Hate Crime vs. Art - Comic Thursday, August 16, 2007
Posted by h3nry in Bible, Christianity, Islam, comic, funny, hate-crime, humor, humour, political correctness.trackback
This comic depicts the current over-sensitive political-correctness towards Islam.
This is a re-post from here.
i think it’s a testament to the tolerance of christian and the immature mindset of muslims.
you should be proud of this.
Or this might be where the respective societies are. Remember it wasn’t that long ago (at least, in terms of how long civilizations last) that one could be killed for saying the wrong thing about Christianity.
Perhaps in a 100 years or so, this will be true in industrialized Muslim societies as well?
perhaps. but i doubt it as there are a lot more paradigms involved today in islam’s “evolution”… than there were for christianity.
small example:
christianity had an internal struggle between the catholic church and the protestants.
Islam’s battle is multifaceted: terrorists, orthodox, conservatives, moderates, liberals. all vying for the soul of islam with the orthodox having the lion’s share for centuries.
couple that with a “war on terror” and now you have a political power play influencing the outcome
more on this later
I’m a Hindu and we don’t whine about stuff like this.
yall are so gay for fighting for that kind of things. Man yall should grow up.
i don’t know whether to say this is about political correctness or not, but is it not strange that books like the qu’ran and the bible, which are close to many thousands of hearts, rightly or wrongly, they are always made fun of in the name of freedom of speach and art, which is a belief in itself. now if you are an advocate of freedom of speach, you believe in the right to say what ever you like, doesn’t matter who gets hurt emotinally, after all its only their feelings. but when those religious poeple who feel offended also try to share thier views, not always in the stereotypical violent way, and me and most muslims and christians i know are proof of that, they get told to shut up, as they are getting in the way of freedom of speech….. urm hello…doesn’t that work both ways? i agree that some muslims do react in a way which is quite scary, but they are a few, just louder thats all, unfortunatly. now as a muslim that image above does upset me, and it makes me feel sad that people are willing to hide behind freedom of speech in order to use it as a tool to attack the sentiments of the groups of people that they are insecure about, no matter where that insecurity comes from. while some muslims and extreamist of other faiths are using religion as a tool to have power and oppress people, the freedom of speach tool is being used to create an unrest, and hatred towards people with a religous belief. lets not forget history, where it was this fear, generated by speech and media at first, of a particular group, that eventually led to one of the worst possible crimes in the universe. and yes Hitler was not a muslim, just in case there are some of you who think islam is the source of all evil. to come to think about that, neither was Stalin,or Mugabe. POINT MADE. but please you all have the right to completely dismiss it if it doesn’t agree with your thoughts, freedom of thought afterall. Now it’s a shame the Qu’ran is not a celebrity, at least then it would be sueing the makers such invaluble art, for defaming it. oh by the way i had absolutly no idea that the western civilised society had learned anger managment, that nothing in world could make them angry now…its a shame the non-muslim adults that i’ve been working with haven’t been taught this yet…maybe they have been hanging around fundamentalist….
um im a catholic and unlike most of you im only 13. I think right now there is alot of religouse intalernts. Even with me and my friends there are people who are my friends that wont hang out with another one of my friends because they are muslium or jewish. But there is also christian intolernts like when one of my Muslum neighbors called everything about the Christian faith a lie and said that muslums were the best. And my brother replied with some religous slur and gauss who got in more trouble. The cathlic did because right now every one is sensitive to the muslums. that is very annoying!…what i am getting at is that this convo shoudnt excist because muslums are exsactly the same as cathlics or hindus jewish ppl and budist. the only major differnce is our beleifes and who knows which group will be right. we could all be right in the end. so my ending statment is this talk is stupid because it is just further pushing religouse intalernts
Some things are serious.
Think of one thing you LOVE and ADORE with your heart and soul.
If someone urinated on it or somehow violated it…how would you feel?
Lets say its your wife? OR YOU?
What you consider valuable should be respected, and what others consider valuable should be respected.
Mutual Respect. Thats all we ask.
@ khadija
Mutual respect is a beautiful concept, but even when I am surrounded by Islam, I have yet to see a sentiment that give a damn grain of respect to freethinkers.
You ask for respect, I can understand. I just wonder whence cometh the ‘mutual’ bit.
the west will win
Islam is respectful, tolerant, and accepting of others, unfortunately most Muslims are NOT!