Free Speech & the Mohammed Cartoons
Found an entry over here which discusses it.
I’ll leave it to you to form your own opinion, but (since they have comment moderation enabled), I will share my very short comment on their post:
“Maybe I’m not getting it… but I’d like to see pictures of Jesus and Moses done in a similar, quite juvenile in my opinion manner, and then I’ll be convinced that this is actually about free speech and not, as it seems to me, confusing free speech with Islamo-phobia.”
The video there was also annoying. Not that I support censorship, I don’t. I think the cartoons should be published… but since, in my experience, most of the blogs and people who supported things like Draw Mohammed Day were conservative right-wing christians or die-hard Islamo-phobes, the whole thing left a bad taste in my mouth.
I am also proposing an annual lambast Israel for stealing the Palestinians’ land Day and Deny the Holocaust Day. I mean, isn’t Free Speech the whole point, no matter how ridiculous what you say might or might not be?
We need these things then, to get it out of our system, until everyone gets tired of the whole thing and then some of us will just stop being this childish.
Sorry about the moderation – and thanks for the comment. My reply:
“My buddy Griffin started doing stand-up a while back, and one of his bits is a dark and offensive rant on Jesus – I won’t spoil it, and I’m afraid he has yet to put up a video, but it’s about as offensive as you can get. Moses I can’t speak to, but if you do a google image search I’ll bet you’ll find something out there – Rule 34 being what it is.
Granted there’s a subset of folks involved in the “Draw Mohammad Day” who would fill their drawers if you insulted their own lord and saviour, but the vocal organizers of the movment – and South Park, who are at the epicentre of all of this – are equal opportunity teasers.
Any group that says that their right to not be offended overcomes your right to free speech has it coming, as far as I’m concerned. And that includes all the groups I’m a part of.”
Whether it’s holocaust deniers or white supremacists, I’ll defend their Right to Free Speech – and as for Israel, well, I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to use this image: http://s843.photobucket.com/albums/zz357/Aurini/?action=view¤t=Israelsracistflag.jpg
As long as it is equal opportunity “freedoms”, then all is good. As for the moderation thing: don’t worry about it. My blog automatically stops anything posted by someone for the first time.