In Brief: Conservatives Need to Be Careful How They Condemn the Paris Shooting

[David Morris]

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2015/01/in-brief-conservatives-need-to-be.html

Before you get all smug and superior about how you, a brave Christian
conservative, would never be so savage as to want violence to be done to
satirists, not like those fuckin' Moo-Slims who are just fuckin' animals
who fuck animals or whatever the fuck you think, before you go down that
road, you need to accept what exactly the French magazine *Charlie Hebdo* was
publishing that so enraged a trio of gunmen that they shot and killed
<http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/paris-magazine-attack/charlie-hebdo-shooting-12-killed-muhammad-cartoons-magazine-paris-n281266>
a
dozen people at *Charlie Hebdo*'s office in Paris today.

'Cause, see, this wasn't just Mohammed's face made into a bomb, like that
Danish magazine published a few years ago. Oh, no, no, no. *Charlie Hebdo*
 went all out
<http://gawker.com/what-is-charlie-hebdo-and-why-a-mostly-complete-histo-1677959168>
in
degrading Islam, like *South Park* on meth. Ask yourself how you think some
Christians would react if a newspaper that was available on the streets of
major cities had a cartoon of Jesus Christ - you know him, right? - naked
on all fours with his asshole facing the reader, his balls and dripping
cock dangling. Or Jesus lying nude on the ground with a camera pointed at
his butt while he says, "My ass? And you love it, my ass?" Because, see,
that's how *Charlie Hebdo* portrayed Mohammed.

It's vicious, childish, and funny (in that "Well, they did like Jerry
Lewis" sort of French way). But if you, fine imaginary Christian reader,
are condemning Muslims for a violent reaction to the cartoons, then you are
saying, in essence, that you are totally cool with the aforementioned
images of Christ. And you are saying, "Go ahead, American cartoonists, draw
Jesus's dong and Mary's leaky titties and poor Joseph jacking off in the
corner. It's not a problem."
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