my ten-second take on the Danish cartoons

[madbaker]

"It is blasphemous to depict the prophet Muhammed."

Wrong.

It is blasphemous for a follower of Islam.
Don't tell me, a non-believer, that I must follow your belief system.

Comments

[ermine-rat.livejournal.com]

Funny that their protests have ensured that everyone on the planet will now get to see this cartoon. Without their protests, I would have never run across this Danish cartoon. So their protest is actually spreading the cartoon that they so despise, probably not what they had in mind.

[scendan.livejournal.com]

That's what you call ironic...

[blkeagl.livejournal.com]

I still haven't bothered to look for it.

[blkeagl.livejournal.com]

BTW, I don't find it funny (in the ironic sense).

I believe it was a deliberate act on the part of those who sincerely WANT to foment further disassociation between Islam and the 'West'.

I believe this is exactly what they want.

[ermine-rat.livejournal.com]

No, they want us to say their religion is more important than any other, and demand special treatment for their moods. This is about controlling the media and controlling policies of the West. Control is the issue. Not control over their own beliefs, but over everyone else's.

It's not an uncommon way of thinking from many Islamic countries that have absolute control of the press and justice systems. Another country with the same will (and different religion), would eradicate them to the last, and sleep well that night. It doesn't have to be that way, but they are testing the Western world's will with these tactics.

[blkeagl.livejournal.com]

I guess I have a different perspective on Islam and Islamic countries than you do.

[ermine-rat.livejournal.com]

and that's okay!

[blkeagl.livejournal.com]

Yep!

Vanilla, Chocolate! :-)