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<title>Just What We Need -- Another Religious Flamewar. (Trees And Things)</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/2/13/154810/531</link>
<description>As if to show a roiling debate is worth having twice, Denmark's leading newspapers revisited a religious battleground. </description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:16:54 EST</pubDate>
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<title>skeptic: the varieties of Muslim experience</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/2/13/154810/531#18</link>
<description>Of course it is true that there are many different schools of thought in the Muslim world, as there are in any other large religion (and many small religions as well). &#160;However, I am trying to be relevant to the story under discussion, about the edito</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:24:35 EST</pubDate>
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<title>tomc: Re: Freedom of Religion</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/2/13/154810/531#17</link>
<description>&lt;i>I think it's just that you can't make unflattering pictures of Muhammad.&lt;/i>&lt;p>&#10;And you're not allowed to name your &lt;a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article2957469.ece">teddy bear&lt;/a> Mohammad, &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:52:41 EST</pubDate>
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<title>MC Nally: Re: Freedom of Religion</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/2/13/154810/531#16</link>
<description>&lt;blockquote>And no, Muslims do not allow pictures of Mohammad even if such pictures show him in a favorable light, rather than being satirical... &#160;All such pictures are presumed to be idolatrous in nature, even when the obviously are not.&lt;/blockquote></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:59:41 EST</pubDate>
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<title>skeptic: Re: Freedom of Religion</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/2/13/154810/531#15</link>
<description>Well, theology is always subject to various interpretations, often leading to religious wars, but no, the ten commandments do not prohibit drawing pictures, they merely prohibit worshiping graven images. &#160;You can draw pictures as long as you don't wor</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:17:11 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Lou: Re: Number 3</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/2/13/154810/531#14</link>
<description>&lt;i>But no one should act like they're wrong for being upset.&lt;/i>&lt;p>&#10;Nooo...folks should act like they're wrong for wanting to kill the artists. Perhaps that's the point I so bluntly tried to make. &#160;I'm not pissed that they're pissed...I'm pissed that </description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:50:37 EST</pubDate>
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<title>pO157: Re: Inferiority</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/2/13/154810/531#13</link>
<description>I once got really slammed in Minneapolis. At this really awesome piano bar place with a lot of Polish bric-a-brac, accordian players, stuck up rich people, and some 80 year old woman working as the bouncer/hostess. </description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:40:11 EST</pubDate>
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<title>PenitenziAgite: Re: Freedom of Religion</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/2/13/154810/531#12</link>
<description>&lt;i>Only Islam makes it a crime to draw a picture.&lt;/i>&lt;p>&#10;It's one of the ten commandments. &#160;&lt;p>&#10;A goodly amount of Islamic art depicts Muhammad and the archangel, or just Muhammad. &lt;p>&#10;I think it's just that you can't make unflattering pictures of Muh</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:34:26 EST</pubDate>
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<title>thefadd: Re: Number 3</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/2/13/154810/531#11</link>
<description>Why not just treat people with respect? Sure some muslims have bombed the crap out of some people but it's a rather backwater concept to extend this to even a moderately large minority of muslims. The fact is this is an ignorant hick cartoon. It isn't funn</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:31:52 EST</pubDate>
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<title>MayorBob: Re: Inferiority</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/2/13/154810/531#10</link>
<description>Best movie ever -- sorry, I can't agree. &#160;One of the ten best movies ever -- Oh yah! &#160;If you visited Fargo, you were only visiting a minor piece of the film. &#160;Most of the movie's action took place in Minnesota with Brainerd and Minneapolis p</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:53:09 EST</pubDate>
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<title>skeptic: Freedom of Religion</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/2/13/154810/531#9</link>
<description>Freedom of religion is a difficult concept for many religious people, because they are convinced that their own religion is, naturally, the One and Only True Religion, Accept No Substitutes. &#160;It makes perfect sense to tolerate and indeed, to warmly em</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:48:26 EST</pubDate>
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<title>port1080: Re: Inferiority</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/2/13/154810/531#8</link>
<description>That movie (and Garrison Keillor!) just annoy me...I grew up Lutheran, but Pennsylvania German Lutheran (i.e. "real" Lutheran - Martin Luther wasn't Swedish, damnit!), not Scandinavian Lutheran. &#160;Whenever I read those "&lt;a href="http://stardragon.wordp</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:37:37 EST</pubDate>
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<title>pO157: Re: Inferiority</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/2/13/154810/531#7</link>
<description>Best movie ever. &lt;p>&#10;It is a shame, really, because when I actually went to Fargo it was nowhere near as exciting as in the movie. The whole state is kind of boring. &lt;p>&#10;You know how many states have generic pictures of some angry, 7'9" tall 350lb gorilla </description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:36:49 EST</pubDate>
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<title>port1080: Re: Inferiority</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/2/13/154810/531#6</link>
<description>They get pretty cranky if you make them sit in the front two rows at church. &#160;I wouldn't say outraged, though.</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:33:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>skeptic: Lutheran outrage</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/2/13/154810/531#5</link>
<description>What, you've never seen Lutherans outraged? &#160;Obviously you have never tried selling a Papal indulgence to a Lutheran!</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:32:20 EST</pubDate>
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<title>MayorBob: Re: Inferiority</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/2/13/154810/531#4</link>
<description>&lt;i>"Have you ever seen Lutherans outraged about anything?"&lt;/i>&lt;p>&#10;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116282/">Yer darned tootin'&lt;/a>.</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:30:58 EST</pubDate>
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<title>pO157: Re: Inferiority</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/2/13/154810/531#3</link>
<description>&lt;i> I just don't see a mob of outraged Lutherans stampeding people to death. &lt;/i>&lt;p>&#10;Have you ever seen Lutherans outraged about anything?</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:26:52 EST</pubDate>
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<title>PenitenziAgite: Inferiority</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/2/13/154810/531#2</link>
<description>What an inferiority complex. &#160;What a bunch of whiny babies. &#160;If the cartoons featured Jesus in this way, I don't think that 100+ people would end up dying in a mob. &#160;I just don't see a mob of outraged Lutherans stampeding people to death.&lt;p></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:46:56 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Lou: Number 3</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/2/13/154810/531#1</link>
<description>Poll question number 3 says it all. &#160;Denmark is its own nation and until Islam ushers in the New Caliphate it should stfu.</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:33:02 EST</pubDate>
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