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But ultimately the warning of the case is implicit: We are not a tolerant system, so don't try and mess with us on any level ... we will take offense and deal with you!
buster2010
And the ultimate lesson is don't go into another country and break their laws. Too many Americans go abroad and think just because they are American they will get out trouble and that just isn't so.
Mr. Cassim, who came to the U.A.E. in 2006, issued his own rebuke when he arrived home. He told a scrum of television reporters that he did nothing wrong and had been tried in a “textbook kangaroo court”. While it’s unclear exactly what kind of threat the U.A.E. authorities saw in the spoof video, Mr. Cassim characterized his arrest and detention as an attempt to send a message. “Due to the political situation here, they’re scared of democracy,” he said. “They wanted to send a message to the U.A.E. public, saying, ‘Look what we’ll do to people who do just a silly YouTube video, so imagine if you do something that’s actually critical of the government.’ It’s a warning message, and we’re scapegoats.”
Its the same reason why anybody critiquing abuses in the US or Israel are branded as ''terrorists'' or ''anti-semitic'' or ''anti-zionists'' or ''anti-americans''. Your sense of humor is not shared by everybody else.
That is, if anyone in the West will still be allowed to critique human rights abuses in Islamic countries without being dismissed as "racist", "Islamophobic", "pro-American Imperialism" or "pro-Zionist"
I also don't see leftists and "human rights activists" marching through the capitals of Europe and shouting against Muslim countries that have...
Another concern is that the Western media has already censored itself so as not to cause offense to Muslim sensibilities, such as with the Mohammed cartoons, and for some commentators this implies serious threats to freedom of expression.
Lipton
buster2010
And the ultimate lesson is don't go into another country and break their laws. Too many Americans go abroad and think just because they are American they will get out trouble and that just isn't so.
Yet on the same token it's acceptable for Americans to be labeled racists, bigoted hicks for simply asking the same level of respect be given to their laws by immigrants?
edit on 13-1-2014 by Lipton because: (no reason given)