Phil71 wrote:
I grew up in the 70s watching people like Dave Allen mocking the Cathoilc church like you wouldn't believe.
Catholics tut at it and switch it off. Maybe write a letter of complaint.
Muslims cut people's heads off.
If people in a liberal and enlightened country want to mock religion they should be free to do so without worrying about having extreme violence committed against them.
If people are so brainwashed by religion that they feel compelled to cut someone's head off when they mock their religion they should f**k off to a country where they won't see that sort of thing.
............. but in the real world the situation is this.
Yes the West is more modern to their attitude toward the Catholic faith and religion in general but your Gov't has let in millions of people from countries where religion is still respected.
That's the situation you've been put in, yes we are free to do as we want (that's actually not true anymore, hate speech or offending people is practically a crime) but then with that you must accept that people are free to react to your offense of their religion in whatever way they are going to react.
Right or wrong, if you court ill will, its going to be returned to you.
I completely get where you coming from, the English way is to have a laugh at these things now, but that is not what others are like, rudeness in the Middle East, or Eastern countries sets people off over there.
But we're living no different to America now, where we have a mixed society, no point in saying "go back to where you come from" its not happening, its well beyond that, the world is global now.
The Spanish feel exactly the same way about English people acting like lager louts yet we still live over there in great numbers along the Costa Del sol.