Danish drawings

Following Danish, Swedish and Norwegian media on the burning of the embassies.

First of all, I would like to stress. I can't recall any deliberate attack on a Scandinavian embassy ever happening before.

The Danish goverment is much more upset then I expected that they would be. Seems this was much more than a spontanious demonstration where police and local authorities did not react quickly enough. The Danish embassy reported the demonstration to local police 4 times, requesting aid. They did not receive any.  

In Sweden the reporting is a bit more surpriced. This embassy was not directly attacked this may be reasonable.

The Norweigian newspapers I have checked are more direct. They view this as an attack sanctioned by the Syrian goverment. This is what the paper says. I don't know what the Norwegian goverment says.

Since Syria is a heavily controlled Police state, a demonstration like this can not take place without authorities being involved they say.

To me this sounds very likely, and the Danish goverment very strong reactions may indicate that they also think this. They have not said this, nor has Danish media.

If this is the case. Then the issue of the drawings are drifting somewhere in the background. What we are seeing now is different groups attempts to draw political benefit from the drawings. This has (to some extent) been the case from the start. If this happens the escalation of the conflict is automated. And it will take a lot of effort to slow this down.

Danish Muslims that don't feel represented by iman's has formed their own organization today.

It is expected there are 200.000 Muslims in Denmark. It has been estimated that around 10% are part of Muslim organizations represented by the imans.

Please note that Danish Muslims comes from all over the world.

Bismillah

When innocent victims die, when bombs tear off governent buildings only then people begin to think of the seriousness of insulting the faithful believers...

The approach in "civilised" countries has conditioned public to ignore words, to ignore pleas, to ignore call to stop aggression and invasion but to take action only when someone gets hurt...  

Through media, those in despair have also been conditioned to answer with violence...

Little did the cartoonist realise that the bomb he was drawing was going to blow in real...

And yet again Muslims are to be blamed... What a wonderful world!

Hi Maraya,

I completely agree with what you say on freedom on speech. If you go back and re-read what I have written, you will find that I agree that changing Danish legislation i required. Freedom of speech exist is all democracies. You can't have one without the other.

Edit add. The freedom of action, I had not heard before. I am (slowly) starting to understand why it was brought up. I think understand, but I don't agree that freedom of speech has got anything to do with freedom of action. As a matter of fact, they seem completely contrary to me.

If out and break somebody's nose, you then need to suffer the consequence of your action. This must be what was ment. Please correct m,e if I'm wrong. But with (at least) absolut freedom of action, there would be no consequence.

Freedom of action is the strongs right to do whatever he pleases. A society with freedom of action only needs this single rule. This is facist, you are right, I am appaled by this.

When there is freedom of speech the strong has given up, his right to control what the weak may want to say.

If out and break somebody's nose, you then need to suffer the consequence of your action. This must be what was ment.

Mockba, as usual I understand very little of what you say. I wish you would stop using "civilized" when you describe me and people like me.

It was ok once or twice. Now I start to find it insulting. Also please post something you think I can understand, otherwise don't post at all.

Bismillah

Wrangel wrote: Mockba, as usual I understand very little of what you say. I wish you would stop using "civilized" when you describe me and people like me. It was ok once or twice. Now I start to find it insulting. Also please post something you think I can understand, otherwise don't post at all.

Wrangle, your ability to understand is evident from the very subject that you've initiated. Danish newspaper insulted Muslims and is yet to apologise. Instead many more newspapers in many other countries joined in solidarity of an insult and re-printed the pictures. It is clearly an insult, but the question is: to apologise or to continue "you are with us or you are with the terrorists" approach. And it is not surprising that the latter prevails.

The Danish Prime Minister thought it right to educate Muslims on freedom of speech. Perhaps because they are all uncivilised as you rightly noticed.

I used the word "civilised" twice or three times (not to describe you, though) and you are already feeling insulted... now how would you feel if I made a disgusting insulting cartoon of you, your mother, your father, your sisters and brothers and published it for your entire nation to mock at... calling your entire brethren TERRORISTS in print and electronic media... on an hourly basis? Are you then going to advocate "freedom of speech" refusing to make any statement yourself?  The Prophet Muhammad's (peace be upon him) status in Islam us such that he is/should be dearer to Muslims than their closest family members.

You may not understand this too, but this is about the simplest way I can comment on your posts in general.