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Mohammed cartoons published in "you call us imperialists and we will come
and invade your countries to arrest you !"
artists in Background
(get perspective the Religious RWR do their evil work of
spreading hate and division again, helped by the media not giving us
perspective ) Notice
that's September, but the media are still stirring it up in February 5 months
later The initial printing of the cartoons in . And
the background is that someone had the idea to put some cartoons of Islam in a
book. But when he asked cartoonists they wouldn't do it cos
death threats were made against them. Now in Essentially some of the cartoons
are saying Islam is the religion of terrorists. Instead of saying no it's the
religion of peace the reaction of many is "if you call my religion the
religion of terrorists then I will bomb you. ",
proving the point. Ironically
that is not so different from the reaction of the US RWR to 911, "you call
us imperialists and we will come and invade your countries to arrest you !" One
cartoon shows all the terrorists turning up in heaven ..the
Angel is saying sorry guys we ran out of virgins. Another
irony is people are criticizing the cartoons without seeing then cos the news papers are afraid to publish them. Another shows a man in a turban, the turban is also a bomb. This is the
only one that could be construed as insulting . But who has insulted the
religion most the terrorists by have dirtied it by using it’s name to justify
their killing or someone who draws a cartoon which represents the popularist western view of the religion ? “Muslims
seem to forget that just because they are prohibited from representing the
prophet in any way, this does not apply to everybody else.” Why Speak freely It's important that there should
be nothing above criticism. There are many strange cults and religions,
scientology, voodoo, Sai Baba.
Imagine the devil took
over the Pope's mind and he started to say people who eat pineapples a sick perverts .. Is that OK or could we criticise
him ? If we are to be free to criticize anyone else
then we have to accept criticism ourselves. The
point of western philosophy is that you should be able to think anything you
like. That way
new ideas can come. On the road to new ideas may come
ideas people don't like, maybe you may abandon the ideas after thought, but you
should be free to consider the ideas. Religions have unchallengeable
dogma, they say no we already everything there is no need for new thought. Why Boycott when other things are
more important You
can certainly boycott products. 1. You
are hurting people who didn't commit the offenses (maybe muslims work in those factories, not that muslims should be more important than anyone else. 2. should we boycott After
announcing a boycott of Danish goods, In most
western cultures Freedom of Speech is seen as an important thing for balanced
argument and democracy. The line being drawn at incitement to
violence. before September in August a Muslim guy was arrested (quite rightly) for handed leaflets saying Danish Ministers
should be killed. In many Muslim
countries there is no culture of free speech , many things are above criticism: religion,
kings leaders etc. So fair enough in an Islamic country cos
under some rule Mohammed cannot be portrayed at all, the cartoons could not be
published. But the people in Islamic countries didn't vote for the Danish laws
so they should have no say. And how can religions make laws which apply to non-believers ? Typical hypocrisy Islamic people are free to
mock gays or other things, but outsiders are not free to mock them. Religions
have created a crime where non existed before. They
are however free to boycott Danish goods if they wish. But they should know
that if this is an attempt to change Danish laws then it is a form of terrorism
to try to change democratic laws this way and the laws should never be changed cos of this action. It's a
common ideology of the right wing ranters of whatever
agenda of whatever side pro-western or anti-western that whatever happens you
always blame the other side, there is no self criticism or attempt to put
yourself in the other persons shoes. After 911 the US
RWR said let's go get these evil foreigners instead of what did we do to provoke this ? And in the
Islamic thought the RWR condemn the depiction of Mohammed, but don't say
"ah this cartoonist is connecting Islam with bombs. This
the wrong idea as Islam is about peace. Yes a few frustrated and
misguided muslims have used
bombs, but this is forbidden in most cases by our religion. What can we do to
convince the west Islam is not the bomb religion ?" No they
rant and provoke things like the trashing of western symbols like
the Danish flag. They
never talk about controlling the self appointed religious experts who pronounce
death threats against westerners who have done nothing wrong by the laws of
their own countries. The RWR always want the cake and eat it the westerners have to abide by our
laws, but we do what we want. We can hold fake demonstrations outdside a foreign embassy threatening violent overthrow of
the state, we can invade the embassy torture the workers and keep them
hostages. In From the
western viewpoint firstly there is a difference between criticizing someone and
deliberately insulting them. Secondly offending someone is not nice, but it's
nowhere as bad as killing someone. Once again the religious RWR fail
to make the world a better place, but actually achieve more evil by stirring up
hate and division. But now
in The
newspaper will apologize with words like "we are sorry that you are offended,
by images that we perfectly legally printed". If they do apologise
probably won't buy Danish again. http://www.muslimwakeup.com/main/archives/2006/01/a_mountain_out.php
intelligent Islamic article about the cartoons original cartoons http://www.creativedestruction.com/archives/000454.html
or http://www.pulpmovies.com/gagwatch/2006/01/libya-joins-the-boycott-bandwagon/#more-168 I can
always tell when I meet a RWR cos they say things
like "when YOU gave Us idependence
in 1955". What was I in charge of everything 12 years before I was born ? I think they are talking about when the independence of |
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