Reply #42: yeah, rather different values

[iverglas]

Now, most virulent anti-blasphemy campaigns in the West are letter writing, maybe a consumer boycott of advertisers or even (gasp!) a picket line. All in keeping with free speech. (I'll leave aside abortion clinic attacks, since that gets into a rather different value.)

Never mind all the other stuff that goes on in your own bit of the West -- for instance, not just clinic bombings, but all the other daily and escalating violations of women's fundamental rights, just for starters. Never mind capital punishment, free speech zones, the Patriot Act, illegal wiretapping, torture of prisoners, denial of voting rights to groups composed overwhelmingly of members of minorities, bombing of innocents abroad -- never mind all that.

Y'all got freedom of speech (or so you like to think), and that's all that matters. Uber alles, and über everyone else's interests.

Muslims need how to "learn how to deal with Western style freedoms" according to one, "some cultures and peoples just aren't ready to not live under oppression" according to you.

Damn that white man's burden.