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From the International Herald Tribune Discussion Forum
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/13/europe/denmark.php?d=1
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The Danish newspaper that first published the Mohamed cartoons has now republished one of them two years later. The response from some has been and calls for boycotts. This interests us as Europeans because it involves Europeans in Europe trying to live according to European law. Danes are being harassed and cajoled into accepting the muslim worldview. The Danish papers have done nothing out of keeping with Danish law and are acting within their rights. And yet there are violent responses supposedly done in the name of “honoring the prophet.”
Some people support the cartoons as freedom of speech. Fair enough. Some oppose the cartoons because they feel the cartoons are wrong. Fair enough. I am sure that some people oppose the cartoons mainly because they fear the reprisals of angered muslims. That was and remains the point of the cartoons: to expose that fear and give Danes (and all Europeans) a forum to ask, “Is is ok with you if I live as a European in my own country?”
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How is it that we can deny god, insult prophets, undermine religion and consider it freedom of opinion and of the press. On the other hand if one even questions the Holocaust one goes to jail and is branded and labeled for the rest of his or her life. Let me qualify that by saying I do believe in the Holocaust however if one can deny god why cant one deny the holocaust. Lets not be hypocrites, I am all for freedom of speech, press and opinion . But the insulting of religions has no place in civilized societies. This inequity can lead only to further hatred and acrimony
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The American flag to most Americans is a symbol bought with blood and also symbolizes One Nation under God. Every time our flag is spit on, stomped on, and burned, what should we as americans do? I don’t know, but I do know that the majority of Americans are lovers of God and we will not give into the hatred that some muslims have for us and the rest of the world
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think that Denmark should grow up. Sticking it to the Muslims with a chartoon is not going to get rid of terrorists. And to be so disrespectful is in no way justafiable, it is low and serves no real purpose
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Muslims cannot deny they have extremists in their ranks. They plead innocence too much rather than work to clarify their religious objectives and educate their flock that peace and understanding should be their mantra. Oh, heaven forbid someone hits the nail right on the head and calls it like it is. Get over it and act proactively Islam, rather than screaming “stop picking on us.”
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Funny that you say that freedoms shouldn’t impinge on others, yet it’s Islam that has the ‘convert or die’ clause.
Next time Muslims are out killing ‘infidels’, I’ll be sure to remember that I have no freedoms to stop them, but they have all the freedom to kill me
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The central figures of my own faith have certainly been insulted, maligned, desecrated over centuries, more often than can be counted. But then, being what they are, they could in earnest never be touched, let alone sullied. The prophet certainly is above all triviality? Taking offence in the way exhibited smacks of the presumptious claim that one’s particular faith is to be regarded as the one sanctioned offical and compulsory faith. In the countries of Europe? Or the rest of the globe? Let us hope, even pray, for forgiveness and understanding, and indeed, hope may yet save us all
Best wishes to everybody
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These are the same people don’t blink when their sons randomly lob thousands of rockets and mortars into Israel to terrorize and kill innocent civilians, but take to the streets when they are offended by a cartoon. Their righteous indignation is either phony political propaganda or, if genuinely felt, just plain bizarre (i.e. extremely incongruous)
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am not Muslim, but ALL of my Muslim friends have told me that the cartoons should just be ignored; what’s the point? I think that to protest and maim and kill and issue fatwahs against those who published or designed the cartoons is ridiculous. There are far greater, more expedient issues to address: the continuing occupation of Palestine (including the siege of Gaza) & Iraq & Afghanistan & Okinawa & etc., poverty and AIDS on the African continent and elsewhere, massive climate change which is leaving some of colder and others flooded, and so on. Work towards peace and stability, instead of always stirring a pot to avoid the problems right in front of your fac
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I am sick and tired about the typical Western approach speaking of Islam as a religion taking for granted it is a religion lived and taken by its followers in “a similar way” to the different religions are lived and taken by their followers in Western societies. Wake up!!! I hope that those found guilty of crimes in Denmark are to be deprived of their citicenship or residence permit and sent back to whichever country they came from
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Question 1: What should make people think that the prophet can even remotely
be touched by something as trivial as a cartoon, let alone be offended?
Question 2: What should make people think that Islam, other than the Jewish, Christian, Buddhist or any other religion is alone and exclusively exempt from the
derogatory views of others? Has it been established as mandatory for the entire
population of the globe?
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