I'm not going to bother to try and point to the context of the pictures, the
fact that no one cared when they were printed and the fact that only one or
two of them can be seen as negative and most don't even depict Muhammad. Why
bother as it always comes back to a moral equivalency.
"We upset them so they have a right to riot."
"We upset them so they have a right to bomb us or support that bombing".
"We upset them so whatever they want goes"
And now we're running in fear because we don't want to upset them because we
have a real idea of what they'll do. Lets ban a TV show or drop an episode
because it might upset them and make them do something. Lets refuse to show
why they're upset or seriously debate it because it might upset them and
make them do something. Lets admit that we're wrong no matter what we do, no
matter if we are right, so we don't upset them and make them do something.
We fear something and we have a right to be afraid. So should we now give up
every right we have, every ideal we have just so we don't upset someone and
make them act exactly like the world perceives them?
Oh, them as in some of them no matter how many support bin laden or whatever
terrorist cell that exists and us as in some of us who would submit to
others who want us dead and others as some of the others who want us dead,
etc. etc. etc.
There is NO moral equivalency between publishing some cartoons and senseless
riots, murder and destruction. There is no moral equivalency for any of
these actions and it really pisses me off when people try to draw them.
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