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Yes sorry, I didn't realize this happened in England. If that's the case, the rules may be different.

Edit:...yep, I'm dumb...that page SCREAMS England.

Edited, Nov 10th 2006 at 1:30pm PST by Yodabunny

That's the thing. It's ok to make fun of yourself, or your own religion, or one you're somehow affiliated with. It's like Jewish people making jokes about Jewish people. That's fine.

However, making fun of something extemely sensitive for other people, people with which there are already tensions, and which is alien to you, is not really cool. Look, those cartoons were not funny. I saw them, I don't see what is funny about Mohamed with a bomb as a turban. Out of 12, maybe 1 put a smile on my face. All the others were just insulting. Now, had a Muslim drawn it, it might have been accepted as a legitimate criticism from their own ranks. When it's from people on the other side of the world, it's just seen a gratuitous insult, which it was.

Look, white inbreds making jokes about black people is rascist. Black people making jokes about black people is not.

It might not be "fair", but that's the way it is perceived. All while it is [possible that the newspaper who printed those cartoons did this purely for comdy value, we both know it's not the case. They knew exactly what they were doing, and teh consequences it would have. A right-wing paper printed out such cartoons, in such an environment, knows exactly what it is doing.



I'm not convinced this is factually true, as opposed to a media-induced concpetion. Second, I would also like to see the correlation between crime committed and class. I bet you it is a lot higher than the one between crime committed and religion.



No, you're paying taxes so you can have nice hospitals, nice public transports, good schools, etc... That other people use those services is quite normal. That you allow refugee in your country also seems to me to be the decent, humanist, thing to do. That those refugee are allowed to your country's services doesn't strike me as odd either.

And finally, that some of these people get angry when their religion comes under attack, doesn't seem that strange to me either.

Now don't get me wrong, burning flags and embassies is not cool. But if I go to Peckham with a banner saying "Black people are monkeys", not matter how many smiley faces I put on it, I'm gonna get in trouble.

You're saying they should suffer in silence. I think they might as well express their anger, so that people udnerstand that some people are sensitive about certain things. I think we can live without saying their prophet is a terrorist, and it won't be much of a sacrfice, nor a loss to the world of comedy. And in the meantime, they'll be happier and not offended.

Surely, this is the sensible and mature thing to do, no?

Eight percent of the Danish population are immigrants. Twenty-something percent of the prisoners in Denmark are immigrants.

Coincidence?

And no, I didn't pull those numbers from my ***. I read it yesterday in a Danish newspaper called Ekstra Bladet while at work. I even thought about you when I read it, Phoenix. And if that newspaper isn't fancy enough, how about an official memo from Danish Statistics saying that immigrants and descendants commit the most violations of the law (pdf-file).

16.9% of all 20-29-year-old non-western immigrants have been found guilty of at least one violation of the law, only 8.9% Danish 20-29-year-olds have been found guilty of the same.

In 2004, 12% of all Danish criminals were immigrants. And on an index-100 scale, the Danish were at about 95 in violent crimes whereas the non-western immigrants were above 160.

I don't see why we should keep criminal immigrants in our country in the first place. Send them back to wherever the fuck they came from. They obviously don't like it here.

I think that as long as she was able to make herself understood, there should be no issue with her wearing a veil.

You're not implying that they're in clink because racist little fUcks like Mazra make sure immigrants are marginalised, are you?

Are you implying that a penchant for crime isn't suckled right from their mother's brown teat? Because, I'll have you know, that's just racist.