Police: Shooting at Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas

[Alpo]

That was a tragedy in US history. Some people can move past tragedies and are able to joke about them. Some don't. Notice I didn't say "can't".

I'll bet you're sleep won't be affected by his joke. It was pretty mild. One of two things: You're either making more of it than you really feel or you really are a very sensitive conservative. And I wasn't yet an adult at the time but I do remember it. Would that qualify me to joke about it?

The anniversary of the event was yesterday, so it stirred up memories of those days. A glib remark may have been innocent enough. I don't know.

As to moving past things....we all carry the rocks and scraps of our past life with us until we die. Those who say they don't are lying to themselves.

 

[sbu sailor]

Originally Posted by chezuki
PaulF is why we can't have nice things.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Saw this on Reddit:

"Today I learned the Quran does not explicitly forbid images of Muhammad."

Depictions of Muhammad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

*shrug*

 

[sonovasailor]

Pam Geller was arrested by Conservation Officers and charged with "Hunting over a baited field"

 

[HoughMade]

...I'll bet you're sleep won't be affected by his joke. It was pretty mild...

I referred to it as a "slaughter". Clearly, that's offensive.

Maybe as a former Guardsman and briefly an ROTC member, I'm the one who should be offended by me.

 

[LockStocksAndBarrel]

 

[HoughMade]

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That is the exact same Bible I used through college- still have it.

 

[LockStocksAndBarrel]

That is the exact same Bible I used through college- still have it.

I know. I took your picture when you weren't looking. I kept your face out of it so you wouldn't sue me.

 

[jamil]

The anniversary of the event was yesterday, so it stirred up memories of those days. A glib remark may have been innocent enough. I don't know.

As to moving past things....we all carry the rocks and scraps of our past life with us until we die. Those who say they don't are lying to themselves.

True, but how can we project those onto other people? They may not share the knowledge of the cobwebs in our heads?

 

[gunsisgood]

Not a faith. It's a political system designed to oppress women and anyone who doesn't believe the same way.

^THIS
through a Marshall and krank'd up to 11, cause some folks still aint gettin it.

 

[Alpo]

True, but how can we project those onto other people? They may not share the knowledge of the cobwebs in our heads?

Well, one could do what I did: object when someone uses the word "slaughter" to describe an event which was important in my generation.

How often do you make 9-11 jokes?

Let's get off of this and back to the OP, please. I won't back down and I'm not in the mood for internet gymnastics.

 

[bwframe]

Maybe I missed it in the banter, but do we have any more info on the bad-assed sixty year old that took out the, body armored, rifle toting terrorists with his handgun?

 

[T.Lex]

Maybe I missed it in the banter, but do we have any more info on the bad-assed sixty year old that took out the, body armored, rifle toting terrorists with his handgun?

Yes, I'm pretty sure he was Texan. Possibly with a generically [strike]Hispanic[/strike] American name.

 

[bwframe]

It's no small task to take down riflemen trying to kill you with only your handgun. I'd like to hear his story.

 

[Kutnupe14]

It's no small task to take down riflemen trying to kill you with only your handgun. I'd like to hear his story.

It is when the bad guy doesn't know how to use a rifle.

 

[Kutnupe14]

I am open to persuasion, but one would think that if main stream Islam followers and leaders put half the effort into condemning violence as the radicals put into promoting it, we'd be seeing less such acts.

Which followers? Which sect? Which system? Should my Baptist preacher have condemned protestant attacks on Catholics in Ireland? Or apologize about "christians" that bomb abortion clinics? Do Indonesians of a particular faith need to send a missive stateside apologizing for this act?

 

[Pocketman]

Which followers? Which sect? Which system? Should my Baptist preacher have condemned protestant attacks on Catholics in Ireland? Or apologize about "christians" that bomb abortion clinics? Do Indonesians of a particular faith need to send a missive stateside apologizing for this act?

All peaceful religions, denominations, sects, etc. should condemn such violence.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

I hear Rolling Stone just picked their next cover....

Texas shooter was 'heartthrob' in Pakistan: schoolmates

also

Geller says she'll organize another free speech event

 

[JTScribe]

Which followers? Which sect? Which system? Should my Baptist preacher have condemned protestant attacks on Catholics in Ireland? Or apologize about "christians" that bomb abortion clinics? Do Indonesians of a particular faith need to send a missive stateside apologizing for this act?

Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks | Sam Harris

The Muslim world can match the FLDS sin for sin--Muslims commonly practice polygamy, forced-marriage (often between underage girls and older men), and wife-beating--but add to these indiscretions the surpassing evils of honor killing, female "circumcision," widespread support for terrorism, a pornographic fascination with videos showing the butchery of infidels and apostates, a vibrant form of anti-semitism that is explicitly genocidal in its aspirations, and an aptitude for producing children's books and television programs which exalt suicide-bombing and depict Jews as "apes and pigs."Any honest comparison between these two faiths reveals a bizarre double standard in our treatment of religion. We can openly celebrate the marginalization of FLDS men and the rescue of their women and children. But, leaving aside the practical and political impossibility of doing so, could we even allow ourselves to contemplate liberating the women and children of traditional Islam?
What about all the civil, freedom-loving, moderate Muslims who are just as appalled by Muslim intolerance as I am? No doubt millions of men and women fit this description, but vocal moderates are very difficult to find. Wherever "moderate Islam" does announce itself, one often discovers frank Islamism lurking just a euphemism or two beneath the surface. The subterfuge is rendered all but invisible to the general public by political correctness, wishful thinking, and "white guilt." This is where we find sinister people successfully posing as "moderates"--people like Tariq Ramadan who, while lionized by liberal Europeans as the epitome of cosmopolitan Islam, cannot bring himself to actually condemn honor killing in round terms (he recommends that the practice be suspended, pending further study). Moderation is also attributed to groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an Islamist public relations firm posing as a civil-rights lobby.
Even when one finds a true voice of Muslim moderation, it often seems distinguished by a lack of candor above all things. Take someone like Reza Aslan, author of No God But God: I debated Aslan for Book TV on the general subject of religion and modernity. During the course of our debate, I had a few unkind words to say about the Muslim Brotherhood. While admitting that there is a difference between the Brotherhood and a full-blown jihadist organization like al Qaeda, I said that their ideology was "close enough" to be of concern. Aslan responded with a grandiose, ad hominem attack saying, "that indicates the profound unsophistication that you have about this region. You could not be more wrong" and claiming that I'd taken my view of Islam from "Fox News."

 

[ArcadiaGP]

https://twitter.com/ChrisCuomo/status/595934009764487168

it doesn't. hate speech is excluded from protection. dont just say you love the constitution...read it

I think somebody played a prank on Chris Cuomo and gave him the Canadian constitution.