Why Muslims have a right to be angry

Posted on February 14, 2006 by Sappho

Doug Lorimer

The Dan­ish government’s defence of the pub­li­ca­tion by a Dan­ish news­pa­per of car­i­ca­tures of the prophet Mohammed, includ­ing one with the 7th cen­tury Arab reli­gious leader wear­ing a tur­ban with a bomb attached to it, has pro­voked wide­spread protests by jus­ti­fi­ably angry Mus­lims around the world.



Ahmed Abu-Laban, who leads a mosque in Copenhagen’s Mus­lim neigh­bour­hood and has been blamed for insti­gat­ing the protests against the car­toons, told the US Knight Rid­der News­pa­pers (KRN) chain on Feb­ru­ary 7 that Dan­ish offi­cials had brought the cri­sis on them­selves by not crit­i­cis­ing the car­toons when they were first printed.

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22 Responses to Why Muslims have a right to be angry

  1. Keld Bach says:
    February 14, 2006 at 20:03

    The Dan­ish Broad­cast Cor­po­ra­tion News (DR) launched on Mon­day, Feb­ru­ary 13, a new online sec­tion on Islam and the Mus­lim minor­ity in Den­mark:

    “We believe that our audi­ence needs to know more about Islam and Mus­lims,” the page’s edi­tor Ulrik Aarhus told IslamOnline.net on Tues­day, Feb­ru­ary 14.

    “They need infor­ma­tion on Islamic his­tory, civ­i­liza­tion and cul­ture for that Danes can bet­ter under­stand Mus­lims and Islam.”

    Aarhus said the cur­rent tur­moil over the Dan­ish car­toons that lam­pooned Prophet Muham­mad (peace and bless­ings be upon him) is largely because “we do not know each other.“

    Unfor­tu­nately, it’s only i Danish.

    The Provin­cial Coun­cil in Basra demands the Dan­ish troops to leave the coun­try unless they recieve an apol­ogy about the car­toons from the army. They’ll never get that ;-)

  2. Keld Bach says:
    February 14, 2006 at 20:33

    The Dan­ish defence min­is­ter Søren Gade don’t want to with­draw the Dan­ish troops from Iraq. They have been ‘invited’ by the Iraqi gov­ern­ment, he insists. Well, it seems the ‘invi­ta­tion’ is not valid any longer…

  3. LadyBird says:
    February 14, 2006 at 20:38

    “Who invited them”

    By the way I am going right now to the the­ater, watch the movie “Munich”

  4. Keld Bach says:
    February 14, 2006 at 20:46

    Enjoy, LB ;-)

    BTW, These dogs are dan­gers for world peace (Bush and Fogh Rasmussen).

  7. Nadia says:
    February 14, 2006 at 21:01

    See you later LadyBird :)

  8. Lynn says:
    February 15, 2006 at 15:10

    Protests are fine, but it is illog­i­cal to protest being labeled as irra­tional killers by being irra­tional killers. It would be much bet­ter for Islam’s image if the pro­test­ers were fol­low­ing the teach­ings of Mohammed. Or were they?

  9. Jon says:
    February 16, 2006 at 08:49

    Lynn — “it is illogical”

    There is noth­ing log­i­cal about it. It is uncon­trolled rage and noth­ing more. In the end, it will do more harm than good.

  10. Keld Bach says:
    February 16, 2006 at 21:24

    The Iraqi pup­pet gov­ern­ment has in a let­ter today asked the Dan­ish army to stay. They are even prais­ing the troops for their work. How­ever, the provin­sial coun­cil in Basra is NOT pre­pared to ‘for­give’ the Danes, though.

  11. Truth About Iraqis says:
    February 17, 2006 at 22:36

    Pak­istani Cleric puts $1 mil­lion bounty on Cartoonist’s head.

    Seri­ously this is absolutely out­ra­geous. This is going to far, by God.

    Robin,

    No, there is no much I can argue there — per­cep­tion is very impor­tant. And unfor­tu­nately, the image of a man enraged and throw­ing a fire­bomb at a build­ing is much more pow­er­ful than that of a man in dialogue.

    I guess you haven’t heard about the Pak­istani cleric who just put up a $1 mil­lion bounty on the cartoonist’s head.

    Aljazeera just ran the article

    Is this shock­ing? No. Plenty of cler­ics have no idea what Islam really means. Am I upset? You betcha. This is just stu­pid. In Iraqi, I would call this man zmaal — an ass. That’s how I view him and other cler­ics who urge such violence.

    Let’s hope this cleric gets arrested or something.

  12. Keld Bach says:
    February 17, 2006 at 23:55

    Open let­ter: Den­mark, Where Are You?:

    In the fol­low­ing open let­ter, an out­stand­ing fig­ure in Dan­ish cul­ture, the com­poser Thomas Kop­pel (Sav­age Rose), chal­lenges the Dan­ish gov­ern­ment to step down over its han­dling of the Mohamad provo­ca­tion — and its respon­si­bil­ity for Denmark’s par­tic­i­pat­ing in the ille­gal war and occu­pa­tion of Iraq.
    He sug­gests a new inde­pen­dent pop­u­lar move­ment to rep­re­sent the pop­u­lar demands.

  13. Keld Bach says:
    February 18, 2006 at 19:26

    The Dan­ish prime min­is­ter, Fogh Ras­mussen shame­lessly lied to the world when he claimed that ambas­sadors from eleven Mus­lim coun­tries wanted him to take action against Jyllands-Posten. They didn’t — here’s the proof: Let­ter from ambas­sadors (pdf).

  14. Keld Bach says:
    February 18, 2006 at 20:05

    The Iraqi min­is­ter of trans­port has in a let­ter yes­ter­day to the Dan­ish Gov­ern­ment demanded our troops to with­draw imme­di­ately. Wow!

    Pres­i­dent Jalal Tal­a­bani today said that he didn’t care whether they stayed or not…

  15. LadyBird says:
    February 18, 2006 at 20:10

    Really I don’t know why they want to stay there.

    The US will never sell Den­mark cheap oil for the favor of stay­ing Iraq

  16. Keld Bach says:
    February 18, 2006 at 20:21

    It’s only Fogh Ras­mussen (PM) who per­son­ally might ben­e­fit a lit­tle bit. That’s all. But Bush needs all the friends he can pos­si­bly get for his “Coal­i­sion of the Will­ing.” BUllSHit!

  17. Keld Bach says:
    February 19, 2006 at 05:31

    Very clever mar­ket strat­egy. Arab coun­tries are forc­ing Dan­ish com­pa­nies to boy­cott Israel in order to get back into the Mid­dle East mar­kets. Arla, the biggest Dan­ish dairy, has even crit­i­cised the Moham­mad car­toons pub­licly. Money rules the world…

  18. Paul M. Kingery, PhD, MPH says:
    February 28, 2006 at 02:43

    Dear Lady­bird,

    Thank you for your thoughts. I look for­ward to fol­low­ing your inter­est­ing blog. I’ve been writ­ing about Ariel Sharon in rela­tion to the Chris­t­ian future. He may be more impor­tant a player than many real­ize. Are you inter­ested in top­ics about the apoc­a­lypse, end times, the end of the world, escha­tol­ogy, last days, the horse­men of the apoc­a­lypse, the beast, proph­esy, proph­e­sies, rev­e­la­tion, 666, bible proph­esy, prophets, Canaan, Canaan’s land, Land of Canaan, or the Chris­t­ian future? If so you may enjoy read­ing ” Land of Canaan.” This is a free online book. The Link is http://landofcanaan.info/book.php
    Let me know what you think.

    Thanks,

    Paul M. Kingery, PhD, MPH

  19. Charles says:
    February 28, 2006 at 02:52

    What the hell is an mph?

  20. Nadia says:
    February 28, 2006 at 07:54

    Charles I’m not 100% sure but it might be Mas­ter of Pub­lic Health?!!!

  21. Paul M. Kingery, PhD, MPH says:
    February 28, 2006 at 19:19

    Right, Mas­ter of Pub­lic Health, focus­ing on help­ing chil­dren in devel­op­ing coun­tries get clean water, food, and avoid infec­tious dis­eases and vio­lence, things like that. I used to be a mis­sion­ary in Africa work­ing with Zulus on rather prac­ti­cal needs, and also stud­ied water sup­ply for school chil­dren in Kenya, Tan­za­nia, and Uganda.

  22. Paul M. Kingery, PhD, MPH says:
    February 28, 2006 at 19:20

    By the way, I am now work­ing on a project in Kur­dis­tan to bring books to the med­ical school at the Uni­ver­sity of Mosul and to study vio­lence among high school stu­dents. That also falls within the work of an “MPH.”