Here are people, just like Christians, Jews and Scientologists, who believe in stupid fcuking things that cannot be demonstrated. Things for which they have no evidence at all. Why would we accord them rights over and above people who believe other stupid unproven things? If I decided that everyone who criticized the O Reilly's should die, what would happen? That’s right — you’d laugh at me, and quite properly so.
If scientists decided to murder everyone who questioned General Relativity, where would we be? That’s right — we’d be back in the bloody Dark Ages, which is precisely where this insane Muslim obsession with killing your enemies is leading us. Or to be more precise, it’s where these fcuking mullahs are dragging us, since they’ve never left the Dark Ages.
Offence is never given. We do what we do and we wait to see what people make of it.
Offence is taken. Being offended is a deliberate, positive action, and the more willing you are to be offended, the more offence you’ll find in the world.
That’s why we can’t start to define things as being intrinsically offensive in and of themselves. If we start doing that, we’ll hand a veto to every lunatic nutcase, crackpot and extremist on the planet who’s out there waiting to be offended. We can’t let the lunatics decide what’s acceptable, unless we all want to live in an asylum. Unless we want all our standards to be decided by homicidal fcuking lunatics.
And anyway, so what if I disrespect this Prophet guy. Would we tolerate Scientologists issuing threats against everyone who laughed at L Ron Hubbard? Would we be happy if the Moonies murdered people who ridiculed the ludicrous Reverend Moon?
Why would people not ridicule a supposed man who had sex with a nine-year-old and still claimed to be the moral leader of an entire nutcase movement?
Come on. Let’s have some sanity here.