Because it’s not just the cartoon. It’s the movie. It’s the book. It’s someone fatwa’d to death for converting away from Islam. It’s a gay person executed for being born. It’s children burned in a building because of their mere presence without a head covering.
Islam is easily offended into murder on so many levels that people in the US are done with it. Yes, this may cause more violence but as OBL found out, we take it seriously. The group that created the Christmas bomber has been targeted and bombed. Any group that increases it’s communications over the May 20 event will provide more intelligence material for the NSA.
Fine. I wasn’t wasn’t going to pull this, but why not, since I’m getting insulted anyways:
Do you think we were appeasing Iraq by not blowing the shit out of them? Or,m better yet, Afghanistan? Almost everyone here seems to think we should have tried diplomacy first before taking a military action.
That’s what I’m talking about. You guys have not exhausted all options that wouldn’t be offensive before trying the ones that are. I think this is irresponsible. You claim high and mighty ideals, but your actions show you are just doing it to piss people off.
That is always morally wrong, but I people here seem to disagree with me on that. So I decided to be more practical, and explain real world consequences of being an asshole. Unless you are willing to be the ultimate asshole and kill people, being an asshole doesn’t work.
It’s like a guy with a baseball bat going against a trained assassin. Islamofascists are assholes of the highest order. We can’t compete, and we shouldn’t try.
I don’t mean actually appeasing their beliefs. I mean showing them that their beliefs are stupid. You can’t outright tell anyone that, but you can demonstrate it slowly over time.
What conversation do you think we were going to have in Afghanistan involving the Taliban? “Please stop raising boys from age 5 as killing machines”? Give us OBL in exchange for_____________?
On one of the other threads relating to this it was suggested that the group starting all the trouble might not be legitimate. If that’s the case the fallout against them will be substantial.
Most of the time, the bleeps are put into South Park deliberately by the producers. It was only in episode 201 that Comedy Central put in the extra bleeps after the finished episode was turned in to them. They once did an episode (It Hits the Fan) in which the word “shit” was uttered uncensored about 175 times.
Well, the (wisely anonymous) author of the usually blasphemous webcomic Jesus and Mohas really outdone himself for the occasion, even managing to shock me which takes some doing in the blasphemy stakes. I don’t know whether to applaud or run away. Consider yourself warned.