Comments on: The Danish cartoons: Opening Europe’s eyes

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:05:05 +0000

I’m a Christian living in Sydney. I find it particularly interesting the fact that so many people, governments and media are taking such drastic measures in regard to condemning the cartoons. Where were these great voices when the current ‘victims’ were desecrating the Budhist statues? did the Muslims denounce these actions by their fellow believers in Afghanistan? I don’t want to even start contemplating the reasons for condemning the cartoons and not even small outcry in regard to the desecration of the centuries old statues? What I’m wondering is why the sudden active reaction (by non-muslims) and the much more passive reaction to a far worse act of destroying a historical sacred monument. Is it because anything to do with islam is considered a much more political sensitive subject?…

PS: very good point honey and Meryl Yourish (posts 13 & 14)

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 17:11:04 +0000

seems someone ( Monamis ) forgot the 10 comandments are Jewish, not Christian. Also it should now be clear to all that the RADICAL elements of Islam will not use debate OF ideas to win the day, but violence, and fear. If this is because they do not have the mental training to debate, that is sad, if it is because they do not want to be troubled with other ideas, lest they have to admit that they already know that their beliefs can not win, then we all will live in fear, wondering who they will harm next, for having the courage to offer another point of view.

By: Monamis

Monamis — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 03:13:08 +0000

It is rediculous for people kill each other over cartoons. regardless of if we are believers in Christ, Mohamad, Budda or study the Bible, the Koran, or Torah, or any of the other numerous ideologies, we are people. Greed provokes wars,the powerful reach out to the multitude of have nots, to provoke their ambitions.Regardless of what we study and what our beliefs, the books we treasure as our own share the same basic fundamental beliefs, Be honest, love one another,empathize when needed ,be charitable when proven. Getting to sound like the Chritian 10 commandments, look at all your doctrin you will fine they are more than similarities. They are real. Live in peace, grow in peace,love in harmony. Where does it start, here, big job you bet, impossible almost, because of the greed of some leaders, clerics who dispize peace and warriers who are too blinded by their inability to comprehend the costs of their missions on life, on their nations and on society as a whole.
Lets stop the bullshit here, it starts with you, people who are reading and listening,

Monamis

By: Truth

Truth — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 04:07:32 +0000

Muslims should ask themselves why the rest of the world continues to move forward in technology, and why western scientists spend more than half there life time searching for cures against life threating diseases facing man kind. On the other hand in the Islamic world we have people living in terror, war, famine, and under fear.

After all it’s the west that feeds many Islamic countries. For example the EU gives palestine 600 million a year, the US 70 million and Australia 13 million. After all this terrorists continue to target Westeners and Islamic countries continue to hate the west and western societies. Lets not forget the christians that are beheaded in Iraq and the bombing of churches in Iraq. After all Islam was spread by the sword and enforced in many countries.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 22:59:28 +0000

They are making noise just to make noise. Images of the Prophet have been around for hundreds of years without comment from these groups. Check out: http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/ to see lots more images … not all complementary!

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 19:50:06 +0000

Say, honey–”freedom of speech” is exactly that–allowing people to insult Islam if they so desire. Religious law is not the law in a democracy.

America and Denmark happen to be governed by secular laws, and consist of secular democracies. Look up the difference between that and theocracy, and you will begin to understand why we don’t care about the cartoons being published.

And, uh, “live and let live” does not include “tit for tat” as a punishment if you do not. The Danes aren’t getting disrespect. They are getting death threats.

By: honey

honey — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 18:32:08 +0000

Well so much for the so called democracy & the freedom of speech out here, is democracy what u call ‘humiliating’ others, or are there any laws to it? to what extent this freedom of speech is allowed? if im free doesn’t mean im allowed to kill, or steal, or do what ever i feel like, i am forbidden to bring harm to others & that’s my limit of freedom. there are certain limits & boundries to everything,& so is in this case.

In countriues where people can sue others for humiliating them, how can anyone think of humiliating a person regarded as a prophet to a religion?

& what if the person who drew this cartoon draws the next caricature of jesus, in the same humiliating way, how would the christians feel, or if its let’s suppose moses’s the next time then how would the jews feel? i guess they’ll feel the same anger, no sane person can enjoy any such stuff degrading anyone’s religious figures as all people around he world beleive their prophets as their perfect role models.

So please stop this non sense stuff & atleast try to respect others limits & beleifs as is the rule of ‘democracy’ because this is what freedom is all about. you give respect & you will get respect, give disrespect & you will get the same in return, so no offense, its only a matter of ‘tit for tat’ so please live & let live u see.

By: Tara Emory

Tara Emory — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 23:47:27 +0000

I just love the whole fact that Muslims (and I don’t mean ALL Muslims) go bannanas and kill (yes, one person has now died from all this) people becuase a cartoon came out implying that Muslims are terrorists- or just implying that Muhammads turban has a fuse to it, which could mean a lot of things-.

It’s tantamout to this.. I publish something saying that Bob Smith is a murderer.. Bob Smith is so offended by the idea that he’s a murderer, that he seeks me out and kills me, THEREFORE PROVING MY POINT!!!!!!! See the irony here?? Am I the only one to see that the furor over the Danish cartoon is the same?

-Tara

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 03:56:39 +0000

Anon, now THAT’s funny. You don’t need the CIA to stoke anger in the Muslim world. All you need is, well, Muslims, it seems.

By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 04:24:03 +0000

Quinton,
The Muslim activists in the West are stoking the fire and keeping the issue alive, of course. Look how they added three pictures to the twelve Jyllands-Posten published, all three more offensive than anything from the original 12. Why do you think the issue has not run its course? Don’t forget that the right wing racists (like the Nazis; here in the US there are very few right wing racists, but lots of left wing ones) mostly agree with the Muslims about most things, especially the Muslim desire to kill the Jews (that’s the goal of those Palis you sympathize with).

The only mite of reassurance I find is the small numbers of demonstrators in the examples Meryl posted above. Any respectable Third-World country ought to be able to turn out thousands of demonstrators at the drop of a secret policeman’s hat. I wonder how many ordinary Muslims actually are aware of this or actually care?

Muslims in the West cannot be allowed to turn the Western countries they live in into replicas of the sewers thay left behind because they were sick of the dictators and economic stagnation of those Muslim lands. If they cannot endure freedom for others than themselves then they should go back where they came from, and be happy there in political, cultural, and economic squalor.