For sure. But they want them removed in order to make the world a more comfortable place for them, or something - in fact some of the comments on the petition say “remove them so that we can take our place in the multicultural society”. Ummm… guys… that’s not quite what multiculturalism is about.
To be fair, it kind of is to a certain extent: Blackface and golliwoggs got a lot rarer when racism against blacks came to be frowned upon in this country. Anyone who wants to name their restaurant Sambo’s has an uphill battle, too, despite the fact Sambo was Indian (from India), not black. If the Wikipedia article on African Americans had a grinning, big-lipped minstrel-show caricature outside of the section on Racism, it would be removed very quickly.
In fact, Wikipedia has given a little bit on this issue. The image of Mohammad is no longer ‘above the fold’: You have to scroll quite a bit to find it. The fact this does not satisfy the people signing the petition makes me much less sympathetic towards their cause, a view that seems to be the consensus. (They also can’t comprehend the notion of consensus. They could get all billion-plus Muslims to sign the damned thing, ignoring for the moment plenty of Muslims disagree with them, and it wouldn’t mean jack. That isn’t how Wikipedia works.)
I don’t get it: Muslims get mad about some cartoon images, of a man who nobody ever depicted ina paortrait? its like Jesus christ: there are no known images of him, so everything that has ever been painted (portraying him) is an artist’s conception.
pretty silly tempest in a teacup.
He’s certainly packing: http://gallery.euroweb.hu/art/c/cranach/lucas_e/3/08trinit.jpg
Not a fan of Big Mo here, BUT age 9 may have been within the age of consent at that time & place and I’ve heard no indication that Aliyah was unwilling nor that he went after any other 9yo girls.
I don’t buy it when people want to continue to illegalize late-teen sex by claiming that hey, it’s customarily illegal here, therefore it’s immoral: similarly, I don’t think being customary automatically makes it okay to have sex with a prepubescent.
But I’d agree it does stretch the definition to call it rape. People use that word to demonize by equivocation all the time, whether or not they’ll admit to it.
She turned me into a newt!
Regards,
Shodan
A newt?
You’re talking apples and oranges, here. Recall anyone ever threatening to kill people over blackface and golliwogs? Or going through with it? It would be a lot easier to be considerate about Muslim opinions if they weren’t always threatening to kill people who disagreed with them, and sometimes doing so. I feel civilized and culturally nuanced for giving up golliwogs (OK, never owned one, but you know what I mean) and eschewing entertainment that involves blackface, and cowardly for not publishing my drawing of Mohammed fucking a pig.
He got better.
Muslim protester: “We are a peaceful religion, take down the picture before we destroy you and your servers !”
Being that she is catholic, she probably feels guilty anyways.
[rimshot]
Back on the hijack of jesus being a cocksucker.
I have a song in my head now:
Jesus is a cocksucker.
Jesus is a cocksucker.
Jesus is a cocksucker.
Thx Guyz!