In the parlance of our times ...
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I believe that would be the definition of " A_s kissing"
Hey, it's not like the Europeans ever side with us. Let them handle it with their "diplomacy."
Personally, I think this is the start of WW III. (Of course, the other side started it years ago, but this may wake up the sleeping Europeans.)
I hate to draw comparisons between fundamentalist Muslims and Christians but, remember when Christians took to the streets, burned, looted, assaulted, and threatened murder and mayhem over "Piss Christ"?
I don't recall burning, looting, and assaulting. Perhaps it was a local event? There are always nut cases.
The difference is world-wide hysteria and "holy" men calling for the death of the artists and jihad against all of Europe. They don't notice the similarity between some of these cartoons and the ones they regularly read and enjoy depicting Jews and infidels in far worse ways.
Just for the record, CIV, my comments were meant to be facetious. I guess I need to watch that. Sometimes it doesn't come across in writing.
And if I missed the facetiousness in your retort then what we really have here is a failyuh to communicate.
Death to the facetious Dogs!
To be honest, I was worried about you for a while there. There are some clearly straight (as in not facetious) letters to the editor in papers and magazines that I read that find no difference between religions and cultures (except that Christians and Americans are somehow worse).
A few pundits have compared the Middle Eastern reaction to the Danish cartoon to the letter the Joint Chiefs of Staff wrote to the Washington Post the other day to protest an editorial cartoon, or to right-wing Christian groups that protest or boycott television shows that offend them. That comparison is specious. In a civilized country, offended groups--whether they're the Catholic League, the Rainbow Coalition, or GLAAD--protest and dissent peacefully, within existing cultural institutions, hoping to change minds and influence markets.
All of that represents one of the best things about our society: raucous debate. But masked gunmen, death threats, calls for beheadings and genocide? All of those things represent barbarism. Any pundit who believes the two should be discussed in the same breath doesn't truly understand free speech.
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