Comments on: Danish paper in trouble over Mohammed cartoons

By: Monitor

Monitor — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:47:58 +0000

And on that note, this comments thread is now closed. I can no longer be bothered to moderate them.

Thank you for participating.

By: Marie

Marie — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:38:55 +0000

btw. to any muslim people who choose to watch this movie : the first scene takes place in an arabic prison in Jerusalem where the guardsmen are kinda evil types – but I am pretty sure that this is only to illustrate that prisons in 1100s weren’t a walk in the park in general (talk about muslim/western crisis back THEN! :S )

This is a pic of Azeem —>

http://www.islamonline.net/English/ArtCulture/2005/08/images/pic08a.jpg

By: Marie

Marie — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:30:58 +0000

Btw. I just saw Robin Hood, the Prince of Thieves (the Costner one) – there is actually a muslim character in that movie who is totally awesomely cool. He is kind of responsible of my own relatively unproblematic relationship with Islamic culture. Other westerners who only see the ‘bad’ sides of Islamic culture (which it has, just as our own culture is by no means perfect) should watch this movie. Even though it takes place in the 1100s, it’s like you can still recognize both the western and the muslim culture. Some things never really change after all. AZEEM THE GREAT ONE, YOU ROX

By: Yakub Ismail

Yakub Ismail — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:24:14 +0000

Before you call us terrorist, i would like to ask, how can you judge whole Islam in accordence to what
few ppl did to give us bad name.. for instance Saddam Hussain, he maybe committed some crimes so now
he’s suffering, another example:this ppl who blow themselves, according to Islam your not allowed to
blow urself o cummit suicide, its completely against Islam, we muslims are not with those few ppl so
why hate for Islam??? whats the whole Islam nation done to you ppl??

By: Yakub Ismail

Yakub Ismail — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:11:05 +0000

You filthy animals who are cursing Islam and laughin on Islam, remember you’ll be the one to suffer
in the here after, Atlist we got relegion, what do you have? am sorry you don’t even have your own country,
this country wer invaded by others not british!!! so pls dnt say its your country you bloody CHAVS
we go Mosque to pray and you ppl go pubs and end up sleeping with your owns mums and sisters.

We are relegion of Peaace, we respect our elders,we respect our childrens when more then 50% of your
childrens are not even yours LOL (DNA) test proven.

SO before you speak about Islam just have a look at yourself and you life. It’s a complete nonsense.!!!

By: Marie

Marie — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:00:16 +0000

#176 aw man, thanks for speaking up I thought I was the only peaceloving person in here for a moment.

By: Do I get a fatwah for this?

Do I get a fatwah for this? — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:36:55 +0000

I wonder how many new cartoons will be drawn in reply to this insane overreaction?

I had no idea it was offensive to Muslims to depict their prophet – but you know what? I am so offended by their bullying of the FREE press in a FREE country, that it has practically made me want to learn to draw so I can launch a cartoon series that has a giggle (in a humourous manner = not offensive or bad taste to anyone but those who require a sense of humour transplant) at their expense.

If you want us to respect your religion and culture, you have to respect our culture of freedom which says “the people shall be free to discuss, including ridicule, any aspect of life they choose to.” That includes freely discussing, ridiculing, insulting and and criticising any religion we wish to, in any way we choose.

Don’t expect any respect for your crazy set of beliefs if you won’t even respect a very simple one of ours: the right to talk about, make works of art or publish things about anything on our minds.

So yes, I am going to start working on a humourous Mohammed cartoon strip about how ridiculous this entire situation is. Furthermore, I hope thousands of people are doing the same! (I’m hardly an artist, and if even *I* am considering it, then hopefully plenty of others have already made theirs!)

I hope 1000 more Mohammed cartoons surface in the next few weeks in protest.

YOU WILL NEVER STOP FREEDOM OF SPEECH, SO JUST GET USED TO IT!!!

By: Sax

Sax — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:34:43 +0000

Muslims (and many others) have been searching for a god, but all they have found is religion.

By: papandy

papandy — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:07:09 +0000

Will you Muslims who don’t like it here please leave. If you don’t like living here and want to live in a land governed by sharia law please do so, with my blessing. We don’t want to, thank you very much. We like living here, we like the fact that our media can mock religious leaders of any denomination, including our own and yours. If you live here you have to abide by the tradtions of this country. We would do the same if we lived in yours. . We are a free country, that is why the poor and the dispossed, including vast numbers of Muslims flock here from around the globe. Do you see masses of refugees flocking to live in Pakistan, to Saudi Arabia, to the Sudan? No, and you know damn well why not. I have no problem with sharia law apart the fact that it is deeply mysogynist and the countries in which it is rules are autocratic and the vast majority of the population live in deep poverty but hey, if that’s your idea of heaven go for it, we’ll happily pay for the boat ride there. In the meantime, as you live here in freedom, with good schools, state benefits and without the threat of secret police and torture, have some respoect for our country and traditions otherwise the goodwill that is showen to you may very well start to dry up rapidly.

By: Luigi

Luigi — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:48:52 +0000

My fully and unconditioned solidariety wth the Danish magazine !!
With all the respect to islam and to all religious persons (of any faith), I believe this is a
matter of freedom of expression rather than a religious matter. I agree it was a strong form of
critisism. But I would have expected a totally different reaction to it.
I can talk about the fact it was appropriate or not for the magazine to publish it. But still I am not going to support any form censorship.
Our freedoms and the core of our european culture are based on this, the right to express themself and
criticize freely any aspect of our life, in order to realise a dialectic process
aimed toward a mutual comprehension and understanding. Denying it, by censoring (in this case)
those images, means denying any form of dialogues, any form of confrontation.
I would like to discuss why some danish artist had to depict a Religion this way; why the Profeth
cannot be depicted as any other man despite the Coran say he was just a man ( an example) and not a god. I can imagine
many other proficous talks over it. Censorship is not an option!!!!