European Press shows solidarity with threatened Danish cartoonist

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Originally posted by ArmenianSurvival

 Don't they poke fun at Jews in many Arab countries? Does that not provoke anti-Jewish sentiments? And you can't say that Jews are not occasional targets of mockery in the Arab world, my parents are from the Middle East so I know this very well.

This issue precisely I talked about in a recent closed topic "When a cartoon is a cartoon". I will quote myself and excuse my laziness for that:

Originally posted by �ok ge�

strategos wrote:

Arab nations constantly still have such drawings and cartoons being depicted of jews. Why don't we have their governments make formal appologies to the jews.We also do not see jews threatening another "holocaust"(even thought that might sound weird), and burning of Arab embassies(if they have any).

I think there is a contineous lack of knowledge of the full picture in most of the Middle east conflicts. Some of these misunderstandings is that Arab newspapers are full of anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish caricatures. While such cartoons exist with no doubt in many Arab newspaper (I personally disagree with the ones that target the Jews in general, but not the anti-Israeli ones), Israeli and Jewish newspaper in Israel are not innocent at all in that matter. It is like a battle between both sides and surprisingly they share the same caricature ideas in some cases! Israeli newsppaer are filled with anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism. In one case, the Jerusalem Post depicted a caricature of the Islamic Jihad as a huge snake sitting on the world map and its tongue dripping poison all over the world! same exact propoganda.
Also, so much fuzzing about isolated cases of total retaliation (as the one posted here of the fundamentalist group in UK), and almost no coverage of similar cases where for instance Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the spiritual leader of Shas party and the Cheif Rabbi of Sephardic jews, has called many times Arabs in generals as cursed "snakes and insects." In fact, he was quoted to say "It is forbidden to be merciful to them, you must give them missiles, with relish - annihilate them. Evil ones, damnable ones," quoted in the Hebrew Maariv newspaper (source)
Bottom line, you can be selective in accusing a religion and ignoring the full picture.  One thing for sure and hard to dispute, while the Prophet Muhammed is depicted in all ugly pictures in many Israeli newspaper and now European newspaper, you will have a hard time finding an Arab newspaper that depict Jesus or Moses in such an ugly way, not even any of the desciples of the Gospel (whom Muslims consider them false). Definitely Muslims are raised to respect the core beliefs of other religions, in contrast to what the "free" and "tolerant" west is preaching.

Originally posted by ArmenianSurvival

Well, from what I know the mob in Lebanon didn't include any ethnic Lebanese. It was mostly Syrians and Palestinians. So its not even their country, technically. But even if they were Lebanese, I never justified the actions of the mobs (calling them "protesters" isn't correct, because once they resort to violence, they become a mob). I was simply defending the Arabs' right to boycott, no matter how premature I personally seem to find it.

Who said they were not Lebanese? What source? Sounds to me a Lebanese propoganda and similar to the typical excuse "they are not truly Lebanese". Who cares about their origin. They are Lebanese citizens as Osamah Bin Ladin is a Saudi citizen. It is a fact. 
I know you were not intentially defending the bombing of the embassies. I just wanted your statement to come rephrased just for clarity.
By the way, why not boycotting Turkish goods if you believe in your cause. I heard Armenian diary products as good as the Turkish ones. But I guess they are not available in the States. 

Edited by �ok ge�