Paris Museum caves to Islamic threats over art.

[Mister Agenda]

Brian following my comment on the other thread about race and religions, this is a perfect example of when we should criticize Muslims regardless of race

Not even black is a race. A dark skin Jamaican is not going to have anything in common with a dark skin Ugandan or a dark skin San Franciscan vs a dark skin Argentinian.

Except relatively recent African ancestry. Regional variation within a species is what race is.

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But many of them do. Think about the muslim policeman who died in the wake of the attack on Charlie Hebdo. Saying "let's kick them all out" is not going to help, and neither are those cartoons.

Yeah, we keep griping about Islam when we should be focused on Islamism: the idea that people who aren't Muslims should have Muslim rules applied to them. There are millions of Muslims who are fine with other people doing their own thing, but we keep catching them in the wide net we throw out whenever people who are Muslims misbehave.

The response to the threat against the art should have been to track down those who made the threat and arrest them: free speech doesn't include freedom to threaten violence.

And though it may be dangerous, the policy towards Islamism should be to never give in. The cartoons are stupid, but a threat of violence should guarantee their display. Threatening violence should always be counterproductive. And if they carry it out, at least the police can be ready for it.