All this over a cartoon??!!



Next we'll hear about The Little Mermaid putting a hit out on SpongeBob.

This is so stupid. Muslims have no problem doing this to other religions, but when it happens to theirs.....they'll get violent!

"Danish right-wing activists pour gasoline on the fire."

????

Excuse me, but I find it highly inappropriate to equate the airing of people drawing Mohammad cartoons with "pouring gasoline on the fire" of Islamic terrorism.

Everyone is scared of the "negative reactions" that might be drawn by Muslims around the world and the answer somehow becomes censorship? Plenty of people have negative things to say about Christianity and Judaism, will we now censor them too? Of course not -- nobody fears being killed along with his entire family in retaliation against the comments he made about the Christian "Savior". The only ones pouring gasoline on the fire are terrorists with their literal gasoline, literal bombs and LITERAL FIRE! Spare me the moral equivalency political correct bs, will you? How about the pouring of gasoline on the fire of those burning Danish flags, huh?

Next time your 3yr old child is having a tantrum, will you comment on his negative behavior and thereby "pour gasoline on the fire"? Or maybe it's best to just sit back and let him do what he wants... which, in this case, is kill you.

Man, where to begin?
"moral equivalency political correct bs"??
Apparently, if "pouring gasoline on the fire" elicited such a passioned response from you, I'd hardly classify it as political correctness. The use of "politically correct" words or phrases is to "avoid" the possiblilty of offending anyone, thereby resulting in an accusations or tirades. I think my use of the phrase doesn't come close to political correctness.

"nobody fears being killed along with his entire family in retaliation against the comments he made about the Christian Savior"??
Uh, yeah. Way to state the obvious. That's the point. People don't fear violent, fatal repercussions from comments about Christians, Jews, Buddists, etc. People DO fear violent, fatal repercussions from radical Islamic fundalmentalists because it happens every day in the world. Therefore, knowing that the previous publishing of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed, (albeit, at the time, the editors of the Danish newspaper were only excercising their right of free speech and had no idea that it would result in the furor it caused world wide), these so-called "Right wing activists" INTENTIONALLY created a media event designed to further antagonize an already volaitle situation. That's pouring gasoline on a fire. The phrase doesn't condemn or support, it only describes. You totally overreacted to it.

"Next time your 3yr old child is having a tantrum, will you comment on his negative behavior and thereby "pour gasoline on the fire"? Or maybe it's best to just sit back and let him do what he wants... which, in this case, is kill you" ?????
First of all, if my 3 year old was having a tantrum, you're damn skippy I'd comment on it. Right on his backside and I'd put a quick stop to that type of behaviour. I think not allowing such behaviour is the exact OPPOSITE of pouring gasoline on the fire. And comparing the actions of a 3-year old, whose total concept of the difference of right and wrong is limited to "yes" or "no" has no bearing what-so-ever to the actions of a bunch of publicity seeking, attention grabbing people, who know that their actions could actually put someone in mortal danger, regardless of whether they're just fighting for the right to free speech, is.. well, I'm not going to name call. I'm only here to refute.

I got no problem with any one disagreeing with me, I'd just like to be able to understand what exactly they're disagreeing with me about.

Well... "moral equivalency political correct bs" we meant to address the fact that the title reads "Danish right-wing activists pour gasoline on the fire." which seems to juxtapose the content of the article which is that there are Muslims who want to kill lots of people. That seemed to me to imply a "both sides are wrong, just kiss and make up" mentality which is, while absurd, held by quite a few citizens.

"these so-called "Right wing activists" INTENTIONALLY created a media event designed to further antagonize an already volaitle situation. That's pouring gasoline on a fire." If this were conservative vs liberal and one party lambasted the other I would say yes -- that's gas on the fire. But in this case, the subtle difference is they were only acting on their freedom of speech (which has already been supressed many times, lately by NYU in their last-minute-removal of the cartoons from a display) and making a point that these cartoons seem an accurate representation of Islamic culture. This argument is not a debate -- where the term gas on the fire would be appropriate -- it is speach vs threats of violence and actual violence. So I would argue there is quite a difference there: just as you said that you would comment on your 3yr old's tantrum and not consider that pouring gas on the fire, this deserves the same response. We need to comment on the violence being committed here and do everything we can to stop it -- we're not talking about 2 adults in a disagreement but rather an adult and a child in great need of a spanking.

It seems we don't disagree on any fundamental principle, but I definitly don't agree that they are adding gasoline to the fire (especially with people whom sneezing the wrong way can cause you your life) -- I think they're saying what needs to be said.