i'm canadian. i am a muslimah, and i was appalled by the cartoon that was depicted where the Prophet is blindfolded and held between two hijabi women. i do not find necessary to unleash all that now. i just wrote in to say that yes, it was wrong to turn violent. there are ways to protest, the right to write in to the newspapers, the right to PEACEFUL assembly. to the countries who were vociferously defending and upholding this callous disregard to the muslim sentiment under the cover of free speech, this was just is just as hurtful to us as a swastika scrawled on a jew's lawn would be to a jew. equally reprehensible. and yet, only one is punishable by law. you don't see the muslims going around publishing sacreligious cartoons about the christian faith or the jewish faith or any other faith in our media, do you? because it is an article of our faith that Jesus and Moses are just as much as our Prophets as theirs.
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the face of islam
Date: 2006-09-06 09:12 am (UTC)that yes, it was wrong to turn violent. there are ways to protest, the right to write in to the newspapers, the right to PEACEFUL assembly. to the countries who were vociferously defending and upholding this callous disregard to the muslim sentiment under the cover of free speech, this was just is just as hurtful to us as a swastika scrawled on a jew's lawn would be to a jew. equally reprehensible. and yet, only one is punishable by law. you don't see the muslims going around publishing sacreligious cartoons about the christian faith or the jewish faith or any other faith in our media, do you? because it is an article of our faith that Jesus and Moses are just as much as our Prophets as theirs.