As another website stated, " Muslims offended by caricatures proceed to act them out"
DAMASCUS, Syria - Rage against caricatures of Islam’s revered prophet poured out across the Muslim world Saturday, with aggrieved believers calling for executions, storming European buildings and setting European flags afire.
Thousands of outraged Syrian demonstrators stormed the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus, setting fire to both buildings.
Police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse demonstrators at the Norwegian Embassy after the Danish building was burned.
But the protesters broke through police barriers and set fire to the second building, shouting “Allahu Akbar!” which is Arabic for “God is great!”
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Good stuff, some more and we will see another war coming.....
Since people just can be inflamed on any issue to do drastic acts like this...
It will just enforce the view gaining across the world that Islam is inflexible religion....... :-(
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Like I said before, the cartoons being published is clearly part of a vast zionist/neo-con/elven conspiracy designed to make muslims look like uncivilized buffoons.
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As much as I am against the publication of these cartoons, but this is not the Islamic way to react to this or show your dislike for such a publication. This kind of response will continue to give Islam and Muslims a negative view throughout the world.
A much better response would have been what was suggested by the imam of my mosque in Plano, Texas to educate the world on what the Prophet (pbuh) means to the Muslims and why such depictions are viewed by us as a hate crime. This was a good opportunity to provide to the world the real tenets of Islam.
I would agree with the imam but would go one step further and let the Danes and the rest of the Europeans know that by using their freedom of expression law as cover to insult Muslims will not go unpunished. Speaking with a unified voice we should ask each publisher to print an apology to the Islamic world in their publications and provide them free of charge so all can see that they used their freedom of expression right inappropriately. If they decline then these countries should expect boycots of their products or oil embargoes.
The world needs to understand the difference between freedom of expression and a hate crime. Just as anti-semitism isn't allowed in the western world (btw Muslims are Semite as well) neither should insulting the Islamic world.
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A much better response would have been what was suggested by the imam of my mosque in Plano, Texas to educate the world on what the Prophet (pbuh) means to the Muslims and why such depictions are viewed by us as a hate crime. This was a good opportunity to provide to the world the real tenets of Islam.
I would agree with the imam but would go one step further and let the Danes and the rest of the Europeans know that by using their freedom of expression law as cover to insult Muslims will not go unpunished. Speaking with a unified voice we should ask each publisher to print an apology to the Islamic world in their publications and provide them free of charge so all can see that they used their freedom of expression right inappropriately. If they decline then these countries should expect boycots of their products or oil embargoes.
The world needs to understand the difference between freedom of expression and a hate crime. Just as anti-semitism isn't allowed in the western world (btw Muslims are Semite as well) neither should insulting the Islamic world.
Precisely right, and a very well written post.
Now what do you think the world will remember, Burning embassies or a cartoon? My guess is that the Western world will dismiss Muslim concerns, and will shake their heads in wonder at the cosmicly disproprotionate Muslim reponse to a tasteless and offensive use of publishing freedoms.
Congratulations Gaza gunmen, and Syrian protestors. You have been named Mossad co-agents of the month. Not working for the Mossad? Ooops, you could not have damaged Islam more if you were working for the Mossad.
So when will some idiot posts a conspiracy theory that the publishing of cartoons was a plot to goad Muslims into behaving badly? Meanwhile at Mossad headquarters the head of the Mossad Bureau of Disinformation is being berated by his superiors for not thinking of this....
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Were you there too? I’m glad I went to that mosque this Friday, I wanted to post what you did here but just couldn’t find time/energy to do it. Good job :k:
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The Danes knew this would happen, they happy now?
This habit of generalization is dangerous. We are talking about one news paper here....not Danes in general.
So when terrorists kill in name of Islam, we don't include you Silly, or should we include you as well as one of the terrorist with a bomb around body and gun on the shoulder to fight the humanity......
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Uhhhh…like 80% of the Danes view this as a “freedom of speech” issue and do not want their leaders to apologise. Talk about it being an issue of 1 newspaper!
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From what I've been reading online, A LOT of Europeans are rightly freaked out by the burning down of their embassies. Is this the way to protest? It'll only serve to harden muslim sterotypes if anything.
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Another embassy up in flames…
Demonstrators have set fire to the Danish embassy building in Lebanon as part of continuing protests against the publication by European newspapers of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Lebanese security forces earlier fired tear gas at the crowd of about 20,000 marching towards the Danish embassy.
Aljazeera’s correspondent in Beirut, Abbas Nasir, reported that Lebanese police retreated in the face of the crowd. The police fired heavily in the air to disperse protesters who nevertheless continued to advance towards the Danish embassy.
Policemen fired tear gas in an unsuccessful bid to prevent demonstrators from assembling in front of the building, Nasir said. Some 2000 army troops and riot police were deployed around the embassy building in the district of Ashrafieh, close to Beirut’s commercial district.
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Molotov cocktails thrown at embassy
Iranians pelted the Austrian Embassy with Molotov cocktails and stones on Monday in the latest protest over the publication of satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in European newspapers.