Ya know, even though I'm not at all religous I'm pretty much all for people having their beliefs and all so long as they don't try to impose their will on other folks. "Believe what you want but don't try to convert me..."
That said, the Islamic world simply is NOT helping their worldwide image holding up signs that call for the death and destruction of people who mock their prophet. (Granted, newspapers and wire services and media doesn't help much either by publishing images such as This One from AFP. Since I believe the link will someday go dead, the signs read, "Kill those who insult Islam", "Exterminate those who slander [not visible, probably Islam]", and "Europe is the cancer Islam the answer".) I believe that most people are inherrently nice folks who just want to go about their business and not be bothered. But when you show the entire world that you can't handle someone else's opinion (such as a Danish newspaper's, for example) and then start fucking rioting because they published a drawing of someone---well, that's just over-reacting.
Muslims: You try to convince the world that your religion is a peaceful one then turn around and do shit like this. I still believe that most of you muslims are peaceful but this is NOT helping your image at all!!! STOP IT!
(To see the offending cartoons, check http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004413.htm . That link may also go dead at some point, but not anytime soon, I'd wager...)
Oh wow. Good Read.
ReplyDeleteWe talked about this at school and everybody had the same opinion.
Nobody seems to understand the islamic world.