Quote Originally Posted by Eclectic
New York Times on Muslim Cartoons: "We refuse to publish the cartoons out of respect. The Media has an obligation of restraint."
I do believe that the problem with those ... Muslim Cartoons ... was that some of them were (and are) violating a taboo, namely they depicted something that the religions says 'do not depict'. It is difficult to comprehend, western society has more-or-less lost all forms of taboo behaviour, namely, things are talked about, forbidden, despised, but we do not have the mindset anymore that allows us not to even think about a certain subject.

Otherwise ... I'm going to say this ... if those things really threatened national security ... there's laws designed to stop them. Some of them go, releasing of classified information, releasing of information vital to the security of the state and it's citizens. Now, if the goverment had been serious about it, they would have, you know, like ... done something about them. Hell, they probably released the stuff to the press to look less incompetent or something.