Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Danish Cartoons

After the story of printing those defending cartoons against holy prophet Mohammad first in Danish papers and then in the European ones , all the Muslim countries start some protests against them, these voices was very weak at the start but become more strong after joining most of the countries to it. Actually at first they only do rebel acts such as firing the Denmark flag or breaking the glasses of their embassy just to show their anger.
But yesterday BBC was showing the new phase of clash by showing Arabian malls which at first were full of Danish things but after it they removed all of them from the rows. It's interesting to know that those delicious Nescafe by Nestle copmany are removed too. It's said that up to now about 90,000,000 $ is the average detriment of Denmark and it's increasing now.
… And the noticeable point is that, although all these arguments had happened,none of the Danish governors has accepted to apologize the Muslim out of their self admiration. Maybe if the Muslims keep their unity forever they never let themselves do such again.

2 comments:

Simon said...

I think we need to put things into perspective. Religion is always a contravesrial subject, however are recent actions justified?
It is not as if the Islamic world is innocent, the West gets branded the Big Satan, Non-Muslims are branded as non-believers and infidels, and we won't even touch on the attitudes towards the Jews where Arab leaders on public and international forums call for the destruction of the Jewish State, they deny the Holocaust....yet do we see the same response.
It has been said, and the last time i saw this was with an interview with a Danish iman, that such depictions of Muhammad with a bomb shaped turban can be bought as postcards in Tehran...the claim was not denied, nor was the claim that cartoons NOT commissioned by the paper were included to stir up hatred.
The fact still remains, that Europe and the West practice freedom of speech, there are Laws that allow people or groups to make proper and legal protest against the press but not by means of inciting hatred, calling for executions and malicious and wanton destruction of property.
Whilst i can empathise with the Muslims who felt offended, I feel that the Danish Imans who toured Muslim countries stirring and inciting hatred and violence have caused far more harm to Western/Arabic relations than the cartoons could ever have achieved.

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