2006-02-11

Freedom to Ridicule Mohammad, not Holocaust

"How comes that insulting the prophet of Muslims worldwide is justified within the framework of press freedom, but investigating about the fairy tale Holocaust is not?" Ahmadinejad said.

I find this to be a good point. Bans and demands against free speach always bite the advocates in their nether reaches. This of course applies to the muslim nuts. They want to ban mohammad speach, but they also want to violate bans on holocaust speach. However, these muslims have never claimed to promote "freedom", the way the holocaust banners have. I see only one soltion: the people who promote freedom halt all of their demands for speach strictures. This means that Tommy and Nadir will have to refrain from demanding apologies of, and firings for, say, professors who claim that the confederates faught for a "noble cause." And Bill O'Reilly will have to stop demanding the dismissal of Ward Churchill and rewriting of Will and Grace.

Then news media and individuals can speak freely.

Also: I think that the Iranian president is totally correct about the logic of western powers establishing Isreal in Palistine... though I think if muslims had sense of their own they would accept it, and move on to the awesome task of secular, constitutional democracy in the other 97% of the region (all of which also comprise nations founded on destable injustices).

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