Free speech vs. religious ideals, current events in question. Options

[jayi12-15psi]

If you watch the news you're aware of the events taking place in the middle east reguarding violent protests against anti-Muslim danish Cartoons. Most people will tell you that violence is obviously not the answer, but the issue at hand here is... Do you think that the rights of free speech should be curbed so it does not offend a religion?

This post has been edited by jayi12-15psi: Feb 8, 2006 - 5:23 PM

[jayi12-15psi]

I wasn't trying to persecute a whole religion and I believe that most people realize that every religion has extremists. I also believe that these extremists are being widely publicised in the muslim world as opposed to other religious extremists. As a collective religion, they're getting a bad name because it's trendy to feel hate for the Muslim world as Americans, and these acts of violence give people the little reason to justify how some Americans want to feel. I've of course seen these cartoons and they are offensive, but here are several cartoons offensive to Jews printed in Arab news papers.

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/category/...uslim_cartoons/

(scroll down a bit)

I think they're talking these cartoons way to seriously and these acts of violence are unaccepable, but should the creator of these cartoons be responsible for a portion of the violence?

This post has been edited by jayi12-15psi: Feb 9, 2006 - 1:10 AM