Pamela Geller's Muhammad cartoon contest: When did standing up to jihadist & terrorism become anti-Muslim?

when we are not allowed to have ANY VIEWS, it is dangerous!

To everyone who is saying on here that what she did was WRONG or INCITING, please remember,

we have a right to say what we want,we have a RIGHT to have our own VIEWS, AND NOT BE KILLED FOR IT!

Right now? Hitler would win in a war, because everyone would be busy trying to see HIS view!

Your question: "Pamela Geller's Muhammad cartoon contest: When did standing up to jihadist & terrorism become anti-Muslim?"

You are playing both sides of conflicting claims, like a typical political hack.

It appears that you believe one side:

"... standing up to jihadist & terrorism become anti-Muslim?"

But it may be that you are attempting to be sarcastic. The reader cannot know. I do not know what you are thinking and neither do other readers. If someone guesses correctly, you may reward them. If not, you may simply ignore them. Or maybe you will never make any comment at all.

Don't you have an opinion? Think it over before you try again. It is common to do what you have done, and that is because of the propensity of human beings to adopt behaviors they observe others doing, but valid knowledge and critical reasoning do not come so easily.

See answer to online question, "Why do we need religion? Behavioral neuroscience and social psychology seem sufficient?" for an explanation of why that is so:

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Your premises:

Standing up to Jihadists and terrorism has become anti-Muslim.

Previous to some date, that was not the case.

Your evidence:

Nothing.

Your conclusion:

Someone at Yahoo! Answers can tell me the date.

Your modus operandi:

Sarcasm, hedging your bets, playing both sides of an issue.

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There is no laugh track on this site or an audience being clued to applaud your attempt.

I regret to inform you that you have not yet achieved intellectual integrity, at least not to the extent that you can state your own views clearly when asking a question here. If you are unsure, here are a few suggested fixes, one of which may work for you. The first is already stated in the form of a pseudo-argument above.

1. "I am a devout Muslim and want to entrap unwary infidels, hunt them down and kill them. How about you?"

2. "I am not a Muslim but I believe anyone who would have a contest to draw a cartoon of Muhammad is evil and is persecuting Muslims. What do you think?"

3. "I am not sure if it is anti-Muslim to dare to challenge Muslim claims. What do you think?"

4. "I believe I am very clever and deserve a late night celebrity interview and comedy show on network television. What do you think?"

5. "I believe that a contest to draw a cartoon of Muhammad in context of Muslim demands is a valuable exercise in freedom of thought and expression. What do you think?"

6. "I hate Muslims. Do you?"

7. "I live in paranoid fear of being murdered by Muslim activists if I say anything positive about people they hate. What should I do?"

Give it a try. Rational inquiry is not a naturally occurring process in human intellectual development. Some people never acquire the skill, others are fortunate to have direction and resources to do so.

It think its important to recognize that its considered insulting to draw a cartoon of Muhammad. The only reason any one of us would do so is deliberately to antagonize and insult... there can be no other reason for it. I consider it equally fanatical to deliberately and maliciously insult another persons religion. How can you have an opinion whatsoever if you havent even studied the religion or the people? Your "opinion" is illegitimate... based in hatred and resentment and bitterness and fear and prejudice. Anyone who knows anything about it and worthy of having an opinion to be heard, would also be intellectual about it... refined... civilized, compassionate, sympathetic. Not all Muslims are fanatics. That is true. Im glad you recognize that much. But you are not attacking fanaticism. You are insulting Islam. You are insulting all Muslims, fanatic or not. How is that even remotely justifiable? Cartooning is not speech, mind you. Neither is graffiti or honking your horn at 3 AM, or wearing short shorts at the mall. Those are not forms of speech. They carry no coherent, cognizant, intelligent message. Its simply a spiteful attack on an entire demographic of people. What if I, a white man, wrote a comic that criticized black peoples love of fried chicken, their laziness, and their need for government handouts? Would I be targeted by the black community as a racist or would it be passed off nonchalant as just some political commentary?

There is an analogy to be drawn to "The Fuehrer's Face" by Spike Jones - a song mocking the leader of Germany. It was extremely insulting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZlFBSRrSR0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Fuehrer's_Face

And it wasn't the only work of the time which was extremely insulting to the German leader and his people.

Why was this done? Why has this not gone down in history as a terrible, insulting, bigoted, racist crime? Because the group against which it was directed was committing atrocities - many more atrocities and much worse than were generally known at the time. Were all German people doing this? No. Not they did not rise up and stop it. They allowed it to continue.

Just today, I heard that ISIS massacred over 300 people whose only crime was to have been born into a peaceful religion - a religion other than the one ISIS belongs to. A crime punishable by death.

Atrocities. Atrocities and more atrocities. These people also destroy millennia old religious art and architecture. Yet I hear no outcry about that. No one pulls up and starts shooting while they demolish these treasures.

Yet, make fun of them by drawing some cartoons and you are a terrible, horrible, evil person.

Making fun of a person's religion and mocking what they hold sacred is not "standing up to terrorism." If atheists held an "anal sex Jesus" contest, Republicans on Fox News would be having a field day describing how atheist liberals are destroying America. Just be honest. this is about sick anti-Arab and anti-Muslim prejudice. That's all.

Eric Sheppard's Flag Challenge : When an exercise in free speech and is protected by law become anti-American? Spot the hypocrisy.

It's called overlap. All Muslims are supposed to be offended by depictions, but Jihadists violently terrorise because of it. To fight back doesn't mean you only offend terrorists. But I think it's insane to be more offended by cartoons than the murder of cartoonists ESPECIALLY if those offended are privileged enough to live the kind of civilised society that worked tirelessly to soften the ruthless grip of religion throughout the centuries.

Muslims and Jews need to come Together to find Common Ground - And Keep Meeting - Peace is a Process not an End.

She wasn't acting in a defensive manner. She wasn't even directly addressing something actively occurring, such as allegations of integration of Muslim culture in school or attempts to implement Islamic law in the US. Instead, she was intentionally promoting hostility and offensiveness. She was, in fact, being anti-Muslim, since not all Muslims are into terrorism and Jihad. Some of those I am close to are Muslim, and they are certainly not terrorists in any sense.

That said, no one should have come trying to shoot up the event. That was an act of terror, or, should I say, attempted terror, as police shot them down rather quickly.

1. "I am a devout Muslim and want to entrap unwary infidels, hunt them down and kill them. How about you?"

2. "I am not a Muslim but I believe anyone who would have a contest to draw a cartoon of Muhammad is evil and is persecuting Muslims. What do you think?"

3. "I am not sure if it is anti-Muslim to dare to challenge Muslim claims. What do you think?"

4. "I believe I am very clever and deserve a late night celebrity interview and comedy show on network television. What do you think?"

5. "I believe that a contest to draw a cartoon of Muhammad in context of Muslim demands is a valuable exercise in freedom of thought and expression. What do you think?"

6. "I hate Muslims. Do you?"

7. "I live in paranoid fear of being murdered by Muslim activists if I say anything positive about people they hate. What should I do?"

Give it a try. Rational inquiry is not a naturally occurring process in human intellectual development. Some people never acquire the skill, others are fortunate to have direction and resources to do so.

Bluntly - as a serious cartoonist with Muslim relatives the contest is not "standing up to jihadist and terroriism" it is GRATUITOUSLY insultinng and inciting muslims of all stripes. I find the hostility against Sufis (such as the group who wanted to open a mosque near ground zero AND who had been part of the communty around there when I worked there in the seventies and eighties so these midwesterners should have stayed home) INEXPLICABLE. The Prophet said that if someone blasphemes one should leave them alone till they come to their senses. Charlie Hebdo was pretty complex. I support them in broad for reasons which blew several of my associates away yesterday. Most people are not aware of the place of satire in their culture and how dangerous it was under the monarchy. I don't support gratuitous insults though and that's what this "contest" was: the act of moral equals to the gunmen killed (no, that is not calling for their death. Just for an end to the delusion they are legitimate).