Your reaction to the Holocaust cartoons

[chrisms]

"We staged this fair to explore the limits of freedom Westerners believe in," Masoud Shojai, head of the country's "Iran Cartoon" association and the fair organizer, said.

I think what they may not understand is that we won't bomb innocent people or have riots or destroy buildings over these cartoons. I take their opinions of the Holocaust silently and add them to my overall judgement of the people who drew them, just as I think most people take any opinionated piece of work and use it to make judgements of the person who created it. No anger, no desire to lash out, just an addition of information about other people in my head. If anything it is a promotion of free speech and how it works very well in Western culture.

How do you react to these cartoons and the people who make and promote them?

 

[blackangst1]

All's fair in love and war...

Hopefully people will be just as outraged at these cartoons as they were about the muslim cartoons awhile ago.

 

[chrisms]

Originally posted by: blackangst1
All's fair in love and war...

Hopefully people will be just as outraged at these cartoons as they were about the muslim cartoons awhile ago.

I don't think we'll see massive riots in New York, Los Angeles, or other American cities resulting in the destruction of Muslim businesses or deaths of innocent civilians.

However we did see massive riots in Pakistan and other Middle Eastern countris resulting in the destruction of Western businesses and the deaths of innocent civilians after the Danish cartoons.

 

[WHAMPOM]

Why are we so stuck on the "JEWISH HOLOCAUST" when so many other people died in the camps with them?

 

[Aisengard]

Proof is in the pudding: Muslims can dish it out, but they sure are pussies when it comes to taking it.

Compare that to the shrugging off these cartoons get. They're cartoons. They suck, they're offensive, but we're not insecure little brats, and we won't stage riots over them.

pwned.

 

[daniel49]

There were holocaust cartoons?
Guess Media forgot to get the story out?
Knowing the source they are probably reprehensable so won't go out of my way to look at them.

 

[alchemize]

See sig.

 

[Theb]

Originally posted by: chrisms
How do you react to these cartoons and the people who make and promote them?

I alternate between sobbing uncontrollably and praying to god through my impotent rage.

Actually I haven't seen them. Can I get a link? All I can find is articles about the planned contest.

 

[BrownTown]

well, in Islam its like a central tennet that you don't have depiction of Muhammed. so thats a little different then saying the holocoust didn't exist. Still, its just stupid to get all up in arms over something so trivial (although the people who publiushed the cartoon shoulda known it was increadibly offensive to musilms)

 

[Jaskalas]

These cartoon say a lot of the cultures that made them.

The West makes fun of religious figures.

The Middle East makes fun of massacres.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: chrisms

Originally posted by: blackangst1
All's fair in love and war...

Hopefully people will be just as outraged at these cartoons as they were about the muslim cartoons awhile ago.

I don't think we'll see massive riots in New York, Los Angeles, or other American cities resulting in the destruction of Muslim businesses or deaths of innocent civilians.

However we did see massive riots in Pakistan and other Middle Eastern countris resulting in the destruction of Western businesses and the deaths of innocent civilians after the Danish cartoons.

Yeah, those one or two thousand Muslims in total who riotted out of a total of over 1 billion really shows how massive it was :roll:

Hardcore Christians have threatened to kill people when feeling their religion was insulted in more than one occasion, and have tore places apart for it too.

Every religion has it's relifreaks. Too bad the US, Israel and Iran currently have some of them in the government.

Pakistan relatively has a lot of Taliban supporters, but the government does not support it and therefor is a friend of the US. Too bad though that the government will not always be in power, and that they do not or cannot get rid of the Taliban followers. So once the current government there loses power you'll have a second Afghanistan, but this time with nukes.

Btw: In several European countries it is forbidden to even question things about the holocaust. People have gone to jail for it. The Irani government claims this was a jab at that.

 

[maddogchen]

I find it amusing. i say tit for tat. lets have another round of muhammed cartoons

 

[Cerb]

First, what cartoons? Where are they? I don't know if it's random or /. stuff or what, but I can find nothing but thumbnails of photos of people looking at them. Until I see them, my reaction is, "why can't these Arab Muslims use the internet like everyone else, and get it to me right now?"

What's interesting is I can't find the Iran cartoons, but I can find cartoons against them, already! The Mohammad cartoons? Easy to find.

The Jews have a handle on this technology thing, y'all!

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: chrisms
I don't think we'll see massive riots in New York, Los Angeles, or other American cities resulting in the destruction of Muslim businesses or deaths of innocent civilians.

However we did see massive riots in Pakistan and other Middle Eastern countris resulting in the destruction of Western businesses and the deaths of innocent civilians after the Danish cartoons.

No you won't see massive riots because, for the most part, we are apathetic. What you will see is us bombing Middle Eastern countries just that much more. We resort to violence too, just not on our home turf.

And I agree with others, you should link the cartoons, because I haven't seen them. If I haven't seen them, I can't riot over them.

 

[IrateLeaf]

Lets be honest with ourselves.
I see no reason as an Israeli Amrican to riot.
Sure what these people are doing and depicting is very lame.
But thats the cul;ture that prevails over in that part of the world.
But all this is doing is showing the world why we Israeli`s must continue to be vigilant even more so in the light of apparent hatred toward Jews in general.
What I find interesting is that nobody in the United States rioted when the world saw pictures of American soldeirs and civilian workers in Iraq being beheaded almost on a weekly basis.
The sad fact is that in the worlds eyes the United States has lost its backbone.
Yet the United States continues to be one of the few countries that accepts my people.
This sleeping giant as the US was so appropriately called before ww2 has gotten fat and lazy it would appear. Being well fed leads to getting tired and once again going to sleep.
Who know what the future holds?
Lets all pray for peace.
Shalom!