A Golden Opportunity For Juxtaposition
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For those paying attention, recent happenings are an excellent lesson in comparative religion. Let's take a quick look at two cases of note.
In case #1, we see an open and free society in which a very high-budget movie is produced that is considered extremely blasphemous to the world's largest religion. Controversy erupts- dialogue is heated and plentiful. Boycotts of the movie are called for. The media reports with great gusto- advertisements and previews for the offensive movie are everywhere- and the people involved in making it are celebrated and publicly praised.
In case #2, we see an open and free society in which a newspaper prints some political cartoons that are considered extremely blasphemous to the world's second largest religion. Controversy erupts- dialogue is heated and plentiful. Murder and mayhem are called for by the religion's leaders and conducted by the faithful. Worldwide riots ensue... death and destruction occur...
call for violence
bounty for head-chopping
The media runs and hides in a corner... falling all over itself to avoid upsetting the lunatics... media caves in to terrorists.
Okay... now, discuss among yourselves the differences. That is, if you see any...
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posted by kmg at 06:00
3 Comments:
Heh ... what differences? It's all just drivel spouted by self-loathing cowards.
Steve
Hmmm, that does rather beg for clarification, doesn't it? My apologies. I was referring to the behaviour of the MSM, which seems to be quite consistent across both cases. The differences between the behaviour of the Christians and the Moslems seemed to me to be sufficiently obvious as to require no comment.
Steve
Just imagine if the DaVinci code was about Mohammed...
not only would there be no movie, Dan Brown would be in hiding right now in fear for his life.
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