2) The only authentic issue for Muslims is the visual portrayal of Mohammad. In the movies produced by Muslims about about the life of Mohammad you never see Mohammad. In scenes where he is present, he is portrayed as being not in view because he is somewhere behind the camera. The reason for this is that Muslims do not want pictures or statues that would encourage idol worship.
Explain this:
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3) The Media is arguing that Islam is two faced, by demanding that no negatives be portrayed about Muslims in the media without a violent uprising by Muslims; while, Muslims regularly publish ugly portrayals about Westerners especially Jews. The media's argument is wrong. There are tons of negatives about Islam every day in the media. Books, magazines, websites, television, speeches, etc. There is nothing wrong with objecting to unfair portrayals and everyone does that.
I'd say the objection is to burning embassies (which the host country has a duty under international law to protect), rioting against westerners, calls for economic boycotts, and killing westerners.
Read this and the post it responds to:
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The radical Muslims are exploiting the event, and they are successfully rallying moderates. However, westerners are also mis-interpreting the mainstream position of Muslims as being a general objection to freedom of speech
MY objection is an apparent assumption by Muslims that they have a right to dictate the contents of the Western press. As far as I am concerned, we go to war before that happens. You yourself have extolled freedom, so how can you object to this?
The radical Muslims are exploiting the event
Absolutely. But it is the duty of the moderate Muslims to call them on it. We cannot. We are "the enemy" and our words are automatically discounted.
Hopefully we will get to a calmer more rational discourse in a few days
I certainly hope so. We had best do so. But western religions- -all of them- -are commonly the butt of jokes and far worse. Nazi skinheads burn synagogues. Most Christians don't cheer them on. They consider them pariahs and convict them if they are caught and tried. They KKKers who burned black churches in the American South and were caught were not considered heroes. They are filth, were treated as such, and richly deserve their punishment. |
