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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015
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      14. Satire, whatever it's ideological intent, is a powerful secularizing agent: it's message is that "nothing is sacred."

      4 replies 17 retweets 25 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015
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      15. The satirist often can't help himself/herself: impulse behind their art is to do that which they are told not to do.

      2 replies 8 retweets 16 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015
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      16. Do not draw the Prophet. Do not draw the Prophet. Do not draw the Prophet. Do not draw ... to hell with it, I have to draw the Prophet

      2 replies 5 retweets 12 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015
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      17. History of satire & cartooning has many figures who continue to do what they're told they can't do: Lenny Bruce syndrome

      1 reply 2 retweets 9 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015
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      18. Whether by design or accident, in choosing to target cartoonists, jihadis have picked foe that can't back down without losing identity

      6 replies 14 retweets 21 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015
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      19. To tell an pundit to tone it down is one thing. But to tell a cartoonists to be reasonable is to ask them to stop being cartoonists.

      2 replies 8 retweets 14 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015
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      20. So cartooning (profane & irrepressible) becomes the perfect fault-line for a cultural/religious war.

      4 replies 3 retweets 6 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015
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      21. The clarifying thing about attacks on both cartoonists & Jews is they occur on exactly the fault-line where no compromise is possible.

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015
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      22. You can't have a modern liberal state without tolerance of satire & without protection of minorities. There's nothing to negotiate.

      4 replies 42 retweets 42 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015
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      23. This is a good question: @Kirkdify how can we avoid this?

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015

      24. I'm genuinely pessimistic about whether there is any short run solution to jihadi violence anywhere.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015
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          25. In Europe in particular, it seems like any solution lays the seeds for future problem.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015
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          26. As I said, on the issues of free speech and protection of Jewish minority, there can't be any compromise.

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        2. NeilT‏ @biliousbarnacle 14 Feb 2015
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          @HeerJeet Merriman's "Dynamite Club" argues that 19th C anarchists eventually repulsed even sympathetic citizens.

          2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Feb 2015
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          @biliousbarnacle I think that's one possible way this could end.

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        2. debbieann‏ @debbieann 14 Feb 2015
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          @HeerJeet there was a good podcast on freakonomics about terrorism, we should look at Basque and Ireland for solutions

          2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
        3. Adam Ward‏ @wardsabroad 14 Feb 2015
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          @debbieann I haven't heard the podcast but is compromise possible if ideological extinction is the aim? Do jihadis have political goals?

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        1. Dan‏ @Nimzowiccan 14 Feb 2015
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          @heerjeet What sort of time span is the "short run?"

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        1. Seth  🌹‏ @mfpseth 14 Feb 2015
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          .@HeerJeet At the root of all this is the all-too-human ease of using the lower-order fear center of our brains, not the higher order: love.

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        1. Seth  🌹‏ @mfpseth 14 Feb 2015
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          @HeerJeet I share your pessimism because every religion uses its illusions of higher love to justify fear-based reactionary tribalism.

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        1. Seth  🌹‏ @mfpseth 14 Feb 2015
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          @HeerJeet We don't teach each other or our children to seek to respond to fear with love. So terrorism works and breeds more of itself.

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