Have you been following the news on this? Back in September, a Danish newspaper printed political cartoons depicting several of the world religious figures less then favorably. A sketch of Muhammad included a turban in the shape of bomb. This month several other newspapers in Europe have reprinted the images stressing the freedom of the press. Since then the Islamic community has been in uproar.
"Whoever defames our prophet should be executed," said Ismail Hassan, 37, a tailor who marched through the pouring rain along with hundreds of others in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
These protests are puntuated with gunmen firing into the air and surrounding government buildings threating to take Europeans hostage. Some of the governments are apologizing, some of the newspapers fired responsible employees (out of fear I suspect) and all of this over some cartoons. Apparently i'm missing something. I honestly don't understand the situation at all. Your thoughts??
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Actually, i'm most surprised that this is the first instance to of this. I've seen many cartoons and mockeries of Jesus over time. Look at the movie Dogma for example. If the Islamic communtiy manages to supress any further images such as the one question I think it will be out of fear and not respect.
So, this is totally unrelated to your post, but I just wanted to say hi and Mark and I were looking at show pictures on Alma's website tonight. He's had some crazy show hair...and that set for Picnic was amazing!!
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