QUOTE(Ottava @ Thu 6th May 2010, 5:49pm)
QUOTE(GlassBeadGame @ Thu 6th May 2010, 10:34pm)
Asshole. Muslims are not stopping you, South Park or anyone else from saying anything.
Yeah, they will only chop off our heads if we do.
Stop trolling.
The point is that the "they" here is misapplied - in a "those people" kind of way - and your usage of it says quite a bit about yourself. The "they" Muslims I know are not going to chop off anybody's head, for this or any other reason. At worst they may act uncomfortable if the topic is brought up in conversation. And I wouldn't blame them.
People also seem to be confusing right to free speech with generally being an asshole. You may have a constitutional or even God given right to be an asshole, but that doesn't make you any less of an asshole. In the Skokie trial ACLU was confronting government (local though it was) policy. Has the US government, or the Seattle city council or whatever passed a law forbidding depicting Mohamed? No? Then censorship has nothing to do with it.
Oh, and I'm on the internet and I confess to having some libertarian tendencies. But for this to be a libertarian issue, governments have to be involved in the equation somehow. As far as I can tell, with the whole Comedy Central flap, they're not.
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