Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Cartoon Jihad
"The meaning of religious freedom, I fear, is sometimes greatly misapprehended. It is taken to be a sort of immunity, not merely from governmental control but also from public opinion. A dunderhead gets himself a long-tailed coat, rises behind the sacred desk, and emits such bilge as would gag a Hottentot. Is it to pass unchallenged? If so, then what we have is not religious freedom at all, but the most intolerable and outrageous variety of religious despotism. Any fool, once he is admitted to holy orders, becomes infallible. Any half-wit, by the simple device of ascribing his delusions to revelation, takes on an authority that is denied to all the rest of us."
~ H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, September 14, 1925.
No apology:
Jyllands-Posten Muhammad drawings
Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
Viva the inkfidels.
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~ H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, September 14, 1925.
No apology:
In Copenhagen, Fogh Rasmussen showed no sign of diverting from his government's stance that it cannot apologize for the actions of an independent newspaper, as demanded by governments in several Muslim nations.
4Cartoon Protests Deadly in Afghanistan
Jyllands-Posten Muhammad drawings
Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
Viva the inkfidels.
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