Comments on: Hey, At Least They Didn’t Behead the CEO of Hershey’s. http://www.sundriesshack.com/2007/03/31/hey-at-least-they-didnt-behead-the-ceo-of-hersheys/ Delivering the Best of the New Media Since 2004. Tue, 22 May 2012 22:10:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jimmiehttp://www.sundriesshack.com/2007/03/31/hey-at-least-they-didnt-behead-the-ceo-of-hersheys/comment-page-1/#comment-358088 Jimmie Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:44:20 +0000 http://sundriesshack.com/?p=3026#comment-358088 jpe, your recollection is not correct. Folks on the right did not have a problem with their protesting the Mohammed cartoons at all. They had a problem not merely with the violence but also with the demand that such things are beyond the pale and must never be allowed to happen by government edict.The Mohammed cartoon protesters were demanding a government restriction of free speech rights using violence and the threat of more violence to get what they wanted. And in a lot of places in Europe, they got what they wanted.In the case of the German play, the left decided to cherrypick what art they decided to support, just as you do. I wonder if the representation of Mohammed had been the only one on the stage beheaded, if the left would have been quite as sanguine. I suspect not.It's easy to pick on Christians. They don't drag you out of your house and cut off your head when you mock their religions. jpe, your recollection is not correct. Folks on the right did not have a problem with their protesting the Mohammed cartoons at all. They had a problem not merely with the violence but also with the demand that such things are beyond the pale and must never be allowed to happen by government edict.

The Mohammed cartoon protesters were demanding a government restriction of free speech rights using violence and the threat of more violence to get what they wanted. And in a lot of places in Europe, they got what they wanted.

In the case of the German play, the left decided to cherrypick what art they decided to support, just as you do. I wonder if the representation of Mohammed had been the only one on the stage beheaded, if the left would have been quite as sanguine. I suspect not.

It’s easy to pick on Christians. They don’t drag you out of your house and cut off your head when you mock their religions.

]]> By: jpehttp://www.sundriesshack.com/2007/03/31/hey-at-least-they-didnt-behead-the-ceo-of-hersheys/comment-page-1/#comment-357976 jpe Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:45:28 +0000 http://sundriesshack.com/?p=3026#comment-357976 A good point of reference for a comparison of liberal attitudes vis-a-vis representations of Jesus and Mohammed isn't the Danish cartoons (not art, clearly just out to provoke), but the German play in which Mohammed is beheaded. That's legitimate thee-a-ter, and uses iconoclastic imagery. IIRC, the left supported the show. A good point of reference for a comparison of liberal attitudes vis-a-vis representations of Jesus and Mohammed isn’t the Danish cartoons (not art, clearly just out to provoke), but the German play in which Mohammed is beheaded. That’s legitimate thee-a-ter, and uses iconoclastic imagery. IIRC, the left supported the show.

]]> By: jpehttp://www.sundriesshack.com/2007/03/31/hey-at-least-they-didnt-behead-the-ceo-of-hersheys/comment-page-1/#comment-357966 jpe Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:27:07 +0000 http://sundriesshack.com/?p=3026#comment-357966 Righties were upset about the violence of the protests against the Mohammed cartoons, for sure, but they were also upset about the mere fact of the protest, no? Assuming my recollection is correct, I don't see how proponents of that position have any leg to stand on here. Righties were upset about the violence of the protests against the Mohammed cartoons, for sure, but they were also upset about the mere fact of the protest, no? Assuming my recollection is correct, I don’t see how proponents of that position have any leg to stand on here.

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