Shooting at French Satirical Magazine

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That cartoon bothers me that it is the American holding up the white flag and the Israeli soldier having to snap his gun in half.
 
scorza said:
Sounds like there was another French Muslim hero in the Jewish supermarket, a worker who locked several customers into the freezer to keep them safe during the siege.
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But if you mention that someone is a Muslim when they murder and rape they aren't really Muslims. ;)
 
Jono8 said:
That cartoon bothers me that it is the American holding up the white flag and the Israeli soldier having to snap his gun in half.
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Why does it bother you?

Are Americans not fighting wars and do Israeli's not have guns?
 
RDM said:
They are, Pol Pot died in 1998.

They may not be in your living memory but they are both in living memory.
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Pol Pot was deposed in 1979 and Stalin died in 1952. Stalin took advantage of Russians deep religious superstitions and Pol Pot was driven by Communism, not atheism. They aren't very good examples of a secular society. Go look at modern secular societies and compare them to places like Saudi Arabia.
 
Above&Beyond said:
Pol Pot was deposed in 1979 and Stalin died in 1952. Stalin took advantage of Russians deep religious superstitions and Pol Pot was driven by Communism, not atheism. They aren't very good examples of a secular society. Go look at modern secular societies and compare them to places like Saudi Arabia.
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No they weren't secular societies - they were the opposite of secular because no freedom of religion was permitted.
 
Jono8 said:
Because it fundementally goes against the message that the cartoon and song is trying to get across.
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Does it? How so?

scorza said:
No they weren't secular societies - they were the opposite of secular because no freedom of religion was permitted.
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Well said - I think some people don't know what secular means.

For those people - Secularism is the seperation of state and religion, with the religion(s) being free to operate and organise independantly of any state influence and the state being free to operate without the interference from religion. FYI - the UK is NOT a secular state.

Secularism is NOT the banning or outlawing of religion(s) operating within the state.
 
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StriderX said:
it really needs the other side also holding a gun, as it is a tad skewed.
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This. Even the creator of the cartoon could not defeat his own bias about the world's conflicts. Which is both funny and sad in similar measure, and exactly why there will never be complete peace on Earth.
 
Jono8 said:
Why does it show the Palestinian and the Iraqi (or afghan) without any weapons/not as soldiers?
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If it showed every possible armed agressor in the world then it'd be a very long cartoon.

I think you're over thinking it and making assumptons based on what it doesn't show and thus ultimately missing the point of the cartoon.

Jono8 said:
This. Even the creator of the cartoon could not defeat his own bias about the world's conflicts. Which is both funny and sad in similar measure, and exactly why there will never be complete peace on Earth.
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Yeah, because there will always be people like you who see insults or hidden meanings when there are none and to produce thier own narrative based on thier own narrow mindset.
 
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