Muslim Protesters In London

By Daniel Miessler on February 5th, 2006: Tagged as Culture | Politics | Religion

Wow, this is just getting insane. These people are walking through the streets of London holding signs like these:

“Europe you will pay. Your 3/11 is on the way.”

A reference to the subway bombings in the very city they were protesting in, of course. Another one says the same thing, only with Bin Laden being the one on the way. As expected, no arrests were made. The British didn’t want to seem “too strict” on the nice chaps practicing free speech. It’s sickening, really. These people don’t need to be arrested, they need to be deported.

Quite simply, if you are going to call for the death of civilians over a newspaper cartoon, get the hell out.

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Carl M

It is getting absurd. But there are at least some amusing headlines. CNN’s main page currently has a link with the text:

• Cartoon protesters stone Austrian Embassy

Of course we know what they mean, but can you imagine reading this a year ago? Even today my brain tried to parse this in such a way that the protesters were cartoons. (“Who Framed Roger Rabbit” came to mind.)

You know … as insane as the response to the cartoons seems, and as much as I favor a completely free press, I can imagine SIMILAR (though we might hope less violent) outrage here if cartoons were created (and run in a major newspaper) with gratuitous use of swastikas or the “N” word (a symbol and a word that have been pretty well eliminated from “polite” conversation in the US).
Carl M

It is getting absurd. But there are at least some amusing headlines. CNN’s main page currently has a link with the text:

• Cartoon protesters stone Austrian Embassy

Of course we know what they mean, but can you imagine reading this a year ago? Even today my brain tried to parse this in such a way that the protesters were cartoons. (“Who Framed Roger Rabbit” came to mind.)

You know … as insane as the response to the cartoons seems, and as much as I favor a completely free press, I can imagine SIMILAR (though we might hope less violent) outrage here if cartoons were created (and run in a major newspaper) with gratuitous use of swastikas or the “N” word (a symbol and a word that have been pretty well eliminated from “polite” conversation in the US).
http://dmiessler.com/ Daniel

Right, “Cartoon Protesters”.

How much damage could they really do? They’re two-dimensional.
http://dmiessler.com Daniel

Right, “Cartoon Protesters”.

How much damage could they really do? They’re two-dimensional.
Carl M

And, as I should have predicted, a major Iranian newspaper (trying to make a point about the logic of protecting inciteful speech) is now having a contest for the best cartoon about the holocaust.
Carl M

And, as I should have predicted, a major Iranian newspaper (trying to make a point about the logic of protecting inciteful speech) is now having a contest for the best cartoon about the holocaust.

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