Danish Cartoons Incident

I read Cartoon Rage Continues on EBSCO host. The author defends freedom of speech for a Danish newspaper that published cartoons criticized Islam and Prophet Mohammed. Also, the article focuses on the reaction of Muslims toward the cartoons of Prophet Mohammed. Majority of Islamic countries were outrageous and offensive by these cartoons. Governments demanded apologies from Denmark and Norway. However, western’s view at the problem differently, they considered it as a freedom of speech and they claimed that Muslims misunderstood the idea of the cartoons.


I have never been this angry in my whole life. I myself reject resolutely these kind of cartoons because it’s against our prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him. Prophet Mohammed didn’t do anything to them. You can’t judge a person until you know him. He is the greatest person in this universe. He spent most of his time teaching and helping people. He taught them good things and he even forbids doing any harmful thing to a plant. So, how could those people who don’t know anything about him publish an insulting cartoon. According to them, their resource is bunch of terrorists, what a resource. In every country, in every race and in everywhere, there are bad people and good people. Whatever actions committed by those terrorists has nothing to do with Islam and Prophet Mohammed. Answering for R. Spencer’s question, author of the article, yes bin laden, al zawarhiri and al zawaquri all misunderstood the teaching of Islam. They are trying to apply the old rules of teaching of Islam that should be applied at that time. At time when Islamic government was starting to establish. At that specific time, there were many enemies and Prophet Mohammed was obliged to fight them. However, now in 21 century we can’t fight each other. In new era, modern world and modern governments solve their problems through political discussion and thing like that. Jihadists are committing violence and applying old ideas in new world. In conclusion, what happened has already happened and there’s nothing we can do about it. Even though Danish apologized, we don’t want a repeat. Cartoons were really insulting to our religion and to our prophet. I’m sure nobody will be quiet if it was about his/her religion.
Samah Ali