The Danish journalists, as presented in the FT timeline of the events, were trying to highlight difficulties encountered by Muslims trying to reform Islam.
But isn’t it a difference between illustrating a book on Mohamed’s childhood and drawing mock images of Him ?
Probably the editorial choice of the drawings was not a good one. And I find the reprint of them in other papers as bad choices as well.
In a state of law, however, this matters of bad choice are settled in a court of law and if one is not happy with the decision of the first court can go further, in a highest court and can also open a debate within the same paper or in others.
No drawings, no insult justify violence, destruction nor death.
We are back in the ’90 with the “religious wars” in the former Yugoslavia. The difference now is that we face big countries, with means of destruction and needs to sustain their dictatorship.
We should support Danes and act/react, for once, as Europeans not in defending drawings or religious beliefs but in defending “our right to be wrong”.
