Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Counter Points
On the whole burn things down because of cartoons thingie, we get two points of view in The Daily Cal. Khalid Mansour plays the apologist, while Darren Zook plays the adult. But more interesting, and not available online, is the caption for these op-eds:
Cartoon Controversy
In September, Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published 12 cartoons, some satirizing Prophet Muhammad. After some Muslims held peaceful protests, a number of papers in Europe republished the cartoons in the name of freedom of expression. Here's what a faculty member and a Muslim student have to say about it.
Let's put aside that the timeline (peaceful protests followed by republishing) is taken directly from the apologist's column. Even if the protests were all peaceful before the other papers republished the cartoons, don't you think it would be at least worth mentioning the violent protests that 'followed'? Also, is it appropriate to refer to the dude as "Prophet Muhammad," as if "Prophet" is his first name?
Interestingly, some of the "peaceful protestors" mentioned by the apologist, "Muslim ambassadors asked to meet with Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen," are the dudes who went on tour to provoke outrage.
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