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[musicman1586]

*sigh* Humanity will never cease to disgust me. It amazes me just how uneducated we can be and how little we understand about each other, even more so is how little we care to understand one another. What am I talking about? I'm talking about the Danish cartoons that were printed about the Prophet Muhammed

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Re: uh...

[musicman1586]

I agree with what you say man, but there's a difference between poking fun and completely misrepresenting a culture. It really does worry me how little people seem to understand the Islamic religion and in turn people of the Middle East. In the current climate of the world, things like that in my opinion are only going to promote more ignorance and a further misrepresentation of Muslims, however I will say that I don't know what the conditions in Denmark are like, people there may have a better understanding of Muslims there so the implications may have been much more light-hearted, that is a point that I didn't take into account before. Here in America though, I'm constantly surprised at how many people I find that honestly believe Muslims enjoy killing people, enjoy blowing things up and causing destruction etc.

On another note, and granted that it's the extremist that have done this, but the Muslims have actually fulfilled what is said about them in those cartoons, such as attacking embassies and things like that. *sigh* Irony isn't always pretty.

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