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Som jag skrev i den politiska sektionen:
So I haven't had time to post in this forum now for a few days (I really don't have time to post now either but I really had to get this out of me ), I have however had time to follow the events of the “Muhammad Cartoons” quite closely. I must say this is starting to amaze me more and more day for day. Watching the pictures of thousands upon thousands of people demonstrating all over the Muslim world (and in the western world too), burning embassies, changing names of pastries (wtf), etc. is shocking me more and more for every day.
Let's pause here. Let's stop and reflect on what's really going on. They are doing this for some fucking cartoons? I mean really, think about it, some satirical cartoons (which 99% of the ppl demonstrating haven't even seen) are creating all this?! And not only are they some satirical cartoons, they are some cartoons from a newspaper on fucking Jutland, Denmark?! I really don't know what to think about this major overreaction, it's hard to even try to understand how these people think!
To me it's becoming more and more obvious for every day that goes by that this has nothing whatsoever to do with the cartoons, but with power. A great known tactic to keep power is to hold people under fear. Many of the religious/political extremists in the middle east (and the west) use this as an excuse to hold on to their power, they create lies, over exaggerate things etc, all to polarize the (mostly illiterate) Muslim world and make extremist movements gain momentum (more Muslim extremists in the middle east/west, more anti-Muslim extremists in the west). I guess their hope is that this creates further provocation by the west so they can further deepen the rift between our worlds and strengthen their power with their extremists views.
I really hope Rasmussen's dialogues will help and make our cultures come closer, but sadly I doubt it. At the same time as I don't want any further polarization I hope that the west won't be afraid to criticise Islam in the future, cause no matter how important our multicultural society is, I still value freedom of speech higher. And I also think that these people in the west that can't tolerate to have their religion criticised don't belong to the west, and should go back to the middle east where no one ever will criticise their religion.
/back to school stuff
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