[Vision2020] [more] Tweets from the Cairo Embassy

Tom Hansen thansen at moscow.com
Wed Sep 12 12:37:19 PDT 2012


After hearing about this, jus' a couple minutes ago, on Faux (Fox) News, I had to check it out or myself.

Sure 'nuff . . .

Courtesy of the Bradenton Herald at:

http://www.bradenton.com/2012/09/12/4197057/anti-islam-video-promoted-by-controversial.html
 
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"The attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya, which left four Americans dead, including U.S. ambassador to Libya, was sparked by a short U.S.-made video mocking Islam’s founding prophet and promoted by Florida pastor Terry Jones, who inspired deadly riots in Afghanistan in 2010 and 2011 by first threatening to burn copies of the Quran and then burning one in his Gainesville church, the New York Times reported Wednesday."

Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2012/09/12/4197057/anti-islam-video-promoted-by-controversial.html#storylink=cpy

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students.  The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)





On Sep 12, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Are you saying that it could contain something so bad in the video that would lead me to believe that it's worth throwing out freedom of expression  for?  Because I highly doubt it.  I will take a peek at it tonight, though, if that makes you feel any better.
> 
> Or perhaps you could save me some trouble and point out exactly where in the video Freedom of Religion was threatened?  That way I'll know what to look for.
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
> From: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
> To: Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> 
> Cc: Nicholas Gier <ngier006 at gmail.com>; vision2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com> 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 11:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Tweets from the Cairo Embassy
> 
> Paul Rumelhart informs us:
> 
> "Criticism or satire or parody or whatever the YouTube video contained (haven't watched it) does not threaten anyone's freedom of religion."
> 
> So, here we have Paul Rumelhart passing on judgment about a video he admits that he hasn't watched.
> 
> Tell me, V-Peeps, what is wrong with his logic?
> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students.  The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."
> 
> - Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)
> 
> On Sep 12, 2012, at 11:16 AM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Criticism or satire or parody or whatever the YouTube video contained (haven't watched it) does not threaten anyone's freedom of religion.
> 
> 
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