Dead Right

If you want to live in a liberal society, you have to be willing to be offended. And these people are not willing to be offended. They don’t understand the nature of life in a modern society. They are in the West, as I always have said about them, but they are not of the West.
fourad ajami, the toronto star

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Written by jay on February 13th, 2006 with 3 comments.
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Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com James Bow
#1. February 13th, 2006, at 6:31 PM.

As long as these protesters in Canada refrain from violence, they are doing nothing more than expressing their fundamental right of free speech. They have an absolute right to say that they are offended.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Alan
#2. February 13th, 2006, at 7:59 PM.

Exactly. What free society would restrict its citizen rights due to violent events in other parts of the world?

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#3. February 14th, 2006, at 9:04 PM.

Alan: Canada’s, apparently. Ask the editors of that student newspaper in PEI.

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