Furr
Can't get enough of FH
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What you think about this picture row? seems now most newpapers and outlets of europe are republishing the images in support of the dannish paper and also in protest of the current demands from the muslim countries that the goverments should censor them.
In some ways i agree that maybe people's beliefs should be respected but! that does not mean that we should self censor. If we wish to discuss and depict certain subjects then so be it. That the benefit of living in a democratic system with a freedom of speech, although I don't know what the repurcussions will be. Its going to highlight the distinct difference in out libertarian society with the censorship and repression of speech in the Muslim countries, and also since there were demostratiosn in Turkey I believe this shows that their population "at the moment" is not yet ready to intergrate with the European Union.
What i find unbelievable is that we are "generally" tolerant and penalised if we are not so in the west, yet these other counties and the people who have come to live here are not equally tolerant of the society that we live in, and some will resort to violence against content they find incompatible with "their" beliefs.
here is one of the pics that is causing all the problems
In some ways i agree that maybe people's beliefs should be respected but! that does not mean that we should self censor. If we wish to discuss and depict certain subjects then so be it. That the benefit of living in a democratic system with a freedom of speech, although I don't know what the repurcussions will be. Its going to highlight the distinct difference in out libertarian society with the censorship and repression of speech in the Muslim countries, and also since there were demostratiosn in Turkey I believe this shows that their population "at the moment" is not yet ready to intergrate with the European Union.
What i find unbelievable is that we are "generally" tolerant and penalised if we are not so in the west, yet these other counties and the people who have come to live here are not equally tolerant of the society that we live in, and some will resort to violence against content they find incompatible with "their" beliefs.
here is one of the pics that is causing all the problems