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

[Mark Kohut]

As the Pulitzer Committee final "judges" said in 1973, "Why that's obscene!"

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:28 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 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 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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