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January 11, 2015
I would submit that it's respect for cockroaches and vermin that especially mark the buddhist POV.
It's easy to love a cute puppy, or to feel bad for a bear.
For Westerners, and others, there's a cultural subset of species that are dishonored for various reasons: flies, roaches, snakes, and spiders for example.
Indeed, many carry diseases and others are just pests, but all are critters with lives.
It's a bit like people, actually.
We want to try to love each and everyone, and especially those who are annoying and even dangerous.
They need love the most.
January 10, 2015
Read what Juan Cole said about that, about motive for attacking the satirists:
Juan Cole has some insightful words on the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris.
As he points out, the shooters were neither "attacking free speech" nor "defending Mohammed"; they were using a time-honored tactic of radical extremists (of all stripes): "sharpening the contradictions," hoping to provoke an overreaction that would lead to repression and persecution of Muslims in general -- thus helping the extremists recruit new members.
This is what bin Laden did with such spectacular success with 9/11: provoking an endless global war, with Western "interventions" and "targeted assassinations" and drone strikes that have killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people -- all of which, as our own security services tell us, have fed the flames of extremism and made the situation worse.
http://www.juancole.com/2015/01/sharpening-contradictions-satirists.html
As he points out, the shooters were neither "attacking free speech" nor "defending Mohammed"; they were using a time-honored tactic of radical extremists (of all stripes): "sharpening the contradictions," hoping to provoke an overreaction that would lead to repression and persecution of Muslims in general -- thus helping the extremists recruit new members.
This is what bin Laden did with such spectacular success with 9/11: provoking an endless global war, with Western "interventions" and "targeted assassinations" and drone strikes that have killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people -- all of which, as our own security services tell us, have fed the flames of extremism and made the situation worse.
http://www.juancole.com/2015/01/sharpening-contradictions-satirists.html
January 9, 2015
Wow!
Can we please do the hard work of sorting out how we fit in each other's world and stop with the childish attacks?
Joe Sacco. That needs to be an Original Post, KittyWampus. Thank you.
In fact when we draw a line, we are often crossing one too. Because lines on paper are a weapon, and satire is meant to cut to the bone. But whose bone? What exactly is the target?
And why?”
~snip~
And what is it about Muslims in this time and place that makes them unable to laugh off a mere image. And if we answer, "Because something is deeply wrong with them" -certainly something that was deeply wrong with the killers- then let us drive them from their homes and into the sea...
For that is going to be far easier than sorting out how we fit in each other's world.
http://yournz.org/2015/01/10/satirical-cartoons-where-should-the-line-be-drawn/
And why?”
~snip~
And what is it about Muslims in this time and place that makes them unable to laugh off a mere image. And if we answer, "Because something is deeply wrong with them" -certainly something that was deeply wrong with the killers- then let us drive them from their homes and into the sea...
For that is going to be far easier than sorting out how we fit in each other's world.
http://yournz.org/2015/01/10/satirical-cartoons-where-should-the-line-be-drawn/
Wow!
Can we please do the hard work of sorting out how we fit in each other's world and stop with the childish attacks?
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