Why we need laws against anti-Islam internet posts

[cthulu2016]

Here is a perfect example. Somebody who might be a Buddhist posts a picture on Facebook and a bunch of Buddhist temples get burned down.

I see this as entirely the fault of the Buddhists. Yelling "fire" in a crowded theater isn't like the sound of one hand clapping... it has consequences. If the Buddhists did not allow somebody somewhere in the world who might be a Buddhist to post something or another on Facebook then nobody would be required by the dictates of common sense to burn down a neighborhood of people they don't like.

Hundreds of Muslims in Bangladesh burned at least four Buddhist temples and 15 homes of Buddhists on Sunday after complaining that a Buddhist man had insulted Islam, police and residents said.Members of the Buddhist minority in the Cox's Bazar area in the southeast of the country said unidentified people were bent on upsetting peaceful relations between Muslims and Buddhists.

Muslims took to the streets in the area late on Saturday to protest against what they said was a photograph posted on Facebook that insulted Islam. The protesters said the picture had been posted by a Buddhist and they marched to Buddhist villages and set fire to temples and houses.

Police said they had deployed extra security forces and banned gatherings in Buddhist-dominated areas.

Read more: http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre88t03i-us-bangladesh-temples/

[Vincardog]

1. Don't we already have laws against arson? Are we to become the thought police of the world? How

great is our power that we are supposed to police every action everywhere in the world?

[cherokeeprogressive]

2. We'd be much better off punishing post-speech violence then imposing pre-speech restraint. n/t

[msongs]

3. why we need laws against religious nut jobs using fear and violence nt

[Aerows]

8. Exactly

We already have laws against any group using fear and violence, and just because they are whatever religion doesn't make them immune to following those laws.

[Hutzpa]

4. Do we have to create laws for everything?

What happens to using our heads?

[Happyhippychick]

5. Absolutely not! Nt

[leftstreet]

6. Your Mother Was A Hamster And Your Father Smelt Of Elderberries! n/t

[Aerows]

7. Maybe if certain Muslims

quit going off of the deep-end every time the smallest criticism was lodged against their religion, people would stop being critical.

If you go off the deep end every time someone criticizes you, you can't really expect people to think you are rational.

[mopinko]

9. this predates the intertubes by about

a few millennia or so. restraining speech will not change it.

[Edweird]

10. The "religion of peace".....

[treestar]

11. we don't need such laws

and we can't have such laws.

though I would avoid "insulting Islam" at the moment. By choice, not because it is against the law.

Or maybe that was just an excuse, and they wanted to attack the Buddhists for other reasons.

[Progressive dog]

12. Wow, apparently if you are violent enough, you should get your own way nt

[B2G]

13. Maybe we should outlaw violent movies

because sometimes mentally ill people react to them.

Maybe we should outlaw alcohol because sometimes people get drunk and drive.


Maybe we should ban large sugary drinks because some people are fat. (Oh wait...)