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Originally Posted by Pierre
As I said earlier Islam is supremist religion littered with double standards and contradiction.
I mean, god forbid we should have cartoons about mohammad, but it's quite acceptable for the Arab world to produce anti-semitic cartoons such as in the attached link.
http://www.honestreporting.com/artic...e_Cartoons.asp |
The argument here is regarding the characterisation of the prophet Muhammed. The link you mention shows pictures characterising people/a race, so its slightly different.
Like I said in earlier posts I dont agree in the manner in which the violent/extreme protesters have been going about their business and in the UK they have most definately been the minority.
If the cartoons had depicted normal muslims (i.e not the prophet) as terrorists there would have been nothing like we've witnessed so far. I am a muslim and i was offended by the pictures, displaying my anger through the medium of petitions. If those cartoons were showing a group of arabs in the middle east carrying bombs under their turbans I would have laughed it off. This is why I see the accusation of double standards does not wash well.
I have yet to see any cartoons by mainstream muslim artists/publications depicting prophets including Jesus in an offensive manner.
By the way every mainstream muslim spokesperson (representing muslim communities in the UK) thats appeared on breakfast news programmes, heaven and earth show on sunday, the radio and the press has disagreed with the violence seen at demonstrations and dissaproved at the placards on display, asking the police to take appropriate action against the perpertrators. Even Hizbut Tahir (sp) a rather extreme group, and not representative of the magority of muslims in the UK today said it was inappropriate for that guy to turn up looking liek a suicide bomber and that they distance themselves from such acts.