Cartoonist Lars Vilks Attacked by Muslims at Uppsala University Seminar on Free Speech

I STRONGLY DISAGREE WITH YOUR CONCLUSION!!!!!!!!!!!

The Taliban offered a $100,000 reward for Vilks' death because he drew this.



It's supposed to be Muhammad as a dog. It's very offensive you guys.

Here's some more info on the attack. This sentence really pissed me off:

"Debate continues about whether the cartoons are simple freedom of speech or if they are offensive."

Of course they're offensive you dipshit. Can you not have freedom of speech if what you say offends someone? What would be the point of having a discussion if you can just say the other person's opinion offends you so they have to shut up? Does Europe have weird hate speech laws or something? Did I lose something in translation here? This is retarded. Muslims are retarded. Religion is retarded. I fucking love freedom of speech. What, this is America. Huh? Oh I'm sorry, I thought this was America.

You know, multiculturalism is only good when the cultures living together aren't violent towards one another. I'm sick of hearing about this shit. Usually when a Christian or a Muslim or a Jew who was raised in the west is offended by what someone says about religion, he just glares angrily. At worst, he mouths off and throws insults. But you rarely see violence. Not so, with Muslims and Jews born in the Middle East. This problem is a difference of cultures that can't be reconciled. Europe already grew past this phase during the Reformation and Enlightenment, and the Middle East needs to catch the fuck up and stop pretending their bullshit applies over here. When I hear about fathers murdering their own daughters out of honor killings, or barbers being brutally beaten and gang raped for shaving someone's beard, I just wish we could draw a line somewhere between the West and the Middle East so everyone will keep on their own damn side.

And the saddest thing of all is that there's a younger generation growing up in the Middle East right now that's typically more liberal and just as sick of this bullshit as the rest of us. They have to keep silent or else they'll be killed. Remember all those protestors during the Iranian election wearing the green? That group is made up almost entirely of a younger secular generation who wants to open up better relations with the west. They seem to be going through the same problem we're going through in America with the generational gap -- the older generation is fueling the flames between the West and the Middle East, they're fucking up the entire world, and there isn't shit we can do about it until they do us all a favor and die out.