18. Whether by design or accident, in choosing to target cartoonists, jihadis have picked foe that can't back down without losing identity
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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.
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20. So cartooning (profane & irrepressible) becomes the perfect fault-line for a cultural/religious war.
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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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22. You can't have a modern liberal state without tolerance of satire & without protection of minorities. There's nothing to negotiate.
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23. This is a good question: @Kirkdify how can we avoid this?
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24. I'm genuinely pessimistic about whether there is any short run solution to jihadi violence anywhere.
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25. In Europe in particular, it seems like any solution lays the seeds for future problem.
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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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@sirosenbaum That's also part of the dilemma.
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@HeerJeet and to frame this as a conflict about aniconism/heresy is to miss the very real oppression of Muslims those images support1 reply 0 retweets 1 like - Show replies
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