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Originally Posted by Jon M
IMO it's an issue of respect, pure and simple.
I've said as much many times before on these forums...
A right to something (free speech) is all well and good, but exercising that right is a choice, not an obligation.
I can't say that these people should not have created/published the cartoons, but I think is was a disrespectful thing to do.
Respect is a forgotten and largely shunned character trait these days, unfortunatly.
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And this is what people seem to be forgetting here.
If I exercised the right of freedom of speach to walk up to someone and start slagging of their mother or sister, calling her a whore etc etc I would more than likely get a violent response. The problem here is that people are disregarding how much love and to what a level of esteem muslims hold the Prophet Muhammed in. Freedom of speech is one think, but applying it to cause offence (and not for one minute do I think the editors did not think they were going to cause offence) is just being the catalyst for ongoing problems.
Also the fact that the news shows muslims in certain parts of the world burning danish flags, newspapers, issuing death threats does not mean that this is how the majority of muslims in the world are acting over this (as some posts are trying to insinuate here). Yes the majority of muslims will be offended, but has anyone seen a muslim in london walking around burning a flag or shouting out "Death to the Danes". Most of the ones I know are actually sending in their opinions via letters to editors and text polls and petitions.