wow..this has really become a very ugly affair huh?
just wented to see wat pplz had written and was quite frankly pretty shocked to see what both sides have written...asked a muslim friend today what he thought abt it all and he was casual but you could see he really didnt appreciate it too much, it wasnt one of the things they would be sitting around the family dinner laughing about, and i understand cause i rekon its like this:
we laugh at ourselves, im hindu and indian and i probably know more curry jokes then my aussie friends, i laugh with them when they imitate the accent and when they crack a joke but it depends on what context it was said in, though some of the ruder jokes my aussie friends dont even approch but all my curry friends will say it and we'll laugh to it cause we know we respect our culture and we know it was said in jest and we encourage people to laugh at the things we too find funny.
BUT i dont laugh at jokes that disrespect anything i believe in like my religon, and if a libral hindu cant accept jokes in poor taste on their religon then why should strict muslims? making jokes on aspects that muslims do find humerous is fine but i dont know one muslim that doesnt take their religon seriously...
the carttons that are printed in australia know where to draw the line, ive never seen one that is demeaning of any religon and if it is, it is of christanity, which is not only drawn by a christan but for a nation in which the majority of people are christan and for that can laugh at themselves..But in all honestly, what did the Danish paper think that would happen?
at the same time i think the reaction by the arab nations is drastic and is only escalating the problem, the reaction by the public is because of the properganda by the media which is just stupid!!! MEDIA IS AT FAULT!!
your right, we should have the power of free speech, and in an ideal world we would but we dont live in the ideal world!! WAKE UP!!! smell the fumes in the air, see the corruption, feel the unfairness, hear the despair and taste the sourness of a world that is not PERFECT!! make the best of what we have though...
After all we live in Australia, an awsome country with awsome people from different backgrounds and different ideologies(and thats waht makes it AWSOME!) and we all live here in harmony.
dont let threads like this make you hate muslims or christaans or even hindus for that matter, dont judge a person on their religon, background and family but on WHO THEY ARE> we dont choose our life, culture, religon or background so never take that into account when you do judge people.
Dont go makeing generalisations "i hate muslims", because that is stupid! There is always a bad apple in every crate and yea, unfortuantely for the muslims they ended up withan espeacially bad bunch but thats not their fault! Every religon has their share of idiots!!(need i remind you of hitler?) Im sure 99% of the muslims on BOS will agree the terrorist option is bloody idiotic and im sure they dont see the sense!
i hope i've made you think even if i ahvnt changed your mind...
i'm sorry this has turned into a bloody thesis...sorry...didn't mean to...