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Originally Posted by Go4Gold
And absolutely a class action suit would go through.
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Not likely.
A lawsuit claiming injury is pretty nebulous. Political satire can go a lot farther than we've seen in these caricatures. One (1) has a bomb in Mohammed's hair . . . . the rest are innocuous. Muslims are objecting to the fact he was drawn at all. Is there a court in the land which is going to set a precedent that no one in Canada can draw a portrait of Mohammed? Get serious.
Citing a hate crime is probably the way to go but then again, as I noted above, Muslims would have a hard time explaining away how it is that there are actually many Mohammed caricatures in existence from their own hand and why it is there is no mention by Mohammed or the Koran that offence should be taken.
Free comment allows that people in all walks of life and political and religious stripes are offended all the time . . . . in our society.
Again, I don't want to be seen as defending a nutbar like Levant, but . . . . . try and touch him on this one and you'll see he's got a teflon suit on today.
Imagine that cartoons drawn about Judaism depicting them as terrorist or what ever and that they were in an uproar, don't tell me that the laywers would not have a field day, and then have a Muslim (Canadian) paper/magazine add fuel to the fire, just need to turn the thing around.
Why imagine? Take your pick.
http://www.radioislam.org/islam/roligt/roligt.htm
http://www.adl.org/css/classics_intl_jew.jpg
http://www.adl.org/911/cartoon.gif
http://www.science.co.il/Arab-Israel...israel-usa.gif
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