Nothing is Sacred!

[kandrathe]

I can't connect this post with your previous one about the 99.9% non-violent people.

It has to do with the majority of non-violent Muslims from the so-called religion of peace coming forward and telling the minority to crawl back under their 6th century rock, or adapt their philosophy to the 21st century. That goes for our respective nations Christians as well, in the USA its people like Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell. Freedom of religion is one thing, but shoving it down peoples throats through the force of law is wrong. It is just as wrong for the Army to be intolerant of Franklin Graham speaking (due to an opinion expressed 9 years ago in the aftermath of 911), as it is for Comedy Central to censor South Park. Both are limiting the exchange of ideas due to intolerance for opinions that are controversial. I can't count the number of South Park episodes that have been extremely offensive of Judaism, or Christianity. I don't laugh at it, but I think its great that they have the freedom to defecate intellectually on what I consider sacred. It has become a weapon of the thought police on both sides of the political spectrum, and both are wrong (e.g. Ann Coulter inability to speak at University of Ottawa, or Bill Ayers being uninvited to speak at University of Wyoming.) To me, it is the intellectual equivalent of thugs beating up peaceful protesters.

I believe either the majority of Muslims are also afraid of the violent and vocal minority, or their silence is tacit approval of their more violent fundamentalists causing havoc in Europe and the USA. You know, the tit for tat argument of claiming nations deserve to have random innocent people murdered because of Israel, or supporting the USA in Iraq, or Afghanistan.