United we stand
The BBC reports that newspapers across Europe have made a stand for freedom of speech and in support of Jyllands-Posten by publishing the cartoons at the centre increasingly shrill controversy.
France Soir, Germany’s Die Welt, La Stampa in Italy and El Periodico in Spain all carried some of the drawings.
And Reporters Without Borders are quoted as saying that the reaction in the Arab world “betrays a lack of understanding” of press freedom as “an essential accomplishment of democracy.”
In an editorial, Die welt pointed out that
The protests from Muslims would be taken more seriously if they were less hypocritical.
And France Soir said that it had reprinted the full set to show that religious dogma had no place in a secular society.
Under the headline “Yes, we have the right to caricature God”, the daily carried a front-page cartoon of Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim and Christian gods floating on a cloud.
It shows the Christian deity saying: “Don’t complain, Muhammad, we’ve all been caricatured here.”
The nutters haven’t calmed down yet, though, and the offices of Jyllands-Posten, had to be evacuated on Tuesday because of a bomb threat.
Wednesday 01 Feb 2006 | Paul | EU, Denmark
actaully, it is very clear that the way of practicing democray and liberty are not well understood by most of the western people, this is very clear form the way of behaving against the religions, which are a well respected ways of thinking about life, and afterlife.
we were thinking that the western countries are really the countries of democracy and we were trying to stop bad thoughts about the things we hear from the media, but we found that the view is much more bad than that we heard about.
i am surprised, as a human who expect to be respected from all the other schools of life, i found that i am humulated and i am far away from what we call humanity, as if we are in a jungle, and alot of (…)trying to kill and eat the victim.
actually i will follow another way of thinking about freedom, maybe the opposite way, and i have only 1 request, try to understand well the others, cs it is very clear that people in the west know nothing about islamic culture, from the cartoons drawn i recognize that u need alot to understand us..
plz. try to see the other as he is and do not make him as u want,
i believe in liberty, the responsible liberty….
Imagine the world without Muslims and the evil of Islam. Wouldn’t the world be a much more peaceful place. God help us all from the evil of that religion and it’s followers.
i don’t know what to say about this case…
but for me, i think it’s not a big deal…..why ? do you guys know muhammad looks like ? so, why moslem people got angry because a cartoon picture…..sorry, it’s only a stupid picture….
there’s a lot of people who has name Muhammad in the world….so maybe this picture describe one of them…not moslem god….
gosh….nothing to say…….for moslem…be mature please !!!
#3: “do you guys know muhammad looks like ?”
That’s a very good question. If no-one can draw Mohammed it follows that no-one knows what he looks like so, logically, the sin of connecting a specific image to Mohammed is in the eye of the beholder.
Also - and I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m wrong, here - that the original reason for banning images of the Prophet was to prevent idolatry. I can’t help wondering if some of the responses I’ve seen - here and elsewhere - are exactly that.