Does anyone find victim blaming the Texas artists disgusting?

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Anyway, do Islamic apologists realize that ''punching down'' is nonsense? If Islam cannot be criticized where Muslims are a minority, then were do we criticize Islam? The countries where they're the majority?. Because I can't see that working out well.

I find the idea of "punching down" to be entirely misplaced, when we're talking about Islam; lest we forget, there are segments of that culture that feel themselves empowered to kill people who make any form of negative- or even neutral, where it crosses their beliefs- commentary on their religion. You run the risk of them responding with lethal force even when you do something innocuous. If that isn't punching up, I don't know what is.

It'd be like if you were an artist making fun of a dictator, knowing full well that he could have you killed if he ever found out, and all these apologists were coming out of the woodwork asserting that you're punching down when parodying the supreme leader of your country, because he's only one guy. He's in the minority.

Yes, that may be true. But he might still kill you. The direction you punch is not dictated by the numerical strength of the target.