02-05-2006, 06:15 AM
Nonviolent forms of protest - sometimes neccesary
Violent forms of protest - should be a last resort and probably almost never a tactic.
Most of the Islamic reactions to any percieved affront (at least that make it into most media channels) is encouragement and complicity with the latter. Publish a picture and there is enough outcry for the death of the individuals responsible that people feel justified in torching buildings and attacking police in locations far removed from the scene of the "crime."
"Living in the 12th Century" is no excuse for behaving in this manner. A child shouldn't be allowed to play with matches and torture pets simply because they are young. Grown men shouldn't be firebombing buildings because a newspaper some distance away used poor judgement and printed material insensitive to others.
Violent forms of protest - should be a last resort and probably almost never a tactic.
Most of the Islamic reactions to any percieved affront (at least that make it into most media channels) is encouragement and complicity with the latter. Publish a picture and there is enough outcry for the death of the individuals responsible that people feel justified in torching buildings and attacking police in locations far removed from the scene of the "crime."
"Living in the 12th Century" is no excuse for behaving in this manner. A child shouldn't be allowed to play with matches and torture pets simply because they are young. Grown men shouldn't be firebombing buildings because a newspaper some distance away used poor judgement and printed material insensitive to others.
The Bill of No Rights
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance. Robert A. Heinlein
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance. Robert A. Heinlein