Comments on: Thoughts on Charlie Hebdo, and the absolute necessity of offending people http://thetarpit.org/2015/charlie-hebdo "Now I feel like I know less about what that blog is about than I did before." Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:12:42 +0000 http://thetarpit.org hourly 1 By: spyked http://thetarpit.org/2015/charlie-hebdo#comment-5233 spyked Sun, 04 Aug 2024 21:18:33 +0000 http://wp.thetarpit.org/2015/charlie-hebdo#comment-5233 Meh, this is naïve nonsense. In hindsight, nobody cares what some stupid journos said about the Islamic prophet a decade ago. Sure, they had the freedom to say it and maybe someone wanted to make a point about their supposed "freedom of speech", just like someones tried to make multiple points about, say, the Rushdie guy. Having said this, I can't begin to understand what Muslims think; but I don't think they as a group are particularly upset at the journos in question. They are however quite upset at Bush and Obama's policy in the Middle East; just as they're quite fucking upset at Bibi's latest attempts to wreak havoc in the same. Just let's not confuse the symptoms and causes <a href="http://thetarpit.org/2024/a-week-in-the-heart-of-italy?b=The%20overall&e=nowadays.#select" rel="nofollow">of WWIII</a>. Meh, this is naïve nonsense. In hindsight, nobody cares what some stupid journos said about the Islamic prophet a decade ago. Sure, they had the freedom to say it and maybe someone wanted to make a point about their supposed "freedom of speech", just like someones tried to make multiple points about, say, the Rushdie guy.

Having said this, I can't begin to understand what Muslims think; but I don't think they as a group are particularly upset at the journos in question. They are however quite upset at Bush and Obama's policy in the Middle East; just as they're quite fucking upset at Bibi's latest attempts to wreak havoc in the same.

Just let's not confuse the symptoms and causes of WWIII.

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