Muhammad Cartoons

Cant" get over something I saw on the news this morning. Thousands of people protesting the Muhammad cartoons. All chanting in unison .... "Death to Denmark". I never thought I would hear that. It has to much of a ring to it. It sounds to nice. Sounds nowhere near as vile as the old standby "Death to the Yankee dogs"!

From the New York Times
"As leaders of the world's 57 Muslim nations gathered for a summit meeting in Mecca in December, issues like religious extremism dominated the official agenda. But much of the talk in the hallways was of a wholly different issue: Danish cartoons satirizing the Prophet Muhammad.

The closing communiqué took note of the issue when it expressed "concern at rising hatred against Islam and Muslims and condemned the recent incident of desecration of the image of the Holy Prophet Muhammad in the media of certain countries" as well as over "using the freedom of expression as a pretext to defame religions."

I always thought that freedom of expression or speech meant just that. Not that the cartoons are right. I think it was in bad taste but come on they are just cartoons. Dont' we as a world have bigger problems?

The New York Times