Wednesday 19 May 2010

Will you draw him again?

You wanna know what I believe? I believe religion is just another way to channel our destructive urges towards others.

As posted on Pharyngula, Swedish Cartoonist Lars Vilks was attacked during a University lecture. After this event, his website was hacked and firebombs were planted in his house.
David Frum points out that the crowd of spectators who outnumbered the protesters 10 to 1 remained passive during the protest, while the police were slow to respond to protect the speaker. This silence and lack of enforment from authorities is despressing.
Jeffrey Weston @'ApeNotMonkey' 

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Mona's tuppence worth:
While from a civil liberties point of view I am appalled by this (and other) attacks.
This article here recounts the long history of the (non) depiction of Muhammad.
What worries me are the motives behind the cartoonists and the paper to publish these images.
Of course if you have an interest in Islamic Art as a whole you will find generally that there are NO reresentations of any living creature. Where does this come from, why right here:
‘You shall not make unto you any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them.'
The 2nd Commandment; Exodus 20:4-6
Just saying...

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