At the time of Dannish cartoonist painting Prophet Mohammed (SAW), world was supporting and shouting about freedom of expression against the protest by a community. Now, when an artist portrayed Osama bin laden as christ in australia, same world is critisizing. I ask those people, now where is that freedom of expression they supported. This is not the first incident, at the time of movies like "The Passion of Christ", "Da Vinci Code" same was observed. Even the book Da Vinci Code was critisized. But, if a community protests against "Satanic Verses", the world say no it should be allowed as everybody have his freedom of expression.
2007-09-28 03:59:20 · 10 answers · asked by khawar k 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Freedom of expression is a phrase without any specific meaning. Its just an intellectual way of threatening weak nation by powerful nations. Otherwise unlimited and uncontrolled freedom of expression is not possible. You can't speak against a nation inside that country itself.
2007-09-28 04:05:00 · answer #1 · answered by Happily Happy 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The "western world" is not protesting. I suspect most of the "western world" hasn't even heard about it and most who do probably don't care. If there are really any protests over this it's from the uptight springloaded-to-feel-persecuted christian minority.
Personally if it were important enough for me to give it any thought I would say some desperate to get noticed Australian nobody is free to paint whoever he wants as whoever he wants.
Lastly if you want to do more than whine you should do exactly what your question is pretending to do and ask those people who are protesting. Although I suspect what you'll find is that they're as twisted and glassy eyed as the misguided idiots who protested the cartoons of mohammed.
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Update - Just out of curiosity I checked 5 news outlets and haven't seen a story yet about what you're claiming. Looks like a complete non-event. While you'd obviously love this to be a major event it's getting less notice than Nickelodeon shutting down for 3 hours.
2007-09-28 11:03:41 · answer #2 · answered by Demetri w 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
For some Christians (not the Western world, thank you) to complain about a book or painting is a bit different than mobs torching embassies or religious leaders targeting writers for assassination.
Anyway Australian painters have done worse.
2007-09-28 11:05:37 · answer #3 · answered by Voyager 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The western world does not pass death sentences on authors for writing a book, or cartoonists for drawing a cartoon.
Unlike Islam and its hypocritcal and inhuman dogma.
2007-09-28 11:07:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Protesting is freedom of expression.
2007-09-28 11:06:02 · answer #5 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Try to draw all of the analogies that you want, but there isn't mass rioting going on in the Western world as a result of this.
2007-09-28 11:09:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
there is nothing wrong with allowing and fighting for freedom of speech and expression, and then criticizing people for what they chose to express....what's wrong is having a double standard and saying, you can have freedom of expression as long as you leave out, x, y and z.
2007-09-28 11:05:52 · answer #7 · answered by reddevilbloodymary 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Protesting is freedom of expression until violence becomes a part of that protest.
2007-09-28 11:04:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
protest is one thing which everyone has a right to do but killing people over crap like that is what the difference is between the west and islam
2007-09-28 11:09:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
pure hypocricy typical of every religion ,,, nothing new
2007-09-28 11:02:36 · answer #10 · answered by mega_mover 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋