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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] Maybe I've just been called Jesus -- or Jeebus -- often enough that I've gone flash-blind to that sort of "insult", but it seems to my Psych 101 learnin' to be a very insecure response on the part of Iran/Muslims. I mean... it's almost like reading an account of some ghetto kid getting shot over a pair of shoes. They have no real sense of self-worth, so they ascribe so much worth or importance to arbitrary things outside the self that they have to defend something that others who are more secure in themselves would deem silly. I'm proud of being Scottish (among other things), but it doesn't really matter beyond the realm of personal beliefs, so if someone points and laughs at the guy wearing the skirt, I don't feel like I have to kill him in a gory public spectacle to prove myself. What are they protecting? Muhammed won't care! He's been dead for fifteen centuries! If those people offended by these cartoons were truly secure in themselves, they'd see them and feel pity for the poor Europeans who obviously don't understand Islam and its Prophet, and so fear it and feel the need to denegrate it. And then go on with their lives of quiet piety. Wouldn't THAT be a fucking wonderful change of pace for the planet? --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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