Saturday, February 04, 2006

Muslims and Mohammad cartoons.


What Ed says.

I could ramble on regarding my thoughts on all of this idiocy but, really, there's not much to say. Muslims who seriously think that the publication of cartoons they find offensive to Islam justifies the "extermination" and "massacre" of the offenders need to be sent back to their caves until they learn how to exist in a civilized society.

6 comments:

orc said...

It's the joys of fundamentalism. It's *helpful* that the cartoons are barkingly offensive, but the principle of the thing is that it's something that you can work the faithful up into a screaming rage about. It works for everyone.

The US government response could have been better; the tone of the "you should have known better" was treading dangerously close to the "if you don't behave we'll take your freedom of the press away!" line that the B*sh junta uses every day in the US, but I heartily approve of saying "that was really stupid" to the people who drew those offensive bits of religious bigotry.

The idiot fundamentalists who are letting themselves be incited by their priests, shoot, I'd love to see a cure for that sort of stupidity. "To hell with freedom?" in the very heart of christendom, where if they didn't have freedom they'd be subject to persecution for even doing the five daily prayers?

Ah, nothing like that old time religion to make everybody involved look like an utter fool.

Mike said...

One set of idiots at a right-leaning Christian paper make purposely provocative cartoons to "test" the limits of free expression last September. They are met with minor protests from the local Muslim community (especially over the bomb-turban one), but the protest quickly fades.

Not satisfied with that and now knowing that these cartoons ARE very offensive even to average Muslims, the print them again, and get other European papers to print them. Now they are getting the reaction they were looking for - the nutters have come out of the wood work, demanding death and violence. And now the paper and the cartoonists want to say that causing all of this is their right.

Well, so much for repsonisbility.

And the some of the protestors aren't any better - "Fuck Freedom" "Massacre those who defile the Prophet" "Jihad!". I'm sure ALL the protesters were saying that, not just the vocal minority who knew this would get them on camera.

Those cartoonist got the reaction the wanted, from the nutbars they knew were there. Maybe they will sell a few more papers. Maybe they will get an anti-Mulsim progorm going.

I hope the two groups do themselves in and remove the idiocy from the gene pool. Then we will have proof of biological evolution by natural selection.

Imagine the reaction if a newspaper in Kabul published similar caricatures of Jesus - getting drunk, sodomizing little boys, you know, all the nastiest things from Christianity of late. Imagine what Pat Robertson and Falwell would say then?

But that would never happen because Muslims consider Jesus a prophet and would not make a caricature of one of their prophets.

Fuck I hate religion some days.

M@ said...

The fact is, freedom of speech and freedom of the press come first. All this bullshit about "well, sure, but be responsible" comes second.

Want to attack the cartoons? Do so on the level that allowed them to appear. Write the editor, write your own column about how Islam is unfairly represented in the press. Whatever you like.

Or maybe you'd prefer to have the powers that be in the USA just sit back and rub their hands with excitement. In that case, have at it. Burn down a few embassies. Whatever.

Anonymous said...

"Want to attack the cartoons? Do so on the level that allowed them to appear. Write the editor, write your own column about how Islam is unfairly represented in the press."

Which is exactly what the vast majority of Muslims did. Or at least, the majority of those that bothered to respond at all. Not that that appears to have stopped many loudmouths from making ironic generalizations that all Muslims are violently intolerant.

Anonymous said...

"Which is exactly what the vast majority of Muslims did. Or at least, the majority of those that bothered to respond at all. Not that that appears to have stopped many loudmouths from making ironic generalizations that all Muslims are violently intolerant.

Right, so nice to hear you know that the "vast majority of Muslims" reacted so benignly. Since the "vast majority" reside in the M.E. and south Asia all I know is what our media chose to tell us and that has been hysterical violence in the M.E., South Asia and Europe.

And speaking of generalizations - much violence is threatened and taken against the Danish people in general for what one privately owned newspaper decided to publish.

I'd feel a lot better if more Westerners stood up more strongly in defence of Western values - instead of wimpily apologizing for Muslim lunacy.

Rev.Paperboy said...

Clearly there are idiots on both sides of the fence on this issue, but only one media outlet in Canada has run it own cartoons featuring a likeness of the prophet
and I have a link to it:
http://kevinswoodshed.blogspot.com/2006/02/yelling-fire-in-crowded-mosque-i-like.html