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In reply to the discussion: Satire Does Not Always Involve Humor. The Most Powerful Satire Never Does. [View all]uppityperson
(116,017 posts)49. Seriously? Google christian religious violence. It is indeed by a tiny minority but not "just 1"
I seriously expected better than "just one religion" from you. Tiny minorities of many religions are busy killing others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism
Contemporary[edit]
According to terrorism expert David C. Rapoport, a "religious wave", or cycle, of terrorism dates from approximately 1979 to the present.[20]
Anti-Muslim violence in Central Africa[edit]
Further information: Central African Republic conflict under the Djotodia administration
After the predominantly Muslim Seleka militia took control of the Central African Republic under President Michel Djotodia in 2013, a period of lawlessness and sectarian violence continued. Following warnings of "genocide" by the UN and a controversial intervention force by MISCA, Djotodia resigned. Despite neutral Catherine Samba-Panza being made president, the Anti-balaka Christian militants continued sectarian violence, including reported targeted killings, against Muslim civilians.[21]
Anti-Hindu violence in Northeast India[edit]
Christian violence arose in various contiguous states in North-East India.[22] In 2000, John Joseph, a member of India's National Minority Commission, described Christian militancy as rampant in the northeastern states.[22]
Tripura[edit]
Further information: Tripura rebellion
The National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), is a rebel group that seeks the secession of Tripura, North-East India, and is a proscribed terrorist organization in India. Group activities have been described as Christian terrorists engaging in terrorist violence motivated by their Christian beliefs.[23][24] The NLFT includes in its aims the forced conversion of all tribespeople in Tripura to Christianity.[25] The NLFT says that it is fighting not only for the removal of Bengali immigrants from the tribal areas, "but also for the tribal areas of the state to become overtly Christian", and "has warned members of the tribal community that they may be attacked if they do not accept its Christian agenda".[26] The NLFT is listed as a terrorist organization in the Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2002.[27] The state government contends that the Baptist Church of Tripura supplies arms and gives financial support to the NLFT.[28][29][30] Reports from the state government and Indian media describe activities such as the acquisition by the NLFT of explosives through the Noapara Baptist Church in Tripura,[30] and threats of killing Hindus celebrating religious festivals.[31] Over 20 Hindus in Tripura were reported to have been killed by the NLFT from 1999 to 2001 for resisting forced conversion to Christianity.[32] According to Hindus in the area, there have also been forced conversions of tribal villagers to Christianity by armed NLFT militants.[32] These forcible conversions, sometimes including the use of "rape as a means of intimidation", have also been noted by academics outside of India.[33] In 2000, the NLFT broke into a temple and gunned down a popular Hindu preacher popularly known as Shanti Kali.[25]
Odisha[edit]
See also: Religious violence in Odisha
In 2007 a tribal spiritual Hindu monk, Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati, accused Radhakant Nayak, chief of a local chapter of World Vision, and a former Rajya Sabha member from Odisha in the Indian National Congress party, of plotting to assassinate him.[34] The Swami also said that World Vision was covertly pumping money into India for religious conversion during the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, and criticized the activities of Christian missionaries as going against tribal beliefs.[35] In 2008, he was gunned down along with four disciples on the Hindu festive day of Krishna Janmashtami by a group of 3040 armed men.[36] Later, the Maoist terrorist leader Sabyasachi Panda admitted responsibility for the assassination, saying that the Maoists had intervened in the religious dispute on behalf of Christians and Dalits.[37][38] The non-governmental organization Justice on Trial disputed that there had been Maoist involvement, and quoted the Swami as claiming that Christian missionaries had earlier attacked him eight times.[39][40]
Nagaland[edit]
Main article: National Socialist Council of Nagaland
Nagaland is a Christian majority state in India. Many terrorist incidents have been documented there as a result of an insurgency against the government. This insurgency was originally led by the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN), who has indulged in terrorist activities varying from kidnapping, illegal drug trafficking, extortion, etc.[41] The group has committed religious violence, as a part of NSCN's described mission of forcibly converting the animist Naga to Christianity, which has been described by B. B. Kumar as Christian terrorism.[24] Other goals include the formation of a greater Nagaland. There are occasional reports of the NSCN using force to convert locals of neighboring states to Christianity.[42]
Manipur[edit]
The National Socialist Council of Nagaland, Issac-Muivah faction (slogan: "Nagaland for Christ"
, is accused of carrying out the 19921993 ethnic cleansing of Kuki tribes in Manipur, said to have leave over 900 people dead. During that NSCN-IM operation, 350 Kuki villages were driven out and about 100,000 Kukis were turned into refugees.[43]
Sabra and Shatila massacre[edit]
Maronite Christian militias perpetrated the Karantina and Tel al-Zaatar massacres of Palestinians and Lebanese Muslims during Lebanon's 19751990 civil war. The 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, which targeted unarmed Palestinian refugees for rape and murder, was considered to be genocide by the United Nations General Assembly.[44] A British photographer present during the incident said that "People who committed the acts of murder that I saw that day were wearing [crucifixes] and were calling themselves Christians."[45] After the end of the civil war, Christian militias refused to disband, concentrating in the Israeli-occupied south of the country, where they terrorized Muslim and Druze villages and forcefully recruited men and boys from those communities into their groups.[46]
Northern Irish and Irish paramilitary groups[edit]
Terrorist acts, with various motives, were committed by loyalists and republicans during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Although most loyalists were Protestant and most republicans were Catholic, it is widely seen as an ethno-nationalist conflict that was not religious in nature.[47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60] Experts who subscribe to this view, including Philip Purpura, Richard Jenkins, and John Hickey, note the importance of religious motivations in what Purpura calls an "overlap" between religious terrorism and national or ethnic terrorism.[61][62][63] However, professor Mark Juergensmeyer argues that some terrorist acts were religious terrorism or justified by religion.[64]:1920 Professors Jonathan Matusitz, a critic of religions, and Ayla Hammond Schbley, an expert on counterterrorism, have written about the Provisional IRA as being Christian terrorists,[65][66] a characterization that is at odds with multiple other analysts.[48][49][56][57][67][68][69]
Sociology professor Steve Bruce has written that most loyalist paramilitaries and politicians are fundamentally different from Islamic organizations such as Hezbollah, in that they regard religion and politics as separate spheres and do not advocate killing on the basis of perceived heresy. He did, however, characterize three small loyalist splinter groups the Orange Volunteers, the Loyalist Volunteer Force, and the Red Hand Defenders as terrorist groups that were motivated by what he called "Christian imagery" preached by Protestant evangelicals.[70] The leader of the Orange Volunteers, pastor Clifford Peeples, defended their attacks on Catholic churches on the basis that they were "bastions of the Antichrist".[71][72]
Utøya Island killings[edit]
Main article: 2011 Norway attacks
In July 2011, Anders Behring Breivik was arrested and charged with terrorism after a car bombing in Oslo and a mass shooting on Utøya island that killed 77 people. Hours prior to the events, Breivik released a 1,500-page manifesto detailing his beliefs that immigrants were undermining Norway's traditional Christian values, and identifying himself as a "Christian crusader" while describing himself as not very religious.[73][74] Although initial news reports described him as a Christian fundamentalist,[75][76] subsequent analyses of his motivations have noted that he did not only display Christian terrorist inclinations, but also had non-religious, right-wing beliefs.[77][78] Mark Juergensmeyer and John Mark Reynolds have stated that the events were Christian terrorism,[79][80] whereas Brad Hirschfield has rejected the Christian terrorist label.[81]
Lord's Resistance Army[edit]
The Lord's Resistance Army, a cult and guerrilla army, was engaged in an armed rebellion against the Ugandan government in 2005. It has been accused of using child soldiers and of committing numerous crimes against humanity; including massacres, abductions, mutilation, torture, rape, and using forced child labourers as soldiers, porters, and sex slaves.[82] A quasi-religious movement that mixes some aspects of Christian beliefs with its own brand of spiritualism,[83][84] it is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, primarily of the "Holy Spirit" which the Acholi believe can represent itself in many manifestations.[85][85][86][87] LRA fighters wear rosary beads and recite passages from the Bible before battle.[83][88][89][90][91][92]
Christian Identity and anti-abortion killings[edit]
See also: Anti-abortion violence in the United States and Christian terrorism in the United States
After 1981, members of groups such as the Army of God began attacking abortion clinics and doctors across the United States.[93][94][95] A number of terrorist attacks were attributed by Bruce Hoffman to individuals and groups with ties to the Christian Identity and Christian Patriot movements, including the Lambs of Christ.[96] A group called Concerned Christians was deported from Israel on suspicion of planning to attack holy sites in Jerusalem at the end of 1999; they believed that their deaths would "lead them to heaven".[97][98]
The motive for anti-abortionist Scott Roeder murdering Wichita doctor George Tiller on 31 May 2009 was the belief that abortion is not only immoral, but also a form of murder under "God's law", irrespective of "man's law" in any country, and that this belief went "hand in hand" with his religious beliefs.[99][100] The group supporting Roeder proclaimed that any force is "legitimate to protect the life of an unborn child", and called on all Christians to "rise up" and "take action" against threats to Christianity and to unborn life.[101] Eric Robert Rudolph carried out the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in 1996, as well as subsequent attacks on an abortion clinic and on a lesbian nightclub. Michael Barkun, a professor at Syracuse University, considers Rudolph to likely fit the definition of a Christian terrorist. James A. Aho, a professor at Idaho State University, argues that religious considerations inspired Rudolph only in part.[102]
Terrorism scholar Aref M. Al-Khattar has listed The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord, Defensive Action, The Freemen Community, and some "Christian militia" as groups that "can be placed under the category of far-right-wing terrorism" that "has a religious (Christian) component".[103]
According to terrorism expert David C. Rapoport, a "religious wave", or cycle, of terrorism dates from approximately 1979 to the present.[20]
Anti-Muslim violence in Central Africa[edit]
Further information: Central African Republic conflict under the Djotodia administration
After the predominantly Muslim Seleka militia took control of the Central African Republic under President Michel Djotodia in 2013, a period of lawlessness and sectarian violence continued. Following warnings of "genocide" by the UN and a controversial intervention force by MISCA, Djotodia resigned. Despite neutral Catherine Samba-Panza being made president, the Anti-balaka Christian militants continued sectarian violence, including reported targeted killings, against Muslim civilians.[21]
Anti-Hindu violence in Northeast India[edit]
Christian violence arose in various contiguous states in North-East India.[22] In 2000, John Joseph, a member of India's National Minority Commission, described Christian militancy as rampant in the northeastern states.[22]
Tripura[edit]
Further information: Tripura rebellion
The National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), is a rebel group that seeks the secession of Tripura, North-East India, and is a proscribed terrorist organization in India. Group activities have been described as Christian terrorists engaging in terrorist violence motivated by their Christian beliefs.[23][24] The NLFT includes in its aims the forced conversion of all tribespeople in Tripura to Christianity.[25] The NLFT says that it is fighting not only for the removal of Bengali immigrants from the tribal areas, "but also for the tribal areas of the state to become overtly Christian", and "has warned members of the tribal community that they may be attacked if they do not accept its Christian agenda".[26] The NLFT is listed as a terrorist organization in the Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2002.[27] The state government contends that the Baptist Church of Tripura supplies arms and gives financial support to the NLFT.[28][29][30] Reports from the state government and Indian media describe activities such as the acquisition by the NLFT of explosives through the Noapara Baptist Church in Tripura,[30] and threats of killing Hindus celebrating religious festivals.[31] Over 20 Hindus in Tripura were reported to have been killed by the NLFT from 1999 to 2001 for resisting forced conversion to Christianity.[32] According to Hindus in the area, there have also been forced conversions of tribal villagers to Christianity by armed NLFT militants.[32] These forcible conversions, sometimes including the use of "rape as a means of intimidation", have also been noted by academics outside of India.[33] In 2000, the NLFT broke into a temple and gunned down a popular Hindu preacher popularly known as Shanti Kali.[25]
Odisha[edit]
See also: Religious violence in Odisha
In 2007 a tribal spiritual Hindu monk, Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati, accused Radhakant Nayak, chief of a local chapter of World Vision, and a former Rajya Sabha member from Odisha in the Indian National Congress party, of plotting to assassinate him.[34] The Swami also said that World Vision was covertly pumping money into India for religious conversion during the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, and criticized the activities of Christian missionaries as going against tribal beliefs.[35] In 2008, he was gunned down along with four disciples on the Hindu festive day of Krishna Janmashtami by a group of 3040 armed men.[36] Later, the Maoist terrorist leader Sabyasachi Panda admitted responsibility for the assassination, saying that the Maoists had intervened in the religious dispute on behalf of Christians and Dalits.[37][38] The non-governmental organization Justice on Trial disputed that there had been Maoist involvement, and quoted the Swami as claiming that Christian missionaries had earlier attacked him eight times.[39][40]
Nagaland[edit]
Main article: National Socialist Council of Nagaland
Nagaland is a Christian majority state in India. Many terrorist incidents have been documented there as a result of an insurgency against the government. This insurgency was originally led by the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN), who has indulged in terrorist activities varying from kidnapping, illegal drug trafficking, extortion, etc.[41] The group has committed religious violence, as a part of NSCN's described mission of forcibly converting the animist Naga to Christianity, which has been described by B. B. Kumar as Christian terrorism.[24] Other goals include the formation of a greater Nagaland. There are occasional reports of the NSCN using force to convert locals of neighboring states to Christianity.[42]
Manipur[edit]
The National Socialist Council of Nagaland, Issac-Muivah faction (slogan: "Nagaland for Christ"
Sabra and Shatila massacre[edit]
Maronite Christian militias perpetrated the Karantina and Tel al-Zaatar massacres of Palestinians and Lebanese Muslims during Lebanon's 19751990 civil war. The 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, which targeted unarmed Palestinian refugees for rape and murder, was considered to be genocide by the United Nations General Assembly.[44] A British photographer present during the incident said that "People who committed the acts of murder that I saw that day were wearing [crucifixes] and were calling themselves Christians."[45] After the end of the civil war, Christian militias refused to disband, concentrating in the Israeli-occupied south of the country, where they terrorized Muslim and Druze villages and forcefully recruited men and boys from those communities into their groups.[46]
Northern Irish and Irish paramilitary groups[edit]
Terrorist acts, with various motives, were committed by loyalists and republicans during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Although most loyalists were Protestant and most republicans were Catholic, it is widely seen as an ethno-nationalist conflict that was not religious in nature.[47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60] Experts who subscribe to this view, including Philip Purpura, Richard Jenkins, and John Hickey, note the importance of religious motivations in what Purpura calls an "overlap" between religious terrorism and national or ethnic terrorism.[61][62][63] However, professor Mark Juergensmeyer argues that some terrorist acts were religious terrorism or justified by religion.[64]:1920 Professors Jonathan Matusitz, a critic of religions, and Ayla Hammond Schbley, an expert on counterterrorism, have written about the Provisional IRA as being Christian terrorists,[65][66] a characterization that is at odds with multiple other analysts.[48][49][56][57][67][68][69]
Sociology professor Steve Bruce has written that most loyalist paramilitaries and politicians are fundamentally different from Islamic organizations such as Hezbollah, in that they regard religion and politics as separate spheres and do not advocate killing on the basis of perceived heresy. He did, however, characterize three small loyalist splinter groups the Orange Volunteers, the Loyalist Volunteer Force, and the Red Hand Defenders as terrorist groups that were motivated by what he called "Christian imagery" preached by Protestant evangelicals.[70] The leader of the Orange Volunteers, pastor Clifford Peeples, defended their attacks on Catholic churches on the basis that they were "bastions of the Antichrist".[71][72]
Utøya Island killings[edit]
Main article: 2011 Norway attacks
In July 2011, Anders Behring Breivik was arrested and charged with terrorism after a car bombing in Oslo and a mass shooting on Utøya island that killed 77 people. Hours prior to the events, Breivik released a 1,500-page manifesto detailing his beliefs that immigrants were undermining Norway's traditional Christian values, and identifying himself as a "Christian crusader" while describing himself as not very religious.[73][74] Although initial news reports described him as a Christian fundamentalist,[75][76] subsequent analyses of his motivations have noted that he did not only display Christian terrorist inclinations, but also had non-religious, right-wing beliefs.[77][78] Mark Juergensmeyer and John Mark Reynolds have stated that the events were Christian terrorism,[79][80] whereas Brad Hirschfield has rejected the Christian terrorist label.[81]
Lord's Resistance Army[edit]
The Lord's Resistance Army, a cult and guerrilla army, was engaged in an armed rebellion against the Ugandan government in 2005. It has been accused of using child soldiers and of committing numerous crimes against humanity; including massacres, abductions, mutilation, torture, rape, and using forced child labourers as soldiers, porters, and sex slaves.[82] A quasi-religious movement that mixes some aspects of Christian beliefs with its own brand of spiritualism,[83][84] it is led by Joseph Kony, who proclaims himself the spokesperson of God and a spirit medium, primarily of the "Holy Spirit" which the Acholi believe can represent itself in many manifestations.[85][85][86][87] LRA fighters wear rosary beads and recite passages from the Bible before battle.[83][88][89][90][91][92]
Christian Identity and anti-abortion killings[edit]
See also: Anti-abortion violence in the United States and Christian terrorism in the United States
After 1981, members of groups such as the Army of God began attacking abortion clinics and doctors across the United States.[93][94][95] A number of terrorist attacks were attributed by Bruce Hoffman to individuals and groups with ties to the Christian Identity and Christian Patriot movements, including the Lambs of Christ.[96] A group called Concerned Christians was deported from Israel on suspicion of planning to attack holy sites in Jerusalem at the end of 1999; they believed that their deaths would "lead them to heaven".[97][98]
The motive for anti-abortionist Scott Roeder murdering Wichita doctor George Tiller on 31 May 2009 was the belief that abortion is not only immoral, but also a form of murder under "God's law", irrespective of "man's law" in any country, and that this belief went "hand in hand" with his religious beliefs.[99][100] The group supporting Roeder proclaimed that any force is "legitimate to protect the life of an unborn child", and called on all Christians to "rise up" and "take action" against threats to Christianity and to unborn life.[101] Eric Robert Rudolph carried out the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in 1996, as well as subsequent attacks on an abortion clinic and on a lesbian nightclub. Michael Barkun, a professor at Syracuse University, considers Rudolph to likely fit the definition of a Christian terrorist. James A. Aho, a professor at Idaho State University, argues that religious considerations inspired Rudolph only in part.[102]
Terrorism scholar Aref M. Al-Khattar has listed The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord, Defensive Action, The Freemen Community, and some "Christian militia" as groups that "can be placed under the category of far-right-wing terrorism" that "has a religious (Christian) component".[103]
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/10-worst-terror-attacks-extreme-christians-and-far-right-white-men
10 of the Worst Terror Attacks by Extreme Christians and Far-Right White Men
Wisconsin Sikh Temple massacre, Aug. 5, 2012. The virulent, neocon-fueled Islamophobia that has plagued post-9/11 America has not only posed a threat to Muslims, it has had deadly consequences for people of other faiths, including Sikhs. Sikhs are not Muslims; the traditional Sikh attire, including their turbans, is different from traditional Sunni, Shiite or Sufi attire. But to a racist, a bearded Sikh looks like a Muslim. Only four days after 9/11, Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh immigrant from India who owned a gas station in Mesa, Arizona, was murdered by Frank Silva Roque, a racist who obviously mistook him for a Muslim.
But Sodhis murder was not the last example of anti-Sikh violence in post-9/11 America. On Aug. 5, 2012, white supremacist Wade Michael Page used a semiautomatic weapon to murder six people during an attack on a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Pages connection to the white supremacist movement was well-documented: he had been a member of the neo-Nazi rock bands End Empathy and Definite Hate. Attorney General Eric Holder described the attack as an act of terrorism, an act of hatred. It was good to see the nations top cop acknowledge that terrorist acts can, in fact, involve white males murdering people of color.
2. The murder of Dr. George Tiller, May 31, 2009. Imagine that a physician had been the victim of an attempted assassination by an Islamic jihadist in 1993, and received numerous death threats from al-Qaeda after that, before being murdered by an al-Qaeda member. Neocons, Fox News and the Christian Right would have had a field day. A physician was the victim of a terrorist killing that day, but neither the terrorist nor the people who inflamed the terrorist were Muslims. Dr. George Tiller, who was shot and killed by anti-abortion terrorist Scott Roeder on May 31, 2009, was a victim of Christian Right terrorism, not al-Qaeda....(MUCH more at link)
Wisconsin Sikh Temple massacre, Aug. 5, 2012. The virulent, neocon-fueled Islamophobia that has plagued post-9/11 America has not only posed a threat to Muslims, it has had deadly consequences for people of other faiths, including Sikhs. Sikhs are not Muslims; the traditional Sikh attire, including their turbans, is different from traditional Sunni, Shiite or Sufi attire. But to a racist, a bearded Sikh looks like a Muslim. Only four days after 9/11, Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh immigrant from India who owned a gas station in Mesa, Arizona, was murdered by Frank Silva Roque, a racist who obviously mistook him for a Muslim.
But Sodhis murder was not the last example of anti-Sikh violence in post-9/11 America. On Aug. 5, 2012, white supremacist Wade Michael Page used a semiautomatic weapon to murder six people during an attack on a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Pages connection to the white supremacist movement was well-documented: he had been a member of the neo-Nazi rock bands End Empathy and Definite Hate. Attorney General Eric Holder described the attack as an act of terrorism, an act of hatred. It was good to see the nations top cop acknowledge that terrorist acts can, in fact, involve white males murdering people of color.
2. The murder of Dr. George Tiller, May 31, 2009. Imagine that a physician had been the victim of an attempted assassination by an Islamic jihadist in 1993, and received numerous death threats from al-Qaeda after that, before being murdered by an al-Qaeda member. Neocons, Fox News and the Christian Right would have had a field day. A physician was the victim of a terrorist killing that day, but neither the terrorist nor the people who inflamed the terrorist were Muslims. Dr. George Tiller, who was shot and killed by anti-abortion terrorist Scott Roeder on May 31, 2009, was a victim of Christian Right terrorism, not al-Qaeda....(MUCH more at link)
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Satire Does Not Always Involve Humor. The Most Powerful Satire Never Does. [View all]
MineralMan
Jan 2015
OP
Last night I pulled out my copy of the Jerry Falwell Campari ad. It's still disgusting. And I
msanthrope
Jan 2015
#5
So I go to law school, and in my ConLaw class, we read the case. There's no picture.....
msanthrope
Jan 2015
#13
I agree completely. The more we are free to satirize and criticize, the better. For us.
randome
Jan 2015
#11
I'd forgotten all about that film. I have no idea if any conclusions were reached.
randome
Jan 2015
#110
"Or is there some humor in suggesting people eat the children of the poor that I don't get?"
F4lconF16
Jan 2015
#55
WHO is "BLAMING" Charlie Hebdo for the violence that took place? Who? I'd like to know.
MADem
Jan 2015
#10
Well, I mean, really--duh. They didn't publish that stuff to have people go "Ho hum."
MADem
Jan 2015
#29
I see you're the type of poster that snarks "classy" when someone tells you the truth
MADem
Jan 2015
#212
My point is that no one here is saying that anyone is "entitled to respond by killing the
MADem
Jan 2015
#33
Again--since you aren't taking the point, you want to censor a single DUer for stating
MADem
Jan 2015
#154
No, I don't want to censor him. I want him to fucking know better than to post that shit.
AtheistCrusader
Jan 2015
#167
You're missing the fact that the "guy on the street" wasn't the target of those guys.
MADem
Jan 2015
#186
Oh, please, yourself. You've done nothing but try to create a false association.
MADem
Jan 2015
#197
In all my time on internet forums, one thing I've found to be true, every time...
AtheistCrusader
Jan 2015
#200
I agree I have a right to wear whatever I want and that's no excuse for raping me
treestar
Jan 2015
#192
We know that men cannot control their impulses. So dress appropriately.
Warren Stupidity
Jan 2015
#194
I wouldin't have a problem with it if they said they were offended, and there was no escalation
AtheistCrusader
Jan 2015
#205
You seem to be confused by the difference in the boundary between speech, and the sound barrier
AtheistCrusader
Jan 2015
#196
No one is saying it. It is always the off the handle accusation when you say the cartoons ARE
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#57
Charlie Hebdo desired a strong response--that's why they published that material.
MADem
Jan 2015
#34
They did ask for a conversation with their stuff. They weren't in the "Art for Art's Sake"
MADem
Jan 2015
#69
Thank you. It is possible to be disgusted by images yet not be a proponent of mass murder as an expr
uppityperson
Jan 2015
#43
It's an opinion. In a telling irony, the publisher himself "predicted" violence.
MADem
Jan 2015
#115
If it's "hard to show with all those self deletes" then it is that--hard to show.
MADem
Jan 2015
#140
The poster below my initial objection offered more links to other posters.
AtheistCrusader
Jan 2015
#143
Why keep hauling out one guy and berating him? There hasn't been a great avalanche
MADem
Jan 2015
#151
I'm sorry-- I don't "know" him like you seem to--even though you keep insisting I do.
MADem
Jan 2015
#156
And just being deliberately offensive doesn't make what you say or draw satire, either.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Jan 2015
#27
Seriously? Google christian religious violence. It is indeed by a tiny minority but not "just 1"
uppityperson
Jan 2015
#49
Northern Ireland, Croatia, Ukraine, domestic terror.....it just does not get the media coverage.
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#91
The conflict in Northrn Ireland involved two communities of different religions but
whathehell
Jan 2015
#170
Rep. Steve King agrees with you, it was politics, but quite a few dead innocents do not and of
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#183
Sure. Saying it was politically-based means Steve & I are buds & I'm good with "dead innocents"
whathehell
Jan 2015
#193
CAR, anti-Balaka militia, christian and animist militiasattacking Muslim Fulani herders
uppityperson
Jan 2015
#126
"Satire" is the wrong word being thrown about. Does it meet the definition, because satire is
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#61
But you could argue everything is topical then, from evolution to the theory of relativity.
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#77
Then "topical" has no meaning....the theory of gravity was once topical, now it is just a topic.
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#86
And no one is implying or saying the victims deserved it, quite the opposite. One can be horrified
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#85
The three clerics in the second comic are saying exactly what you are saying: Charlie goes to far!
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2015
#77
That cartoon is about a specific event. When people kill each other and they are all claiming to be
Bluenorthwest
Jan 2015
#111
I'm surely not the spokesman but I have a degree in Modern European history
riderinthestorm
Jan 2015
#127
Great post! I think what bugs me the most is my sense that satirists should be going
KingCharlemagne
Jan 2015
#108
IMO, satire is most powerful/relevant when it targets ingroups, especially those with real power.
Denzil_DC
Jan 2015
#76
Ok. I'll bite. Modern day evangelical Christians are a circle jerk of hypocrisy
riderinthestorm
Jan 2015
#158
Just as an fyi, I am Irish and no, I would never kill over that stereotype nt
riderinthestorm
Jan 2015
#172
I'm just saying, if you know your husband gets punchy when dinner isn't ready,
DawgHouse
Jan 2015
#157