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I didn't say it was a good thing, just that we're all aware what buttons we're pressing and the consequences of doing so.
We can cut off our noses to spite our faces, or we can go in hard - it's not up to me, is it.
Worth bearing in the mind that a lot of this stems from imperial times, when we'd shift our allegiances with various Muslim warlords on a whim, making many enemies along the way. 'The Great Game' by Peter Hopkirk provides a good background to all of this. It shows that none of this very new, it's just happening on a grander scale now.
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its called freedom of expression - the (radical) muslims are allowed to say what they like about everything but when a publication lampoons them , they threaten with death and then carry out . the offending cartoons were shown in france but not here in uk in the press , i guess we are afraid ,and are therefor losing our freedom . there was some fleeting images from charlie hebdo on bbc last night but if you blinked you missed them . i noticed the independent covered a article on charlie hebdo january 2013 using a image cropped of the front page cartoon . the british media is afraid and thats not a good thing