I wish I was here at the start of this thread.
Actually, we over here, as well as the majority of worldwide muslims (as you will see), are adopting a far more civilized, islamic and strongly effective way to express our outrage against these mind-numbing stupid irresponsible drawings published by the Danish newspaper, and supported by the Danish government: BOYCOTTING.
Now let's start by replying to the childish supportive announcements of the Danish government.
The Danish media and government -stupidly- based their defence on a single point: "Freedom of Speech". Now How do we define freedom?
Are you allowed to move around your neighbourhood shooting and killing anyone you meet, because you are 'free to do it'? NO.
Do you run around speaking offensive language that promotes hatred and violence in a certain race? NO.
Do you drive high on drugs in the street, taking U-turns and crossing traffic lights, because you are free to do so? NO.
There are rules and regulations that put a safe and civilized definition to the word 'Freedom'. Rules that are meant to maintain the pureness of 'Freedom', not to restrict it. You are free to do whatever you want, if it's not harming others, promoting irresponsible hatred, misinformation, misinterpretations. This is the responsibility that any Media personell claims on duty.
The thing is, if such events/cartoons, which may superficially sound childish to some readers here, if they were to pass unnoticed, it would have only been the beginning of such irresponsible behaviors. And the result would be more hatred, more misinformation, more misinterpretation, less tolerance and harmony amongst the different races/people in the world. That is why everyone here should indorse this Islamic response against the outrageous, irresponsible behavior of the Danish newspaper and the governmental response that followed.
I mean even in Islam, it is strictly forbidden to portray the Prophet Muhammed, or any other Messenger (e.g. Jesus Christ, Moses, Abraham) in any drawing/piece of work, however Holy this piece of work was. So talk about outrageous cartoons full of hatred, ignorance and misinformation and actually defending this action, in the name of pure, clean words like "Freedom".
Now what was mostly provocative was the newspaper's refusal to apologize, and the governments irresponsible support and uncivilized behavior towards the embassadors of the Muslim countries who went to clarify and end the situation before it escalates (and it did... look at the photos above. God knows how many innocent ppl were harmed in these attacks)
However, I find it disturbing, but expected, that the minor, ineffective uncivilized, violent response stole all the lights in this thread and the news. As a matter of fact, the vast majority of Muslims are already adopting a far more peaceful, civilized, and immensly effective response to the Danish government. Boycotting Danish products.
The Arab World constitutes a major consumption customer for most major Danish products. For example, Arla Foods, Europe's second-largest dairy company with annual sales of about $430 million in the Middle East, said that the boycott was almost total and suspended production in Saudi Arabia, leading to near-zero sales.
Egypt, whose chamber of commerce representing 3.5 million businesses has called for a boycott of Denmark, alone buys 33 percent of Denmark's drugs exports to the region.
Supermarkets in Algeria, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Qatar, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen all removed Danish produce from their shelves.
Boycotting the products was a major economy blow to the Danish government, which first resorted to the EU, which in turn warned the boycotting countries of 'consequences'. However, as useless as this threat was, the Danish government was forced to press the newspaper to issue an apology. Which finally did happen. However, it wasn't near to the apology we wanted.. Their faint statement was something like "We apologize that the photos offended you".... Not an apology for publishing them. However, this apology was later modified and accepted by most Muslim groups. And that's how following civilized peaceful methods of objections would lead to the desired result. A turn in the events after the newspaper has rejected issuing an apology earlier.
So one may ask, how are the Danish companies held responsible for the outragesous irresponsible publications of the newspaper? Actually, they aren't. Which makes sense. However, The Danish government is held responsible, and consequently, the Danish companies are under their government's responsiblity. And hence, allowing these ignorant drawings to be published, then actually suporting this behavior was an Irrresponsible Act by all means, contrary to what's expected from a so-called civilized country. The governments claim more responsibility when taking such stands.
Not to mention the irresponsible promotion of hatred, intolerance and ignoranct misinformation amongst the people. A behavior that that should actually be the contrary to the sacred purpose of worldwide media.