19 January 2012

The broader principle

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association is continuing with its protest against the image, saying it has wider implications.

Adam Walker, the association's national spokesperson, said the two student groups had worked well together in the past and said the offence was unnecessary.

"The principle is more important than who is being attacked - this time it is Muslims and Christians but in the future it could be atheists themselves."

.... What a fatuous comment. For a start, no, it isn't Muslims and Christians. No Christians complained. And no one was "attacked". Certain Muslims chose to be offended by logging on to an atheist society's Facebook page. That is all. And the idea that atheists would be horrified if they were offended in turn is simply laughable. What does this idiot think? - that a rude cartoon of Richard Dawkins would be met with howls of outrage? [Mick Hartley] Read more