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I would say Muslims are not helping their case in the world court of public
opinion by becoming violent because someone decided to express an opinion.
I am Wiccan/Pagan. I wonder how the Muslims would feel if their women were
depicted as ugly old hags with warts on their noses, and their highest
holiday was treated as a time when children dress up in all sorts of
costumes and expect to be given treats. How would they like to have to deal
with their other holidays being ignored, like Lammas or Beltane or stolen
and desecrated like Ostara and Yule? Or to have their most sacred texts
minimized and degraded?
They have a right to practice their religion, just like everyone else. But
they have no right to burn and loot and kill, or imprison Journalists who
they find offensive.
Aren't they glad Wiccan/Pagans don't take the same attitude? And the cartoon
wasn't even that offensive!
Skywolf.
Call to free journalists imprisoned in Prophet cartoons row
MONTREAL, Feb. 17 /CNW Telbec/ - Reporters Without Borders today
launched an appeal and a petition for the immediate release of seven
journalists thrown into prison in Yemen, Syria and Algeria for reprinting
the controversial Prophet cartoons as part of informing their readers.
"Whatever one thinks of the cartoons or whether they should be
published, it is absolutely unjustified to jail or prosecute journalists,
threaten them with death or shut down newspapers for this reason," the
worldwide press freedom organisation said.
At least twelve journalists are being prosecuted in five countries and
seven have been jailed. Some face long prison sentences if convicted. Two
editors in Jordan have been charged with provocation and encouraging
disorder. Three journalists have been jailed in Yemen and charged under
article 103 of the press law, which bans publication of anything that "harms
Islam, denigrates monotheistic religion or a humanitarian belief."
Reporters Without Borders calls for all criminal cases among these to be
dropped.
Thirteen publications have been closely temporarily or permanently in
Algeria, Morocco, Jordan, Yemen, Malaysia and Indonesia for reprinting the
cartoons. Reporters Without Borders demands that these bans be lifted.
A conference to discuss the cartoons crisis on 9 February in Paris
stressed that nothing could justify the imprisonment of journalists. More
than a dozen journalists, intellectuals and religious officials from Western
and Arab/Muslim countries attended the meeting, organised by Reporters
Without Borders and the Arab Commission for Human Rights, and appealed for
calm and dialogue. A similar conference will be held in Cairo on 25
February.
Reporters Without Borders calls on everyone to take a stand in support
of the imprisoned journalists, who were simply doing their job and passing
on news that made headlines around the world.
For further information: Emily Jacquard, Responsable de la section
canadienne, Reporters sans frontires, (514) 521-4111, Cell: (514) 258-4208,
Fax: (514) 521-7771, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|On Nov. 21, 1864 President Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to Colonel
William F. Elkins.
He wrote "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves
me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result
of the war, corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption
in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will
endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the
people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic
is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my
country than ever before, even in the midst of war."
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