Comments on: Mohammed cartoon to be auctioned for quake victims

By: davood taraneh

davood taraneh — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 20:42:38 +0000

i think in the year of 2006 human dont need religion.religion was helpful for hundred years ago when people cant understand many things.and some people write books like quran to help people …but quran cant help to people in 2006 because everything changes …camputer/satelitte/book/…i think we must forget religion and tryin to thinkin who are us? and where we are comin in to?i think in 500 years after now human can find way how people living forever young or how if some one die in accident bring him back to life…just try to keep world in our hand and fight with god or gods

By: Stuart Peters

Stuart Peters — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 22:45:58 +0000

The press was right to publish the cartoons, we should have the right to criticise and make fun of religion. I can understand that Muslims would be offended, but non-believers are offended by the abuse they receive in the Koran. I don’t see any Muslims taking such versus out of the Koran to stop offending non-Muslims. Freedom of speech is an unalienable right unless it is directly trying to incite violence (like many versus in the Koran!). What one person says is always going to offend someone, that’s just life. It does not mean that people have the right to try and stir up violence. The demonstrators should have been arrested! The Danish government should never apologise because its nothing to do with them, the press is independent, something Muslims do not understand! Europe is constantly coming under attack from the Muslim world as being ‘Islamaphobic’. This is probably true, but what is the problem with that? Muslims need to realise that Islam is a paradigm composed of ideas, beliefs and a way of seeing the world. There are many cultural paradigms in this world and they all have to compete with each other, many being mutually offensive to the others. For example cultural paradigms like Christianity or Communism have been rightfully attacked and criticised by many people, including Muslims. ‘Islamaphobia’ is caused by the fact that Muslims are so brainwashed that they are cultural superior they don’t seem to realise that their ideas are their opinions, and are true only to them. The truth is Muslims are so frustrated that their countries and communities are failing, they try and find a scape goat and blame the west. Its also bizarre that Muslim living in the west seem quite oblivious to the fact that if Islam creates such a wonderful Utopia why did they or their parents leave their Muslim countries in the first place!

By: Raza Ullah Khan

Raza Ullah Khan — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 07:43:41 +0000

MUHAMMAD, PEAC BE UPON HIM, THE PERSONALITY FOR WHOM GOD ALMIGHTY CREATED THE WHOLE UNIVERSE AND THERAFTER. THE PERSON WHO, RECORDED THE FIRST HUMEN RIGHTS PROTOCOAL. WHEN THE WORLD WAS IN THE AGE OF DARKNESS, OUR PROPHET ELABORATED THE RIGHT OF EACH AND EVERY HUMEN BEING NOT ONLY FOR THOSE WHO ARE EXISTING BUT ALSO FOR THOSE COMING HEREAFTE.I WOULD SAY IF THINGS LIKE THESE HAPPEN AGAIN AND AGIAN WE WILL MOVE BACK TO THE MEDIEVEL AGE WHEN ROLE FOR SURVIVAL OF FITTEST PREVALING, WHEN NO HUMEN AND HEM RIGHT WERE IN PLACE. IT THE HIGH TIME TO LOOK AND STUDY THE STRTEGIES ADOPTED BY PROPHET PBUH for TRANQUALITY AND PEAC RECORDED IN HUMEN HISTORY.

By: Epicoros

Epicoros — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 22:49:10 +0000

Although I’m an atheist I agree 100% with the Muslems that freedom of speech does not justify derision of what they hold most sacred. When I examined the cartoons however, I have seen nothing that derides either Islam or their prophets. The cartoons do not dehumenize moslems, nor should they offend any sensible human being.

Nothing in the contents of the cartoons even states that the subject is the prophet. Regarding the ‘bomb in a turban cartoon’ I can’t see Moslems who sanctify sucide bombers getting angry about a dipiction of the prophet as ‘a terrorist’ – nothing in the picture says his act of self sacrifice is not justified.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:59:55 +0000

When Muslims scream the whole world must sit up and take note. Only Muslims may ridicule other religions in their newspaper cartoons.
Jews and Christians are poked fun at on a daily basis. In fact all infidels must die because they aren’t Muslim. I am finding the
Muslim faith more offensive by the day. It is a faith sabotaged by fanatics with the tacit approval of so-called moderates who
sheepishly stand by, wringing their hands in false disapproval of their brothers. The sooner the west stops pandering to the
outrageous demands of Muslims the better. Muslims, do not forget that you need not live in the west if they do not want to. Nobody is
forcing you to stay. Feel free to go back to wherever you came from. We WILL be happier without you.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:35:50 +0000

We go to war for everything else, lets war over a cartoon..

By: onion

onion — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 23:22:44 +0000

the lord will destroy all evil and the good shall live

By: onion

onion — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 23:16:53 +0000

it is a good drawing of mohamid

By: Robert Greene

Robert Greene — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 19:20:53 +0000

To me, the message in the twelve cartoons allegedly the cause of uproar in the
middle east are hardly understandable except to say that the middle east
continues to be a source of discontent for many in this world.
I suppose that beauty and defamation are equally in the eye of the beholder.
I remember as a grade school child learning the lesson that:
“sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can never hurt me.”
Apparently, that lesson is lost on a great number of people as is the
importance of the freedom of expression, especailly expression in the
medium of images where one man’s beauty is another’s beast.
There is a verse from the new testament, Matthew 7: 16:
“By their fruits shall you know them.”
Rioting and destruction are one fruit. Lines on a piece of paper are another.
Which does one prefer?
As for me, I prefer to encourage expression that is not destructive to
evoke feelings. Destruction is destruction. Cartoons on pieces of paper
do not destroy.
Let us live in peace.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 17:12:13 +0000

The panic over these cartoons is ridiculous. It’s time for the human race to grow up and admit that
all religion is just primitive superstition anyway; a fairytale that enables people to live in denial
of the fact that their egos are extinguished by death.