Muslim Hooliganism

For those of you that have been keeping up with the news lately you may have noticed that large groups of Muslims throughout the world have been protesting, killing each other, and burning down embassies over a political cartoon that was printed in a Danish newspaper. What a bunch of ignorant fucking tools. I’m not talking about all Muslims but only the fools who are protesting this cartoon.

First, this entire problem came about when there were a group of pilgrims that were trampled at the Hajj. People in Saudi Arabia that wanted to learn more on the next morning’s newspaper didn’t, they instead learned about a political cartoon from Denmark from months before because the government of Saudi Arabia didn’t want to talk about it. It obviously worked, people stopped talking about how the royal family of Saudi Arabia cannot protect people who make the religious pilgrimage and instead they began talking about how the Europeans and Americans are a bunch of ignorant fucks.

Second, the “looks lovely in a dress” president of the United States has repeatedly made claims that the fundamentalists hate the “West” because they hate freedom. Many people share my view that this is bullshit, it is because of the economic conditions of the dictators of these countries keep and out support of these regimes to keep a sable region to suck the oil dry. This tomfoolery the last few weeks is making some people change their minds. Political cartoons is not only a means of expression in Europe, it is throughout the world. This is including Muslim newspapers who have decided that they would print cartoons about the holocaust. Only .1 % of the population of Denmark is Jewish. There has not been much talked about this after European newspapers offered to publish those cartoons.

Finally, to keep this short, the “West” has embraced the value of freedom of speech. This means we allow the Nazi party and KKK to speak their views. Fundamentalist Christians and Muslims are allowed to spew their poisonous beliefs on the internet and television. This is not a perfect system, but it is something that I believe in and many others do as well. Yes, we may be ignorant because this freedom of speech allowed for the printing of a blasphemous image (though similar images have been printed throughout the world, including several Muslim countries those will be ignored). So label use culturally insensitive. We have a value of free speech here, and demanding that we punish the ones responsible for that free speech, and requesting that we change out laws to not offend Muslims anymore; well that is culturally insensitive too. So in all respects our two groups are even.

What is upsetting though is that European governments are calling for a “voluntary code of conduct” to prevent future problems. Don’t do this. Free speech is out value and it is coming under attack from the outside from people who don’t share this value. Here is an easy analogy, a person who tells me that they are offended by the tattoos that I have doesn’t make me remove them or decide to not get new ones. I shrug, try to understand their view, and then I am almost a 100% going to reject their view. So my opinion free of charge to Europe, ignore it and don’t do anything. If we start calling for “codes of conduct” and offering apologies it is telling them that threats, burning down embassies, and dictator-sponsored rallies can change us. This shouldn’t work, we should just shrug and ignore it.