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February 2, 2006
Muslims Attack Concept of Democracy and Free Speech
Many Muslim governments, political organizations, religious groups and cultural entities recently struck at Western media and governments for their support of democratic ideals of free speech. Specifically they protested the publication of a group of cartoons in a small Danish newspaper called Jyllands-Posten. Several other newspapers have since published the cartoons as well. The cartoons have sparked outrage because of their derogatory view of Muhammed. Muslems are insulted and want an apology from the newspaper, Western governments and anyone else they don't like.
Robert Menard, the secretary general of Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based body that monitors media developments, said in a telephone interview: "All countries in Europe should be behind the Danes and Danish authorities to defend the principle that a newspaper can write what it wishes to, even if it offends people.
"I understand that it may shock Muslims, but being shocked is part of the price of being informed."
On Wednesday, Syria became the latest Arab country to withdraw its ambassador from Denmark, saying publication of the cartoons "constitutes a violation of the sacred principles of hundreds of millions of Arabs and Muslims," according to SANA, the Syrian state news agency.
Maybe they will score by getting the West to change its ways through political means. However if they do so we turn into what they are, closed minded, arrogant, paranoid, societies who have no respect for individuals, what they think or what they might want. No wonder the Middle East is such a mess.
Posted by Chip Spear at February 2, 2006 9:12 AM
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