My mistake; I apologize. I plead an excuse, however: the context of your remarks certainly suggested that they were directed at religious believers.
Thank you. As you know, an apology on the internet is a rare and precious thing.
Granted, my remarks were specifically directed at regious true believers, but I thought it was implicit that I was referring to anyone who thinks they have all the answers.
Btw, I might just organize a demonstration, boycott your products and burn your flag too, and you should be celebrating my right to do so provided I don't throw stones etc. Similarly, you should also be celebrating the right of Muslims to march, boycott and burn flags, provided it all stops before it gets to stone-throwing and, perhaps, censorship.
I do celebrate your right to peacefully demonstrate for or against anything you like (and, has been much noted elsewhere, some Canadian Muslims have been doing just that regarding "those cartoons").
Who says we're powerless to prevent some people from censoring the press in Canada?
I didn't, but I probably should have addressed that. That none of our major papers saw fit to re-print the cartoons is disturbing me more and more, and I am considering seeking them out and putting them on my site on general principles - Christ, I hate to find myself on the same side of an argument as Ezra Levant ...
In any case, any fair reading of the matter shows that the U.S. government is _not_ using this affair to drum up support for its war. Actually, if anything, it is siding with the world's 1 billion Muslims because of the harm that the controversy does to the U.S. cause. That is why the connection you wish to draw between the two matters is so tenuous.
That hasn't been my reading of the Bush regime's response, but I can't cite anything off the top of my head. I'll take your thoughts on that under (serious) consideration.
Re: Ho hum
Thank you. As you know, an apology on the internet is a rare and precious thing.
Granted, my remarks were specifically directed at regious true believers, but I thought it was implicit that I was referring to anyone who thinks they have all the answers.
Btw, I might just organize a demonstration, boycott your products and burn your flag too, and you should be celebrating my right to do so provided I don't throw stones etc. Similarly, you should also be celebrating the right of Muslims to march, boycott and burn flags, provided it all stops before it gets to stone-throwing and, perhaps, censorship.
I do celebrate your right to peacefully demonstrate for or against anything you like (and, has been much noted elsewhere, some Canadian Muslims have been doing just that regarding "those cartoons").
Who says we're powerless to prevent some people from censoring the press in Canada?
I didn't, but I probably should have addressed that. That none of our major papers saw fit to re-print the cartoons is disturbing me more and more, and I am considering seeking them out and putting them on my site on general principles - Christ, I hate to find myself on the same side of an argument as Ezra Levant ...
In any case, any fair reading of the matter shows that the U.S. government is _not_ using this affair to drum up support for its war. Actually, if anything, it is siding with the world's 1 billion Muslims because of the harm that the controversy does to the U.S. cause. That is why the connection you wish to draw between the two matters is so tenuous.
That hasn't been my reading of the Bush regime's response, but I can't cite anything off the top of my head. I'll take your thoughts on that under (serious) consideration.