Every once in a while, I pop into the “Say Anything” blog, just because I need a maleable rightist that I don’t have to constantly point and laugh at.
Anyway, the peeps there initially posted that Fitna movie for viewing and discussion. Then the video company that hosted it, LiveLeak, pulled it due to “serious” threats to their staff.
So now, of course, it’s all over YouTube, and Google Video has it as well. How long will the video be up on those sites? Who knows? Maybe Sergei Brin will give in due to a phoned-in bomb threat from a disgruntled iman? Maybe not? I would hope for the latter.
I’ve encountered many moderate Muslims. But why, oh why, do they constantly stand by and let their more extremist brethren attempt to force, cajole, and and out-and-out coerce Western economies into muting points of view on their religion that they don’t like:
while they post their own disrespectful and racist drawings in their own newspapers:
Puts these Danish depictions of Mohammed into perspective, no?
Sorry, Muslim extremists, you can’t have it both ways. If you choose to dish it out to religions and ethnicities you don’t like, you damn well better be prepared to take it.
Sure, the Wilders film was created to provoke and incite. Sure, it’s overblown and bombastic. Sure it’s like watching a Fox News segment in Dutch. Sure it takes passages from the Koran out of context. The Bible is full of sex and violence too. However…
No matter how much you may hate someone’s view on something, you do NOT have the right to permanently silence him/her. Or threaten to do so. In fact, thanks to some of these overseas Muslim extremist douchebags threatening the lives of ordinary citizens over this piece of tomfoolery, American Muslims are now feeling even more threatened by the local redneck population wanting to take out a piece of Islamic ass. Does this make this debate any better?
Geert Wilders may not have been right in making this movie. But it was his right to do so.
Anyway, here’s another link to the movie. Argue all you want about it. Thanks to Moslem Pakistanis burning flags over this thing, it’s not going away anytime soon.
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