QUOTE (deadsnake @ Feb 16 2006, 11:17 AM) but the violent actions they're taking has some reasonable points at the time being...
if they hadn't take that action,the pictures will not be withdrawn and the apologize statement will not be made by the Denmark Goverment...
but if they(extremist) keep on going/giving actions....I can't really agree with that.
first of all, the violent reaction to the cartoons did not make that newspaper withdraw them, the result was totally the opposite: most major portuguese newspapers printed those cartoons to show that they were on the danish newspaper's side, all major portuguese newspapers had quite a efw articles where the journalists defended themselves, and the opinion on muslims is probably worse than before this happened. violence is NOT a good action, hate creates hate, and sooner than we expect there'll be another war starting.
by the way, some more information on this subject. do you know when the danish newspaper printed those cartoons? september 2005. did you know that an egypcian newspaper printed them in october 2005? so why did the reactions take so much time to happen? it's obvious to me that this wasn't an immediate reaction, but an organized one. and organized violence is just the worse kind of it.
QUOTE Let me tell you something IF someone came and slap me at my face I don't think that I would tell him " no please this one didn't really hurt me would you slap me on the other side as well". I don't think that would happen I would slap this person as hard as he did to make him KNOW that it does hurts if i didn't say anything or if i didn't make any reaction he wouldn't know what he did and he will Continue slaping me but if i did something he will know the meaning of being slapped. MKK do u really think its easy for us that making fun of our prophet??. YOU wouldn't understand our feelings nor we understand yours.
precisely -- the reaction is, usually, propotional, right? if someone says your voice sounds funny, would you beat him up or kill him?? is that an adequate reply? your reply to ONE newspaper in ONE country that printed a few (6? i'm not sure) cartoons was THOUSANDS of angry muslimb burning down buildings, injuring and killing some people -- is that an adequate response? and now imagine that we, the western world, consider that a slap in the face and decide to slap back -- how would you like if we burned down your embassies in our countries?? there'd be an open war between both civilizations before summer, don't you think?
NOTHING can justify the violence we've all seen.
/jp