This shows the splits in opinion in the Muslim communities. It shows, also, that we cannot tar them all with the same brush.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/22/inter ... &th&emc=th
Furor Over Cartoons Pits Muslim Against Muslim
Furor Over Cartoons Pits Muslim Against Muslim
Thanks for posting this article...very interesting. I think this paragraph from the article is very 'telling'.
"I keep hearing, 'Why are liberals silent?' " said Said al-Ashmawy, an Egyptian judge and author of books on political Islam. "How can we write? Who is going to protect me? Who is going to publish for me in the first place? With the Islamization of the society, the list of taboos has been increasing daily. You should not write about religion. You should not write about politics or women. Then what is left?"
"I keep hearing, 'Why are liberals silent?' " said Said al-Ashmawy, an Egyptian judge and author of books on political Islam. "How can we write? Who is going to protect me? Who is going to publish for me in the first place? With the Islamization of the society, the list of taboos has been increasing daily. You should not write about religion. You should not write about politics or women. Then what is left?"
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Furor Over Cartoons Pits Muslim Against Muslim
Bez wrote: Thanks for posting this article...very interesting. I think this paragraph from the article is very 'telling'.
"I keep hearing, 'Why are liberals silent?' " said Said al-Ashmawy, an Egyptian judge and author of books on political Islam. "How can we write? Who is going to protect me? Who is going to publish for me in the first place? With the Islamization of the society, the list of taboos has been increasing daily. You should not write about religion. You should not write about politics or women. Then what is left?"
Where we're getting political correctness, they're getting religious correctness.
"I keep hearing, 'Why are liberals silent?' " said Said al-Ashmawy, an Egyptian judge and author of books on political Islam. "How can we write? Who is going to protect me? Who is going to publish for me in the first place? With the Islamization of the society, the list of taboos has been increasing daily. You should not write about religion. You should not write about politics or women. Then what is left?"
Where we're getting political correctness, they're getting religious correctness.
Furor Over Cartoons Pits Muslim Against Muslim
so the Moderate Muslim press cannot even voice an opinion without being subject to extermination.
"This has become a game between two sides, the extremists and the government," said Tawakkul Karman, head of Women Journalists Without Constraints in Sana, Yemen. "They've made it so that if you stand up in this tidal wave, you have to face 1.5 billion Muslims."
Reminds me of another movement in 1937:
Article 23 of the Party Platform referred to above, provided, inter alia, that (a) all editors and newspaper personnel must be "members of the nation"; (b) non-Germans are prohibited from financial participation in, or influence of, newspapers; (c) the publication of papers "which do not conduce to the national welfare" is prohibited; (d) tendencies in art or literature "of a kind likely to disintegrate our life as a nation" will be prosecuted and eliminated; and (e) "institutions which militate against the requirements mentioned above" will be suppressed. (1708-PS)
History seems to be repeating itself. I sense another World War coming.:-2
"This has become a game between two sides, the extremists and the government," said Tawakkul Karman, head of Women Journalists Without Constraints in Sana, Yemen. "They've made it so that if you stand up in this tidal wave, you have to face 1.5 billion Muslims."
Reminds me of another movement in 1937:
Article 23 of the Party Platform referred to above, provided, inter alia, that (a) all editors and newspaper personnel must be "members of the nation"; (b) non-Germans are prohibited from financial participation in, or influence of, newspapers; (c) the publication of papers "which do not conduce to the national welfare" is prohibited; (d) tendencies in art or literature "of a kind likely to disintegrate our life as a nation" will be prosecuted and eliminated; and (e) "institutions which militate against the requirements mentioned above" will be suppressed. (1708-PS)
History seems to be repeating itself. I sense another World War coming.:-2
All the world's a stage and the men and women merely players...Shakespeare
Furor Over Cartoons Pits Muslim Against Muslim
History seems to be repeating itself. I sense another World War coming.
I sincerely hope not. But this has been predicted for a long while and I have sensed the same since the uprising against the cartoons. I can see the chaos being projected outwards on the rest of the world.
Tomorrow's papers here are already in print. Didn't quite catch it as I was typing this, but one paper appears to report civil war in Iraq. Did we not predict this?
I sincerely hope not. But this has been predicted for a long while and I have sensed the same since the uprising against the cartoons. I can see the chaos being projected outwards on the rest of the world.
Tomorrow's papers here are already in print. Didn't quite catch it as I was typing this, but one paper appears to report civil war in Iraq. Did we not predict this?