Patriot Heart
02-01-2006, 07:30 AM
Why can't that stupid BJ Clinton keep his fat nose out of ANYTHING? Jackass.
First they came for the funny ones
Feb 1, 2006
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of political cartoonists.
Not this time for the ones losing newspaper jobs, but for those whose lives are literally on the line thanks to outraged Islamists offering a bounty for their heads.
The cartoonists in question are a dozen Danish artists who drew Muhammad-themed cartoons last September for the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten during an exercise to test the limits of free speech. The cartoon-a-thon was conceived in response to complaints from a Danish author who couldn't find anyone to illustrate her Muhammad children's book.
SNIP
Thus, in December, the youth branch of Pakistan's largest religious party, Jamaat-e-Islami, offered a bounty for murdered cartoonists.
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Until Muslim nations and peoples do get the idea that free expression means freedom to offend as well as the necessary correlative - to be offended - we have a problem. And people like former President Bill Clinton, who essentially sided with jihadists with his recent comments on the cartoon controversy, have done much to exacerbate it.
Is it possible that Clinton doesn't get it either?
In a confusion of moral equivalency, Clinton compared the cartoons to anti-Semitism and condemned them as "appalling."
"So now what are we going to do? ... Replace the anti-Semitic prejudice with anti-Islamic prejudice?" he said Monday at an economic conference in the Qatari capital of Doha.
No, what is appalling is that a Western leader who still wields enormous power would sacrifice an opportunity to explain big ideas and big principles to a part of the world that clearly doesn't understand them. Instead, he finessed the moment and caved to the kind of virtue that feels good in the present but that gets people killed in the future.
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/kathleenparker/2006/02/01/184649.html
First they came for the funny ones
Feb 1, 2006
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of political cartoonists.
Not this time for the ones losing newspaper jobs, but for those whose lives are literally on the line thanks to outraged Islamists offering a bounty for their heads.
The cartoonists in question are a dozen Danish artists who drew Muhammad-themed cartoons last September for the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten during an exercise to test the limits of free speech. The cartoon-a-thon was conceived in response to complaints from a Danish author who couldn't find anyone to illustrate her Muhammad children's book.
SNIP
Thus, in December, the youth branch of Pakistan's largest religious party, Jamaat-e-Islami, offered a bounty for murdered cartoonists.
SNIP
Until Muslim nations and peoples do get the idea that free expression means freedom to offend as well as the necessary correlative - to be offended - we have a problem. And people like former President Bill Clinton, who essentially sided with jihadists with his recent comments on the cartoon controversy, have done much to exacerbate it.
Is it possible that Clinton doesn't get it either?
In a confusion of moral equivalency, Clinton compared the cartoons to anti-Semitism and condemned them as "appalling."
"So now what are we going to do? ... Replace the anti-Semitic prejudice with anti-Islamic prejudice?" he said Monday at an economic conference in the Qatari capital of Doha.
No, what is appalling is that a Western leader who still wields enormous power would sacrifice an opportunity to explain big ideas and big principles to a part of the world that clearly doesn't understand them. Instead, he finessed the moment and caved to the kind of virtue that feels good in the present but that gets people killed in the future.
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/kathleenparker/2006/02/01/184649.html