How British!

I received the following email from my old friend, Rafe Champion, who is mostly to be found blogging at Catallaxy these days.

“In case anyone is wondering about the cartoons that detonated the current agitation, here is a copy from a British libertarian/anarchist site. They were sourced from a Danish site that has been down since 31 Jan. In my view it is generally undesirable and bad manners to lampoon other people’s religions, although I can’t be sure where good humoured satire stops and offensive lampooning starts. However you can tell when it has gone too far and this means that people who produce works of art like the Piss Christ should be subjected to polite but firm criticism from all fair-minded and reasonable people who think that art and civility matter. There is no place for legislation or violence in response to lapses in taste. As Hayek pointed out, in a free society we have to put up with a lot of things that we don’t like.

I must confess to being amused. I think that Rafe must be, like me, the product of a British culture that is now almost dead in Britain itself. What true Muslim who has ever existed would see “polite but firm criticism” as an appropriate response to mockery of their prophet?

Posted by jonjayray on Saturday, February 4, 2006 at 06:11 PM in Oh Tempora, Oh Mores
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Posted by Phil Peterson on February 04, 2006, 06:39 PM | #

Check the Koran comic. I almost died laughing. Absolutely hilarious.

And should someone accuse me of revelling in slander and blasphemy, I should state at the outset that the cartoons in the comic book depict Koranic passages. Which is what makes it all the more hilarious! (chuckle)

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