How is this Danish cartoon enough to murder people over?

Question

http://www.prophetcartoons.com/images/DanishCartoon07.jpg
Now that i've actually seen it i'm flooored by how light it is.

i didn't know someone put a jihad on that white kid.

Answer 1

Pride leads humans to try and impose their values on others. What I mean is that coercion in trying to impose one's religious or philosophic views is wrong, in my understanding, with regard to us humans. So threatening and killing people over a cartoon is a sin that those who commit it will have to explain at the Judgement seat of God.

Answer 2

Well, the Arabic writing on the turban says "La elaha ella Allah, Muhammad rasul le'llah" (There is no God but God, and Muhammad is the Prophet of God). It's an important quote that is used in Muslim prayer. I don't see how you can describe that as "light."

I do find the cartoon offensive because it implies all Muslims are terrorists.

While it's hard for me to comprehend someone wanting to commit violence over something as minor as a tasteless cartoon, I don't see why someone would have to do things like that just to be deliberately offensive.

In my view, Islam is going through it's own "dark ages" now. Christianity had it's dark ages and they were just as intolerant as Muslim fanatics are today. If someone made a drawing insulting Christ at that time, I'm sure he would have been burned at the stake.

Also, this is one culture insulting another. Most pop culture references that are considered blasphemous to Christians are made within the same culture. Religious Muslims would not make similar similar images insulting Christ as it would be such as offensive to them as it would be to insult Muhammad. Christians, for the most part, live in countries that are very secularized and blasphemy is not taken as seriously as it used to be.

Just one more thing: if non-Muslims are the people deciding whether this cartoon is offensive or not; it would be kind of like white people deciding if it's acceptable to use the "N word."

Answer 3

I can see why Muslims could find this one of the cartoons pretty insulting. Having seen them all this is possibly the worst of the genuine ones IMHO.

No, it does not justify murder, calls for murder, or the level of outrage shown.

However much of that does not come from the original cartoons but from the extra, much more insulting ones that just happened to fall into the folder of cartoons that the group of Mullahs took around the Middle East to get everyone there all worked up.

To me the biggest crime, the biggest insult to Islam, is the addition of these extra cartoons purely to get people worked up against Denmark and the West.

Answer 4

It appears to be a matter of point of view. Interestingly, when the same thing was done with cartoons of Jesus (including at the same Danish paper), the reaction was also extremely negative. It depends on whose ox is being gored.

http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/54305
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/04/27/the-jesus-cartoons/
http://media.www.dailyemerald.com/media/storage/paper859/news/2007/05/14/Commentary/Student.Insurgent.Still.Insulting.Christians-2903007.shtml
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49925
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1703500,00.html

As I understand, what was circulated around the Muslim world included some extra, extremely racist "cartoons" (one was a bad photocopy of a photo with a scrawled caption) designed specifically to incite rage. Not having a subscription to the Danish paper, they couldn't fact check.

Answer 5

It can be light for you but not for muslims as muslims have great respect and love for their religion and their prophets.

It is light for people who does not have this faith as this faith considers such act as sinful and attacks towards muslims and Islam.

Blood is nothing compared to such attack as when you kill someone, no one will remember the latter after a few months or years but such attacks will mark the history for ever.

The damages it costs is beyond your imagination. If a cartoon was made on ur parents, or wife, or husband, you would revolt. Such love are nurtured by muslims for their religions and their prophets.

Tolerance does not mean to tolerate humiliations.

Peace.

Answer 6

Muslims don't believe in portraying any image of Muhammed, period, they consider it blasphemy. I don't see how that leads to grounds for murder, but there are some verses either in the Kuran or in their other holy writings where Muslims were either ordered or instructed to kill unbelievers or those who blasphemize - can't remember exactly, sorry. Its not all Muslims by the way, but a portion of them who interpret their writings in this way and you get a bunch of angry young uneducated men living in poverty and you can convince them to do this type of violence. Some probably ARE educated but so intense/twisted in their devoutness that they twist a message of love into one of hate.

Answer 7

Some Muslims are following passages from the Qur'an

sura 5:33 Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticise Islam.

Answer 8

There was a time Christians burned & tortured people for less--fortunately Christianity grew up a bit.

Answer 9

Islam rejects all imagery. tough it could have been resoled peaceably and the owner of the newspaper could have written a apology letter but some went to far

Answer 10

Keep in mind that cartoon was just one piece of a concerted propaganda campaign to justify the new American led invasion of the Middle East. An invasion that President Bush openly referred to as a Crusade.
There was nothing light about the cartoon or about the decision to publish it.