landmarker
02-Feb-06, 23:10
The cartoons which have been causing so much fuss.
The ones depicting Allah, with a bomb on his head. Do you think a British newspaper will publish them?
I await tomorrow's trip to the newsagent with interest. How quick are the press here to publish anything controversial? I'd expect to see these in almost every title tomorrow.
Perhaps the threat of a fatwah might deter some, I don't know.
This is a secular,in all but fact, progressive democracy, which has poked fun at religion ever since Dave Allen sat on his stool, and probably much longer.
Peter Mandelson says this will be like pouring petrol onto flames. As he is an E.U. Commisioner for trade faced with middle-eastern boycotts he would say that wouldn't he?
I'm not 100% convinced about publication. I hear earnest muslims who seem really offended, yet part of me tells me if they wish to live in this society they should get used to its excesses. Is their faith so shakeable that a few cartoons drawn by 'infidels' can affect it? Is it so rigid that they cannot indulge others in their need to efface and scorn? No clearer demonstration of the old adage, east is east and west is west etc. etc. is being demonstrated here.
And yet, when hearing of the lack of idolatry in Islam. The complete ban on images of Mohammed and even Jesus Christ (also recognised by muslims as a prophet, and revered) I wonder if they have a point. Are some things beyond
fun? Beyond ridicule? At a time when western society cries out for boundaries for our youth, for discipline and parameters of personal behaviour is this a good place to start?
I'd expect the press, at least a couple of tabloids to publish tomorrow. I'm going to look at them on the net now - the BBC online site has links to the cartoons.
Would you be interested in seeing them? if only to see what all the fuss is about?
The ones depicting Allah, with a bomb on his head. Do you think a British newspaper will publish them?
I await tomorrow's trip to the newsagent with interest. How quick are the press here to publish anything controversial? I'd expect to see these in almost every title tomorrow.
Perhaps the threat of a fatwah might deter some, I don't know.
This is a secular,in all but fact, progressive democracy, which has poked fun at religion ever since Dave Allen sat on his stool, and probably much longer.
Peter Mandelson says this will be like pouring petrol onto flames. As he is an E.U. Commisioner for trade faced with middle-eastern boycotts he would say that wouldn't he?
I'm not 100% convinced about publication. I hear earnest muslims who seem really offended, yet part of me tells me if they wish to live in this society they should get used to its excesses. Is their faith so shakeable that a few cartoons drawn by 'infidels' can affect it? Is it so rigid that they cannot indulge others in their need to efface and scorn? No clearer demonstration of the old adage, east is east and west is west etc. etc. is being demonstrated here.
And yet, when hearing of the lack of idolatry in Islam. The complete ban on images of Mohammed and even Jesus Christ (also recognised by muslims as a prophet, and revered) I wonder if they have a point. Are some things beyond
fun? Beyond ridicule? At a time when western society cries out for boundaries for our youth, for discipline and parameters of personal behaviour is this a good place to start?
I'd expect the press, at least a couple of tabloids to publish tomorrow. I'm going to look at them on the net now - the BBC online site has links to the cartoons.
Would you be interested in seeing them? if only to see what all the fuss is about?