Shooting at French Satirical Magazine

NeilFawcett said:
Are you suggesting they should "give in" to terror? Surely the only course is not to, else it will suggest such action achieves something?

Or are you simply being arcastic? :)
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Cosimo said:
I suspect that it's just some whitty, smartastic, GD humour....
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no smartastic GD humour here. Just referring to the last time the swedes (i think) depicted Mohammad in a cartoon it didn't go down too well. I fully understand why its been done by the magazine but when i was watching the bbc news this morning the reporter said 'I'm sure some people will be offended by the cover' but stated the image (not shown on the bbc) was not 'offensive' but described what he had seen. After all we do live in a society which gets offended over the smallest things ;)
 
NeilFawcett said:
Are you suggesting they should "give in" to terror? Surely the only course is not to, else it will suggest such action achieves something?

Or are you simply being arcastic? :)
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Not all people who love their prophet are terrorists for goodness sake. Most people who have a love for their prophet wouldn't do anything other than feel a bit saddened, or very saddened, and then leave it there.

Not aggravating a bunch of terrorists by not making cartoons of his prophet (who is sadly the same prophet for non-terrorists) is not "giving in" to anything. It's called being smart.

You don't "give in" to the school bully by keeping yourself from insulting his father's hook nose.
 
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Derek W said:
no smartastic GD humour here. Just referring to the last time the swedes (i think) depicted Mohammad in a cartoon it didn't go down too well. I fully understand why its been done by the magazine but when i was watching the bbc news this morning the reporter said 'I'm sure some people will be offended by the cover' but stated the image (not shown on the bbc) was not 'offensive' but described what he had seen. After all we do live in a society which gets offended over the smallest things ;)
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The "swedes" depicted a picture of a slightly raving Mohammed with a bomb on his head... It was meant to antagonise. While I'm sure this will get some reaction it won't get anywhere near the reaction the one you mentioned did, especially as the majority of european Muslims wont condone the violence that happened.
 
But it's just a picture.... No one knows this prophet looked or dressed like that?

No one knows whether he would've been for or against these attacks.....
 
asim18 said:
Not all people who love their prophet are terrorists for goodness sake. Most people who have a love for their prophet wouldn't do anything other than feel a bit saddened, or very saddened, and then leave it there.

Not aggravating a bunch of terrorists by not making cartoons of his prophet (who is sadly the same prophet for non-terrorists) is not "giving in" to anything. It's called being smart.

You don't "give in" to the school bully by keeping yourself from insulting his father's hook nose.
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The problem with this kind of argument is how far do you allow your own actions to be altered and adjusted by others so as not to aggravate them?

Soon, you might find that your life is dictated in the name of 'not aggravating' some group. In fact you might find that you have handed power to that group, whose threats of violence have successfully cowed you into submission. That is not being smart. That is handing the initiative to those who would violate your human rights.
 
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