Bahu states:
| The cartoon showed the Prophet wearing a bomb in his turban. |
Out of respect, it's not right to mock any religious idol regardless of motive. Moreover, no religious idol has ever been responsible for blood letting or war. Only in recent years has the Muslim religion stepped into the public eye bringing underlying motive out into question. As for bombs and turbans, thank the events of 9/11 and the Muslim terrorist signature bomb delivery being self sacrifice in the name of “Islam” at any cost. Yep, bombing has become associated with turbans in a slurred sense.
| The Western embedded media says that it is a clash between Freedom of Expression and an increasingly intolerant Islam. |
Don’t often agree with “The Western media’, but in this case they’re not to far off point. The problem is with Freedom of Expression, comes social responsibility and that’s to often ignored when it comes to controversial beliefs.
| the West believes that it can cruush the Moslem world |
This statement is so off the mark, it scratches distortion. We will do all we can to stop terrorism, not Muslims. Just so happens that you can thank Muslims with distortions and extremist views for advancing the association of terrorism with Muslims, even though there are some Catholics in Ireland that fit the bill.
I've see roughly two extremes. Don’t know about any of you, but I’ve read segments of the translated version of the Quran, it's not much different then the bible when level headed intent interprets the words. God can be referred to many names, not one fosters killing. Radicals struggle with intent or difference because they’re founded in dysfunction and guided by poor judgment, which takes them to killing what appears threatening to Islam. They’re not all that different from some Christian leaders back in history either.
There appears to be a consensus that maligning all Moslems and intrusive attacks directed at their religious idols is acceptable; if so, that’s wrong. Additionally, it gives food to the distorted person while harming the innocent Moslems, which there are many. In their defense, many moderate Muslims and Clerics have held press releases speaking to the contrary regarding terrorism, but not nearly enough for the world to stand up and take notice. In addition, when highly respected Muslim leaders do speak up, very little press results. With that in mind, I’m in-step with Tova7
For respect to come about, the whole Moslem world needs to take a firm public stance against arbitrary killing and rampant misrepresentation of the Koran. Otherwise, it gives the appearance the majority of Muslims subtly support those publicly announcing extreme beliefs and the manner in which they act out their hate. Once that takes a larger hold, more respect towards Muslim beliefs will be shown by those with marginal tolerance levels. Course; there are extremists on our side of the problem that might never let go.
