"thanks new zealand on air if…

Can I just point out, there are hundreds of millions of Muslims in this world, no exaggeration. The "outrage" at this film they've shown on the news here appears to be maybe twenty guys burning a flag here and…

Mark, can you perhaps use the PAS quote tags instead of making your whole extract into a link?

Now that would be a freedom of speech issue. ;)

If you don't see the gendered nature of these sorts of things, you are very lucky.

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/on-the-freedom-to-offend-an-imaginary-god

The freedom to think out loud on certain topics, without fear of being hounded into hiding or killed, has already been lost. And the only forces on earth that can recover it are strong, secular governments that will face down charges of blasphemy with…

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Huh, really?

When two atheists disagree it is definitive proof of the majesty of God.

When two anti-war activists disagree it is proof that appeasement will always fail and we can't lets the terrorists win.

When [feminists] do, it's a…

And don't forget when two men disagree they're public intellectuals. When women do, it's a bitch-slapping cat fight over feminism's zombie corpse! Or something.

"'I would say they were killed in the course of a terrorist attack,' said Matthew Olsen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center,…

"Wolf is not simply incurably heterosexual" – however accurate, I find it rather ironic seeing Greer complaining anyone else is guilty of seeing the world through heterosexist cis-privileged glasses given her oft-repeated and ghastly attacks on transwomen.

[[http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/20/13978780-analysis-manufactured-outrage-behind-middle-east-protests?lite|This paroxysm of protest – and violence – had begun in Cairo. But what, really, began there?

Much of the mainstream media has played it as a spontaneous reaction to a disgusting film clip which denigrated Muslims and happened to be made and promoted in the…

On one hand, no – it’s a sickening act no matter who was targeted. But in the interests of accuracy I think it does make a difference. It was claimed that the skateboarding club was attacked, but this didn’t happen at all.

Ah yes. Forgot about him.

This account hosted at Nei Gaiman's blog makes for disturbing reading.

It’s not just the convicted fraudster “Sam Bacile” who’s toying with political grenades. The real chessmaster, it seems, is Steve Klein, yet another rabid Breivikite who’s under the Southern Poverty Law Centre’s hate-group watch.

And is a convicted fraudster with a history of creating fake identities. Apparently also a pornographer.

Indeed. From what I've read it was made by a tiny community of Coptic extremists tied up with Evangelical extremists like that charming pastor in Florida who thought burning a Koran a good way to build bridges…

But the producer created a fake identity — that of an Israeli Jewish property developer living…

Does…

I don't think Rushdie is the only person who found something farcically surreal — as well as incredibly sinister — about it all. Could you imagine John Paul II (who was technically a head of state as well as a religious…

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/17/world/asia/afghan-children-suicide-blast/index.html…

Very much on display in the Daily Show interview.

On literary grounds, I'm not Rushdie's biggest fan but as a human being who's lived through that horrendous shit with a damn near-miraculous good grace (and even a sense of dry, black humour)? Nothing but the deepest respect.

Quite, and – in tandem with ToplessKateGate – I don't think I'm the only person to note the considerable irony that this meta-trolling is taking place in a nation with not only incredibly strict privacy laws…

Salman Rushdie has provoked the killing of a lot of people.

He was great. It’s a shame he couldn't speak for longer.…

He was great. It’s a shame he couldn't speak for longer.

Just FYI, Dian Wichtel interviewed Rushdie for The Listener this week.…

The contrast between his work and this one....

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-september-18-2012/salman-rushdie

I have no quarrel with the right to publish (although it’s already been pointed out that if the topic had been the Holocaust they’d…

for what can most charitably be described as fraud.

Cultural Learnings of America meets Greyskull? Money should change hands, I’m kind of taken with the crawling:

“SUPPORT WEEKLY BLITZ – THE ONLY ANTI JIHADIST NEWSPAPER CONFRONTING RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM AND PROMOTING INTERFAITH HARMONY – BLITZ FEARS NONE BUT GOD – SUPPORT…

Whatever it is, it's going to take a lot to beat Amanda Palmer's startling dance on the Webstock edition of Media 7 in 2011.

And another rather sad irony, the same day the…

Well, no, not in the case of Benghazi. Benghazi was days away from slaughter at the hands of pro-Gaddafi forces . It was…

Fucking hell, Mark, just take a damn look at where that violence is taking place and who’s getting killed. Hint: It’s not going down in ‘The West’ and this isn’t about smug white liberals sticking it to The Man.

Language Craig ;)

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_against_Islam|

"The existence of Islam has always made…

But people in many countries have taken the film’s continued availability as evidence that the US government wants it to be available.

I've observed many such individuals, subjected to a poor education fraught with nationalist/ religious indoctrination.

They’re from countries where their governments – new or old – wouldn’t tolerate…

Fucking hell, Mark, just take a damn look at where that violence is taking place and who’s getting killed. Hint: It’s not going down in ‘The West’ and this isn't about smug white liberals sticking…

Which are? Yes, it’s looking like in Benghazi the film was a pretext for an al Qaeda-linked group working with former Gaddafi…

For goodness sake, at least 28 people have died in violence attributed to this film, including people protesting about it. An imam in Egypt has declared a fatwa on everyone involved in the film, however unwittingly, and…

Based solely on the brief intro to the youtube segment:

or is our freedom to watch a bad, hateful movie the whole point?

From this angle; Google's corporate responsibility and autonomy vs US Government interference(s).

a film that’s getting…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75F3CSZcCFs

That'd be our world champions. Also quite sexy. Latest here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77KIqb3kaGA