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

Genuine question

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

My knowledge of Islam is significantly more limited than yours, so I ask this informationally rather than inflammatorily. If that's a word.

Would a similar mockery of Jesus be allowed if it was part of a war against unbelievers, or an unjust regime? I seem to remember than in such cases any tactics normally prohibited (such as killing innocent women and children) are allowed.

Re: Genuine question

[blkeagl.livejournal.com]

You're asking the wrong person.

The Islam I was raised in would allow none of the above at ANY time or for ANY reason. The Christianity I was exposed to in Sunday school with the other half of my family also forbids it.

Yet people make excuses and justifications for all kinds of evil behavior. Making the enemy 'inhuman' is a necessary process in allowing people to destroy them without guilt.

I get yelled at a lot for making moral equivilence statements, but witness the Crusades, the Inquisition.. heck our need for a stable Middle East to preserve and stabilize our modern lifestyle.

We're not all that different in reality, just in terms of some world view. People in both 'worlds' believe that the same fundamental behaviors are wrong and not ok and the bulk of them are vastly more interested in personal safety and opportunity than destroying the West.