Comments on: Cartoon on Cartoon Controversy http://www.israellycool.com/2006/02/06/cartoon-on-cartoon-controversy/ Down Under Punditry in the Middle East Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:50:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Anonymous http://www.israellycool.com/2006/02/06/cartoon-on-cartoon-controversy/#comment-5288 Anonymous Mon, 06 Feb 2006 06:52:49 +0000 http://www.israellycool.com/2006/02/06/cartoon-on-cartoon-controversy/#comment-5288 Totally spot on. Reflects my opinion on this matter perfectly. This was actually the argument I used to debate this issue with my folks. Surprisingly, they pulled out the old "we should be better than them!" Which I rebutted as being condescending to Arabs. If you lower the standard of morality for someone else because they're somehow different, you are, at least in my opinion, condescending. By the way, if you're interested in a Danish perspective on this -- still written in English, however --, check out my tiny, insignificant blog at eikcl.blogspot.com and just read the latest post. Totally spot on. Reflects my opinion on this matter perfectly. This was actually the argument I used to debate this issue with my folks. Surprisingly, they pulled out the old “we should be better than them!” Which I rebutted as being condescending to Arabs. If you lower the standard of morality for someone else because they’re somehow different, you are, at least in my opinion, condescending.

By the way, if you’re interested in a Danish perspective on this — still written in English, however –, check out my tiny, insignificant blog at eikcl.blogspot.com and just read the latest post.

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