European Press shows solidarity with threatened Danish cartoonist

well Europe and the US are demanding our Education system to be changed because in their eyes its anti-semitic !

not to forget many Europeans always talking about Muslims MUST reform their religion and laws in their countries.

Europeans and later the Americans are the ones who interfered with Middle eastern business First.

 There is a great deal of difference in a cartoon in a country with free press and some of the less than civilised practises and laws Europeans find to be wrong or unjust in certain Muslim countries.

 The difference is almost immeasurable.

 It doesnt take a genius to work out what is right and wrong, the cartoons may not be something Muslims will be particularly fond of, fine, don't read them and get over it, there are more important issues to demonstrate and whine about.

 The difference is almost immeasurable.

 It doesnt take a genius to work out what is right and wrong, the cartoons may not be something Muslims will be particularly fond of, fine, don't read them and get over it, there are more important issues to demonstrate and whine about.

Do you have  also right  to choose our priorities?

this cartons harm us, Infact  one if  it show, islam itself is  a terrorist organization.

what type of freedom is this? We decide  what is our priorities,  not you.

 This is the kind of overly defensive attitude that I have a problem with, if Allah is so greatly offended by these cartoons then i'm sure he'll smite the editors or something high and mighty.

 Light-heartedness there, might aswell not bother trying to explain what that means.

 Our freedoms permit this sort of thing, yours may not, I don't know nor care to be perfectly honest, the state of the press in some random Muslim country is of no interest to me whatsoever. Nor are a million other issues, I try and keep some perspective, I think though if in certain countries women persist on being made second-class citizens then I am justified to find that abhorrent and uncivilised. The relegation in class of a person based on gender is ridiculous, I believe I have every justification in thinking that.

 However if some Muslim guy graffitied a wall with something highly original like "Death to Americans" or "Democracy bites"  then bloody hell what do i care what that guys thinks? is America supposed to march on Washington DC and demand revenge for this outrage? no and why? because not everybody cares what some crackpot thinks of them from the other side of the globe. There are more important things going on on this rock than some damn cartoons, which are tame by modern standards, I promise you'll find more offensive material in the Simpsons or Family guy than you will in these cartoons.

You're failing to see my point. Any muslim who gets too violent or radical, should leave.

You dont see my point, they are not our citizen, they are your citizen, you should punish them acording to your laws. Exiling them is complately double standart, or saying they should leave.

do you think If a german or brit get violent they should also leave?

by the way, leave where?

I'm not going to be a hypocrite and tell Muslims tehy can't boycott and protest against Europe's freedoms while they are living in Europe. If that is their stance, then they should feel free to express it peacefully. Though, they should expect a fair bit of criticizm.

Leave here is not a bit criticizm.

I don't approve of Bush's war, but that is really beside the point. I think that many many laws in teh Middle East should be changed. ANd it should be done peacefully, not through war. These cartoons are critical of your laws, but they are a form of peaceful protest. That, in my opinion, is how we should be expressing our views.

So, now some muslims want to change a law that they think harmful to muslims, and they try to do is peacifully, unlike bush war.

This cartoons are not peaciful, specialy one which show a bomb over Prophet.

You tell the Danes that they shouldn't have the right to publish these cartoons becuase they're offensive, but it's okay for you to have the right to march and chant for nations to be destroyed. It's hypocritical.

Boycott them, as I said  before I dont like flag burning  or death marchs.

You're basically saying that freedom is okay as long as it isn't offensive to Islam.If that is your stance then you may as well be living in the Middle Ages. Freedom should be universal. As long as a person is peaceful about it, then they should be allowed to criticize whomever they like for whatever reason.

criticize is not these pictures doing. Aim of these pictures are provoke(do you hear anyone refuse this). So they reached their aim.

This is the kind of overly defensive attitude that I have a problem with, if Allah is so greatly offended by these cartoons then i'm sure he'll smite the editors or something high and mighty.

It is not Allah offended, It is us.

 I didnt even know these cartoons existed under people got so overwhelmingly offended by them, well done you've made them about a million times more famous than they would of been otherwise.

It amazes me that the people in those photographs apparently don't realise how idiotic and childish their actions make them look.

Yes people have a right to boycott whatever they want and protest about whatever they want, just like children can stamp their feet and scream and throw things whenever their parents won't let them do something.

This kind of exaggerated sense of 'honour' and need for 'respect' is typical of some other cultures - it is for instance the hallmark of the streetgang cultures of some US and other inner cities. Do these people really want to line themselves up with the Crips?

Azimuth i think too and i am not europian or american, there are too many middle eastern scholars and non scholars think like that. Although i think islam isn't reformable, but you should divide it from gov. and politics to be secular. The very most thing muslims badly need is tolerance. So try to be more tolerated rather than  to blame european for their press and speech freedom.

Torrid nonsense. Not one person anywhere in the world has suffered even one tiny bit of physical harm as a result of these cartoons.

That's important.

That somehow or other your egos have been pierced is unimportant. Just as unimportant as it would be if mine were.

err in  Turkey, If you harm someone emotionaly, you should pay some money for you guilt. dont you  have same laws?