To begin with, I’m totally against anything that is offensive to religions, values and cultures, and by that I’m totally against the Danish cartoons about the prophet (PBUH) and the Dutch movie about Islam. I support reasonable freedom of speech, but if it’s going to offend others, then it’s rudeness and pointless.
Muslims raged against the movie and cartoons, in other words: kill us, destroy us, steal our fortunes, humiliate us in anyway you like, but don’t publish a movie or some cartoons, we are a sensitive nation.
What frustrates me the most is the stupid reaction towards such issues, yes let’s boycott their products for a while, then let’s go back to using it, then let’s boycott it again and again each time they offend our religion, yea right, good plan. Isn’t this motivating enough to have our own products, how difficult is it to raise few cows and produce a decent butter?
I wonder how is our life going to be if the whole world decided to criticize Islam; no cars, no mobiles, computers, internet, clothes, even praying stuff, no food… etc. I guess we will be riding camels and sending pigeons for SMS.
Now a group on facebook is promoting boycotting the Dutch products, the list includes beer, which is forbidden in Islam, yea I will espouse Islam and the Prophet through drinking Bud Light instead of Amstel and Heineken.
This is chaos, who’s behind this whole buzz? Some people believe that the “let’s boycott Dutch products” campaign were so effective even before it starts; this TV presenter Amr Adib said that this campaign stopped the offensive Dutch movies, I wonder why boycotting Danish products didn’t prevent the European media of republishing those cartoons, over and over, and over.
A friend of mine who lives in Europe told me that the Danish cartoons are being published yearly since 1998.
