Thoughts On The Cartoons
There have been a lot of articles about the cartoons from Denmark out there. I honestly haven’t found many of them that revealing beyond the basic facts. You get the knee-jerks on both sides yelling and screaming. Well I finally found an article that I really agree with about the whole cartoon issue. It comes from the Lebanon Daily Star and points out some real truths.
First, that the people taking to the streets really has more to do with current politics and dysfunctional governments in the Muslim world needing something to distract the world with, or the people acting out against their governments. Second, that the insensitivity in western countries is real, but they have internal ways of being dealt with, and generally are. For example, last year a radio station was inciting real violence at Muslims and was censured by the Danish government. And finally, if they really want to be upset about something it should be the Muslims who show disrespect to the Muslim community by using the Koran to incite violence, etc.