"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."
It was an unfair and offensive caricature, but I don't find it terribly appalling. I guess I'm used to Jesus being depicted in much more offensive ways. :-)
FWIW, the big difference I see between you and the people here who are still angry about the cartoons is that you actually saw them. A shocking number of people here are protesting what they heard the cartoons said.
"this was just is just as hurtful to us as a swastika scrawled on a jew's lawn would be to a jew."
I disagree. I think a large part of what is terrible when a swastika is scrawled on a Jew's lawn is that there is an implied threat to that specific Jew: we know where you live, and we are aligning ourselves with an organization that killed millions of people like you. If something like that happened to me, I'd feel very afraid.
A newspaper publishing pictures that are offensive to a religion is not at all comparable, in my mind. I think the Muhammed cartoons are much more comparable to, say, the Jerry Springer musical, or Piss Christ: works of art that offend Christians, but without threatening violence against them.
FWIW, I don't think swastikas should be illegal -- but defacing someone's house with a message intended to intimidate them probably should be.
"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?"
Saudi newspapers are full of anti-Semitic cartoons and comments (and Qatari ones aren't much better). A few years ago, one even published an article claiming that Jews drink human blood at Purim!! Of course they don't defame Moses, but I think that's because Moses is a prophet of Islam, not because they have any respect at ALL for Judaism.
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Re: the face of islam
Date: 2006-09-07 06:55 am (UTC)It was an unfair and offensive caricature, but I don't find it terribly appalling. I guess I'm used to Jesus being depicted in much more offensive ways. :-)
FWIW, the big difference I see between you and the people here who are still angry about the cartoons is that you actually saw them. A shocking number of people here are protesting what they heard the cartoons said.
"this was just is just as hurtful to us as a swastika scrawled on a jew's lawn would be to a jew."
I disagree. I think a large part of what is terrible when a swastika is scrawled on a Jew's lawn is that there is an implied threat to that specific Jew: we know where you live, and we are aligning ourselves with an organization that killed millions of people like you. If something like that happened to me, I'd feel very afraid.
A newspaper publishing pictures that are offensive to a religion is not at all comparable, in my mind. I think the Muhammed cartoons are much more comparable to, say, the Jerry Springer musical, or Piss Christ: works of art that offend Christians, but without threatening violence against them.
FWIW, I don't think swastikas should be illegal -- but defacing someone's house with a message intended to intimidate them probably should be.
"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?"
Saudi newspapers are full of anti-Semitic cartoons and comments (and Qatari ones aren't much better). A few years ago, one even published an article claiming that Jews drink human blood at Purim!! Of course they don't defame Moses, but I think that's because Moses is a prophet of Islam, not because they have any respect at ALL for Judaism.