You should try living in one of the countries you talk about.
I live in Finland, but I don't see how it's relevant.
We don't all cling to our "right" to say absolutely anything we want about anybody at any time.
And what does this mean? Because you don't care about freedom of speech, it's okay to eliminate it for everyone else too?
Sure, there are abuses. Those tend to be the ones you hear about. Which means that the voters hear about them too. And in countries where you're likely to get voted out when you screw up, that tends to take care of the problem.
You assume that the voters care, or that they'll even hear about such cases. Far too many people in the West, including members of the media, follow the multiculturalist ideology, and do not see these verdicts as abuses.
The problem here is that blatant hate of Islam has earned a spot in mainstream media.
There's no such thing, unless by "hate" you mean that the mainstream media simply reports about the never-ending stream of honor killings, terror attacks, riots, death threats and other nice things that eminate from the Islamic world. The mainstream media doesn't even report everything, and they're very likely to put an apologist spin on things.
Obviously, it has become ok to say, Muslims are uneducated, backwards, fundamentalist scum who ought to be rounded up.
You're making so much shit up it isn't even funny. The media in the West is too politically correct to say anything like that.
These hate speech tribunals are ridiculous, but Muslims ought to have access to the same civil protections provided to other minorities.
Muslims have the best civil rights protections in the West.
This is magical thinking. Islam and Christianity are very, very different religions. Just because something happened to Christianity doesn't somehow mean that the same thing will happen to Islam. Also, liberalism sure as fuck hasn't characterized Islam for "most of its existence."
my view exactly. I think that there are enough muslim individuals who would be capable of this, but the problem is the violent minority that will not approve.
You're not talking about a violent minority, you're talking about mainstream Islam. It's ordinary Muslims all over the world who fly off the handle whenever someone makes fun of or criticizes Islam. You assume that because this type of behavior is abnormal for Christians, it must also be abnormal for Muslims, in much the same way that most people assume the Bible and Quran to be functionally identical with just a couple of superficial differences. Christianity and Islam are vastly different religions.
Such enclaves exist all over Europe, and they grow bigger every year. While I would love to cite sources, it would be pointless because you would dismiss them as xenophobia, Islamophobia, racism, far-right extremism or Nazism, or whatever label happens to be popular right now.
I do not approve of "hate speech" even when it is legal and acceptable at large - it is a commmon brainwashing technique to dehumanize your opponents.
But what is hate speech? It's anything you want it to be. Even factual information that presents a religion or ethnic minority in a poor light is "hate speech" today. Shit, you can even quote violent passages from the Quran and someone will call it hate speech against Islam (this has actually happened, but I can't remember where).
Vocal critics of Islam have a way of turning up dead. Just ask Theo Van Gogh. Meanwhile, it's perfectly acceptable for Muslims to spew genocidal slurs against Jews and Christians.
Exactly. Critics of Islam truly have to fear for their lives, but the government and media are far more concerned about those mythical "Islamophobes" who are forever on the verge of leaping out of the shadows to fire up the ovens and gas chambers.
Canada's hate laws are intended to stop someone from inciting violence against a given group. You can think whatever you want, and (unless you're a teacher) you can criticize whoever you want, but you're not allowed to say things that might encourage violence against a group. The idea is that the cops can go down to the white supremacist meeting where the head Nazi is riling everybody up to go do some lynching, and arrest him before the lynching actually gets started. Or down to the local church and arrest the pastor who's preaching that it's every good Christian's duty to exterminate people of a particular sexual orientation, for that matter.
In theory.
In practise, laws like this are applied in a very loose manner. Virtually anything you say can be creatively interpreted as "incitement to violence" or something similiar. A Swedish politician was convicted of "agitation against an ethnic group" for saying that Kosovo Albanian immigrants were responsible for a lot of heroin smuggling. A Finnish blogger was also convicted in a similiar fashion.
These laws are so ambiguous that anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. Keeping people scared and confused is more efficient than having clearly defined laws. These laws are simply meant to eliminate dissent towards the government's ideology of so-called multiculturalistm, and they don't apply to Muslims and people who have the right skin color, like black Africans (the irony of treating people differently based on their religion and race in an effort to fight racism and discrimination is completely lost on mulculturalists). I have no doubt that it's the same thing in Canada.
Here we fucking go again. Because they changed some details, it must automatically mean that the movie bears no possible resemblance whatsoever to the game? Give me a fucking break.
On the other hand, what do you expect with most of the source material that's been used so far? The Resident Evil movies are about as silly as the games, and Doom was a fairly faithful adaptation. BioShock has potential.
Wikipedia also lists Gore Verbinski as the director for all three. Please, inform IMDB and edit Wikipedia to correct these errors. While you're at it, contact Disney to tell them that Verbinski didn't direct the first two movies. Only you know the truth.
Russia and China wouldn't allow it to happen, but it's already slowly happening in the UK and in many other European countries (Sweden and France for example). The changes are just so small and incremental that people don't notice. Eventually Muslims will become the demographic majority, and then the country will either turn into an Islamic theocracy or the natives will retake the country, most likely through war and genocide. That's the inescapable end result of Europe's grand multiculturalist social experiment.
Iran is run by genocidal religious fanatics who really, really hate Israel, so it's not hard to imagine what Iran intends to do with nuclear technology. They might not directly attack Israel, but they could sell nuclear weaponry to terrorists.
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Yes, but it's a GameCube port. Porting a modern 360/PS3 game to the Wii is different.
The movie is based on Doom 3.
The demon from Doom 3 is in the movie.
I think an UAC research facility on Mars containing a BFG 9000 and a chainsaw is kind of specific to Doom.
They did not change the entire premise. How about you actually play the game before making comparisons?
In other words, you can't. Just as I thought.
Please explain to me how you managed to reach the conclusion that I have no life. I'd love to hear this.
There's no difference between the two things you compared in your earlier post.
Your perspective is in direct violation of reality, so it doesn't matter.
I take it that you don't actually know anything about Islam's activities during its history and in the present time.
I live in Finland, but I don't see how it's relevant.
And what does this mean? Because you don't care about freedom of speech, it's okay to eliminate it for everyone else too?
You assume that the voters care, or that they'll even hear about such cases. Far too many people in the West, including members of the media, follow the multiculturalist ideology, and do not see these verdicts as abuses.
There's no such thing, unless by "hate" you mean that the mainstream media simply reports about the never-ending stream of honor killings, terror attacks, riots, death threats and other nice things that eminate from the Islamic world. The mainstream media doesn't even report everything, and they're very likely to put an apologist spin on things.
You're making so much shit up it isn't even funny. The media in the West is too politically correct to say anything like that.
Muslims have the best civil rights protections in the West.
This is magical thinking. Islam and Christianity are very, very different religions. Just because something happened to Christianity doesn't somehow mean that the same thing will happen to Islam. Also, liberalism sure as fuck hasn't characterized Islam for "most of its existence."
You're not talking about a violent minority, you're talking about mainstream Islam. It's ordinary Muslims all over the world who fly off the handle whenever someone makes fun of or criticizes Islam. You assume that because this type of behavior is abnormal for Christians, it must also be abnormal for Muslims, in much the same way that most people assume the Bible and Quran to be functionally identical with just a couple of superficial differences. Christianity and Islam are vastly different religions.
Such enclaves exist all over Europe, and they grow bigger every year. While I would love to cite sources, it would be pointless because you would dismiss them as xenophobia, Islamophobia, racism, far-right extremism or Nazism, or whatever label happens to be popular right now.
But what is hate speech? It's anything you want it to be. Even factual information that presents a religion or ethnic minority in a poor light is "hate speech" today. Shit, you can even quote violent passages from the Quran and someone will call it hate speech against Islam (this has actually happened, but I can't remember where).
Exactly. Critics of Islam truly have to fear for their lives, but the government and media are far more concerned about those mythical "Islamophobes" who are forever on the verge of leaping out of the shadows to fire up the ovens and gas chambers.
In theory.
In practise, laws like this are applied in a very loose manner. Virtually anything you say can be creatively interpreted as "incitement to violence" or something similiar. A Swedish politician was convicted of "agitation against an ethnic group" for saying that Kosovo Albanian immigrants were responsible for a lot of heroin smuggling. A Finnish blogger was also convicted in a similiar fashion.
These laws are so ambiguous that anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. Keeping people scared and confused is more efficient than having clearly defined laws. These laws are simply meant to eliminate dissent towards the government's ideology of so-called multiculturalistm, and they don't apply to Muslims and people who have the right skin color, like black Africans (the irony of treating people differently based on their religion and race in an effort to fight racism and discrimination is completely lost on mulculturalists). I have no doubt that it's the same thing in Canada.
Here we fucking go again. Because they changed some details, it must automatically mean that the movie bears no possible resemblance whatsoever to the game? Give me a fucking break.
You're not the parent. He was specifically referring to "cheesy lines in the middle of an intense battle." What was your point again?
I never said it was a carbon copy of the game, now did I?
I said a fairly faithful adaptation. Try reading the entire post next time.
On the other hand, what do you expect with most of the source material that's been used so far? The Resident Evil movies are about as silly as the games, and Doom was a fairly faithful adaptation. BioShock has potential.
Wikipedia also lists Gore Verbinski as the director for all three. Please, inform IMDB and edit Wikipedia to correct these errors. While you're at it, contact Disney to tell them that Verbinski didn't direct the first two movies. Only you know the truth.
Russia and China wouldn't allow it to happen, but it's already slowly happening in the UK and in many other European countries (Sweden and France for example). The changes are just so small and incremental that people don't notice. Eventually Muslims will become the demographic majority, and then the country will either turn into an Islamic theocracy or the natives will retake the country, most likely through war and genocide. That's the inescapable end result of Europe's grand multiculturalist social experiment.
I'm European and I agree that the world is a better place with the US around.
What an important distinction!
Iran is run by genocidal religious fanatics who really, really hate Israel, so it's not hard to imagine what Iran intends to do with nuclear technology. They might not directly attack Israel, but they could sell nuclear weaponry to terrorists.