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Old 05-04-2011, 12:51 PM   #76
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Breitbart, etc.
Where did Breitbart express hate?
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Old 05-04-2011, 12:55 PM   #77
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Where did Breitbart express hate?
Andrew Breitbart's BigPeace.com (posted earlier):
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Just as Islamist extremists sought to use Ground Zero as a triumphal place to build their mosque (right ), the United States should use the site to display Osama bin Laden’s naked body for all Americans to see. We have a right to view our nation’s tormentor face to face, to make sure he is dead, and to spit on him if we choose.

http://bigpeace.com/jmwaller/2011/05...-qaeda-legacy/
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Old 05-04-2011, 12:59 PM   #78
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Andrew Breitbart's BigPeace.com (posted earlier):

"Just as Islamist extremists sought to use Ground Zero as a triumphal place to build their mosque (right ), the United States should use the site to display Osama bin Laden’s naked body for all Americans to see. We have a right to view our nation’s tormentor face to face, to make sure he is dead, and to spit on him if we choose."

His site, he is accountable.
Why is that hate speech?

Because you disagree with it? Because you say it is so?
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Old 05-04-2011, 01:03 PM   #80
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Anyone remember the story of Esther from the Old Testament?
"The villain of the story is Haman, an arrogant, egotistical advisor to the king. Haman hated Mordecai because Mordecai refused to bow down to Haman, so Haman plotted to destroy the Jewish people. In a speech that is all too familiar to Jews, Haman told the king, "There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your realm. Their laws are different from those of every other people's, and they do not observe the king's laws; therefore it is not befitting the king to tolerate them." (Esther 3:8). The king gave the fate of the Jewish people to Haman, to do as he pleased to them. Haman planned to exterminate all of the Jews."
Sound a little familiar? Kind of like Bin Laden wanting to destroy the "infidel" Westerners because they do not obey the laws of Islam?
"[Ester's cousin] Mordecai, [who had raised her as if she were his daughter], persuaded Esther to speak to the king on behalf of the Jewish people. This was a dangerous thing for Esther to do, because anyone who came into the king's presence without being summoned could be put to death, and she had not been summoned. Esther fasted for three days to prepare herself, then went into the king. He welcomed her. Later, she told him of Haman's plot against her people. The Jewish people were saved, and Haman and his ten sons were hanged on the gallows that had been prepared for Mordecai."
Any guesses what happened next?
"19Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.

20And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,

21To establish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
And every year for thousands of years, Jews have celebrated; not the demise of Haman, but the saving of our People. We are commanded to drink until we can no longer tell the difference between "cursed be Haman" and "blessed be Mordechai", not to create debauchery, but "to dissolve the differences between us and encourage unity." "In addition to good food and lots of alcohol, the meal is characterized by its zany raucous atmosphere - trombones blare, silly string flies, and grown men dance together for hours on end."

If the events of the last 20+ years occurred during biblical times, the stories about which were passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth, to later be inscribed in a book, there is little doubt that it would be told very similarly. Good triumphed over evil. A mighty "King/Nation" took down the enemy to save the People who were the targets of said evil. And the People rejoiced at their salvation.

Thus is human nature. Perhaps because I've been celebrating in such a way for my entire life, based on a very similar story in history, I view the celebratory atmosphere through a different lens than others. I don't find it offensive, I find it cathartic.


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http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday9.htm
http://purim.spike-jamie.com/meal.html
http://judaism.about.com/od/holidays...y-Of-Purim.htm
http://kingjbible.com/esther/7.htm
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/...+9&version=KJV
An interesting perspective, thanks Jill. Though, I'd have preferred to think that we as a society have become more civilised over the past 2-3000 years.
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Old 05-04-2011, 01:03 PM   #81
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Why is that hate speech?

Because you disagree with it? Because you say it is so?
It is speech to incite anti-Islam sentiments in the same manner as Gafney and Geller.

From the bullshit about the Islamic extremists using Ground Zero build a mosque to condoning spitting on the dead body.
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Apparently not - You shit on me for no reason.
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Old 05-04-2011, 01:10 PM   #84
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It is speech to incite anti-Islam sentiments.....

From the bullshit about the Islamic extremists using Ground Zero build a mosque to condoning spitting on the dead body.
Sounds like an opinion to me. He is not saying everyone else should go out and do what he wants to do.

And so since you think other people believe that Islamists who live in that area wanted to build a mosque at ground zero that makes them extremists or that you know what their motivation is as to why they chose such a location? Please explain how you know what their motivation was to place the mosque at such a location?

So he wants to be able to spit on Bin Laden's dead body? Millions around the world would most likely join him. That does not make that action against that one man "hate speech".
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An interesting perspective, thanks Jill. Though, I'd have preferred to think that we as a society have become more civilised over the past 2-3000 years.
Agreed! Great perspective.

Now I want a haman tashan (sp), except the kind my grandma made with prunes...ewwww.
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Old 05-04-2011, 01:14 PM   #87
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An interesting perspective, thanks Jill. Though, I'd have preferred to think that we as a society have become more civilised over the past 2-3000 years.
You're welcome. But methinks you expect too much. It takes millions of years to evolve. Thousands is a mere speck of dust in the desert.

Besides, part of the point of that story is that thousands of years later, millions (maybe billions?) of people the world over are still using the Bible as their moral guide. That being the case, it should be easy to understand why people are still behaving the way we did during Bible times.
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Old 05-04-2011, 01:15 PM   #89
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Old 05-04-2011, 01:16 PM   #90
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Agreed! Great perspective.

Now I want a haman tashan (sp), except the kind my grandma made with prunes...ewwww.
Thank you. And yeah, the poppy seed ones are killah! Mmmm, now I'm hungry, too.
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