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philosophy -> RE: would arabs annilite America ? (5/26/2007 3:30:37 PM)
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"There is a highly significant difference between the responses of ignorant individuals, who might decide to kick somebody's ass (or simply hold a personal grudge) for something they say or do by way of protest and direct action by civil authorities because of it."
.....only if the civil authorities treat anyone over-stepping the mark as criminals. Offering personal violence because of someones political views is just as much a crime as offering violence over an ex girl or boy friend.
Furthermore, as Level points out, freedom of speech is found in the Islamic world. Surely if one is take offence at a country's practises to the point that we wage war on them, then there has to be an equivilant reaction to nominally christian countries that go down the same road. Has there been any suggestion that Brazil should be invaded over the death squads that prey on homeless children there? A situation, while not officially sanctioned by the state, that is not condemned by any concrete action by that state and is carried out, in part, by serving police officers.
If the only human rights abuses that warrant international action by the West are those that happen in Islamic states, then it is clear that the human rights abuses per se are not any part of the reason for such military action, merely sophistry designed to justify such acts.
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