[lit-ideas] Re: Link to "Mohammed" cartoons
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 22:23:52 +0000 (GMT)
--- Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
JE> >>I think you miss the point, which concerns
> offence.
>
EY> No, Mr. Lundbech gets it exactly right. Anything
> you do can offend somebody--it's just a question
> of whose offense you want to privilege.
David Savory wrote:
DS>Way to completely miss the point Stan. If you knew
anything about
Islam you'd
>know you don't draw pictures of Muhammad. Period.
P. Lundbech "replied"
>Yeah, and Hindus don't eat cows, because it's
sacrilegious. If
>you knew anything about Hinduism you'd know you don't
eat cows.
Period.
>There'll be an awful lot of taboos in the world if
all religions
>were to have it their way about what we can and
cannot do.
to that alleged reply to David Savory I replied
JE> >>I think you miss the point, which concerns
> offence.
Nothing there about privileging offence.
I leave this thread (I have had quite enough of it, on
another list as well...) with news of another Free
Speech Cause Celebre for you guys:
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1705297,00.html
Judy Evans, Cardiff
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