It's odd trying to disentangle the comments to this and the original post itself.
Freedom of speech is am important thing.
Not being reactionary and extremist to the perceived threat against your beliefs is important.
Not being reactionary and extremist to the perceived threat against your freedom of speech is also important.
Not being an arse is generally a good thing too.
Your post is incredibly self-righteous sounding and I can see how that would grate, whatever anyone thought of the actual thing you were trying to get across.
Still it was interesting to know that all this is going on.
It might interest you all to know that there's a lot of Muslims who are going to think 'well it's against the rules for me to draw that picture, I don't much care what the rest of you do' and not care much either way until it looks like racist crap is getting mixed in. Seemed worth mentioning, as you won't hear that voice very much, almost by definition.
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Date: 2010-05-23 01:25 am (UTC)Freedom of speech is am important thing.
Not being reactionary and extremist to the perceived threat against your beliefs is important.
Not being reactionary and extremist to the perceived threat against your freedom of speech is also important.
Not being an arse is generally a good thing too.
Your post is incredibly self-righteous sounding and I can see how that would grate, whatever anyone thought of the actual thing you were trying to get across.
Still it was interesting to know that all this is going on.
It might interest you all to know that there's a lot of Muslims who are going to think 'well it's against the rules for me to draw that picture, I don't much care what the rest of you do' and not care much either way until it looks like racist crap is getting mixed in. Seemed worth mentioning, as you won't hear that voice very much, almost by definition.