Nobody is denying their right to freedom of expression but would you like to take a second and explain to me as to why was Muhammad (PBUH) chosen as a subject and not Bin Laden or Zwahiri or Zarqawi since the ‘naive’ artists wanted to show the extremist elements of Islam? The cartoons are implicit in their meaning and implie that all Muslims, by their very nature, are murderers. Let me see you justify this act of theirs.

My advice to the countries in the middle east:

Broadcast Monthy Pythons “Life of Brian” on national television and you might get a clue of what democracy and freedom of speech is about.

regards,
Cliff

They wont rather they cant. Moses and Christ are as holy to Muslims as Muhammad (PBUH).

By your post it’s clearly visible that you don’t know or have failed to understand as to why Muslims have taken offense to cartoons of Muhammad (PBUH). I’d suggest you to read more into this topic and you just might realise as to why is this such a sensitive topic for us Muslims.

Are Christians around the world burning flags and threatening to suicide bomb the creators of this?

If the publications which posted such disgusting cartoons were naive enough to play into extremists’ hands what do you expect the moderate Muslims to do? On top of that its worthwhile to note that the Islamic response has been far from uniform.

Whether consciously and subconsciously, these cartoons operate in the same way that anti-semitic images did during the golden age of bigotry. These images have the ability to dehumanize foster the myth of the dangerous alien; a barbaric foreign threat to Western society intent on ruining our way of life, etc etc.

Examples are here or here .

Now look at Mohammed with the exploding turban… The intention is clear: the cartoon implies that all Muslims, by their very nature, are murderers.
Is it as explicitly racist as Der Sturmer? No, but it uses the same visual language. In the increasingly Islamophobic climate of Europe (and I would imagine the US as well), this kind of imagery only solidifies stereotypes and is a hindrance to any kind of productive dialogue.

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Clearly Muslims arent the only ones who get upset when their faith and their religious figures are disrespected. The pretense that muslims are backward because theyre not secular and dont appreciate such “freedom of expression” is bogus.

Look at what made the artist come up with this stuff. There’s a problem there, and I think there’s a large number of people (worldwide, that’s not a jab at the forum) that realize that. The real people who we should be concerned about here are those who just treat this as a basic “oh no someone got offended” PC issue.

The Danes have used their freedom of speech as an excuse to provoke the Muslims. The cartoon of Prophet Muhammad wearing a turban with a bomb, clearly tells you what their perspective of Islam as a religion is. It was imprudent of the Danish media to associate terrorism with the true teachings of Islam. The reason I said that more suitable candidates for such pictures would have been Bin Laden, Abu Musab Zarqawi or Al-Zwahiri instead of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
I can only hope that rationality prevails and the Europeans realize that by acting in this manner they are only playing into the hands of the Islamic extremists who will for ever use this disgusting chain of events as grounds for recruiting more people for their so called ‘holy’ war.

If a muslim publication ever prints anti-semetic comments it becomes an undeniable sign of how the entire muslim world is backward, umodern and indoctrinated and when a similar feat is repeated by a publication in the west against the Muslims, its cited as well, freedom of expression. Thats ironic, isnt it.

Regardless of how silly it is to deny the holocaust, to make it a crime to voice that opinion flies in the face of the claims that these countries have true freedom of expression.