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Originally Posted by Thor
Not only should they not stop, the rest of the "free press" should not be cowards and show this cover in solidarity with a free press, freedom of speech.
Since the Danish cartoons the worlds "free press" has already self censored itself to an overwhelming degree, and has left a few brave organizations to do it and face the consequences of it.
Sorry but someone's religious beliefs do not trump our rights in a free society to mock religion, not by any stretch of the imagination!
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That second video is absolutely perfect. It is despicable that people are so offended by cartoons, or pictures, or novels, or whatever, that they go on shooting rampages and take hostages and murder innocent people. Despicable. That's why the Charlie Hebdo cartoons should have been re printed everywhere (as Hitchens says in the first video - to show solidarity with the French paper and because it is a news story and we have a right to see what is causing all the fuss), and also because we give in to these people when we do exactly as they say and exactly as they want.
Do not condemn the posting of pictures, condemn the murderous acts of people following the posting of pictures. It isn't their right to take away the lives of innocent people because they are offended.