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Originally posted by Fish Sunday Thinker Also, by the way, some of you also don't know much about Islam either because Jesus is also considered an honored Prophet by the Qu'ran.
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I think you are wrong on this. I certainly knew that Jesus was considered a prophet in the Koran and I think most of the people who posted on this subject knew that.
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Originally posted by Fish Sunday Thinker
I am urging all of my friends, Muslims and non-believers alike, to put aside the divisive and unproductive hate and seek to model themselves in the ways of the Prophet, with beautiful, compassionate, peace loving behavior. All of us here and in our personal lives should be beacons to the rest of the world community to honor the Prophet and the message of Allah.
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I appreciate your tolerance, and I wish all muslims thought as you did (just as I wish all Christians thought as I do). I think in this case the problem is mainly the Muslim community. The only thing that really offends me is people who get offended. When the movie the Last Temptation of Christ came out, or the Christ in Urine or the Mary with Feces, many Christians were offended. I am a Christian, but I strongly believe that the problem was created by the offended Christians and not the artists or Martin Scocesse. When Mel Gibsons movie "the Passion" came out many Jews and some other people were offended. They were the problem in that case, not Mel Gibson or his Movie. In this situation, and in the Salman Rushdie situation, the Muslims that were and are offended are the problem. I appreciate the fact that you are encouraging your fellow muslims not react to these cartoons in a negative way.
In an open pluralistic society people are always going to do stuff that other people consider offensive, blasphemous or sacrilegeous. A society were people don't do stuff that other people consider offensive, is a society I hope I never live in. The only society I want to live in is a society where people feel compelled to speak their minds, and aren't afriad to offend anyone. Therefore, in my mind, the only solution to this kind of problem with the cartoons is for people to learn not to react in a violent or hostile way when they get offended, but to instead enter the national dialogue themselves and express their views on the subject.
