“Every year,during the holiest of pilgrimages, hundreds of people get trampled and killed”

it is not every year, but 2 milion people gathering in one tiny place in the same time causes some times accedents which lead to the death of some of them.

Islamics flew planes into the World Trade Towers in New York city, killing thousands, and Muslims in the Middle East laughed and cheered.

They do not reprent muslims nor they represent islam. But in the other hand, when some of muslims died in mecca last month look how christian & jews has celebrated that tragedy on yahoo news!!

“Jihad is thought to be noble and wonderful; killing ‘infidels’ a good thing”

Yihad is to fight those who attack muslims. it is not killing anyone weather infidals orn not. For god sake, how many innocent people have been killed by American troops in Iraq? and how many killed in Palistine by israelis ??

“The Ayatollah Khomeni’s funeral was so ‘peaceful’ the body was bounced out of the coffin into the street, where people tore it apart in order to take home a piece of this ‘holy’ leader’s corpse”

They were idiots and their acts does not represent islam. Islam forbit such a thing.

The whole point of the cartoons was, the west, particualrly in Europe, feel betrayed by our Muslim friends. The cartoonists where asking “why is Islam immune from criticism?”. That had stemed from the bombings in London and Madrid, and the death of film maker Leo Van Gough, who with the help of a Muslim women, made a documentry asking why women in Islam where abused and inferior. The filmmaker was killed, the women needs armed protection for the rest of her life and everyone was afraid to make some justifiable criticism in Islam.

Now the portrayal of the Holy Prophet was unnecasry. But it was a decision made by cartoonist and the a newspaper. This is the West, papers are not run by the state. To punish a whole country for it is nothing short of BULLYING.

Muslims preach religious tolerance. But the hyprocrisy here is shocking. In Saudi Arabia, the official policy of the state is to be arrest Christians and to burn bibles! Incredible. In europe especially, Muslims have been free to run business’s and go about thier own lives, but still they try to impose THIER taboo’s and thier religious beliefs, when MILLIONS in europe died for the right to state that NOTHING is taboo. Remember Muslims came to the west to escape persecution, not to impose it ungratefully on your welcoming host! That is not democracy. That is Islamic Law. If i tried to impose my taboo’s to an Islamic country i would be shot.

So why cant Muslims just admit thier is some serious problems with thier religion! The problems with the world are 50/50, problems from the west, problems with the east. But Islam a fundemental problem behind all this. Why cant anyone see that without death threats, being called a racist, or be called a Jew? If you dont like the rules of your host country, you are democraticly entitled to leave for a country eith rules you like.

its very touching and i loved it

thx dalia

best regards from REWESH

3asal geddan

thx deedee

The newspaper’s culture editor, Flemming Rose, says he did not ask the illustrators to draw satirical caricatures of Muhammad. He asked them to draw the Prophet as they saw him. As there is a long Danish tradition of biting satire with no taboos, provocing muslims and nations was never the goal, and Muhammed and Islam are being treated no differently to other religions.

The images have raised the profile in Denmark of a constructive debate on integration of religious minorities. Most danes now have a clearer perspective on what to say about other religions, and what not to – not in the name of “freedom of speech” but as a curtesy to other peoples beliefs.

I think that every now and again individual rights need to be tested and shown just how important and relevant they are. Clearly the right to free speech is directly in the crosshairs here, not only for the Denmark but the rest of the world. Will individuals, businesses, and governments globally bow to these political demonstrations and violence? Of course not…Though it speaks volumes of how oppressive and intolerant some of these radical Muslims, and in some cases, governments can be.

The irony of all this is that the cartoon was created (As Claus pointed out) to spark debate on Muslim countries freedom of speech (or lack there of). It seems clear that at least some Muslims don’t want debate, only compliance…

Most of the Muslims in the world are living in the dark corner of Islam. But I have seen lots of moderat and progessiv Muslims, REAL Muslims who have seen this as a wakeup call and that Islam need to reform itself.

And I fell sorry for everybody living in free countries and all peacefull Muslims, but what we now have to watch is radical “Muslims” desperat attempt to stop Islam reform itself to a secular religion.

And becouse I’m Danish, I would like to clarify things a bit.

In Denmark we have a long tradition for satirical drawings. Since religion in Denmark is regarded fairly much as a private matter, we often make fun of religious icons. At one point a Danish artist depicted Jesus on the cross with an erect penis. Imagine what would happen if someone did something similar to a Muslim icon like Mohammad!

In this case, the drawings of Mohammad was published with the intent of starting a debate on self censorship and freedom of speech, when the issue is related to Islam and Muslims. A relevant debate, I think…it shows!

Now, Jyllands Posten – the newspaper that published the drawings – is indeed a right-wing liberal newspaper. However the term “right-wing” here in Denmark is perhaps not what you’d expect from ex. an American point of view. Right-wing here in Dk. is basically just conservative.

A delegation of local Muslim leaders, with the Danish Muslim leader Abu-Laban (he’s banned in Egypt, because they regard him as a terrorist, btw) in front then visited a bunch of countries in the Muslim world, to speak their case.

They brought with them the 12 drawings plus a bunch of other drawings and photos, wich noone really know how they came about, since they we’re certainly not printed in any Danish newspaper.

It seems to me, that this hole case now basically is living a life of it’s own, that not really is about these 12 drawings, so much as it is a case of Islamic cultures and traditions clashing.

What puzzles me, however, is the fact that Denmark for the past 25 years has been one of the main contributors in the efforts of creating a sovereign state of Palestine.

The Danish government has helped financially, politically and in all sorts of other ways. We have granted asylum to a massive amount of palestinians, and even tjetjen muslim rebels (to the clearly expressed dissatisfaction of the Russians).

So It´s not Denmark or the Danish who having a problem and we WIIL pay the price for our freedom and we WILL share it with all, also real (peacefull) Muslims.

God´s peace