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Europe's Defamation of the Prophet
Shallow:
--- Quote from: JML - no vowels, disembowel your Colin Powell, throw in the towel on February 08, 2006, 02:32:20 PM ---By the way... what happened to "Freedom of Speech" when the Jews were demanding that Mel Gibson take out certain parts in The Passion? How about every time the Anti-Defamation League files complaints? How about the fact that there are laws in Europe against the portrayal of anti-Semitic images in newspapers? If you guys want to talk about double-standards... don't forget little "minor details" like these.
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No one is saying the Muslims don't have the right to protest the cartoon. It's the violent nature of the protest. If a group of Jews marched to Mel Gibson's house and set fire to it they'd be arrested.
"...the only [other] freedom of speech left in the west is bashing [Christianity] otherwise it does have its limits."
This one Muhammad cartoon is no worse than the countless number of Jesus satires that pop up every few weeks.
P.S. Before you tell me it's different because in Islam you aren't allowed to show Muhammad in pictures, could someone please show me where in the Quran it says you can't, and why the Muslim cultures in Iran and Turkey have had pictures of Muhammad for hundreds of years?
Mo Z. Dizzle:
--- Quote from: Shallow on February 08, 2006, 03:22:40 PM ---
--- Quote from: JML - no vowels, disembowel your Colin Powell, throw in the towel on February 08, 2006, 02:32:20 PM ---By the way... what happened to "Freedom of Speech" when the Jews were demanding that Mel Gibson take out certain parts in The Passion? How about every time the Anti-Defamation League files complaints? How about the fact that there are laws in Europe against the portrayal of anti-Semitic images in newspapers? If you guys want to talk about double-standards... don't forget little "minor details" like these.
--- End quote ---
No one is saying the Muslims don't have the right to protest the cartoon. It's the violent nature of the protest. If a group of Jews marched to Mel Gibson's house and set fire to it they'd be arrested.
"...the only [other] freedom of speech left in the west is bashing [Christianity] otherwise it does have its limits."
This one Muhammad cartoon is no worse than the countless number of Jesus satires that pop up every few weeks.
P.S. Before you tell me it's different because in Islam you aren't allowed to show Muhammad in pictures, could someone please show me where in the Quran it says you can't, and why the Muslim cultures in Iran and Turkey have had pictures of Muhammad for hundreds of years?
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well said
seriously, as a Muslim i am offended...but being violent over it will solve nothing
if you wanna boycott them, then go ahead...itz passive resistance and yo are making a statement peacefully which is wut Islamic principles are about
by acting violent, Islam not only gets a bad name but then it gets ppl thinking "oh Islam really is like that?"
why not try and sit down with the cartoonist or cartoonists who created those pictures and try figuring out what may have caused them to create it? it could've been some personal experience which may have lead them to make the cartoon images and maybe by talking things over with them could help.
being peaceful is how a Muslim should act...and ONLY when physical war is declared on you and you have tried creating peace but it has not succeeded because the other party is not willing to, then you must fight but STILL obey the Islamic rules of war.
and right now, for Shia Muslims especially because of the month of Muharram, we have to be peaceful as we know (or should know rather) what happened a few thousand years ago with the grandson of our Prophet Muahmmad, his family and the huge sacrifice he made...
7even:
muslims be bitin the bait and gettin laid six feet deep.. that's what the fuck happens right now.
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: Don Jacob on February 08, 2006, 02:41:56 PM ---all i got to say is that , you people got better things to worry about than getting all butt hurt about a fucking cartoon.
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^^your right
h cottie is bac-tive?:
has any1 seen a cartoon with Jesus in a KKK robe infront of a burnin cross or Moses pickin up a penny off the floor in the western media ???
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