It’s pretty rich that some Christians are using the issue to bash Muslims, and their supposed intolerance towards criticism. These would be the same Christians that lobbied to have the Jerry Springer The Opera scrapped and successfully ensured the BBC did not screen PopeTown.
Anyway the voice of reason has crossed the Mediterranean (via Perry de Havilland) from Egypt in the form of the excellent The Big Pharaoh blog: -
Sphere: Related Content5. The Jyllands-Posten case is one of those cases that you hate yet you cannot do anything about it. I really wish it hadn’t published such terrible cartoons. Even if the case highlighted something in Denmark (the editor said “the cartoons were a test of whether the threat of Islamic terrorism had limited the freedom of expression in Denmark), it only widened the huge current gulf between Islam and the West. Muslims around the world believe that the Westerners have nothing to do except plotting against Islam. The Jyllands-Posten case gave us another reason to believe this myth.
6. I can’t end the post without saying: when will we grow up?? The Da Vinci Code did not harm Christianity, 12 cartoons won’t harm Islam either!!
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