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Date Posted: 12:42:08 02/04/06 Sat
Author: stillreign
Subject: Re: Prophet Mohhamed drawings
In reply to: tg 's message, "Prophet Mohhamed drawings" on 22:07:20 02/03/06 Fri

Actually my life doesn't revolve around Christ at all.

I don't consider my self Christian in any way so it would be very odd if I stopped to pray to Christ at all.

Not that I don't see your point, but I think there are Christians here who see their faith every bit as precious as some Muslim see Muslim and their highest figure.

I think it's generally questionable to poke fun any anyone's thoughts or belief�s. I was just stating it's done with Christ all the time. I don't think every Christian has the same amount of religious vigor here, but many are very dedicated to their belief system.

On a different side of this subject, I agree with what many are saying about the necessity do create these caricature they didn�t really serve any deeper meaning than to poke fun at the subject. I am all for people having artistic freedom and freedom of speech but what purpose did this serve?

Here�s a bolg that I found to be pretty well expressed on the whole thing.

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[> Re: Prophet Mohhamed drawings -- tg, 13:22:48 02/04/06 Sat [1]

Well some might say that the purpose was to make all Muslims or Arabs out to be terrorists, so I don't know what the purpose was, because we know that's not true.

Still I don't know what the purpose is when someone is anti-semetic and goes into a jewish cemetary and starts knocking over gravestones either. I really don't get the point, I think people just want to say we are racist and allowed to be or something, that's the freedom of speech. I also don't think people even know why they have hate or the reason behind their feelings.
On the otherhand the Middle East also does this kind of stuff to Americans and Jews so, when is it going to end.

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[> [> Re: Prophet Mohhamed drawings -- stillreign, 14:03:23 02/04/06 Sat [1]

>Well some might say that the purpose was to make all
>Muslims or Arabs out to be terrorists.

It doesn�t serve any other philosophical, artistic or intellectual merit. It�s done solely to be offensive.

Here�s the thought of someone who lives in Denmark. They are having a difficult time there reconciling with immigrants to their country and that is part of why this is even happening.

See quote below.

�Being Danish, I think I might put in a word here. There's a lot more to it than the cartoons published in Jyllands Posten last September. The tone of the debate about immigrants in this country has been incredibly nasty over the last few years to the point where we (as a country) have been called Islamophobic. In the name of free speech a right wing party have been steering this debate in a direction where it's 'alright' to call Muslims names that I won't even repeat here, where it's okay to spew hateful rhetoric in Parliament itself and where (as we've seen) newspapers can publish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed.

The publishing of these cartoons, in my opinion, is not a way to provoke debate about free speech. It's what it's been made into after the Islamic world caught on to the existance of these drawings. That we have the 'right' to publish things like that doesn't mean that we should.

At this point, it is no longer about free speech, the right to free speech, democracy or anything of the like. It's about culture. Our two culture simply cannot communicate. That's it. Us westeners talk democracy, while the Muslims talk religion. Not only two differnt languages, but two different ways of thinking.

I think this will have to run it's course. Hopefully things won't excalate to the point where we can't even try to communicate.�

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