[Aufforderung erfüllt!; Siehe auch diese Abhandlung (Basis: K. Tucholski) und "Karikaturen ...." v. 01-02-2006]
Zu diesem Thema bekam ich Post von einem Freund aus USA.
Dort zirkuliert folgender Text (Auszug):
Come on, is this really about cartoons? Muslims are rampaging and burning flags. They're looking for Europeans to kidnap. They're threatening innkeepers and generally raising Muslim hell not because of any outrage over a cartoon. They're outraged because it is part of their Islamic jihadist culture to be outraged. They don't really need a reason. They just need an excuse. Wandering around destroying property, murdering children, firing guns into the air and feigning outrage over the slightest perceived insult is to a jihadist what tailgating is to a football fan – its part of the sport.
We know and understand that these bloodthirsty murderers do not represent the majority of the world's Muslims. When, though, do the “nice” Muslims become outraged? When do they take to the streets to express their outrage at the radicals who are making their religion the object of worldwide hatred and ridicule? When do the nice inmans preach to their masses that violence is not civilized behavior, that no Muslim should be violent or extreme because it is in fact against their Islamic religion to do so, that Mohammed frowns upon those who do, and they should repudiate any Muslim who does? Islamic writer Salman Rushdie wrote of these silent nice Muslims in a New York Times article three years ago. He said: "As their ancient, deeply civilized culture of love, art and philosophical reflection is hijacked by paranoiacs, racists, liars, male supremacists, tyrants, fanatics and violence junkies, why are they not screaming?"
Indeed, why are they not? The nice Muslims certainly have a better chance than Westerners do to stop the behavior of the extremist Muslims. But they are silent. Um kein Öl ins Feuer zu gießen habe ich einige Passagen herausgenommen ....