splosherrob said: Tricky one. I don't believe in celebrating anybody's death, but not having lost anyone in the atrocities of Sept 11th I don't really feel qualified to criticize those who did. What I do find very innappropriate is the idea of celebrating the death of an international terrorist leader by doing a deal selling pictures of someone purportedly of the same religion getting a custard pie to the face.
This analogy will be controversial for sure but I believe this photoset is too, so I deem it appropriate and offer no apologies to those who disagree. When Timothy McVeigh died, would it have been appropriate to celebrate his death by selling photographs of 'Cathy the Custardy Christian' or 'Daphne the Disheviled Davidian'? Why draw your character along religious lines? I'm not a politically correct person but there are better and more sensitive ways to build your characters. Add to that the timing of the offer (I realise the set has been circulating for some time) and it seems very likely to cause offense. This argument has been made many times but it is valid here: Al Qaeda do not represent the majority of Muslims. To present them in this way is to generalise in an offensive and ignorant manner. I am certain that was not the intention of the producer and I'm aware they were simply intended to amuse and titillate. However, by crossing into the realm of religion you inherently comment on heartfelt beliefs and, to those who hold them, inescapable truths. That people would make light of a religion in this manner I find troubling.
Very well said. I am in fact a Christian myself who was raised a Roman Catholic, and I dislike social stereotypes that we are all a load of paedophiles and heretics. Plus I've got a few Muslims in my family on my mother's side who think that Al Qaeda and The Taliban are both insane and reprehensible people.
Sadly you are going to get nuts in every religious order who are going to take their scriptures out of context to justify their hate-filled agendas. The Christians did this a long time ago with the Crusades and the Holy Inquisition, and in the recent years some of them have misused the Bible to vilify GBLT people and people of different beliefs as being 'of the devil' (e.g. witches, pagans, New Agers etc.).
However, it seems to me that it's only Muslims who are sacrosant and get murderously angry when anybody dares to question or lampoon their religion (remember the cartoons of Mohammed some years back?), but people like the Christians should just sit back and 'turn the other cheek' when people make fun of their religion.
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