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And no beheadings, either.
Allahpundit reports: “Another American university tackles free speech, and everyone involved embarrasses themselves — except the conservatives. A parable for our times.”
World Net Daily broke the news yesterday that a far-left student newspaper at the University of Oregon — called “The Insurgent†appropriately enough — decided to publish 12 deliberately offensive cartoons of Jesus in their March issue. Why? Because the Oregon Commentator, a conservative student newspaper at U of O, recently published the 12 Jyllands-Posten cartoons of Mohammed. The Insurgent wanted Christians to know what it felt like to have their religion insulted.
Because, really, what would Christians know about something like that?
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[...] In 2006, some of the highlights we covered included: Muslims demanding “further apology” from the Pope, Muslims killing people after being offended by some cartoons (Christians don’t riot), Mel Gibson apologizing for a drunken rant, and Michael Richards apologizing for his onstage tirade — and Al Sharpton, predictably, said it’s “not enough”. Before all that, the S.F. Giants fired their PR director because some special interests took offense to an (internal, not-made-for-the-public) training video, KNBR sports radio host gets fired because a black coach took offense to some remarks about the players, and a political campaign manager gets fired because some people took offense to his remarks about black and white. [...]
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Danish cartoons are published and there were riots. “Insurgent” cartoons are published and there are prayers.
Curse those violent, theocracy-loving Christians, they make life miserable and fearful for everyone, don’t they?
Comment by Carlos — April 28, 2006 @ 8:17 pm