Anonymous ID: bce7cd April 17, 2020, 12:14 a.m. No.8822280   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>2545 >>2550 >>2858

@Jack - The Satanic Verses 1988

Salman Rushdie

Article GOETHE-INSTITUT

MORE FREE SPEECH IS BETTER

“Free speech” is not free. It can have serious, even deadly consequences. When a Californian recently uploaded a primitive YouTube video depicting Mohammed engaging in oral sex, it sparked violence and riots throughout the Muslim world.

 

“Free speech” is not free. It can have serious, even deadly consequences. When a Californian recently uploaded a primitive YouTube video depicting Mohammed engaging in oral sex, it sparked violence and riots throughout the Muslim world. When a Danish newspaper in 2005 published several cartoons lampooning Mohammed, violent protests erupted around the world, leading to an estimated one hundred deaths. And according to Malise Ruthven in his recent post on the NYRblog, “Can Islam Be Criticized?”, at least sixty people are believed to have been killed in the 1988-1989 riots in Pakistan and India prompted by Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, which satirized Mohammed and depicted his wives as prostitutes….

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Anonymous ID: bce7cd April 17, 2020, 3:15 a.m. No.8822850   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>2856

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Yup. One thing I've learned for certain. Put no trust in myself to earn favour from God by striving. Trust God and specifically that the Blood of Jesus is all that you needed. Enjoy the relationship with Him and just Trust Him. What a ride… not a cake walk but the best walk.