Cartoon Controversy

For days now, I have been hearing about this issue which seems to be mushrooming globally. I am really outraged at this, angry at both sides really.

Didn't the west learn when Karl Laggerfeld (was it) used Islamic script, taken from the Koran on his designer clothes? He was wise enough to apologize publicly and remove the line completely.

Now Europeans are taking images of Mohammad, and reproducing it and calling it "freedom of speech". Come on people! It is sacrelige and that's that! They should know better than to fuel a fire that is waiting to combust. And to turn around and say it is their right to do this is really very self-assertive (for lack of a better word). Or is it better to say self-rightous?

Who, other than Muslims can decide what is right and wrong within their religion, and why cant western FREE PRESS respect their wishes for once? Put freedom of expression aside, this is against a religion, and the largest religion in the world might I add. Why do we have to be SO pig-headed? Is it THAT important to be right all the time? And isn't it more gratifying to take pride in honoring another religion or belief even if it doesn't make sense to you personally? What hapeened to honoring religion in the first place?

So now, they are getting their just desserts as far as I am concenrned. And Fundamentalists are running with it. In case we have forgotten, this is what fundamentalism means:

fun·da·men·tal·ism A usually religious movement or point of view characterized by a return to fundamental principles, by rigid adherence to those principles, and often by intolerance of other views and opposition to secularism. (www.dictionary.com)

We label them as such but then we decide to push them to the limit, and then stand back and say "What savages!!!". Well just as I am in agreement of animals trying to protect their habitat (which humans are taking away from them) by attacking them in their own homes, I agree with this. They have every right to be doing what they are doing. We said "The hell with your religious laws" by deliberately and blatantly publishing something SO against thier beliefs, and now, we sit back and watch the backlash with disgust.

I for one am with the Muslims on this one eventhough I am not Muslim. I think the west is going too far and we will shoot ourselves in the foot unless we stop acting like children who always need to be right.