{"id":8615,"date":"2011-04-03T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8615"},"modified":"2011-04-03T12:00:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T16:00:16","slug":"freedom-of-speech-does-not-mean-freedom-from-offending-culture-religion-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/03\/freedom-of-speech-does-not-mean-freedom-from-offending-culture-religion-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from offending culture, religion, traditions&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pardon the crudity, but . . . Fuck That.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-south-asia-12949975?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a> reports on the ongoing violence in Afghanistan after President Karzai made a big deal about some idiot in Florida burning a Koran:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The UN&#8217;s chief envoy to Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, blamed Friday&#8217;s violence in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif on the Florida pastor who burnt the Koran on 20 March.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think we should be blaming any Afghan,&#8221; Mr de Mistura said. &#8220;We should be blaming the person who produced the news &mdash; the one who burned the Koran. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from offending culture, religion, traditions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, so murder is okay as long as you&#8217;ve been told that someone on the other side of the world burned your holy book? <\/p>\n<p>The United Nations &mdash; our moral superiors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pardon the crudity, but . . . Fuck That. The BBC reports on the ongoing violence in Afghanistan after President Karzai made a big deal about some idiot in Florida burning a Koran: The UN&#8217;s chief envoy to Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, blamed Friday&#8217;s violence in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif on the Florida [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,10,11],"tags":[218,186,47,691],"class_list":["post-8615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-liberty","category-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-islam","tag-unitednations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2eX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8616,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615\/revisions\/8616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}