I.Muir said:
Mygaffer said:
I.Muir said:
That was amusing
well done
Seems to me that sensitivity is just another way of saying don't piss off the fanatics that can't behave like civilized people so firebomb places when they get upset. Some misled governments have not brought the hard end of a truncheon down on this kind of behavior yet so we're encouraged to just not provoke them at all instead. With exceptions, vocal minority yada yada yada except it might not be a minority.
Of course religion isn't to blame, just stupid people holding the same opinion/ belief.
Care to show me some cases where the government didn't prosecute people known to have comitted crimes such as "firebomb places when they get upset"?
I meant more metaphorically but I suppose it was a stupid example
It just seems dumb that a person can't have a perfectly stupid and almost suicidal opinion without actually having a good portion of the world trying to kill you
I hate to use this terminology, because it sounds stupid, but lets "get real" for a moment here.
Anyone here in the US can espouse any unpopular opinion they want. Remember that preacher who was going to burn the Koran? There was a lot of backlash and protesters showed up, mostly white, non-muslims btw, and one kid even took the Koran out of his hands. He eventually gave up on his idea. But no Muslim extremist group threatened him, they would probably like because they could use it as propaganda.
Professional media organizations, and I don't just mean news, I mean TV, movies, music, games, etc., are ALL very sensitive to offending groups. Not just Muslims though, any religion (big enough to cause them trouble at least), sexual orientation, or race. It is the country we live in where these guys are so afraid of offending anyone and facing bad publicity or protests that they would much rather change something than take the risk of a PR black eye.
Now for the "real" part, a lot of this backlash against any Muslim protest is really coming from a bigoted place. I don't really blame most people for this as they are just responding to the 9/11 attacks, to the war that was launched afterwards in the Middle East, and most people don't know or understand the history of that region and how US policy actually created most of the mess we are in now.
I am not Muslim but I have a Middle Eastern name and half of my family is Muslim. The other half is Christian. I of course ended up an atheist. But I have had cops ask me if I am Muslim. Have you ever been asked by a cop if you were Christian? I have had customers in my store tell me about how "those people are killing US troops" and "we should turn the whole place into a glass parking lot" sometimes not realizing they are talking about my family, sometimes knowing they are talking about my family. Have you had someone tell you that your family, aunts, uncles, little cousins five years old, should be killed and wiped from the earth? You don't think that is a form of personal terrorism?
I hear people say things like "We need to really put it to those Muslims" and no one gets upset or says that is not OK. If you were to say "The police really need to put the truncheon to the blacks in this country" people would be appalled and denounce you.
I understand where this sentiment is coming from but I still think it is morally wrong. People are people. I lived in Iran for a year when I was younger. The nicest people you will ever meet live in Iran. If you go over there as an American you will get all smiles and invitations to dinner. Are these the people you want to bring the truncheon down on? Are these the people we should destroy in atomic hellfire? Because if that is the case we might as well just set the nukes off and kill off all of humanity because none of us are better.
