"No, I said Muhammad had to kick the goat out of the outhouse before he had sex with his mother"
Larry Flynt weighs in on the intoonfada. Some highlights:
Do you think Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell really like the jews and the muslims? No, they tolerate them because they have to because of freedom of religion, but other countries don't have that…
[Evangelicals are] just as bad as the Muslims in many respects; they are fundamentalists…but as I say, we've been able to keep the spirit of people's right to choose a religion pretty much intact because of the way our constitution was devised…
[The media are] so wimp-kneed, you know, there's no point in even discussing the media. They're a bunch of suits in an ivory tower trying to decide what we should see, what we shouldn't see…
I haven't seen [the cartoons] yet; if I had it I'd be happy to run it. I'd do something even more offensive…
If you went out into the street and took a poll: "How many believe in free speech?" 97% would say yes. But then if you say "what about hate speech, what about flag-burning, what about pornography," that 97% falls down below 50 again. And we need Freedom of Speech to protect that.
I'll tell you what you do get in European countries: a much-more laid-back attitude towards religion and social issues like adultery…they've been through a lot and they don't get so excited over things… over anything, like these cartoons…
What I'm trying to say is European people go with the flow, and Americans are always looking for a reason to protest things.
Kidding, Muhammad, kidding! We all know it was Jerry Falwell who had to kick the goat out of the outhouse.
