Self-censoring out of fear means self-imposition of shari’a (Islamic law).Self-censoring out of “respect” (actually just a euphemism for fear) means you are submitting to the terrorists’ worldview.The way to overcome them in this instance is to overwhelm them with disrespect and mockery.They can silence one magazine, but they can’t silence the entire Internet.Every blogger, of every political stripe, be it left, right, and everywhere in between, needs to realize that freedom of speech and freedom of the press are the two keystones of your ideology, whatever it may be. You need to make a stand. You need to make these terrorists lose the ideological battle.And the way to do that is to republish the Mohammed cartoons yourselves. Today. Right now.Fill the world with images of Mohammed so that the terrorists realize they can never expunge them all.But where to get the pictures? Easy.The Mohammed Image Archive, which I have hosted at zombietime since the day of the original “Mohammed cartoon crisis” back in May of 2006, has not only a full collection of the original cartoons, but more importantly the largest collection of Mohammed imagery ever assembled in the history of the world.
Wednesday, January 07, 2015
A stand for speech
Free speech must not be silenced. [Link]
1 comment:
Ya know, I'd be scared to do this. Unless everyone's gonna do it, then it IS possible for retribution to occur. I realize, if we live in fear, then they win. However, I would not have been inclined to publish something like this anyway, so, technically, I'm not living in fear, just avoiding unnecessary confrontation. If I thought a mass action like this had any chance of changing the mindset that attacked the French magazine, then maybe. Realistically, all it'll do is make them madder and more inclined to escalate, especially when our "fearless" leadership is intimating that the magazine was wrong for publishing the cartoons. This incident and others like it should galvanize the voting population to replace the current attitude in Washington. If we knew our leaders would have our backs if anything happened, we might be more interested in participating in such an idea.
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