Saturday, April 08, 2006
HYPOCRISY. WHY YES THE BOSTON GLOBE WILL HAVE SOME OF THAT
This is from an editorial that appeared in one of the nation's "leading" news rags the Boston Globe on February 4th. Excerpt:
FREEDOM OF expression is not the only value at issue in the conflict provoked by a Danish newspaper's publication of cartoons satirizing Islam's founding prophet, Mohammed. The billowing controversy is being swept along by intolerance, ignorance, and parochialism. The refusal of each camp to recognize and respect the otherness of the other brings closer a calamitous clash of cultures pitting Islam against the West.----the otherness of the other. What a load of crap. That sounds like something I would have heard from my philosophy professor back in the day at the U of I. Of course, he drank lemonade and vodka from a thermos during class too so at least he had a reason. I hate to break the "news" to the news organization but the West and Islam are already calamitously clashing. HELLO! Earth to Lefties!
the drivel continues:
The original purpose of printing the cartoons -- some of which maliciously and stupidly identified Mohammed with terrorists, who could want nothing better than to be associated with the prophet -- was plainly to be provocative. Islam prohibits the depiction of Mohammed in any way, whether the image is benign or not.
---maliciously and stupidly identify Mohammed with the terrorists? I do believe that the terrorists do identify Mohammed as their sole moving force behind their bloody attacks. They have labeled themselves in this manner not the other way around. The last comment about the images is simply a LIE!
coup de grace!:
As with the current consensus against publishing racist or violence-inciting material, newspapers ought to refrain from publishing offensive caricatures of Mohammed in the name of the ultimate Enlightenment value: tolerance.
---the Enlightenment was about understanding and facts. Choosing tolerance as an end which entails you ignoring the facts surrounding an issue is not enlightening at all. It's stupid and quite dangerous.
So, that is the Boston papers horribly flawed reasoning for not printing the news. In the name of "tolerance", many have already surrendered one of our freedoms, freedom of the press, without even putting up a fight. What will be taken from us next, or more correctly, which freedom will we simply hand over next. We must get along right? At any cost? WRONG!
FREEDOM OF expression is not the only value at issue in the conflict provoked by a Danish newspaper's publication of cartoons satirizing Islam's founding prophet, Mohammed. The billowing controversy is being swept along by intolerance, ignorance, and parochialism. The refusal of each camp to recognize and respect the otherness of the other brings closer a calamitous clash of cultures pitting Islam against the West.----the otherness of the other. What a load of crap. That sounds like something I would have heard from my philosophy professor back in the day at the U of I. Of course, he drank lemonade and vodka from a thermos during class too so at least he had a reason. I hate to break the "news" to the news organization but the West and Islam are already calamitously clashing. HELLO! Earth to Lefties!
the drivel continues:
The original purpose of printing the cartoons -- some of which maliciously and stupidly identified Mohammed with terrorists, who could want nothing better than to be associated with the prophet -- was plainly to be provocative. Islam prohibits the depiction of Mohammed in any way, whether the image is benign or not.
---maliciously and stupidly identify Mohammed with the terrorists? I do believe that the terrorists do identify Mohammed as their sole moving force behind their bloody attacks. They have labeled themselves in this manner not the other way around. The last comment about the images is simply a LIE!
coup de grace!:
As with the current consensus against publishing racist or violence-inciting material, newspapers ought to refrain from publishing offensive caricatures of Mohammed in the name of the ultimate Enlightenment value: tolerance.
---the Enlightenment was about understanding and facts. Choosing tolerance as an end which entails you ignoring the facts surrounding an issue is not enlightening at all. It's stupid and quite dangerous.
So, that is the Boston papers horribly flawed reasoning for not printing the news. In the name of "tolerance", many have already surrendered one of our freedoms, freedom of the press, without even putting up a fight. What will be taken from us next, or more correctly, which freedom will we simply hand over next. We must get along right? At any cost? WRONG!
