My Response

I will start by this quote from the BBC Have Your Say website. I think this really sums it up for me:

These protesters who are burning flags and buildings, and threatening the West with violence in the name of Islam, must feel really aggrieved at the insensitive cartoon equating their religion with Terrorism. The papers have really got this one wrong.

Phil Jones, Singapore

For those of you who didn't get the sarcasm, do reread. In fact, just last year there was the Jerry Springer opera. But we did not see violent protests by Christians, even though this opera did make a comedy out of them. I Islam an extremist religion? After all it does call to death those who do not follow it. Is it a peaceful religion than can coexist? Apparently not since we cannot even criticise it, but must follow the rules of a religion we do not even follow. (Not to much different from Christianity, except I will say that you guys don't promote violence and allow criticism)

Danish and Norwegian embassies have been burned across the middle east because of cartoons that displayed Muhammad as a terrorist. Diplomats are usually given the highest protection because they are needed even in wartime for discussions or peace talks.

I take these threats seriously, and understand that this religion is extremist and needs to be exterminated. It is never right to impose your religion or use your religion as excuse for violence or hatred. Appearently this hatred is imbosed in many religions.

For the record, Muslims regularly make fun of the Hindu Religion in India. This partly stems for the Kashmir dispute where violence has regularly been around due to Hindus and Muslims living in the same area.

Religion is deeply flawed. Religion that teaches only itself is correct flames extremism. Both Islam and Christianity encourage the death of Non-Beleivers should we take them as written in the Koran or Bible.

Iran had now decided it will "test" free speech by making cartoons about the Holocaust. This is quite different. As the holocaust was not about religion, but about the killing of a single race or racism. This is cruel, insensitive, and barbaric. But, I would expect nothing less from Iran.

Osama Bin Laden made Islam about terrorism on 9/11. Why? Because he gave Islam as a reason or excuse for killing 3000 innocent people. Today we have more muslims using Muhammed as an excuse to incite hatred and kill innocent danes that had no involvement in the publishing of these frank and honest cartoons.

These cartoons were published after a request for cartoons about Islam. It is a honest picture of what Islam represents to those who made the cartoons and helps us understand various view points. It is a fact that sometimes terrorism is equated with Islam, and this is something that Muslims must fight and not encourage. It is because violence has been used by muslims to achieve their goals accross the globe, not only on 9/11.

In fact, the Majority of Palestinains voted for TERRORISM in their last election. This only goes to further my point, that it isn't just a handful, but a large portion of Muslims that feel this way. These last few days do not help, but only hurt their cause.

Innocent and Ordinary Norwegians and Danes feel threatened. Norwegians have historically worked in leaps and bounds for the Muslims, and Palestinians. This will probably change. The damage done by Muslims in the past few days will scar their religion forever. It has only confirmed our worst fears, that they are indeed extremist and will not settle to peacefully coexist.