Lately in the news
Lately the news in the Middle East has not been good. And for those of you living a sheltered existance let me remind you what is happening: The Muslim community is outraged by a depiction of the prophet Muhammad in a Dutch editorial cartoon. Now I have not personally seen this cartoon but I am thinking that it is not a good depiction. And it is against their religious beliefs that the Prophet Muhammad is not depicted in any way.
Now I can sympathize why they are very angry. They see this as a very big insult to their religion. And to top it off there has been numerous other bad depictions as well. The French even put this controversial depiction on the front page of their newspaper. If I remember correctly they have a rather large Muslim community right in their back yard. It is like they are trying to purposely tick off someone. Way too go French. (idiots)
There are people out there that are probably thinking "What is the big deal? So your prophet was in a cartoon." For those of you thinking that think about this: How would you feel if the major figure in your religion was depicted in a bad light? What if it had been someone like Jesus or Buddha or someone along those lines? How would you feel then? Not so good? Would you feel like throwing something too and protesting?
Some people need to start to realize that their religion is not the only religion. There are dozens of other religions out there. And when they are thinking about making fun of a religious prophet they should stop and think....if it was their religious prophet someone else was making fun of, how would they feel?
Now I can sympathize why they are very angry. They see this as a very big insult to their religion. And to top it off there has been numerous other bad depictions as well. The French even put this controversial depiction on the front page of their newspaper. If I remember correctly they have a rather large Muslim community right in their back yard. It is like they are trying to purposely tick off someone. Way too go French. (idiots)
There are people out there that are probably thinking "What is the big deal? So your prophet was in a cartoon." For those of you thinking that think about this: How would you feel if the major figure in your religion was depicted in a bad light? What if it had been someone like Jesus or Buddha or someone along those lines? How would you feel then? Not so good? Would you feel like throwing something too and protesting?
Some people need to start to realize that their religion is not the only religion. There are dozens of other religions out there. And when they are thinking about making fun of a religious prophet they should stop and think....if it was their religious prophet someone else was making fun of, how would they feel?
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TheJoeD on
I agree, Medina. Another thing we have to realize is that many, many Muslim countries are not entitled to freedom of speech or expression, and often view jokes that may or may not have been in good taste, as an outright insult.
