when freedom became insanity
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 It is obvious that I haven't written from a very long time, but after the last accidents, I felt like I must say something about that...what is happening to the world? when is the time when we will learn that all of us do exist and none of us can erase the others from existence by ignoring them…let us see what happened and read it carefully…First a Danish journal called "Jyllands-Posten" published on September 30, 2005, cartoon drawings showing the Islamic prophet Muhammad including a depiction of Muhammad with a bomb inside or under his turban, which is not acceptable according to Islamic traditions; well if we know that the drawing itself is forbidden in Islam then what about an offensive drawing such this one? However the Moslem world was obviously offended by these drawings, later some of the Moslem governments asked for an immediate meeting with the Danish Prime Minister to discuss this matter, however, the last one refused to meet them saying that "The government refuses to apologize because the government does not control the media or a newspaper outlet; that would be in violation of the freedom of speech". On the other side, many protests have been organized around the Moslem World, but they were content by shouting and burning the Danish flag, to make it worse, many other journals dared to reprint the images in the cause of "freedom of speech" throwing the oil into an already blazing rage, and that end up with a violent protests in Syria and Lebanon, the mob in Syria burned the Danish embassy and the Norwegian embassy and then they headed toward the French embassy to do the same but eventually they were stopped. So what happened out there? The mob were wrong that’s for sure, because in the result they have shown a pretty bad image of Islam, and as they wanted to defend their believes, they helped in criticizing them, not just that, the violence done in the protest brought more damage to the Islam view in the eyes of the west world, they harmed the cause and failed to be the wiser side…a question appeared here, why do we have to play the wise party? Some of them would ask, and I find this question is a very reasonable question, weren’t the Danish who started this and then refused to apologized, it is not the first time when someone criticizes Islam, but it was the first time we see this angry mob gone mad, then when the things gone bad? In my opinion the Danish cartoons controversy took a dangerous direction when the Danish Government refused to apologize, but unfortunately they ignored the Moslems feelings in a foolish action not to mention that many other journals reprinted the images, and that made the victim feeling inside a lot of Moslems nowadays transforming into a raging monsters causing these violent attacks. Now as what done is done, it is the responsibility of religious leaders around the world to calm the storm, and as the Vatican claimed that religious figures must not be subjects of mockery, the Islamic world is calmer now, and we could see the Islamic religious leaders are trying to calm it even more as Hasan Nasr-Allah, leader of the Lebanese National Resistance Hezbollah, criticized the violent protests and claimed that Islam is a religion of peace urging the Moslems around the world to be merciful as their prophet saying that : "one should not obey god from which he disobeys him" in attempt to tell us that you can not achieve peace by doing war. At the end, I wanted to say that we need mutual understanding, we need to respect each others believes, traditions and faiths, only then we shall have peace. |
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