@Cole69361910 @emlynaddison @ViveCharIie @Prolient @louididdy @JihadistJoe my point is simple; drop it if its offensive
@ViveCharIie @zaifah_1 @Cole69361910 @Prolient @JihadistJoe a CONTEST of who can make the most offensive one. That's a pointless lynch mob.
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@emlynaddison No. Its defiance of the intimidation techniques of the lynch mob that invariably ensues when ppl don't abide by rules of Islam
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@HPluckrose Then we're no better than them. What has either side learned? I repeat the Westboro Baptist Church example. -
@emlynaddison We'd be no better than them if their expression was non-physical - words or art. I encourage & support Islamists to do this.
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@HPluckrose If our beef is with Islamic attitudes, then what is the rationale for using a religious idol? Because it's offensive? -
@emlynaddison Its not as though I'm going to thrust a cartoon of Muhammad having sex with a pig in a Muslim's face over lunch.
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@HPluckrose You might as well be; that's my point. This contest had patently nothing to do with "solidarity" with Charlie Hebdo. It was > -
@emlynaddison No! If anyone tried to force Muslims to attend the competition, this wld be utterly different. Have the right not to attend it
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@HPluckrose That's irrelevant. We're holding CONTESTS to see who can draw the most vile portrait of Muhammed? THIS is our best idea?? - 4 more replies
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@emlynaddison Make a rule abt women dressing modestly & we'll walk around naked. Make a rule abt depicting Muhammad & we'll do it in spades
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@emlynaddison When any powerful institution tries to enforce codes of conduct on others, we have a duty to defy it in strongest possible way
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@HPluckrose I don't disagree at all with what radical Islam represents, but we're burning down the whole forest to deny the weeds. -
@emlynaddison As soon as we start saying we must moderate the way we express views of any ideology, we give it the power to censor us.
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@HPluckrose Nobody is advocating censorship, Helen; I'm advocating for SELF-censorship on the grounds that we'll be more constructive. -
@emlynaddison I'm sure we all practice this. I don't speak the same way to a moderate, liberal Muslim as I do to one threatening to kill me.
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@HPluckrose Yet those same cartoon offend ALL Muslims. How do we reconcile that fact? We're not adolescents, we're adults. -
@emlynaddison Also Muslims have no more right not to be offended by others views of their religion than I have Islam's view of atheists.
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@Prolient@JihadistJoe The comp was the "best" not most offensive as nobody involved found offensiveThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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