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List:       wikien-l
Subject:    Re: [WikiEN-l] What. The. Fuck??!?
From:       "Steve Bennett" <stevage () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-05-12 15:49:34
Message-ID: f1c3529e0605120849t4d53e54bg7d0cc2b3738c7276 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 5/12/06, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester@gmail.com> wrote:
> Cyde brings up a very very good point. What your religion may perceive
> as "mocking" and "offensive", my religion, or Cyde's, may not. I'm
> sorry but I fail to see how this is different than the Muhammed
> Cartoons: the argument there is "omg it's blasphemous and
> disrespectful to show muhammed" and here it's "omg it's blashphemous
> and disrespectful to make a cross spin around".

It's extremely well known that any depiction of Mohammed is offensive.
I've never heard of anyone specifically referring to cross spinning as
offensive.

There are other differences: I don't believe the cartoons were
originally meant to offend Muslims as the primary goal, and certainly
their republication in places like Wikipedia wasn't. However I imagine
that the whole incident with the Christian userbox was intended to
annoy/offend/irritate its users, ie. Christians.

Steve
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