(June 16, 2011 at 1:12 am)ruhollah Wrote: 10. And, finally, can anyone explain the mass riots...er...protests, death threats and bounties, and some minor propery destruction when a Dutch cartoonist dared to...make a few cartoons that actually, GASP,...showed a picture of an Arabian man, presumably Muhhamad. Very, very openminded and tolerant there.
Here is the thing, you have the western nations invading Iraq for no reason, killing or injuring more that a million civilians (most of them Muslims) and on top of this, a cartoonist further takes the stereotype to the extreme and insults the prophet himself where a billion Muslims consider him as role model. If you don't add insult to injury, people won't go crazy.
This 'insult to injury' as you call it, is known as freedom of speech and never a reason for violence. The cartoon drawer had nothing to do with the Iraq invasion and the fact that you seem to be saying it is a justification for going crazy is deplorable. If Muslims truly want to be part of the rest of the world, they need to learn that people have the right to disagree with them and speak against them, regardless of how offensive it is to them. Thus is the nature of freedom and no one should have to suppress that just because it is offensive to Islam. It seems that Muslims want the rest of the world to conform to their beliefs, but Muslims need to conform with the rights that come with living in a free society.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
