Re: Danish paper apologizes


"Bob Cooper" <rcooper1@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Count 1" <omnipitus2002@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > After viewing the 'cartoons', a very generous term for those doodles, I
have
> > to say I agree an apology was in order.
>
> Sure. The hell with freedom of speech. Capitulating to Muslim thugs is
> always the wisest course. Makes life so much easier.

When one says something which is interpreted as insulting, one offers an
apology, even if the intent wasn't to be insulting.

"Do unto others" is the lesson, I think.


> > We civilized westerners shouldn't be
> > printing material designed to insult any of the world's major religions
in
> > our newspapers.
>
> Absolutely. Even major religions that advocate intolerance, violence,
> subjugation of women, totalitarianism and world conquest. Not
> necessarily in that order.

Thank god we're not newspapers. :-)




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