Resorting to violence over a cartoon because of religion is in my oppinion a show of lack of strenght and commitment to the religion of islam and it shows how insecure a lot of Muslim people are. In my oppinion a true Muslim would not let her/himself be manipulated into violence by non-believers if there is no justification for violence as in protecting your country or family or your own body from harm.
Sorry if this has already been posted, I haven't had time to read the entire thread. But I thought this link was pretty interesting.. http://www.sorrynorwaydenmark.com/
Good point. That's why i'm saying that muslims are not like that, only some poor uneducated extremists do these protests. But since people are so blinded because there is a lot of bad muslims in Iran and Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, so people think all muslims are bad. IT's just not true.
Seriously grow up, how old are you? All you do is try to insult me in every way possible, you need to grow up. I didn't say there were numerous first amendment laws you idiot, maybe you need to get past middle school reading skills first, i said "1st amendment-like laws". Freedom of Speech, freedom of press bla bla bla. But whatever, i'm not gonna argue with you anymore, you can bathe all day in your pool of ignorance.
I haven't read all of the thread either but this is an excellent find Mella! I find this paragraph in particular to cut to the root of the issue in a lot of ways: (And before you ask, no I am not Muslim...)
Someone's getting angry again. Time for a time out Actually, you did. Not only do you not fully read or respect other's posts. You don't even read your own. That's original.
If any good does come out of this experience, it is the sudden and almost audible <click> in the minds of a certain group of mentally slow Westerners as they suddenly realize "Hey, those people don't share our same values." I never stop being amazed by people who are so "stuck" in Western culture that they honestly believe that Osama bin Laden is just misunderstood and that George W. Bush is the worst person living today. Those people need a reality check, and this event turned out to be a reality check for a small minority of them. The Muslims just cost the Democrats more votes in the next round of U.S. elections. I wonder if the Democrats can sue them?
Of course to most people those riots re-enforce the idea that we should stay away from those people as much as possible. Do you look at those riots and think we need to invade more of those backwards countries? That that will somehow fix them? like "Look those people are backwards shit heads, lets go hangout with them, lets get MORE involved with them!"
I just came across this site: http://supportdenmark.com/ It was linked to from this even more interesting site: http://anti68.blog.hr/
Not sure if this has been posted earlier - A top Taliban commander has offered a reward of 100kg of gold to anyone who kills the person responsible for "blasphemous" cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
It's not nice to stereotyping. I know that we got freedom of speech and that's why we need to have norms. This is breaking the norm.
You know people do have the freedom to write what they want, including these pictures. At the same time, the muslim's have the right to express themselves in protest. But how the muslim's actually express themselves is a reason for concern. There have been many occasions of christian's protesting, such as piss on jesus, the dung statue of mary, etc. Yes there were protests and maybe some isolated violent acts associated with it. Yes I think the muslim's should protest at the insensativity of these cartoons, but when they resort to violence on a grand scale and go on a rampage by burning other peoples property and atacking foreigners that result in harm and death they are only helping to prove the fact that there is some truth in these cartoons. The cleric's of islam recently announced that they will not accept any appolgies from the west for these cartoon's and that everyone should be brought to justice for them, and continue to encourage people to protest over them, while at the same time they are promoting islam to be a religion of peace. In all reality the cleric's and imams of islam should be telling everyone that partakes in terror in the name of mohammed that they are not setting a good example for islam.