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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
(B) At the same time, I'd think it was stupid, lousy art, and a bad idea. I'd also think that the artist and museum, by making it more difficult for Muslim governments to cooperate with us -- were doing our diplomacy, foreign policy, and national security a grave disservice.
S_A_M
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I'm generally pragmatic and agreeable to the path of least resistance. But in this case, I think we need to force these regressive vermin to behave like sensible people. Nobody has the right to burn cars over some fucking ink drawing of some 6th Century "prophet." We should not tolearte that sort of infantilism from anyone, anywhere. And we should let these people know that they will be secularized, and behave someday like civilized people. Islam has to get over its third rate status, which is its own fault, due in large part to its regressive tenets. These shit arguments in favor of "accepting Islam's cultural diversity" are exactly that. There's a line where you have to say "No, treating women like shit, believing in silly voodoo garbage and demanding your people behave like they're in a 12th century caliphate is not culture." Strict Islam is not a culture. Strict Islam is a form of oppression and a fount of illiteracy. We should take the bastards on, head on.
We're only demanding they be civilized. Is that too much to ask? How the hell can we shrink from that obligation?
