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elfsStunning, hopefully, absolutely no one, at a summit of 57 Islamic Nations in Dakar, legal scholars have drafted a document calling for legal strategies to silence critics of Islam. Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade, apparently unfamiliar with this notion of "freedom of expression," said, "I don't think freedom of expression should mean freedom from blasphemy. There can be no freedom without limits."
Especially bizarre is this editorial which seems to imply that Muslims deserve the same laws protecting them from ridicule and blasphemy that the Jews already have in the United States.
Fine with me. Given that there are none. I mean, how alienated from reality can you be to write: "The [Western] world has moved on to implement Tocqueville's theocracy"? Tocqueville's theocracy‽ Those must be some excellent drugs, dude.
Especially bizarre is this editorial which seems to imply that Muslims deserve the same laws protecting them from ridicule and blasphemy that the Jews already have in the United States.
Fine with me. Given that there are none. I mean, how alienated from reality can you be to write: "The [Western] world has moved on to implement Tocqueville's theocracy"? Tocqueville's theocracy‽ Those must be some excellent drugs, dude.
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Date: 2008-03-18 03:28 pm (UTC)Yes, in much the same way that broadcast television networks in the 80s and 90s used the phrase "very special" to indicate that your usually fun and hip sitcom was going to have an unfunny episode where someone dies, is raped, reveals herself to have been the victim of child abuse, discloses his oncoming Alzheimers, comes out of a closet, or reveals a deep and abiding love for neoconservatism. (Okay, so that last was pretty much every episode of Family Ties.)