FREEDOM!
The latest outcry is about "Fitna: Freedom of expression or freedom to insult?"
If you haven't seen this film yet it is further down the page in this blog but to save you the trouble I will explain it.
The movie shows verses from the Koran that advocate terrorism, killing infidels, (non-believers) chopping the hands from thieves, warfare and general mayhem accompanied by pictures of what radical Muslims and terrorists have been doing this past little while.
And these assholes ask if we are doing it just to insult the Muslims.
Listen bunky, I don't see any Lutheran (Me) terrorists, or any Buddhist suicide bombers, or Baptist fathers killing their daughters because they slept with someone, or any Mormon's stoning people who leave the faith, or Jehovah's Witnesses subjugating their women, or Protestants and Catholics who wage a holy war on.................. Oh, wait a minute....... I forgot about Northern Ireland!
Oh well, five out of six ain't bad!
Back to my point.
This is not about insulting someones religion bunky.
The Muslims have brought it on themselves by the actions of the Radical Islamist and the complacency of the mainstream Muslim community.
Sure our freedoms end at the point of swinging your arms..... at someone else's nose, and you can't yell fire in a crowded theatre, but it would be blasphemous for us to let other people and religions tell us how to live our lives.
If Islamic radicals tell us that we are going to convert to Islam no matter what they have to do, then that is a declaration of war and I'm not too concerned about who I insult!
End of story!
Allan W Janssen is the author of the book The Plain Truth About God (What the mainstream religions don't want you to know!) and is available at the web site www.God-101.com
Visit the blog "Perspective" at http://God-101.blogspot.com
Labels: blasphemed islam, christianity, freedom, muslims, religious freedom
4 Comments:
while i agree that only those people who aren't sure about their religions are the ones who seem to be the most concerned about others "insulting" their religion, at the same time, there are plenty of "christian" terrorists out there who think nothing of bombing abortion clinics, picketing funerals, abusing children, and all kinds of other nasty deeds. terrorism is not a specifically muslim thing, regardless of how thin you slice it.
very truae and thank you for pointing that out but the main thrust of the article was about bleeding heart liberals who worry about insulting someone else's religion, deserved or not!
while i normally readily identify with the term "bleeding heart liberal," i don't really concern myself wo much with whether or not my comments could be construed to be insulting to people of one religion or another, as much as i rely on getting the truth out there whenever possible.
and i can think of quite a few so-called "christians" who would be offended and consider it insulting to see a cartoon of jesus doing something that jesus probably wouldn't do, and who would respond violently to such a thing.
One is as bad as the other in one way or anoher. What I don't have any patience for is the apologists for any religion or sect or cult or political party or whatever.
Be what you want to be but if means taking lumps from some other group........ that's the way it is!
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