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author | Matěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu> | 2016-12-29 23:58:00 +0100 |
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diff --git a/danish-cartoons.rst b/danish-cartoons.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 2985f33..0000000 --- a/danish-cartoons.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,67 +0,0 @@ -Danish “offensive” cartoons -########################### - -:category: faith -:tags: Danish, cartoon, Muhammad, culture, islam, freeSpeech -:date: 2006-02-09T20:55:00 - -I did not know what to think about the Danish cartoons much. First of -all, when you look `at them`_, it is really hard to be sure whether the -author meant them to be offensive at all. Second, well of course, I am -too much reader of `The Voice of the Martyrs`_ to take seriously Islamic -complaints about how Christians are disrespectful to their faith. I -really shouldn’t dig into the reports of VoM about situation of -Christians (and especially new converts to Christianity) in Pakistan or -Saudi Arabia, should I? However, nothing of that seemed interesting -enough to be written down and I didn’t have a time and urge to research -this thoroughly. Meanwhile, all what I wanted to say was written in much -better way and with true understanding of what’s going on by -`HonestReporting.com`_. And, just one example—\ `Tom Gross’ selection of -Arab Cartoons`_. - -However, `I know`_ that the reasons for many social actions do not lie -in the rational causes, but in the symbolic struggle for status and -support. So, it seems that Honest Reporting’s (which is really strange -name) suggestion, that this case Islamic fundamentalist struggle to -affirm their support lovely collaborated with their governments effort -to find some other enemy than themselves. How lovely. - -Thanks Mark_ for pointing me to the Honest Reporting site. - -One off-topic comment. While looking at the `Tom Gross’ website`_ I -found that it contains a lot of highly controversial and critical -material. However, his articles on Roma_ sometimes get closer to the -skin, than feels comfortable. I have never heard about `Milena -Hubschmannová`_, which is shame and I just like `this picture`_. - -.. image:: {filename}/images/danish-bomb.jpg - :scale: 50% - :align: center - :alt: Controversial image of Muhammad with a bomb in his turban - -I have decided to publish here the one picture—the most controversial -one, not because I would like to offend muslims, but because I really -believe that this picture is actually quite interesting and it can be -interpreted in many other ways than just the one selected by protesting -Moslems and almost all Western print. - -.. _`at them`: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy -.. _`The Voice of the Martyrs`: - http://www.persecution.com/ -.. _`HonestReporting.com`: - http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/Offensive_Cartoons.asp -.. _`Tom Gross’ selection of Arab Cartoons`: - http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/ArabCartoons.htm -.. _`I know`: - http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/isbn/0252013212 -.. _Mark: - http://marcsmessages.typepad.com/mm/2006/02/humor_in_the_mu.html -.. _`Tom Gross’ website`: - http://www.tomgrossmedia.com -.. _Roma: - http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/Roma.htm -.. _`Milena Hubschmannová`: - http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/MilenaHubschmannova.html -.. _`this picture`: - http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/img/roma_large.jpg |