On the subject of Muslims, cartoons, and this whole Danish flag burning thing

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tailen made an awesome LJ post that goes into all sorts of details on what happened regarding this whole issue.

http://tailen.livejournal.com/8856.html




My thoughts on this whole thing:

The strength of the reaction rather surprised me. Before reading the above post, I had wondered if folks with an agenda were inflaming the situation just to push a political agenda. Sadly, it seems that it is indeed the case.

In fact, the folks who started it all were Muslims that live in... Denmark! They moved to the country so they could escape oppression, then engaged in their very own form of oppression by trying to bully their own country's government into censoring an independent newspaper. Talk about being a bunch of complete and total hippocrates.

The sad thing about this is that it's not really going to help the image of Muslims. When I read the comments about threatening to kill Danish civilians over something that a random newspaper printed, I nearly fell off my chair. As Tailen stated, many of these people have not even seen the cartoons, but they are going all rabid over them.

I guess there is a lesson to be learned here: never blindly follow what your leaders tell you without verifying what they say is true. That's directed at Muslims AND Americans.