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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
In my opinion these cartoons are in no way a "criticism" of Islam.
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For the umpteenth time!
The offensive images are not those of Mohammed with a bomb in his turban (why oh why would an arab muslim be wearing a turban anyway?) but images of a French pig squealing contentstant (dressed as a pig) with the caption "Here is the true face of Muhammad" another showing a muslim being mounted as he prays, and another image portraying Muhammad as a demonic paedophile (none of these images were published by the Danish newspaper).
Those images I can understand offending people.
The outrage from the middle east becomes more understandable when you take into account the way these images (along with the 12 that were published) are introduced to people, within a dossier which also states that dane's are infidels, there's a ban on the building of mosques and the claim that Islam is not officially recognised, along with other right wing anti-islamic properganda portrayed as the official line.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jylland...ammad_cartoons
What the Islamic community should be doing right now is thinking long and hard as to why some non-muslims view Mohammad and Islam in such a negative way.
When people think of christians, they tend to think of nice people who'll smile and say they'll pray for you if they hear you're not well
When people think of buddists, they tend to think of peaceful monks dressed in orange
When people think of Sikhs, they think of honour and the help they gave us in WW2
When people think of muslims, well, a lot of the great unwashed think of them as flag burning extremists who want to wipe out the west. Is that what Muslims want people to think of them?