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In reply to the discussion: In defense of the need to post blasphemous caricatures [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)Here's my cartoon of Mohammed:
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I'd put a cartoon of Jesus and Buddha, too. But those wouldn't be blasphemy, now would they.
Fuck Jesus. <== That's blasphemy.
Fuck Buddha. <== That, too (although I am not sure of what would be blasphemy in Buddhism.)
Moses never existed. <== nobody is immune from blasphemy, nor should they be.
It is all free speech, guaranteed by the US Constitution.
Condemning it because somebody got insulted and attempted murder because of the insult is very weird. I condemn the attempted murder.
And no, I do not agree with the right wing lunatic that started this, but I defend her right to do it. Under our Constitution that is what I have to do.
And no, drawing Mohammed is not crying "FIRE!" in a theater, unless one presumes Islam is a violent religion, which I do not. I do not like religion at all, but I think most folks, religious or otherwise are basically good folks. It is the crazy fundamentalists which are the problem, those who murder because of a perceived butt hurt. Fuck them, too. (D'ya see what I did there?)