But thats only News policy…people dont want to watch peacefull demonstartions but blood and violence. In here, the bigger issue has been the torchin of the danish embasy in Damaskus. The mentioned these other normal demonstrations as well, but in sort of bakcing up the rising gloom and fear.
And I havent wathced BBC and CNN so i cannot say a much about them, but do you personally think that the violence should have been left out from this? The situation is difficoult and propaply dangerous, and the most frieghtening happenings are same time the most hectic and important events of this crisis. Do we really need to know that there have been also peacefull demonstrations? They arent exactly painting anyhow different picture to our mind, wheter they protest in peace or in fury…the important part is that they protest.

I believe kursed has a point, here. You’re right about the news policy, what many people want too see, hear, read, talk and write about, and I think it’s unfortunate that much of the media often concentrates its focus on violent and critical events rather than trying to provide a more balanced coverage.
It is important to report violent actions, but it is also important to include more extensive coverage of peaceful events as well as that may have an effect on the largely incorrect impression that “all Muslims are part of a uniform mass looking for trouble,” an impression which is gaining more fuel by the hour, I’m afraid.

Those who do truly hate Muslims are likely delighted with the reaction to the cartoons by Muslim groups in europe the M-E and elsewhere. They can point to the more pathetic aspects of the reaction and the threats being made and say “see how Muslims react- they can dish it out but can’t take it”.

More fuel right into their laps of hatred.

When the publishers of cartoons made mass generalization of Muslims….why do you get offended when the response is also generalization? Be it boycott of products or calling back of diplomats. One side spread hatred by implying that Muslims are terrorists from the core of their religion….now the response is also a generalization…that Danish Government and Newspaper are to blame although the government has nothing to do with it..I think they’re getting the taste of their own medicine.

I didn’t express this clearly enough earlier, but the fact is that I disagree with those who have chosen to carry out the consumer boycott; I’m not denying their right to do so.
I never said I got offended, it just worries me that so many have chosen to act against other elements than the source(s) of the issue. I don’t agree with the respective editors of Jyllands-Posten and Magazinet because I believe that freedom should be exercised with responsibility and common sense and not considered as a command to deliberately spread contempt. But although I disagree with their actions, which I consider to be unwise, they still have the right to do what they have done, just like Muslim consumers have the right to boycott Danish industry, which is an action that I consider to be off target.

In my opinion, it is wrong to generalize so many over so few, and this goes for Jyllands-Posten, Magazinet etc. as well as the extremists who have chosen to threaten all Danes, Norwegians etc. because of this.

Well just as the Danish government doesn’t have a say over the working of their independent press according to their constitution. Exactly what brutality is involved in recalling your ambassadors and boycotting products?

Refer to my reply to phrozenflame, and please don’t try to put (the wrong) words into my mouth.

publishing the cartoons reflects an obtuse refusal to accept the profound meaning for a billion Muslims of Islam’s prohibition against any pictorial representation of the prophet.

This is were certain things like responsibility, common sense and respect enter the equation.

Depicting Mohammed wearing a turban in the form of a bomb with a sputtering fuse is no less hurtful to most Muslims than Nazi caricatures of Jews or Ku Klux Klan caricatures of blacks are to those victims of intolerance.

I certainly understand this.

the Danish Prime Minister has no say or control over the material published in the concerned publication therefore KSA and rest of the GCC countries should have demanded an apology from the concerned paper and not the government.

Exactly.

I would love to see the opinions of the actual artist of these pics, not just the publishers…

According to some Norwegian newspapers, none of the artists ever authorized any publishing of the Muhammed cartoons, and some (or all?) of them demand compensation.

In my opinion, the freedom of expression is a fundamental right and benefit which must be maintained. But, powerful and invaluable as it is, it should be excercised with responsibility and common sense.

Extremist groups making an effort to show off and ignite more fury don’t surprise me that much, but the fact that numerous Muslim consumers have chosen to boycott parts of Danish industry which have nothing to do with the actual newspaper (Jyllands-Posten), can be interpreted as a sign of unjust mass generalization, and that worries me. Something tells me that some of these reactions may have been fueled by some sort of propaganda intended to increase the collective anger.
It also worries me that otherwise moderate political and religious leaders demand official apologies from Danish and Norwegian authorities, which in fact cannot be held responsible for acts committed by independent media businesses.

Aftenposten.no: Local Muslim leaders to help settle conflict

I hope it’s unnecessary to say this, but please keep in mind that the world is not black and white. In my opinion, the best thing we can do in situations like this is to stay calm and use common sense. Don’t allow some extremists to set the agenda.

Intergration and Differentiation. Ugh…Along with Quantum Physics in the middle of the day

I haven’t had any of those since June 2003, I think. Math was OK, while physics was actually quite interesting.

EH!!!!!!!
numbers and letters???????
must have had that day off.

It’s an amazing little thing called algebra.

-24b = 120
24b = -120
b = 5

b = -5

5a – 3(-5) = 25
5a = 10
a = 2

It is a breach of the Geneva convention and, therefore, a war crime to delibirately target civilians even if military units are present in the area.

One may not intentionally attack civilians, or property that is exclusively civilian or religious in character, except if the property is being used for military purposes or engagement is authorized by one’s commander.

The latest seems to be that the Pakistan authorities know the names as well as the roles of the four arabs killed and that they were high up in the terrorist food-chain.

Any word on al-Zawahiri?

The chose to start engaging targets in Serbia that were not acceptable targets earlier in the war. Why were they not acceptable earlier in the war? Was it because of the unnessary suffering they’d cause amongst Serbs that had nothing to do with Kosovo? Or was it the potential bad publicity of using a hammer to crack an egg?

Perhaps they wanted to see if they could manage to contain the situation in Kosovo without pounding Serbia and Montenegro too hard. It didn’t work out as hoped and they chose to escalate the effort. Perhaps the war could have been over sooner if NATO had made a bigger effort to begin with. The bottom line is that the Serbs were underestimated.