re: #434 Gus 802

Frankly. I don’t know what to think of “Piss Christ”. I never did. But you’re missing an important factor here. Piss Christ was not intended to be a political act. The West is also not at war with Christianity and the Muslims see this as a war against them perpetrated by American Christians. Whether we like to believe that or not — it’s how they see it. The same thing holds true with the Allah cartoons in Denmark. That was done within the context of a military invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. We are also looking at two distinct cultures and varying forms of reactions.

Jones does not equal Serrano.

So what? The reaction to an offensive act with murder is the worst possible reaction. No context is going to change my opinion that the reaction by those extremists was inhuman and immoral. And no amount of contextualizing will convince me there is any mitigating factors lessening the evil perpetrated by those murderers.