Ultima Thule

In ancient times the northernmost region of the habitable world - hence, any distant, unknown or mysterious land.

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Iraqi blogger looks at the cartoon jihad

By Aussiegirl

At last some reasonable talk from a blogger inside Iraq. Hat tip Sally Vee.

IRAQ THE MODEL

What I want to say is that I think the reactions were planned to be exaggerated this time by some Middle Eastern regimes and are not mere public reaction.
And I think Syria and Iran have the motives to trigger such reactions in order to get away from the pressures applied by the international community on those regimes.

However, I cannot claim that Muslim community is innocent for there have been outrageous reactions outside the range of Syria's or Iran's influence but again, these protests and threats are more political than religious in nature.

One last thing, even if the entire EU apologizes it won't change a thing; fanatics in our countries here had always considered the west their infidel arrogant crusader enemy and no apology no matter how big or sincere can change that.

1 Comments:

At 1:56 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

A friend just sent a link to another excellent blog post by "Mesopatamian." Seems authentic, extremely articulate and strong. Most important, it's from a real, live, moderate Muslim:

-snip- The rage of the Islamic world would be far more appropriate if it is directed against those who blow up mosques during prayer time, kidnap murder and torture innocent travelers, and all the other repertoire of atrocities committed in the name of Islam, It is this that is the real blasphemy and real affront to the name and reputation of our religion and its great founder the Prohpet (PBU), and not some silly cartoons in an obscure Danish paper that nobody would have noticed were it not for this artificial uproar of which the real agenda and purpose is all too apparent.

http://messopotamian.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_messopotamian_archive.html#113902733806858491

 

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