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Originally Posted by fleury
I'm all for freedom, but having a contest like this is simply being a ignorant jerk. Religion means a lot to some people. There's no need to needlessly insult something some people feel so passionate about. Standing behind freedom of speech in this case is a cop out. Live your life the way you want but no need to go out of your way to annoy people.
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What about the need to go out of your way to KILL people purely because they are making fun of something you agree with?
I think that it's odd and stupid to hold a cartoon contest PURELY for satirical displays of Mohammed. If this was just a satirical cartoon contest in general, this probably wouldn't have happened.
But you should never have to fear for your life for expressing yourself, especially if you express yourself in a way that literally harms no one, which I think is kind of the point of the contest overall. If you stop, they win their ideological battle. But if you continue, you put yourself at risk (and possibly others). Some of these cartoonists could look at this as their way of fighting this "war".
In the same breath, I hate the tweet of the Dutch keynote speaker where he thanks God for the heroes that saved them. How about thank the people? You know, the living creatures that actually affected things.