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		kaybe on Jan 13, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack dep... >> The same way, someone would offend you by offending your family. >No, that's not the same way. Maybe for those offended it might be? It can explain a lot of the anger.

jacquesm on Jan 13, 2015 [–]

Religious people tend to identify strongly with their religion, that is why this can happen.

But they fail to recognize that their religion, its rules and customs apply to them, the subscribers to that religion and not to the rest of the world.

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