iamsickofyear12 said:
Never mind the fact that if they weren't blowing themselves in the name of Islam there would be no cartoon to start with. Muslims have no respect for other religions so why should everyone else respect theirs. They do things to christians that are way beyond drawings in a newspaper.
They are going to have to learn to cop some shit about their religion sooner or later. It happens with everyone else why do they think they are somehow immune.
The fact is only a small minority are the ones blowing themselves up, there are nutters and fanatics in all walks of life, the fact that i and a billion others can be called terrorists because of the actions of a small percentage of hateful freaks is appalling.
I agree it is not right to burn down embassies in response to being offended, but as i said, there are nutters out there, and this just gives them a blank cheque for mayhem. is it not obvious.
however the newspaper has a responsibility, if something is going to cause a bunch of freaks to start burning things, they should maybe wait until the political climate has calmed.
it is also not right of a newspaper to label a billion people because of the actions of a few.
Al-Qaeda claim to be doing what they are doing in the name of God, but then so is the Ku Klux Klan.
we seem to always here of the violent protests but barely do we see on the news, the views of the moderate mainstream muslims, unless they are hairy and dont speak a word of english they dont get any air time.
anyway from the pleasure of watching the simpsons audio commentary, virtually every country they visit, they are hated the next day. New Orleans had huge problems with their song about their city, and the Japanese and Brazillian hated them after they visited their respective countrie. I think only australia didnt care when they were made fun of.
Now the people who were angry at the simpsons were not violent like some of the protests, but when you have entire nations (llike syria) who are basically not friendly with the west (understatement) such a cartoon can only insight hatred, and cause more people to join the freaky radical nutters.
the danish cartoons can be seen as the straw that broke the mule's back, it was irresponsible of them to release mocking cartoons that not only make fun of the minority, but the entire population, they are not very clever cartoons and simply labelling over a billion people as terrorists.
there are many religious leaders that are trying to calm the situation, however when people in this country have the attitude, "you can force us to not print the cartoons" is almost like a challenge to the crazy and the close-minded.
i think much more peace would come about, if the media said they were against such racist labelling of people, instead of making it looking like "here we printed it and you cant stop us, what are you going to do blow us up?"
Ultimately, if the cartoons were published here simply to show people what all the fuss is about, then there would be no big problem, but currently it seems like if it was going to be published it is meant to be undermining the beliefs of some. There would a be a few radicals that would then cause more moderate and mainstream muslims to join them and start causing problems.
Thats the here isnt it, the cartoons were published a few months ago and go a negative yet peaceful response, however now they were republished and spread to other countries, under the attitude of "you cant stop us", which is not RESPONSIBLE,