Leaders of a church in Northwest Gainesville posted a new addition to their anti-Islam campaign this week.
The display, depicting a lynching of a Christian man by an Islamic man, is stirring up emotions among residents in the area.
Some call it disturbing and graphic.
The pastor of the Dove World Outreach says it's for shock value and "truth value."
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It's implying that Muslims lynching Christians is a part of their religion. I can assure you, most Muslims, especially in this country, do not lynch, kill, blow up, maim, or otherwise hurt people whom they disagree with.
Yes, I'm all for free speech, and I'm usually a first-amendment nutjob you see screaming whenever it's violated (card-carrying ACLU member), but offending entire segments of society with graphic displays, and using children as pawns to spread your message of hate, is going too far.
I don't know why people see this horrible, rapid "disintegration of our youth." Have the times changed? Yes. Are the kids today different from the previous generation, in terms of their morals, values, priorities, and beliefs? Yes. Is this necessarily a bad thing? No. It's the natural change and progression of society. Of course some people will try to resist it, because they have feelings of nostalgia for old ways, or a sense of tradition and feel that the 'the way things used to be' were better, and they're free to believe that, but not to the point where it infringes on the rights of others to feel safe and secure as fellow citizens and human beings, nor to the point where it infringes on the right of free expression.
Not to say that I like most of it. MTV and VH1 and reality shows and the like will melt your brain ;-) But, what are you gonna do?
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