Hmm, so far this thread is civilized. But I just want to give one word of advice
You can have any opinion, but BE RESPECTFULL
Otherwise, I know someone who will close this thread so fast, it will make everyone's head spin!
QUOTE (gabrielle_filth @ Feb 10 2006, 03:25 PM) maybe the muslims and arab now are weak but that doesn't give the others the right to make fun of them or their religion.... First of all, I would not say arabs are weak. But there were some major events in history that made the arab people become only the shadow of what they once were. Let me explain. A few hundreds years ago, the arab culture was much more advance than the western one. There is a reason why every mathematician in the world as well as all of us here use arab numbers! (yes, 1234556789 are all arab numbers!). But they are still not weak and many places are starting to try to take back the lost time.
Second, I totally agree with you as far as making fun of religion is concerned. Religion is, by definition, something that is super natural. It is a belief, a faith. When making fun of a religion, you are only showing that you belive that you are the one and only person that can be rigth. Since a subject like this cannot have someone who is, behind any doubts, the rigth one, a disrespectfull person is only showing how narrow minded he is.
And as far as this particular event is concern, I think both sides reaction are simply demonstrating how much each side does not understand the other.