Danish Cartoons of Prophet Mohammed
Danish Cartoons of Prophet Mohammed
The controversy, which has angered the Middle East and South Asia, began when the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published the cartoons in September. The newspaper's editors had asked 12 artists to draw their depictions of Muhammad after an author had complained that he could not find an artist willing, under his or her own name, to illustrate a book about the prophet.
See the cartoons in the link below.
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/698
Under Islamic teachings, any depiction of Prophet Mohammad, the faith's founder and messenger of God, is blasphemy, including depictions that are not negative. The cartoons violated that, and many of them also ridiculed the Prophet.
I am for free speech, but as long as it is not offensive. In the images above, I do find some of them offensive. In one, the Prophet, is depicted as a terrorist, with his turban holding a bomb with burning fuse. The message it sends out is people wearing turbans are dangerous terrorists. This creates problems for many people of the Sikh religion as well, where turbans and beards are mandatory for Sikh men.
I think its unfair when a majority mocks a minority. The newspapers' printing of the cartoons is a dangerous incitement in a conflict that has already alienated the growing Muslim populations of West European nations.
The only time Denmark and the rest of Europe took the anger in the Muslim world seriously, was when the sales of their Ala grocery product came to a complete halt, and they had to sack 100 people.
I don’t think people should die for cartoons, but the West should think before they instigate and upset Muslim and other minority communities, creating wide repercussions. The gulf is growing wider day by day between the America, Europe and the rest of the world. The way this controversy is going to be handled will reflect how the bridge is, or is not going to be mended.
The controversy, which has angered the Middle East and South Asia, began when the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published the cartoons in September. The newspaper's editors had asked 12 artists to draw their depictions of Muhammad after an author had complained that he could not find an artist willing, under his or her own name, to illustrate a book about the prophet.
See the cartoons in the link below.
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/698
Under Islamic teachings, any depiction of Prophet Mohammad, the faith's founder and messenger of God, is blasphemy, including depictions that are not negative. The cartoons violated that, and many of them also ridiculed the Prophet.
I am for free speech, but as long as it is not offensive. In the images above, I do find some of them offensive. In one, the Prophet, is depicted as a terrorist, with his turban holding a bomb with burning fuse. The message it sends out is people wearing turbans are dangerous terrorists. This creates problems for many people of the Sikh religion as well, where turbans and beards are mandatory for Sikh men.
I think its unfair when a majority mocks a minority. The newspapers' printing of the cartoons is a dangerous incitement in a conflict that has already alienated the growing Muslim populations of West European nations.
The only time Denmark and the rest of Europe took the anger in the Muslim world seriously, was when the sales of their Ala grocery product came to a complete halt, and they had to sack 100 people.
I don’t think people should die for cartoons, but the West should think before they instigate and upset Muslim and other minority communities, creating wide repercussions. The gulf is growing wider day by day between the America, Europe and the rest of the world. The way this controversy is going to be handled will reflect how the bridge is, or is not going to be mended.
Comments
"I am for free speech, but as long as it is not offensive." is quite tame. What does free speech mean if you are not allowed to "be offensive" Also Who decides what is offensive and what is not.
Don't you think the criminal acts of bush and his cronies have angered you so much that anything causing further offense to muslims is intolerable???
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