First the Muslims came for the Cartoonists
February 2, 2006 by Conservative Culture
Filed under General
It isn’t blasphemous to poke fun and even expose the humor of ‘religions’. There was no blasphemy of God to be found in the cartoons which are stirring an uproar across Europe. But it appears that some Muslims cannot tolerate the humor of some ‘man made’ tenets which make up a primary motivation for the Jihadist.
… the Muslim faith considers it blasphemy to depict the Prophet in any way. Thus, in December, the youth branch of Pakistan’s largest religious party, Jamaat-e-Islami, offered a bounty for murdered cartoonists.
Other papers around the world are reprinting the forbidden cartoons. Michelle Malkin cites the following quotation about a headline used in the France Soir.
Major European Paper such as The Welt and France Soir have also published them. France Soir headline is “Yes, we have the right to caricature God.” Under it a cartoon of Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim and Christian gods floating on a cloud. The caption reads: “Don’t complain, Muhammad, we’ve all been caricatured here.”
You can also see the forbidden cartoons there as well as here at Atlas Shrugs.
It appears that the uproar began when Denmark’s largest newspaper responded to an author having difficulty getting artists for the book about Muhammad for fear of reprisals. The paper asked over 40 illustrators to work on the project. The result of the project is still being felt.
The Brussels Journal has received threats for posting the cartoons on their site which are published for your reading. They also have a post about the guts the Danish Prime Minister has had in this matter proving not all is rotten in Denmark.
Meanwhile, one can but admire the courage of Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. He is one of the very few European politicians with guts. If anyone deserves a prize for his valiant defense of freedom of speech and freedom of the press, it is certainly Mr Rasmussen. He did not give in to pressure from Muslim fanatics, nor from the appeasers at the UN, the European Commission and the Council of Europe. In the past weeks Denmark has shown that all is not yet lost in Europe. If something is rotten now it is not in Denmark.
This has not dissuaded further complaints and threats from the Muslims writing in to the Journal and other papers. France has also entered the row over Muslim cartoons.
France Soir said it had published the cartoons to show that “religious dogma” had no place in a secular society.
Strong words from the French paper considering all the problems the Muslim sector caused last year with the riots. However threats will blow over even a good bluff. Masked gunmen took over the European Union offices in the Gaza briefly in protest to the cartoons. So it came to no one’s surprise that the paper caved and fired the editor.
Meanwhile in Europe, Jacques Lefranc, the editor of Paris daily France Soir who today splashed a caricature of the Prophet on his front page to illustrate the row, was sacked.
What have they begun? Appeasement for a false peace is always a recipe for disaster. The cartoons at most point out foibles of religion. At worst they depict something that is not true. If the convictions of a person is based on truth then lies are not a threat. However, if the convictions are not based on truth then they have something to protect. So what is it that the radical Muslims have to protect? The honor of Muhammad? Let him defend his own honor or at least let God defend it if he really wants to.
Holger on Thu, 2nd Feb 2006 10:59 pm
Go to http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/freespeech1
to sign a petition supporting Denmark.
muhammad javaid iqal on Sat, 4th Feb 2006 12:38 am
strong protest do not play with the sentiments of muslims. the catroonist should tender apology
Quality on Sat, 4th Feb 2006 7:48 am
it’s funny how muslims react that way. they (muslims) never realize that what is happening now is only minor compared to the insults and blasphemies they do everyday to non-muslims.
tell those muslims to stop confiscating and burning the christian bibles which christians carry with them when they enter saudi arabia, then maybe we would consider showing them the same respect they show to other religions.
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anjuli on Tue, 7th Feb 2006 2:11 am
I am not Muslim nor am I religious, however I am quiet disgusted by the cartoons that were published and the general response that people have in supporting them, since it is a very sacrilegious act. For many people of Islamic faith these cartoons which depict a holy person in such a derogatory way would be the equivalent of Christians having their bibles burned and pissed on, or secular people having cartoons portray child torture in a humorous manner. I also hate the racist orientalist connotation which suggests that all Muslims are fundamentalist, there are many fundamentalist Christian groups which get depicted in such a different way in the media and when they do get bad press it is done so that they appear to be independent groups, whereas Islamic (and sometimes the fundamentalists are actually middle eastern Christians) are viewed as being holistically fundamental. I wish this wasn???t seen as a fight for freedom of the press, which is something that I do support, but at the same time realise how skewed, edited, and terribly biased the presses depiction of the world really is ??? is it then actually free speech? More than anything I find the reactions all around very sad, since we, on all sides, refuse to accept, respect, or even be sensitive to the different values and beliefs that other cultures have.