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I personally would avoid angering any group of murderous extremists, no matter their religious affiliation. This is, of course, precisely their strategy. By be
by hugh3 16y ago
I personally would avoid angering any group of murderous extremists, no matter their religious affiliation.
This is, of course, precisely their strategy. By being irrational and murderous every time their demands are not met, they slowly advance in the cultural war.
First, they stop us from drawing their prophet. Once that gain is cemented, they can start agitating for something else: maybe they'll tell us that our eating pork is offensive to them. And it'll take a while, but by a combination of extremists who actively kill people who eat pork and "moderates" who merely sit around tut-tutting and saying that while they personally deplore violence they can certainly see how somebody else might get upset about it.
Then alcohol, then unveiled women, then... who knows? The eventual goal is, of course, to eradicate everything other than Islam, and while I don't think you can get there from here, I can at least see how they think you can get there from here.
As such, I applaud anyone who is willing to stand up and say "No, sod off" to the whole idea.
- Jd 16y agoThere are lots of subtle things they have already achieved that you might not know about because they are not covered extensively in the press because if they were... For instance, Random House recently bowed to pressure and did not publish a novel about Mohammed's 9 year old wife. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93503128 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9350312...
- hugh3 16y agoIndeed. And while ultimately the novel doesn't matter (well, except maybe to the person who spent ages writing it) what does matter is that every time this happens they're learning one very important lesson: violence works.