the reaction of the muslim world towards the danish mohammed cartoons is ridiculous. riots across the middle east, burning flags, embassies set on fire, death threats, and now an economic embargo by iran. how much more ridiculous can the get? i wonder if any of those running around like crazy in the middle east have actually seen those cartoons?
ok they depict mohammed that is true, but they raise important questions on the role of islam in todays world and instead of taking them to inflect on themselves those rioters prove the cartoonist right to a certain degree.
it wasn’t the most sensitive thing to do to draw up a mohammed cartoon, but then christians complained about movies and music videos depicting jesus not always the way they thought was the right way, but that didn’t end up in riots and chaos. muslims have burned flags of all kinds of nations for years, have drawn up “cartoon” depictions of other races or people and that didn’t end up in riots.
i don’t know who is in charge in the middle east, but whoever is has to come to their senses and tell the people on the streets that they have to grow up and accept that they are part of a global community and there are rules in which people get along with each other.
