Free speech for all! :: Reader comments at Daniel Pipes

Submitted by EthanP (United States), Oct 2, 2012 at 18:24

I would only point out that our culture, right or wrong, allows us do defame any religious institution. We may not approve of crosses in urine or Mary in sh-t, but it's "legal". You would grant Islam a special status because they are vicious and brutal? That's not how freedom works. At least not in my America!

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	Title	Commenter	Date	Thread
5	The New York Times and the truth [393 words]	dhimmi no more	Oct 16, 2012 14:30	199859
5	The New York Times and the truth the Muhammad and Khadija scene revisited [273 words]	dhimmi no more	Oct 17, 2012 09:41	199859
	Muslims pick up the bait [57 words]	slayhy	Oct 9, 2012 13:10	199640
11	Slayhy should stop pointing fingers at others [57 words]	Prashant	Oct 10, 2012 00:02	199640
9	Islam and its followers are the real victims of the biggest lie in mankind history [112 words]	dhimmi no more	Oct 16, 2012 14:35	199640
2	Showing videos to stir up riots [75 words]	SJosh	Oct 8, 2012 13:34	199582
5	Islam doesn't fit into the New World Order [154 words]	Wallace Edward Brand	Oct 7, 2012 18:12	199562
1	Indeed it does [80 words]	DEBORAH THE JUDGE	Oct 17, 2012 08:51	199562
6	Post mortem [1090 words]	Bishop Gabrielle Crofts OCC	Oct 7, 2012 08:55	199547
6	Cell will be the tool that will change Islam [113 words]	Prashant	Oct 5, 2012 00:18	199503
	I hope you're right. [32 words]	EthanP	Oct 6, 2012 16:15	199503
5	Forcing religion on others [90 words]	Ciacg	Oct 3, 2012 20:56	199452
3	Samuel Huntington "Clash of Civilizations" [18 words]	Fred R.	Oct 3, 2012 15:22	199435
1	cartoon on subject of your post-mortem article [1 words]	Mark James	Oct 3, 2012 14:17	199434
10	So, if the video mattered... [603 words]	Peter Herz	Oct 3, 2012 05:41	199426
5	Islamic anger [170 words]	April	Oct 3, 2012 21:51	199426
3	reciprocity [38 words]	daniel	Oct 3, 2012 01:07	199422
2	Clash of civilization vs. bigotry [31 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes	Salomon Mizrahi	Oct 2, 2012 22:44	199419
	The comments I have read mostly point in the direction of a book [11 words]	Jon, a Brit in Euroland	Oct 6, 2012 07:55	199419
	The other side is not a monolitic society [30 words]	realityCheck	Oct 7, 2012 00:10	199419
7	Should we have spared the Nazis' feelings as well? [235 words]	lindamarion	Oct 2, 2012 19:06	199408
6	So much for globalism. [156 words]	batya dagan	Oct 2, 2012 18:22	199404
15	Islam at swords point! [43 words]	EthanP	Oct 2, 2012 18:53	199404
4	answer to Ethan. [30 words]	batya dagan	Oct 2, 2012 20:36	199404
7	I Completely Agree [193 words]	Arnold	Oct 2, 2012 21:56	199404
4	The irony of the Arab Spring [142 words]	sara	Oct 3, 2012 16:46	199404
	AT ALL COST [75 words]	batya dagan	Oct 3, 2012 18:00	199404
1	Pushed to the limit [39 words]	EthanP	Oct 3, 2012 20:44	199404
10	Eerily reminiscent of Animal Farm [128 words]	sara	Oct 2, 2012 17:07	199402
6	the effect of Sharia if not its legal implementation [203 words]	Ellyn Taylor	Oct 2, 2012 16:57	199401
	ELIMINATE THE DEPENDENCY. [28 words]	Teresa R. Grace	Oct 3, 2012 16:09	199401
	Free speech or a duty to insult? [98 words]	ann farmer	Oct 2, 2012 16:25	199399
7	Free speech for all! [57 words]	EthanP	Oct 2, 2012 18:24	199399
3	It is not the exercise of free speech that stirs the riots; it is the exercise of Sharia [119 words]	Ellyn Taylor	Oct 2, 2012 19:58	199399
2	Gap in the mindset [123 words]	Mad Max	Oct 2, 2012 22:08	199399
	the freedom of freedom (to EthanP) [17 words]	ann farmer	Oct 3, 2012 17:05	199399
1	free speaker or agent provocateur? (to Mad Max) [73 words]	ann farmer	Oct 3, 2012 17:11	199399
1	the reality of riot [32 words]	ann farmer	Oct 3, 2012 17:16	199399
5	No compromise on free speech [78 words]	EthanP	Oct 3, 2012 18:18	199399
1	Very well said (to EthanP) [18 words]	Prashant	Oct 4, 2012 00:23	199399
2	I promise to only do what's "right." [130 words]	Jeff	Oct 5, 2012 12:31	199399
	7th October 1571 [91 words]	ann farmer	Oct 7, 2012 15:00	199399
	So [102 words]	AEB	Oct 2, 2012 15:30	199397
	Scary effusions [10 words]	Jay Abouaf	Oct 2, 2012 15:16	199395
4	Heating up indeed [177 words]	Darwin Barrett	Oct 2, 2012 13:55	199389
7	Not so much a minority [64 words]	EthanP	Oct 2, 2012 18:34	199389
4	Islamist & Western Morality Fundamentally Different [230 words]	JM Miller	Oct 2, 2012 13:44	199388
4	Not a Saint [62 words]	EthanP	Oct 2, 2012 12:44	199386
7	Thanks but no thanks [196 words]	Prashant	Oct 2, 2012 00:17	199361
	Let's call a spade, a spade. [29 words]	Wallace Edward Brand	Oct 7, 2012 18:45	199361