthorgeek4life
    • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2006
     

    No worry. I'm armed and dangerous.

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2006
     

    yeah...but they're willing to blow themselves up for what they believe in. are you?

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      CommentAuthorgeek4life
    • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2006
     

    "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.

    He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

    General George Patton Jr

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2006
     

    ok

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      CommentAuthorgeek4life
    • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2006
     

    Check these out.

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      CommentAuthorgeek4life
    • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2006 edited
     

    From Arab newspaper

    apparently

    a political cartoon > assassination of Franz Ferdinand Neutral

    and what the heck anyway, the radical Islamic community isn't exactly tolerant of other people's beliefs -- and are in fact quite vocal about it. But a newspaper prints a cartoon and all hell breaks loose?

    /goes off to fortify the Panic Room

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      CommentAuthorSpecialK
    • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2006
     

    The irony and idoicy of these militants proving the comic accurate is the craziest part of this whole fiasco.

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2006
     
    SpecialK:

    The irony and idoicy of these militants proving the comic accurate is the craziest part of this whole fiasco.

    i disagree.

    i think that the artist had incredibly bad taste to print such an inflammatory cartoon, and that applies to any cartoon mocking another religion. you would be just as offended if you saw a similar cartoon about God, Jesus, Joseph Smith, among other Mormon religious figures. You might react less violently, but that doesn't negate the fact that it is okay to be angry about that cartoon.

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      CommentAuthorgeek4life
    • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2006
     

    "angry Muslims staged violent protests against jokes they consider blasphemous."

    The irony is that in overreacting the way they have, those protesters are behaving exactly like that cartoon suggests Muslims behave. They're reinforcing every negative stereotype the West has about Islam.

    There was a guy in the news who is Muslim who was advocating that the cartoonist be punished (meaning killed) for insulting Muhomad. There is no compromise with these extremists, it's either their way or you get the Hassan CHOP!!!

    The cartoons are not funny or clever anything. It's just blatantly ignorant and painted with "too broad a brush" if you know what I mean. I can see why it's offensive. But I still think the reactions are a little over the top. I think an editor with better judgement would not have let that image go to press.

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2006
     

    thanks for the clarification, g4l. i tend to get a *bit irritated when it comes to misconceptions about Arabic people

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      CommentAuthorgeek4life
    • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2006
     

    That's why I said radical islamists.

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      CommentAuthortraci
    • CommentTimeFeb 9th 2006
     

    i know. and special k said "militant", but i read his comment in haste and skipped over the key word. [Emoticon not found]

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