tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post7242438848331579815..comments2024-03-20T16:30:09.690-05:00Comments on The Fifth Column: Disrespecting IslamUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-12078405022568834832015-05-13T17:02:14.219-05:002015-05-13T17:02:14.219-05:00Ann, we are in complete agreement.Ann, we are in complete agreement.Mike Petrikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14752737150980452470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-66903321902961445702015-05-13T15:17:06.313-05:002015-05-13T15:17:06.313-05:00I agree with free speech rights. I don't think...I agree with free speech rights. I don't think offensive remarks or images are a death penalty offense. Having the legal right to make stupid and offensive statements ridiculing religions does not excuse the insensitivity and hatefulness in doing it. But, you're right in that Catholics do not go around killing people because our religion has been made fun of. If that were the case we would have to target every late night comic and most liberal media outlets. My point is not the reaction of Catholics, but the hypocrisy of the media in picking and choosing which things they think are OK to demean and ridicule and those that are off limits. And, Islam is just one in the long list of things no one can say anything about. Conservatives and Christians are at the top of the hit list for liberals and the main stream media to target and nothing is done about it. It's only when one of their protected groups is offended that they are all up in arms.Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05968810669834802481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-6338547182417957522015-05-13T10:30:36.524-05:002015-05-13T10:30:36.524-05:00But Catholics are not being hypocritical in expres...But Catholics are not being hypocritical in expressing outrage at gratuitous sacrileges aimed at them (such as Crucifix in urine and molestations or the Blessed Sacrament)? In my view, all these sacrileges are and should be perfectly legal, and all are gratuitously wrong and rightly subject to outrage. None justify violence.Mike Petrikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14752737150980452470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5774317.post-85089317176640230192015-05-06T11:54:10.642-05:002015-05-06T11:54:10.642-05:00I would say that they commentators who are upset a...I would say that they commentators who are upset about, (1) Geller's free speech rights are under attack or (2) no one should disrespect the Islam faith, are being hypocritical on another front. They don't mind anyone making fun or disrespecting the Catholic Faith, i.e. calling a Crucifix in a glass of urine art, showing paintings of the BVM with feces on them, or regularly making fun of the Blessed Sacrament, the Pope, or any other part of our Faith. The hypocrisy of the media is rampant on many levels, including this particular issue of the Geller exhibit.Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05968810669834802481noreply@blogger.com