islam doesn't speak, muslims do | "the ink of the scholar is worth more than the blood of the martyr" – Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
So, there’s a Danish cartoon controversy. This is stupidity (the cartoons). The violent reactions are idiocy. Ahmadinejad’s call for Holocaust denial cartoons moves the issue into the realm of the absurd. How do you deal with the absurd? Get a part and act along.
via Progressive Islam, I see there is now an Israeli Anti-Semetic Cartoon Contest.
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I really don’t know what to make of this story. Jewish women want to wear the burqa for modesty and the religious authorities say to be modest is a sign of sexual deviancy. I am so confused on so many levels with this story. h/t Talk Islam Israeli rabbis clamp down on burka – Telegraph. “At first, I just wore a wig,” one burka-wearing woman told the Haaretz newspaper. “Now when I see a woman with a wig, I pray to God to forgive her for wearing that thing on her head.”
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Muslim and Jewish students join to celebrate art – Schools of Thought – CNN.com Blogs. Canvases with bold colors and Arabic letters lined the walls of the rooms. Downstairs, students rapped about Islam and Judaism to their own version of the “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” melody, followed by songs performed in Arabic, Hebrew and English. For the first time, Muslim and Jewish students at Emory University collaborated for an interfaith art gala.
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Maybe someone should mention to Mr Ahmadinejad that the Danish are Danes and not Jewish. They are quite unlikley to be offended but some cartoons about the holocaust.
I was horrified when the Iranian newspaper first announced the contest. Although I admit that I thought they were trying to make an interesting point by “testing the limits of Western freedom of expression.” (Hence, re: Marc’s comment, the Iranians aren’t trying to offend the Danes, but trying to mock “the West”).
The NY Times had a good piece yesterday on the Iranian cartoons. It turns out that they have little to do with the Holocaust itself, and are actually more about the politics surrounding Israel. Nevertheless, the title of the exhibition says Holocaust cartoons, and it’s extremely unfortunate and frustrating that many Muslims cannot be critical of Israel without having to deny the Holocaust as well.