“A French satirical magazine is set to publish several cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed on Wednesday…”
The article claims that Mohammad will be portrayed in “explicit poses”. I dunno, maybe that means sexual, maybe he flashes an ankle? I think that these folks have a right to publish and that they shouldn’t be stopped, but IMO they must also be major league douchebag idiots.
I disagree. I think the douchebags are the ones inciting the riots and participating in the riots over what someone else chooses to publish in another country. No one is forcing them to admire, comment on, or even look at the cartoons they feel are blasphemous or disrespectfull. I have often wondered if maybe the correct strategy for dealing with this kind of stupidity would be to flood the Western media with copies of the offending material. There is no way the hate momentum could be sustained for so long directed at so many sources. Hell, let’s give some Ameican porn producers encouragement to produce some Mohammid porno with plenty of bisexual scenes. I’m sure they could produce something of much better quality and a thousand times more inflammatory (can you say pig bestiality, north Holywood I know you can) than The Innocence of the Muslims.
I agree that is the way to go, flood the media with such a sheer quantity of offensive Muhammad depictions that it becomes clear raging and rioting are useless. In fact go ahead, it only produces more offensive material of greater depravity, want to see Muhammad licking pig semen off his lips? Riot away!
Hear hear. I’d rather see a cartoon of Jesus and Muhammed looking down on the video and the violence saying, “Where did we go wrong?” That would resonate with me better than yet more adolescent douchebaggery that ends up insulting all Muslims, not just the assholes.
Enjoy the Onion’s take: No One Murdered Because Of This Image. A NSFW cartoon featuring naked Moses, Jesus, Buddha, and Ganesha having a wild roll in the hay:
Maybe all aid payments should stop when the Embassy closes?
That might send the right message to the right people.
It is tempting to just repeatedly throw their societies into chaos, again and again, until they grow weary of it, and realize how futile it is. Maybe just speed up, getting them all to see, how cravenly they are being manipulated.
It’d be a dangerous game to play though.
Does anyone believe these extreme responses <to the Muslim insults> are occurring organically?
I vote for speeding up the process so we can identify and neutralize the shit-stirrers.
It’s not, I believe, about who the shit stirrers are. I’d put money on us already knowing that. It’s about getting the populace savvy enough to understand when they are being manipulated.
With ignorant masses, the fastest way is always object lessons.
Let it calm. Push the button again.
Let it calm. Push the button again.
And so on.