Reformist Muslims Announce a Cartoon and Drawing Competition about Muhammad and Islam.
As islamic reformers and progressive muslims, we believe that people should have legal right to express their opinion or dissent without fear of governments or mobs. In that regard, we applaud the people of Denmark for not censoring their media. History has proven that truth and justice cannot flourish in an environment of suppression and oppression. Though the cartoonists depicted and insulted our beloved prophet Muhammad, a figure that we consider dearer to us than our fathers and mothers, we stand by the rights of cartoonists to express their views.
Comment:
If Islam is the truth as these people claim then why is it in need of reform, surely only things which are not valid or correct need reformation? There is no moderate, progressive, fundamentalist or extremist titles in Islam, you are either a practicing Muslim or one who is trying their best to improve their practice of Islam based upon the understanding that we have been created and put on this world by a creator who will test us in this life and take our life at a fixed point in time. If these people think that freedom of speech should be allowed to flourish and not restricted then why are they offended when Islam is attacked and insulted? This group of people have been severely influenced by the western culture and are trying to reconcile between the truth and falsehood hence the contradictory message.