The Mohammad Cartoon Controversy seems to be a media beat-up on behalf of the U.S. propaganda build-up for the coming attack, which will likely be nuclear, on Iran.
I understand the military preparations for this attack are well advanced, but after the Iraq debacle,and lacking sufficient justification or ammunition to produce the similar litany of lies used in that campaign, a frenzy of anti-muslim hate feeling will be more than welcomed. After all, rulers go to war, not the people, who are either just cannon fodder or collateral. And once the people become sharks in a feeding frenzy of antagonism, when they are damaged, well, they asked for it...........
And blind hate was used to justify the two previous world wars, the reasons for the first of which one person in a thousand would be lucky to even begin to explain.
Sure, (some, though a considerable number of some) Muslims are very upset by these cartoons of their prophet with a bomb for a hat. What would you reasonably expect???
How would our Christian fundamentalists react if a major Arab publication published a cartoon of a gleeful Jesus brandishing a sword as he rode an Exocet missile that was reigning down terror on one of their cities?
Sure, freedom of speech says we should be able to publish these cartoons, even though it is blasphemous to Muslims to have their prophet depicted. but then, we should be steeled for their reaction, and genuinely apologetic, too.
Fifty years ago, before even further Western moral decline, Hollywood movies wouldn't even allow facial shots of the actor playing Jesus.
Last week in Footscray, a cop crawled through upstairs windows to retrieve a burnt Australian flag, even though he had no legal justification whatsoever.
Our Western media is at least as far removed from genuine universal free expression as most media from totalitarian regimes. The difference is self-censorship by a media owned by the ruling elite on behalf of that self-same ruling elite.We couldn't even bury a thug monopoly media baron without the truth, in fact we sanctified him.
The pity is this disgusting campaign of hate being whipped up by an extremely agressive Western imperial political axis for their own ends is working.
Letters to the editor, feedback, etc shows every small minded cretin who thinks he is a patriot finally feels justified for suppressing his guilt at what he said and thought about the Arabs.
Don't be sucked in, stand for genuine truth and tolerance. We live in a nasty world as is, in the West. We could very well join the Middle East and the Third World in the total kind of hell we have inflicted and wished on others.
Sure, it is a cliche, but the real message of Jesus was, is and ever will be:
Love is the answer