Amazing isn’t it.  I watched local network news last night for the hell of it and then onto FoxNews/MSNBC cable/satellite and it was just a different twist on the same thing.  Although the cable/satellite channels are lying the blame at the feet of the mainstream network media and the papers, they are still adding to it in their own way by giving the radicals of BOTH SIDES their
20 seconds of fame to spout their BS of hate at the other side as well.  I don’t know what people expect.. most of the rioting Muslims regardless of what country they are in are the undereducated and illiterates that have been kept that way for a reason.  Just like when they riot here over ball teams “winning”.. stuff not coming fast enough after the hurricanes etc.  And I don’t mean people getting food and water from the grocery store to survive, or baby food, diapers etc.. I’m talking about the dimbulbs that
had a cart full of expensive Nike Shoes, clothes,
TV and other electronic equipment.  Any disaster to profit from…

We really are pathetic as the top of the food chain sometimes and deserve to be eaten by something bigger, furry and with more common sense.

Oh… glad to see the site back up and working.

All the rhetoric is now about the “religion� while I personally think it is more of a “cultural� problem between the two groups. (Christian and Muslim)

I agree. Purely in terms of substance, I see little difference between the basic tenets of both religions. Much like what is going on in this country between fundie Christians and the “forces of secularism,” all of this has less to do with religion and more to do with basic cultural/lifestyle differences.

If you want to believe the newspaper was trying to piss off Muslims, fine, but I think they were making a very important point.  Which is: Look!  We can’t even get an illustrator for a children’s book about Muhammed because people are afraid!  This is BAD!

So they printed the cartoons to make people aware that the long-run goal of Islamic culture is universal Islamist rule.  They have made it very clear that they’ll brook no criticism even in other countries.  We can have freedom of speech as long as we don’t offend them. 

That’s just not going to fly.

First of all, I certainly don’t agree with insulting people just to see what sort of a rise you can get out of them.

This was tongue in cheek right Les???  Surely the archives of SEB are replete with examples of this. LOL

Ooops.  Sorry Les, it was moses who authored the entry. 

Edit:  Insert moses for Les above.