Dr Pepper museum in Waco is top notch imo.

It's not really acceptable to mock people's religion--or at least there are some ways to mock religion that are nearly universally condemned.

And the standard of "they can change" would seem to make it acceptable to mock people who are overweight.

1) It is (there aren't).
2) It is.

I think if you make fun of a fat person walking down the street most people are going to rightly think you're an *******.

Of course it is? Why on earth should religion be free from scrutiny and criticism if someone holds a contrary opinion?

Yes..?

Fat people are being made fun of on a daily basis in commercials, tv, columns you name it. Most of the people criticizing Islam aren't walking around the streets yelling **** at Muslims either so its a no-go either way.

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Who said it should? But a blanket statement that mocking religion is acceptable is just obviously wrong. Host Desecration is unacceptable. Taunting Muslims or Jews walking down the street with bacon is unacceptable.

But you would find it acceptable for them to do so, right?

So what happens once someone has done something that is in your eyes unacceptable ? Lets be clear that these forms of 'taunting' are far from the norm nor what this specific terrorist action was trying to 'fight'.

What is acceptable is different for every single person, thats why there is no direct consequence for most of this 'unacceptable behavior'. Its basically the question 4 lines up.

What happens? They get called *******s or anti-semites or whatever. Just like racists get called racists.

What's really important here is people being polite, not *******s attacking the right to free speech!

Sounds exactly like what a free country should be like. Let me tell you something that is both 'unacceptable' as well as a terrorist act against our society (its illegal fyi). Its ****ing shooting people for exercising that right of free speech. Civil people sue each other, they dont shoot each other.

You are the one insisting that everyone be polite to bigots like Geller.

Oh, thanks for telling me that! Who the **** are you arguing with?

No I'm insisting they don't get shot, and I'm insisting that people don't react to shooting at them with 'well they were impolite! what did you expect"

13ball's reaction to janay rice... you shouldn't have hit ray!

Um sure in theory. But in practice I'd guess 95-99% of people are going to stick with the religion they're born with if it's a serious issue for their family. Most people are just going to live their lives in the path of least resistance. Very few want to alienate their friends, family and everyone they know. My friend got basically ex-communicated by his family just for leaving Utah and the Mormon faith. Even though he thinks they're crazy, it's not like that was a walk in the park for him.

I don't blame someone for growing up Muslim and doing their best to ignore the ugly parts any more than I blame my aunts for growing up Christian and ignoring the ugly parts of the bible.

And a few billion Muslims in the world would beg to differ. Who is the final arbiter of offensiveness?

Someone who apparently thinks that the people who contributed by showing art or giving speeches are all bigots and idiots.
The law/logic.

Yes I would feel the same. You have every right to be a provocative racist *******. You do not have the right to shoot racist *******s.

Besides these two things are in no way equivalent. First Muslims are the followers of a belief system, not a race. You can stop believing in stupid fairy tales at any time, you can't change your race. Second, cartoons about Muhammad are making fun of a historical figure, and a pretty despicable one at that, not a race of people.

Black people have suffered way more then Muslims ever have, and they aren't shooting people for drawing racist cartoons.

It is stupid how we treat muslims as they special little snowflakes that need to be handled with kid gloves. Every religion, belief system, country, ect can be made of.

I don't believe Muhammad was a prophet. If I want to draw pictures of him and you are "offended" so ****ing what? Get over it. Bending over backwards to people who believe in fairy tales is ridiculous. If you are offended that is your problem, not the rest of the world's problem.

Hey they made a decision to eat too much. Totally acceptable.

I dont want to get into this aspect too much but this is the opposite of what public Muslim figures have argued here. They had to say this because some people argued that telling your child life changing lies is a form of child abuse (they are right).

Again, for like the millionth time - who itt is saying anyone has the right to shoot racists? Why is this such a hard concept? I'm not even saying Pam Geller and Co. should be blocked from doing the drawing contest. I'm just saying they're *******s for doing it, and no good can come of it.

In your quest to repaint bigotry as being "impolite," you may want to read my posts itt a bit more carefully.