After a failed attempt on a journalist's life last week in Denmark, 3 major newspapers in the country have decided to re-run the Muhammed bomb turban cartoon that appeared over well over a year ago in a Danish newspaper. At the time, the depiction incited riots among millions of Muslims across international borders. You can read the brief AP article here.
It's about goddamn time! I, as I'm sure many others in this country feel that I have been trapped between two extreme agendas being pushed in this country. On the one hand you have the people that remove the humanity from Muslims entirely, purport them to be the biggest threat freedom has ever faced and advocate bombing or dismembering and killing them in some other way in an effort to preserve "freedom" (nigga, please.)
On the other hand, you have the people that cower in fear of Muslims (these are often the same people as before) but contradictory to the previous idea that we should face them "head on", they seem unwilling to stand up, put their middle finger up and say loudly "You're not going to tell us what we can and can't say and print".
The Danes are doing us a huge favor here America. They are doing what we should have done a long time ago. It's time to get out of this mentality that they can terrorize us all they want and accept that fact then retaliate physically. The damage from terrorism is not counted in bodies or attacks; but rather from the results of those attacks. It is counted in the number of losses in liberty, the number of innocent individuals tortured in the name of freedom, the taxpayer dollars that get shuffled into obscurity in government programs created as a front to "stop terrorism".
The bodies matter, and they should be mourned. But a circle of violence has no beginning and has no end.
That's the funny thing about circles.
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