CNN.com - Now under Sharia Law
Buried in this CNN.com story over the Muslim world’s rage at the depiction in Danish newspaper, “Jyllands-Posten,” of Mohammed is this neat little tidbit that illustrates how strong CNN’s resolve is towards freedom of the press:
Muslims consider it sacrilegious to produce a likeness of the Prophet Mohammad. CNN has chosen to not show the cartoons in respect for Islam.
Here’s why CNN’s stupid. The Islamic world has depicted Mohhamed in art form for centuries. See this collection put together by the intrepid Zombie. Can you say precedent, boys and girls?
As for the Muslims up in rage over this, where are the moderate Muslim voices? Is this what we, the rest of the world, are supposed to see as “what a Muslim is?” Actions like these rampages don’t speak well for your faith amongst us infidels and every time a riot takes place because of a piece of art, or a sentence spoken or a book published, we lose a bit more respect for your entire faith.
A faith that can’t coexist amongst the rest of the world has no place existing at all. It is a self-destructive force that threatens the race of man and is in total conflict with modernity.
To Muslims everywhere, please, please, please fix your faith. There have to be good traits somewhere in that religion. Where is your Council of Nicea? Your Reformation? Your Magna Carta? Do not let the cancer of Radical Islamism consume you. If Radical Islam further consumes your faith, there will be a breaking point and the rest of the world will hammer you into subjugation. Islam will be scattered many times worse than the Jews ever were. Islamic surnames will be shunned many times worse than German names were in America during World War 2.
Fix your faith. Come into the modern world. Join the rest of the world and learn to coexist with us. It’s not that hard. You just have to want it.
February 3rd, 2006 at 11:44 EST
I just wrote a screenplay when Muslims do exactly that–face the evil among them.
February 3rd, 2006 at 11:55 EST
The moderate Muslim voices are out there but why would the media want to hear from them when they can show riots and protests across the Middle East?
As for CNN, this is a rare example of media restraint. While freedom of speech is guaranteed does it really needed to be exercised to its fullest degree just to prove the point? CNN have chosen to report the story rather than shape it, or in the case of some European newspapers, be the story.
February 3rd, 2006 at 11:59 EST
ah, so now CNN chooses not to shape a story, after a decade or longer of making a name for doing just that.
that, or they’re sadly craven and soulless.
February 3rd, 2006 at 13:21 EST
Finally, we agree on something. Usually I’m resigned to thinking that you’re full of shit. Good job this time, though.
February 8th, 2006 at 16:32 EST
Unmitigated gall is divided into three parts: greed, stupidity and cruelty.
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