RE: Why was nobody murdered because of this cartoon?

Sun, 25 Jan 2015 18:09:07 -0800 

 

 

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Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 5:30 PM
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Subject: Re: Why was nobody murdered because of this cartoon?

 

 

 

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:51 AM, spudboy100 via Everything List 
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Just stop defending the indefensible islamists and refrain from making excuses 
for them. They are all adults and can speak for themselves. They believe what 
the believe, and it is neither my fault, nor even yours. The world is now 
slowly waking up to what is occuring, even to this day, the Japanese. I am 
sorry that disagreeing with your holy self is considered trolling. But thats 
what makes ball games. Deal with it.

 

What "makes the ball game" is people sowing fear and reaping aggression on all 
sides by committing violent acts for political and economic gain, which is a 
threat.

It's perhaps a fine line between recognizing this fact and falling prey to the 
PR ploy as recognizing the fact brings our own political lines, which furthers 
the ploy's objective, into play.

 

Brent made a good point: compare violence to potency of other threats. I'd add 
cui bono, obligatory grain of salt, and maybe we don't need cartoons to replace 
our thinking or humor. PGC

  

It would behoove us to at least recognize that the roots of the problems in the 
middle east run deeper than offense at a cartoon. It is a complex mess with 
deep historical roots going back to the Ottoman period and on through the 
period of French and British colonial rule. There are no easy solutions and the 
problem is not going away. In order to manage the situation, as it has become, 
we need to at the very least have a clear and comprehensive understanding of 
the issues and forces that are driving resurgent medievalism in the middle east 
(but not only there… there is a surge of the medievalist mind in the USA, and I 
imagine to some degree in Western Europe as well)

-Chris

 

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