Re: islamists suppressing free speech by other means
- From: hwake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 31 Mar 2006 09:59:28 -0800
the auroran sunset wrote:
one american magazine - 'free inquiry' - built up the nerve to print one of
the danish cartoons (only a somewhat silly covering article appears to be on
their website)...
http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=rjhoffmann_26_3";
It is time for the West to live and embrace the secularism it espouses, not
to hide behind an outworn creed, a pagan pretense of religious magnanimity, a
nutty and defeasible [huh?] belief that religion is benign and thus should be
protected. Expression--instantiated as murder, arson, and riot--proves that
some religious views are toxic and cannot be tolerated. To be blunt, the same
violent religious "expression" expressed by Jews or Christians domestically
would land them in jail, not get them a slot on Oprah or a conversation with
Bill Moyers.
Do we really do Muslims a favor by forgiving the trespasses we have brought
into being through a century and a half of double dealing and political
hypocrisy? Do we really want one rule book for secularized Christians and
Jews (the vast majority), another for noisy, politically hyperactive,
born-again Christians, and a third for noisy and lethal Muslims?"
...so the borders group refused to stock this month's issue of the magazine
on the shelves of their 475 borders and 650 waldenbooks shops.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-
bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/03/29/national/a163611S00.DTL
at borders, it seems they have policy to uphold:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=19845_Borders_Appeases_Radical_I
slam&only
"I was shifting rows of books in our religion section and it happened to be
that all of our Koran books (a section on its own) ended up on the bottom
shelf. The next day I was informed by my General Manager that it is Borders
policy as a whole (not my particular store) that due to complaints in the
past from Muslim customers, we are not allowed to put our copies of the Koran
on any shelf other than the top."
How about stocking porno mags like newsagents do? They traditionally
go on the top shelf. Right next to the Korans.
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