04-22-2008, 04:44 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Bharatvarsh+Apr 22 2008, 03:01 AM-->QUOTE(Bharatvarsh @ Apr 22 2008, 03:01 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Either these mofos show consistency and allow a movie wid Madmos orgies or they ban this, I am for no ban but then we should be able to make whatever movies we want showing madmo and those police and Muslims who disrupted the Aurangzeb exhibition should be charged with violating a citizens right to freedom of expression.
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I whole-heartedly agree. No ban, just equal opportunity to Hindus to do the similar stuff on the other party.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Faith can't be just Islam
Daniel Pipes
There's a contradiction brewing among Muslim political leaders on the question of creating a global law to respect religion.
On the one hand, the Mohammed cartoons and other episodes leave them intent to find a mechanism to suppress public anti-Islamic sentiments. As such laws cannot single out Islam exclusively for protection, they must include respect for religion in general.
Here is one example of this wish, as expressed by Yemen's Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Mujawr who, as reported by the Yemen Observer, has "called for an international law that criminalises religious insults and enforces mutual respect of religions, calling on all rationalists in the West to avoid such negative acts (as printing the Mohammed cartoons)".
In this spirit, Saudi Arabia's Consultative Council (Majlis ash-Shura) considered a resolution calling on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to "work in coordination with Arab and Islamic groups and others at the United Nations to draft an international pact for respecting religions, their symbols and leaders, and prohibit insulting them in any way."
The council member who introduced the resolution, Mohammad Al Quwaihes, did so in direct reaction to the cartoons: "The provocation to move the resolution was the continuous onslaught on Islam in general and the Prophet Mohammed in particular, say for example, the blasphemous cartoons and films being published in Denmark, the Netherlands, America and the like."
Ah, but there's a problem with this "mutual respect of religions" idea, one which led the council overwhelmingly to vote down the resolution, 77-33. Critics pointed out that such a pact would recognise polytheistic religions, and that "would be unacceptable." One opponent, Khaleel Al Khaleel, explained his vote against on the grounds that it would create a dangerous precedent for Muslims. Another member, Talal Bakri, noted that "if we approve the resolution it will be make it obligatory to recognise some religions and will facilitate establishing places of worship for them in Muslim countries."
The idea of an international law banning blasphemy is just awful. How reassuring to know that the Saudi Consultative Council agrees with me, even if for its own parochial reasons.
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I whole-heartedly agree. No ban, just equal opportunity to Hindus to do the similar stuff on the other party.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Faith can't be just Islam
Daniel Pipes
There's a contradiction brewing among Muslim political leaders on the question of creating a global law to respect religion.
On the one hand, the Mohammed cartoons and other episodes leave them intent to find a mechanism to suppress public anti-Islamic sentiments. As such laws cannot single out Islam exclusively for protection, they must include respect for religion in general.
Here is one example of this wish, as expressed by Yemen's Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Mujawr who, as reported by the Yemen Observer, has "called for an international law that criminalises religious insults and enforces mutual respect of religions, calling on all rationalists in the West to avoid such negative acts (as printing the Mohammed cartoons)".
In this spirit, Saudi Arabia's Consultative Council (Majlis ash-Shura) considered a resolution calling on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to "work in coordination with Arab and Islamic groups and others at the United Nations to draft an international pact for respecting religions, their symbols and leaders, and prohibit insulting them in any way."
The council member who introduced the resolution, Mohammad Al Quwaihes, did so in direct reaction to the cartoons: "The provocation to move the resolution was the continuous onslaught on Islam in general and the Prophet Mohammed in particular, say for example, the blasphemous cartoons and films being published in Denmark, the Netherlands, America and the like."
Ah, but there's a problem with this "mutual respect of religions" idea, one which led the council overwhelmingly to vote down the resolution, 77-33. Critics pointed out that such a pact would recognise polytheistic religions, and that "would be unacceptable." One opponent, Khaleel Al Khaleel, explained his vote against on the grounds that it would create a dangerous precedent for Muslims. Another member, Talal Bakri, noted that "if we approve the resolution it will be make it obligatory to recognise some religions and will facilitate establishing places of worship for them in Muslim countries."
The idea of an international law banning blasphemy is just awful. How reassuring to know that the Saudi Consultative Council agrees with me, even if for its own parochial reasons.
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