free speech again - 'civilized man and the savage' !
"Civilized Man and the Savage " To hear these words, in this day and age is just ugly. Horribly and sickeningly so.
The choice of words says a lot about the culture of the self styled civilized world. Its values and its assumptions about the rest of us who are eternal 'savages. Not 'noble' savages but just" jihadists" who can be nothing else, it seems. Freedom fighters opting to challenge oppression? Forget it.
And its all done in the name of "Free Speech"!
Prominent Egyptian-American writer and activist Mona Eltahawy has been released from police custody after being arrested in New York on Tuesday for spray painting a subway poster that equates Muslims with "savages".
Eltahawy was charged with criminal mischief after she painted over a poster that read: "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man" and "Support Israel. Defeat Jihad."
The anti-Muslim American Freedom Defense Initiative paid for the posters that are in 10 New York subway stations. A US court ruled the statements are "political" and protected by the first amendment's guarantee for free speech.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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