OFF: Freeedom of Speech

[M Holmes]

Paul Mather writes:

> I guess it's all in the perception.  When I read the above, my immediate
> take was that they're just compensating for general audience ignorance
> (who probably don't know Islam from Adam:); your take was Political
> Correctness.  Who's to know?  I guess if they really wanted to toady out
> of fear, they'd append "(peace be upon him)" after every mention of the
> term "The Prophet Mohammed..." ;-)

Heh, friends of mine who aren't active or even particularly interested
in the FoS arena have started using "Mohammed, peace be upon him" as a
kind of caricature. These are Leftie sorts who'd rather cut off their
own balls than be thought racists and I think it's a sign that even they
think the pudding has been overegged by protesting Muslims.

For myself, I find it absolutely bizarre that in a week of new
revelations about abuse at Abu Ghraib that there are still people
marching to whine about cartoons.

The Alliance should move everyone out of Abu Ghraib and raze the
frigging place to the ground by way of demonstrating our disgust at what
Saddam did with the place and at ourselves for allowing our own guys to
follow his example.

FoFP

P.S: Went to see "Munich" this weekend. Spielberg seems to have
exorcised his Schmaltz Demon. It makes for an interesting if overlong
movie, though I wish I knew which parts he'd just made up.