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In reply to the discussion: Insulting Muhammad is not hate speech [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)You trivialized and marginalized them, using them as a vehicle to prove how "liberal" you are with regard to your views about varying religions, but in actual fact you came off as insulting and intolerant.
What did they ever do to you that you feel a need to mock their beliefs and their founder? Because plainly, you did feel a need--otherwise you wouldn't have singled them out, and then doubled down by insisting that you weren't snarking about them, when you were?
They are one of the more persecuted faiths on the planet, so it's kind of interesting that you'd pick them instead of, say, Jews, or Episcopalians, or Lutherans or even practitioners of Obeah or Santeria...I suppose the odds of anyone from the Zoroastrian faith popping up on this board is small, so it's easier to pick on them.
Delicate feelings? Really? Is that the "progressive attitude" DU is so well known for showing itself in your post?
There is a lot of sensitivity and outrage today as a consequence of the utter HORROR that happened in Paris. You'd think the "sensitive" thing to do would be to be cognizant of the tender feelings surrounding this sad event, rather than stomping your foot and demanding your "right" to trample on people's "delicate feelings."
Your bellicose attitude says so much about you and it's not terribly recommending, frankly.