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Do we have laws against the murder of christians, or do we have laws against the murder of humans?

Do we have laws against the assault of muslims, or do we have laws against the assault of humans?

Do we have laws against the rape of jews, or do we have laws against the rape of humans?

THERE IS A VERY GOOD REASON WHY SOME EUROPEAN NATIONS HAVE LAWS THAT SPECIFICALLY DEFINE THE SO-CALLED RACE OF THE VICTIM, AND IT HAS ***NOTHING** TO DO WITH SPECIAL PROTECTION FOR A ONCE PERSECUTED GROUP. It has EVERYTHING to do with ensuring that one group has power way beyond that which it deserves according to its numerical size.

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Many of the nations where these cartoons have been published have laws against anti-Semitism and rightly so
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Such laws show that NOTHING was learned from the crimes of Adolf Hitler. It is notable that the US DOES NOT have such laws. Why? Because there, the constitution states that ALL MEN ARE EQUAL, and thus law that protects one 'race' must protect all.

Selective rights, based on 'race' were the defining factor of nazi Germany. It is obscene that many European nations operate under such principles today. So bad is this racism, that France was allowed to deny muslim women an eductaion for daring to follow certain specific tenants of their personal faith.

Today, we see precisely why so many European countries maintained race-specific laws, with the vile European program demonising muslims. Instead of these countries having laws stating that demonising all groups on the basis of 'race' is wrong, the have laws stating that ONLY one group is to be protected.

At any moment in history, there are powerful groups, and there are vunerable groups. Fair laws exist to protect the vunerable.

Laws designed to target or protect SPECIFIC ethnic groups are by definition EVIL, are represent the belief that some humans are superior to others by ethnic definition (the same logic that made human slavery legal).

The article above is clearly designed to continue to muddy the waters, and allow the demonisation of muslims to continue unabated. Anti-jewish propaganda produced by the nazis of the 1930's was NEVER an issue of free speech, because of the intent of such propaganda. Anti-muslim propaganda produced by Blair and his supporters is NEVER an issue of free speech, because of the intent of such propaganda- namely to facility the holocaust of muslims.

"Holocaust of muslims".... I think that's a little melodramatic isn't it? Now I really haten muslims and would like nothing more than to see them gotten rid of, but that isn't the case. In fact, our government has been constantly crawling round these muslim organisations. Are you by any chance a muslim, twilight? It's just that these insane, paranoid ramblings of yours have much in common with what extremist muslims say.

The Russian war on Chechnya is genocide.
The US war on Iraq is genocide.
I take it you are pro-genocide of Islamic peoples. If you think genocide can only be applied to 'others' then you are heading for a great fall.

wikipedia -
"Genocide is defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) article 2 as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: "Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

Any possible background on the cultural editor of Jyllands-Posten (another indy site pointed out correctly that he is a neocon,etc.) might explain a willingness to publish these things but not the original reason for bringing them into existence. A Danish writer wanting an illustrator for a book critical of Islam noted that such was not to be found due to FEAR OF DEATH. People have been murdered in Europe for essentially saying "boo" to this religion. Perhaps if Sweden and other countries would cut off some of the free money to the Arab world the Imams would sit up and take notice. Also I know of, at least, one IMC site which has censored ( ie. deleted) any link to the cartoons.