Reprinted Cartoons = More Anger

The Danish and all those who support their actions are not stupid, they know exactly what they are doing.  They knew that the Muslim world would not accept further insults by reprinting the cartoon images of Prophet Muhammad and they knew that again ‘Islam’ would be placed at the heart of world conversation.

The Danish media must have thought long and hard about this decision and weighed up all the potential issues, for and against the publications…a complete SWAT analysis.

With this in mind, one can only come to the conclusion that they are picking a fight with the Muslim world with relish.  Under the loopy banner of freedom of speech they wish to insult 2 billion people in one go and cause scenes like the ones in Afghanistan today where Danish flags were burnt and chants of “Death to Denmark” were reportedly heard.

(where the hec do these people get Danish flags from in the middle of Kabul anyway?)

In their stance for the freedom of speech doctrine is there any room for respect?  Is there any room for honour?  Freedom of speech is such a strange thing to be fighting over, it really boils down to having the right to insult one another, abuse one another and lie about one another.  If Freedom of Speech was this perfect ideal then why are there laws in Europe, The United Kingdom, USA and others which punishes such freedoms.  Laws about deformation of character, lies and slander are very common place and are punihsed by sever fines and imprisonment.

The Jewish lobby would never allow such attacks on the Jewish faith, quite rightly.  In fact people have been imprisoned for saying that the Holocaust never happened!  So where is their freedom of speech?

Why would you want to abuse and insult 2 billion people willingly anyway?  These are not the actions or behaviour of civilised people, I would argue.  The injection of the principles of respect and honour should include EVERYONE and not just the few and it should include the things people regard as sacred.  There has to be a line that should not be crossed if freedom of speech is to be respected as a principle worth fighting over.

As a result of the cartoons we will again see more scenes of flag burning and mayhem…but isn’t that what they wanted to happen in the first place?  They can sit back now, after lighting the touch paper, and point their fingers at the Muslims and shake their hands in disapproval and their actions using words like “extremists,” “terrorists,” “ragheads,”and much more.

As Muslims we should be very hurt at these images but do we need to take the bait every time?  If so, what should our response be?  How should we react to all of these attacks?  What would the Sahabah (ra) have done?  What would our beloved Prophet Muhammad himself do?  We need to discuss this.

Whatever we do we need to have one voice.

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