Could it be that we're overreacting to these Muslims overreactions? If you ask me, the global news machine is over-reporting this story to attract a larger audience.
From BBC News:
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Cartoon anger is a misrepresentation
Western embassies in Middle Eastern cities have been torched. Angry crowds have marched in the streets of London carrying placards calling for beheadings and massacres.
Yet despite how it looks on television news, the response to the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad has mostly been non-violent so far.
There were no demonstrations at all in a sizeable number of Muslim countries. In Iran, Egypt, Pakistan and Iraq, the demonstrations passed off quietly.
There has been serious trouble in Gaza, Damascus and Beirut, but in each case, local tensions clearly boiled up and found their expression in this particular issue.
In Syria, such violence is so rare that some people have wondered whether the attacks on the Danish and Norwegian embassies might not have been provoked by government agents, in order to discredit the beleaguered Islamists there.
In Lebanon, the continuing tension between supporters of the Syrians and supporters of the Americans played a part in the violence in Beirut.
When a breakaway group started to attack a Christian church at Ashrafiya, a group of Muslim clerics did everything they could to stop them.
How did a series of not particularly well-drawn or funny cartoons, published on 30 September in a Danish newspaper, produce such anger in Europe and the Middle East four months later?
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Being outraged at their outrage will accomplish nothing. Lumping every Muslim into the same group is worse than drawing an insulting cartoon. I would suggest everyone put a little more thought into this issue before making unsupported statements like these:
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Originally Posted by theknife
if you can't handle free speech, you're not ready for democracy. as if we needed another example...
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Originally Posted by floydian slip
seems as though they were purposely provoked to show us why we need to have anoter war
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Originally Posted by legion
Not all muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are muslims.
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Read the
Wikipedia article on the subject, it's probably more balanced and informative than anything you'll get from the sound bite media.