(May 30, 2015 at 12:41 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Not quite. The way Muslims react to blasphemy is mostly what provokes the blaspheming. When someone forbids an expression of speech, going so far as to threaten me for saying it or doing it, it make me want to say it or do it more. That's how it works with a lot of others as well. If Muslims want people to stop blaspheming against their religion, they need to stop throwing violent temper tantrums every time it happens.
Ever notice how the most vocal militant atheist groups crop up in the most evangelical of communities? The more religious people act like swaggering bullies, the more they draw backlash against them. Equal and opposite reaction. It's a Newtonian principle at work.
It's not rocket science and Newton's got nothing to do with it. That's terminology wanking at work again.
It's simple bigotry and not religious criticism. The guy doesn't even try to hide the fact that he wants to make a blanket statement of hate against a certain group by his choice of T shirts. And he did that in Arizona. How gutsy is that? I guess you couldn't find any more dangerous place to make that kind of statement.


