<p>After looking at the news, I found out David Irving was being sentenced to 3 years in prison for denying that the Holocaust existed. Well, I am no big fan of people denying the holocaust, howeverm the person who says the Holocaust did not exist is speaking his/her own mind. (Freedom of speech)
Funny isn't it that the Danish who made the Muslim Cartoons, the ones who said it was freedom of speech to do so, can speak their mind and totally humiliate a religion. <em>sigh</em> what's going on.</p>
<p><em>I AM NOT SAYING I SUPPORT A PERSON WHO DENIED THE HOLOCAUST. I BELIEVE HOLOCAUST DID OCCUR FOR SURE</em></p>
<p>I met Europe the other day. She is pretty nice, and didn't come off as a hypocrite, but I guess that's just a first impression. She's pretty hot though.</p>
<p>First, David Irving is from England.
Denmark is not England. They're two different countries. It's like saying that because Mexico decides to ban all butter products, and Canada decides to make butter their new national food, that the entire continent must be hypocritical. They have nothing to do with one another. You can't pin what England does on Denmark.</p>
<p>
[quote]
First, David Irving is from England.
Denmark is not England. They're two different countries. It's like saying that because Mexico decides to ban all butter products, and Canada decides to make butter their new national food, that the entire continent must be hypocritical. They have nothing to do with one another. You can't pin what England does on Denmark.
[/quote]
</p>
<p>You mean Europe isn't all the same?!
I don't see the comparison either. Europe is just a continent, they have nothing to do with one another other than that they share a mass of land. They don't all have the same rules or the same laws. so what's the comparison?</p>
<p>I'm a bit shocked at his sentence time. 3 years?</p>
<p>However, Jesminder's point is probably most accurate considering they are from different regions. As far as I'm concerned, the cartoonist from Denmark is a complete douchebag. </p>
<p>Every country has it's little tendecies to by hypocritical. No country can help it.</p>
<p>
[quote]
You mean Europe isn't all the same?!
I don't see the comparison either. Europe is just a continent, they have nothing to do with one another other than that they share a mass of land. They don't all have the same rules or the same laws. so what's the comparison?
[/quote]
</p>
<p>Then why do Americans and Europeans make generalisations on Muslim nations? At least the Europeans nations are similar; that is not the case for Muslim nations.</p>
<p>Again, generalizations. You can't speak for all Americans and Europeans just because some people do. </p>
<p>You're also diverting the subject into something entirely different. You're bringing ignorance (why "all" Americans and Europeans believe Middle Easterns countries are the same) versus the way the government runs in one European country and another.</p>
<p>If we cant make generalisations about Europeans nations, then why are generlisations over other cultures being made? And I never said "ALL," so idk what you're talking about.</p>
<p>It's insinuating "all", you're trying to speak for "we" and "Americans/Europeans" making generalizations - that's a generalization in its self. Thus hypocrisy.
You're suggesting that all, or the majority of Americans and Europeans run around and generalizing all other cultures.
Your argument is quite flawed</p>
<p>
[quote]
JamesN, your statement would be better suited if it was "The majority of humans make generalizations."
[/quote]
</p>
<p>Inserting the word "human" dilutes a fact. Inserting "westerners" inton the statement makes it more precise. After all, it is the Westerners who make generalizations about Muslims nations.</p>
<p>lol, it's fun to watch this thread grow. debates and controversey run amuck anywhere you go. lets face it, i see so many fighting countries, particularly among america and the middle east, call each other barbarians and then turn around and do something just as " barbaric." </p>
<p>people naturally have conflicting ideas and beliefs and actions within themselves. whats acceptable by society, what they want or think, what they can do and what they can't. if the individual is so conflicting, how can we expect anything different from the country?</p>
<p>Yes, all you say is true. But I think America has a huge problem, since its not their duty to just get involve in Middle Eastern Affairs. America is not the kingdom of the world.</p>
<p>i agree, and i think bush as a god complex. we should intervene when neccesecary, but to intertwine ourselves in affairs of which we don't belong, isn't something i condone</p>
<p>North America, includes Mexico and Canada, America (be it north or south you're referring to) is not just the United States, America is a continent. The United States is a country, which arfe you referring to?</p>