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by Gnob 1263 days ago
Hi, a "fundamentalist Muslim" here, bite me

Why is it so hard to accept that some people have redlines, once violated you leave no place for respect anymore? Is it a hard concept or is it entitlement that makes you feel you have the upper moral ground?

What do you all think about the UN forcing LGBTQ+ rights on Muslims in their own countries?

Do you consider that "freedoms" too? or is it proxy colonization?

I wonder.

My heart goes for this teacher I am sure if someone depicted her or anyone, she cares about in a derogatory manner she'd be so happy and grateful and quite tolerant, she'd joke about it I guess especially if the picture was shown to a wide audience. I'd have loved to see people making derogatory cartoons of someone she loves and sharing them on the internet and seeing how much of a tolerant and freedom advocate she is.

Must be so hard for the atheists to understand that we care about our prophet and to stop mocking him and just be decent people. You have to mock religious people or otherwise you're not the cool kid I guess, because disbelieving gives you extra brain points, who gives them? nvm, they just pop up out of nowhere.

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Your account has posted literally about nothing but flamewar topics. That's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

Moreover, "bite me" is pure flamebait and even trolling. I'm sympathetic to the discomfort of being in a small minority, surrounded by hostile views and so on, and how it creates a tendency to pre-emptively lash out in this way. But it's still extremely against the rules here.

I agree with the parts of your comment that are arguing for tolerance, understanding the other's point of view, and not mocking religious people. Nonetheless your account is not using this site as intended. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and start using HN as intended, we'd appreciate it.

> Why is it so hard to accept that some people have redlines

I accept they have, but I'm not obligated to respect them. Imagine a world where it's sufficient to declare an arbitrary redline to force the rest of humanity to respect it.

I think you have a point because she warned the students, gave them a chance to leave and asked them to contact her if they find any issues with this.

I don't know why they did that to her they should have left the class and contacted her later to take exemption from the classes she's going to use those pictures in.

I don't know how to feel about this but firing her and complaining to the administration before contacting her to clarify the situation, these are 2 wrongs I won't defend.

Why do you consider a painting of someone which is not mocking them to be mocking them?
Because she knew it's prohibited and it's not what we do and everyone seems to be taking their free speech dig at our prophet and I would assume this is no different, because there is literally no reason to bring that image.

However, I think they should have left the class and contacted her regarding this subject and firing her probably was an overkill and done to make the problem go away, though not sure why the student complained to the administration before contacting her despite her giving warnings to the students.

It seems that the case for banning it is not universal among believers, and might be differently portrayed as a case for not worshipping it (or any other image).

The reason for "bringing it" to an art history class is that it is historical art.

> Because she knew it's prohibited

Not it isn't. Teaching art is totally legal in Minnesota.