Comments on: Jyllands-Posten Cartoons: Feeding the Clash of Civilizations http://strategyunit.blogsome.com/2006/02/03/jyllands-posten-cartoons-feeding-the-clash-of-civilizations/ analyses and musings on global security issues - terrorism, energy, defense etc Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:50:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: StrategyUnit http://strategyunit.blogsome.com/2006/02/03/jyllands-posten-cartoons-feeding-the-clash-of-civilizations/#comment-90 Sun, 05 Feb 2006 09:16:33 +0000 http://strategyunit.blogsome.com/2006/02/03/jyllands-posten-cartoons-feeding-the-clash-of-civilizations/#comment-90 Patrick, thank you for commenting. You are correct, Ahrari, sounds like an apologist at times. Still, I felt the stronger points of Ahrari's argument needed to be put out there. Tariq Ramadan has done his own response to the "Satanic Cartoons". I think he takes a similar route to Ahrari, as well: http://www.digitalnpq.org/articles/global/56/02-02-2006/tariq_ramadan Patrick, thank you for commenting. You are correct, Ahrari, sounds like an apologist at times. Still, I felt the stronger points of Ahrari’s argument needed to be put out there.

Tariq Ramadan has done his own response to the “Satanic Cartoons”. I think he takes a similar route to Ahrari, as well:
http://www.digitalnpq.org/articles/global/56/02-02-2006/tariq_ramadan

]]> by: patrick http://strategyunit.blogsome.com/2006/02/03/jyllands-posten-cartoons-feeding-the-clash-of-civilizations/#comment-89 Sun, 05 Feb 2006 08:36:44 +0000 http://strategyunit.blogsome.com/2006/02/03/jyllands-posten-cartoons-feeding-the-clash-of-civilizations/#comment-89 Ahrari provides much needed perspective, but often crosses the line from explaining to apologizing/ excusing--something I'm afraid is far too typical of Muslims. Take the statement that "Muslims refrain from insulting Christians about their faith" fails to take into account that Christians, in large part because of their faith, are subject to violence and death, not mere insults, at the hands of radicals throughout the Muslim world. And one need only look at the racist cartoons in the Arab press and antisemitic TV programs to see the hypocrisy in these protests-- insulting Jews as a race and a religion is acceptable, but for others to insult Islam as a religion. What these people fail to see is that Christians and Christianity are frequently mocked in secular media in Europe and the US; Christians are offended, no doubt, but rarely react violently. Ahrari provides much needed perspective, but often crosses the line from explaining to apologizing/ excusing–something I’m afraid is far too typical of Muslims.
Take the statement that “Muslims refrain from insulting Christians about their faith” fails to take into account that Christians, in large part because of their faith, are subject to violence and death, not mere insults, at the hands of radicals throughout the Muslim world.
And one need only look at the racist cartoons in the Arab press and antisemitic TV programs to see the hypocrisy in these protests– insulting Jews as a race and a religion is acceptable, but for others to insult Islam as a religion.
What these people fail to see is that Christians and Christianity are frequently mocked in secular media in Europe and the US; Christians are offended, no doubt, but rarely react violently.

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