Okay i believe in freedom of speech as long as it doesnt offend beliefs or religion or culture,what the danish newspaper did was wrong and they know it and we know it.
However,the newspaper apologized no need for all the big fuss happening i understand it was wrong but as long as an apology was made,boycotting is really wrong for so many people not just Danish people.In Kuwait there are 10% of the population that suffer from diabetes and the best insulin is a danish product,boycotting would hurt those 10% and not only that but there are thundreds of Saudi Arabians with companies selling Danish products,now they wont have any work and they cant support their families.
A boycott isnt going to solve anything its only going to make matters worse because anyway arabs will be affected by the boycott a lot worse than the Danish companies,because Danish exports of products to arabs only constitute 2% of all exports.
People lets be rational and just forgive these people,in their county its different if you made fun of their religion they wouldnt care being as there are many that dont believe in God so they might not be accustomed to our way of thinking and beliefs,we should be bigger people and just forgive and move on,we got our apology we wanted and now lets help them see that Muslims are good people who arent terrorists,make them understand that the terrorists are only people who are extremists that are being brain washed by people twisting the words of quran making it seem like it is okay to kill in the name of Allah,i am very sure that Allah didnt say its okay to kill innocent people.
Thank you and if this comment bothers anyone i apologize

Shame on you Norway and Danemark you are so so so unrespectful i wont forgive u ever...

Shadi

i may not like what you have to say, but i will fight to the death to protect your right to say it!!

this passage denotes the core and founding principles of free speech in the western world. this matter is simply a clash of cultures, and whilst i feel sorry and upset for the suffering of those offended, i find it unacceptable to curtail free speech.

To dandooneh...

I will start from where they have ended... this thing they call an "Apology letter"... it's not even 5% close to what i call an apology.. it's an statement letter that stresses that all what happened is nothing but a "big misunderstanding" from us (the muslims) toward what was mentioned as "regular drawings of the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH)" that were published as an introductory to what so called "freedom of expression & speech" in Denmark. In the same letter the Editor-in-Chief Carsten Juste disclaimed the relation of his journal to the insulting drawing !!... Com'on..

okay we might be Arabs but we are not stupid.. first of all they make a joke of our Prophet... then it took them 4 months to make a statement .. again I repeat a statement (in which they were sorry cuz we don't understand or misunderstand.. whatever.. they never mentioned that they are sorry of what they did !!)... beside that this letter was only published on there website... they never troubled to give us a small space in their valuable paper.. (we are a waste of ink & paper !! )...

In addition.. this what so called an "Apology letter"... where forwarded to the citizens of Saudi Arabia in its first two days.. then they changed to the citizens of the Arab world afterwards.. What the Hell !!.. they don't know whom to apologize to !!.. I remember I was taught as a kid we apologize cuz we know that we did a mistake that harmed someone and not cuz we have to... in other words you should mean it. (this one was a fake apology that were influenced by economic forces... they never meant it.. so this means that it could be repeated easily).

Anyway... what I want to say... this boycott objectives are beyond some lowly apology... it's to make a stand, show them that there is no such thing as total absolute freedom (La 9'arara wala 9'erar, your freedom stops once it intrude mine )..

P.S. they might have the freedom of speech... but i have me freedom of what to eat or use... and usually it takes me 4 to 5 month to change my mind about such thing... so see then.

Dandooneh: the Muslims want a official apology ok ..

I agree with both dandone and IG but i really dont care for an apology cuz even if they gave a real apology it wouldnt be real cuz obviously they think this was rigth otherwise they wouldnt hvae publiced it. This was all planned to sepeate the west from the muslims u know. The news paper jyllands posten who are responsible for these disgusting pictures is well known for being anti-islamic.

The muslims made a big thing out of it and at first i thought it was wrong cuz they dont care so much for religion but after seeing what kind of stuff the europeans say about islam and muslims here in europe ( i live in the north of it) well i have changed my mind, muslims are hated so much and they have the totaly wrong picture of us and its not because of terrorists, its because THEY WANT TO HAVE THAT KIND OF PICTURE OF US, they dont want to change cuz its easier to have someone to blame all the time, someone to be better then (from their point)

islam is a peaceful religion and the entire religion is all about peace and being righteous but they dont want to hear that, thats why they keep "confusing" islam with terror, hate, violemce, women abusement etc etc.

To be honest i felt very happy to see my muslims brothers and sister protest against those picture because its not just about the pictures, its about the lack of respect they have against our people and our religion, the west media never mentions a criminals religions exept for when the criminal is muslim. Why do they do that if its not to give a bad picture of islam and muslims?

Our religion is beautiful and he who disagrees with that or says bad things about islam DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF IT.

And to the anti- islamic people, all i have to say to u is:

Read the quran before u talk bad about it.
And i also want to say that u often accuse us muslims for being things U PEOPLE are too.

And really stop believing that christianity is afree religion where all u have to do to be a good christian is to believe in God and jesus cuz its not. u have many obligations too and a christian woman also must cover their body etc and alcohol is also forbidden and a lot of other things.

The difference is that more muslims follow their religion then there are christians who follow christianity exept for putting on a big cross on their neckless.

But dont confuse that with on religion being more violent then the other cuz thats not true and im sure u know this deep doen but its easier to deny it cuz u feel better when u have us to blame everything for so u dont have to wake up and see ur own misstakes!

VIVA ISLAM. I am so happy that i was born muslim cuz these days the west and their media is making it hard for people to become muslims by giving them the wrong pic of islam. They dont understand that they are the one loosing from it not us.

I LOVE ALLAH, I LOVE AL RASOOL (S.A.W) AND I LOVE THE HOLY QORAN AND ISLAM. THE RIGHT WAY OF BELIEVING IN GOD!

correction: i meant that the danish and most europeans dont care so much about religion, not the muslims.

Guys, you cannot imagine half the racism muslims and arabs are subjected to abroad! You have no clue, maybe someone here pointed this out but they have no respect for the "other", that is us, and they keep preaching that we Arabs, Muslims should be sent back to school to learn about respecting others' beliefs because we come from the caves and we should stay there. Most people including Arabs fell for that trick through constant brainwashing of the media, the western influenced media, and they believed that we don't respect them, and they respect us. THEY DON'T! The cartoons are just the tip of the iceberg, these things have been going on for ages, and it manifests itself in the smallest details, if you were at school, college, or office with those who claim to respect the other, Europeans especially, they seize every opportunity to make unnecessary comments that cannot be classified into "verbal attack" so you would fight back, nor is it "regular talk", but you know it and they know it. It is THAT bad! Denmark for your information doesn't consider Islam as an official religion, the country officially considers Christianity, Judaism and Sikh only as official religions.

I think the violence is uncalled for, it harms everyone involved and it would tarnish our image, that is true but in response to dandooneh about the boycott, who was it that said If you don't feed yourself, you remain enslaved forever, Ghandhi? I say it is about bloody time ARABS WAKE UP and start working on their industries or better yet, start working TOGETHER and there will be no MAJOR need for importing everything and most importantly vital stuff like Insulin or dairy products, it is a shame really that we are only sleeping or consuming but we are not really making/manufacturing anything that counts...

This doesn't mean to sound harsh but I am really fed up with the whole situation, our image, the way we are treated (less than human) sub-human, cavemen and women who are a waste of space, in a German magazine, a writer proposed nuking the whole Middle East saying what would the world miss should we nuke them, they are a waste of space! Go figure! Who is the terrorist now.

i just wud like 2 c the west's reaction if an arab newspaper talked badly about jews!!! but at least then we will hav a point! i mean jews bloody betrayed prophet Mosa (AS) and ALLAH!!! how much worse can it get. its tru the west hav no respect 4 muslims wat so ever. but y dont the arabs do somthing about it?!

why don't the arabs do something about it??
They burn down embassys, and you don't call it doing something about it?..
Hmm, so what would you, "my opinion", like the arabs to do? Go to denmark and kill every single one of them?
In the name of freedom of expression we, arabs, have the right to go to demonstrations and so on.. but when embassys are attacked it means we have stepped over the line..

believe me, i'm against so many steps the danish government is taking, but seriously.. maybe we arabs in the arabic countries should take a deep breath and think about what we really want! Cos.. would an apology really do it? would it make an end to all this trouble? i don't think so.. so what do we really want?

Yesterday many danish people made an anti-muslim demonstration downtown in copenhagen.. i had to go to work, and i was afraid to DEATH! I was totally in panic, and didn't have a clue about what i should do.. go to work, or stay at home and get fired??
I went to work, and l7amdilla nothing happened..
But for the first time EVER in my WHOLE LIFE, i was scared to walk out of my frontdoor..

What is the end of all this, i don't believe that any of us want more hate in this world..

MAKE LOVE, NOT WAR! PEACE OUT

Allah ye7mina wrote:
islam is a peaceful religion and the entire religion is all about peace and being righteous but they dont want to hear that, thats why they keep "confusing" islam with terror, hate, violemce, women abusement etc etc.

Honestly, it is very hard for westerners to believe this. When westerners are shown video clips of western aid workers being decapitated on their TV screens while the executioner proclaims "Allah is great!" it is no wonder why many westerners equate islam with terrorism.

It's not that westerners don't want to hear that islam is a peaceful religion... they just don't see much evidence of it. When certain extremist groups abuse the essence of islam they don't hear much protest from the islamic community, which in a way is kind of ironic because such acts are so atrocious and a great insult to the muslim religion. Why is it that muslims do not protest more about this with the same magnitude as their protest over the 12 drawings?

Guys i understand Arabs and Muslims have a right to be angry but in Lebanon people were KILLED and the danish embassy was attacked and cars in the street who had nothing to do with it were broken and smashed and even a church was attacked,this caused the wazeer il da5iliyyeh to step down from his work.
Guys come on,if we as Arabs and Muslims dont want this image and we are fed up with it then why are we reinforcing this image? we are actually being worse than the Danish newspaper is.
It is really getting out of hand,i dont think a church in Lebanon in ashrafiyyeh has anything to do with what happened,why attack other religions?why blame those in Lebanon,blame the Danish newspaper not others.
I dont think the Arab's and Muslim's reaction is a good one and it is being portrayed as we are racists and that we are reinforcing their misconceptions about Arabs and Muslims being terrorists and voilent.

my oppinion wrote:
i just wud like 2 c the west's reaction if an arab newspaper talked badly about jews!!!

Your comment seemed to insinuate that arab newspapers would never dream of talking badly about the jews. In fact they have. Have a look at the website below:
http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/ArabCartoons.htm

Some of the cartoons depicted in the above website are quite old and yet there really hasn't been any strong reaction to them. At least I am not aware of arab embassies being burnt to the ground as a result of these drawings...

In my oppinion I find these drawings quite tasteless, barbaric, and disrespectful to the Jews. However, in the words of Voltaire "I may not like what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

dandooneh, no one wants violence or war! On the contrary. What happened today in Beirut has nothing to do with Denmark, of course someone or an entity that would use the situation to its interest and attack a church in Achrafieh and blame it on the muslims, this is the most idiotic thing I have seen, it tops everything!

There are people who are using this situation to their side, be them the decaptitaing "Allah Akbar" group or other filthy hands messing with Lebanon as usual, like the stupid bombs ever since Hariri's assassination.

Respect is earned NOT given, violence will not grant us respect, maybe fear and stigma but not respect.

WE CAN ONLY TAKE SO MUCH, becouse we are human and as Muslims we tolerated thir racism,we tolerated being called terrorists,(ones terrorist is anothers freedom fighter not insurgents),we tolerated being subjected to all kinds of predejuses but the "KNIFE IS AT A BONE NOW" we will not tolerate and will die for if need be is to being insulted and abused about our beliefs and "OUR PROPHET MOHAMMED"(SAW) willingly and volentarily.So i hope that they are getting the message and i am proud that all Muslims from all over the world united about the issue and i dont belive we have seing anything yet, i belive there will be more retaliation untill both Denmark and Norway comes to an realisetion that there is no excuse for what they have done and they will pay for it dearly and let this be a lesson to all nations that we will not and ever tolerate such insults ever again as Muslims.This is a Jihad and it is just a different form of Jihad, so to all Muslims out there who takes active part to protest and defend Islam "GAZA AL MUBAREK" my brothers and sisters and may God and messengers of God be with us all.Amin ya RAB.

marlenjen,

These catroons are about poltical issues and conflicts, none of them touched any relgion!
There are hundreds of such cartoons in newspapers published all over the world!?!

Waleg,

Have another look at the drawings.... they have deep religious negative insinuations about the Jews. This was merely a comment towards the comment about arab newspapers saying something bad about the jews. Form these drawings it is clear that they do indeed exist.

cemsultan,

You really don't seem to understand that violence begets violence. This insanity must stop.

Marlenjen, pls tell this to the Denmark and Norway, did nobody ever told you abuse and violance comes in different forms olso,tormenting once soul and love to his maker and his holly messenger is sometime worce then killing the person or putting him thorough the worce suffering ever, after all what do we have to live for, we muslims visit God 5 times a day it is core of our being and souls, so Go tell this to the emotional terrorist and insurgents of Denmark and Norway not me, they drew the first blood not us ok.

Cemsultan,
Are you actually saying that the violence is justified?
I do understand that you are hurt, and I believe that Jyllands Posten was pretty stupid to publish those drawings. But a Jihad is simply not the solution!

Marlenjen, How much more tolerance? how long and how much more do you want us to take,we have being abused and put down robbed and violated of just about every aspects of our daily lives and more on its way, one has to drow the line somewhere and where is that line???There is no excuse for this, tell me now, i have so many "WHY" questions as an arab and a Muslim, sure we want piece and not violance but what does one do when they get you to a corner and you look left and right and back and find out that there is no room left to go anywhere but front and forward there stands the obsticle that put you to the corner at the first place and you have to deal with, what choice do we have??? you tell me now??? I am starting to hear like a brocken record as they move on robbing and destroying, no violance,be pation,they did not mean it,they are sorry,it was a mistake forgive them,i am sick and tired of it after all "I AM NOT THE MESSIAH" i am a human and one can only take so much,forgiving after the fact is ok sometimes but not if they continiu doing the same and not stopping hun, and belive me there are many many of us who is tired and full of love of God, its say in our holly book, "DO NOT STAND PASSIVE TO THE FACE OF INJUSTICE" nomatter who is targetted, Muslim, Christian or Jew. Now you tell me, becouse i hear the cry of mothers and cry of Messiah and cry of Mohammed and feel the anger of GOD allmighty up on the ones whom he is not favored but angered him and they are not STOPPING.Sure we dont want violance but if the message not getting thorough in a piecefull way, what other option one has, you tell me hun???

people
what is your problem, it just a cartoon, does not mean their voilent. Danish people are sweet and they are an artists. The pictures is not that bad.

HI there the "Jewish" the betrayer of God, murderer of "CHRIST" and "Actioner of the earth to Evil" shoved your ugly head again, was not bed innuf you murdered our MESSIAH now you are showing your ugly head again to bleed more messenger of God you blood thirsty animal. I will see you in Gates of hell, you wont be making these comments there becouse i wont be alone, you will see the justice of allmighty then.So be it , so it shell be done.

Cemsultan,
Muslims in Denmark really aren't experiencing such hardships as you describe. This picture of suffering muslims in Denmark is grossly exagerated.
Denmark actually practices more religious tolerance than say Saudi Arabia. In Denmark, many insitutions provide special services for muslims to cater for their needs, despite the fact that Denmark is officially a Christian country. I can name such examples as public swimming pools that have a women's only bathing hour, dressing rooms to accomodate the needs of muslims. Pork is no longer served in the majority of kindergardens. Yes even all the chickens we find in the supermarkets in Denmark has been blessed in accordance to islam.
However, such religious tolerance is not practiced towards Christians in many muslim countries. It is quite well known that should you attempt to take a Bible into Saudi Arabia, it will be confiscated and be put through a paper shredder.

Shadi said:

Shame on you Norway and Danemark you are so so so unrespectful i wont forgive u ever...

Shame on the Muslim world for 9/11, 7/11, 7/7 and the Bali Bombings, suicide bombings, bombing synagogues in Turkey and Tunisia, the murder of Theo van Gogh in the Netherlands, the enslavement of Christians in southern Sudan, the murders of non-Muslims in Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines by Muslims, not giving women the right to vote in Saudi Arabia, suppression of women, and religious and ethnic minorities in so many countries. I won't forgive u ever...

Dear Marlenjen, I lived in England, Australia,Sweden,Usa and Canada and i have being in every arab Contry and i go to Dubai very regularly, issue here is not which Contry allows what, i can tell you that olthough Turks were the most brutal they never restricted any country they concored in their religion and language and today it is a multi religius contry that lives in piece, i can tell you in Dubai it is the same and many arab contries and this is the first time i hear that Saudi Arabia shreds the book of Bible and i called the Saudi Ambassy as we speak and they tell me that it is a"LIE" there is no such rule nor a law, so pls dont tell me things that are not tru becouse its only shows me that you are trying to defend the wrong in a rather clever way and "TRUTH" allways reveals its self nomatter what" as we have a saying" THE CANDLE OF A LIER BURNES TILL THE MORNING AND THEN THE SUN COMES UP" so as far as the catering of to the muslims in Denmark is buseeness oriantated not one of respect to Muslim religion, its a "MONEY" issue for them of cource they will provide in order to profit from it, it is a market nishe for them to make money< if it was one of "RESPECT" to muslims and their religion they would never"PRINTED THS CARTOONS"ok. So do not tell me they do all that becouse they respect us, they do it becouse they "PROFIT" from us.

Dear ERIC, i have advice for you my friend, this shame you say started long time ego, my advice to you is pls go read and understand the QUR"AN and find out for real what really happened and happening and why?? then come to this site and tell me if i was wrong by advicing you this, i will wellcome you with open arms my friend so pls do this i beg you,pls.

Oh seriously! Of course the Saudi Arabian embassy would not admit to it, find a different source. My sources comes from various newspaper articles, as well as articles from the net that you can google yourself.
But my point is that muslims really are not suffering such intolerance as you describe.
As I mentioned earlier, I think that the printing of the 12 drawings was pretty stupid. But if you knew the story of how it came about, it was actually not meant to directly insult muslims. Rather it was trying to reveal that there exists a hidden censor of freedom of expression by the muslim community in the aftermath of the murder of Theo Van Gogh in Holland. This is really a case of cultural misunderstandings. The west does not understand Islam and Islam does not understand western values. Calling out for a Jihad will not end this conflict. Cemsultan, you asked what you are to do? Dialogue Dialogue Dialogue. We need to talk calmly to each other, like we are doing here so that the two worlds can understand each other better.

OK,Marlenjen, I agree that they dont understand ISLAM and they should and i hope to GOD now before they judge us they understand us and in order to do so they should study QUR"AN and understand it first and i wellcomee with open heart and arms of those dialog at anytime any place, but as far as newspapers and media as you know it is a "rule" they have say a thosend words but not the whole truth, so i like facts and real ones, i dont simply read an article and say it is the truth, i find the facts first and i hate one sided articles and stories to becouse as we know there is allways "two sides to every story" and west suffers and full of one sided stories, i just wish and pray that one day we are allowed to show the west our side to.Anyway its being wonderfull having this diolog with you and belive me i dont like violance eighter,i just hope there is more like you and me in this world, it would be a very piecefull place to live then.My hat of to you for calling for dialog and piece but please before you insult us find out more facts and be more trutfull instead of insulting us, you will find we will respect that and the truth more then anything else as Muslims.

Well, I did not realise that I had insulted you, but if I have I sincerely hope you accept my apology. It was really not my intention.
I am of course aware that the things that I have mentioned here may be a little difficult to listen to, but as you say both sides of the story must be heard regardless how difficult it may be.
I really hope that people continue to talk to each other rather than revert to acts of agression and violence... this serves no one's interest. I for one have spent a lot of time here on this website and I must move on. Thank you for the discussion.

so you mean im bloody ok, what about you peopl, attacking on sept.11, 01. you people are filthy rats, blowing yourself and kill the jews.

marlenjen i very much agree with your posts,a Jihad isnt a solution neither is boycotting products,that wont even get a proper apology. The things that happened in Lebanon today were horrible,it just reflects such a bad image of Muslims,as Muslims forgive these people for their drawings. I will give u an example of enduring racism and hate,that is Christ the lord he endured and suffered on the cross because he said he was the lord,the jewish people at their time just crossed him and killed him and spit on the CHRIST but he forgave them and he tolerated that in the name of his religion he didnt fight back,he showed them what a true believer is like and after he was crossed and the weather changed they all felt very bad from the inside for killing the Christ.So therefore to give a good image of any Religion enduriance and patience will work,i am sure the Danish newspaper expected such a reaction for Muslims all over and might have done it on purpose to start trouble and maybe what they predicted came true,show them the contrary,as long as you as Muslims believe in Allah and you are sure of your Beliefs endure this so called Freedom of speech,forgive them,God will punish them and judge them.
If this offends anyone i apologize because i know Religion and Politics are very harmful subjects

Amnesty International and other groups with no agenda against Islam have long reported on the suppression of non-Muslim religious beliefs in Saudi Arabia.

The US State Department has summaries of human rights and religious rights in countries around the world.

US State Department's Human Rights Report in 2004, concerning Saudi Arabia:

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41731.htm

US State Department's Religious Freedom report on Saudi Arabia in 2004:

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2004/35507.htm

You can find other reports for different years and countries at the state department website as well.

Thank you Marlenjen, It is nice to see there are some in the west that waking up to better understanding of Muslims and our beliefs,i would advice and wellcome any westerner to first read "QUR"AN" and pls visit this site as it will be lot easyer for you to understand us reading and understanding QUR"AN is understandig "US" and will answer all your questions that you want an answer for about us, "www.amrkhaled.net" is the site you can visit and find out all about us and what we belive in, so pls do so and afterwoods you can understand us better and we then can have the best diolog ever.

Hey "Jewish" i have one answer for you, look at yourself and get your house in order before you "JUDGE" anybody, you had centuries to do so, how much more tolerance do you want us to have for the "evil" you single handedly brought on us, God trusted you with earth and look what you have done to it and to his trust, so go get your house in order first ok.

Dear ERIC, do you want to see the pictures of murders and geneside camps in the name of CHRIST i will email you if you like in Lebanon and Irak and other suffering of muslims, how about the abuse of women in the west i can give you facts that will raise your hair all over your boddy bro,where shell i start from, SLAVERY OF RUSSIAN women in the USA or the busseness of Philipinos or Mexican women or south American or Blacks, you to my friend before you "JUDGE" us "GET YOUR HOUSE IN ORDER" to bro, you have more murdered and abused women that more then intire Saudi Arabian population put togeather bro, just go out there and LOOK AT YOUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND STREETS FIRST ok.

to jewish

if you dont like arab why are you here? i think you being so racist and talking dirty about islam. you should go to afghanistan with your friend to talk about. he is the worst and the most wanted man, they want him dead or alive. He is going to kick you and your people. You jewish and american and european poeple are evils and devilsh. But allah is stronger than you and he will put you the caves where the fire live.

Dear Dandooneh, I agree with you about the Messiah and his mercy was amasing but my friend LOOK and see what have the fallowers of such holly messanger of God have learned from his teachings, and not just the jews but the ones calls themselfs "christian" and it is giving a good christians a very bad look amoung Muslims, i have,thanks to marlenjen today have seeing that not all christians do agree and the tru christians opposes the cartoons and it has giving me "HOPE" that there is a light end of the tunnel and there are good people out there that respects ones religion and beliefs, if that is the case i like to hear more good christians to speak up and show the carrige and the wisdom you and malenjen has shown today and you will find that we as Muslims will respond to you more favorably and will enter into diolog that is productive and piecefull my friend.

"do you want to see the pictures of murders and geneside camps in the name of CHRIST"

I sure do. If your referring to Nazi Germany, the Nazis were hardly a strongly Christian party, I must inform you. Nazis were variously irreligious, weakly Catholic or dabblers in Teutonic pagan mysticism - or some combination of the above, depending on the individual Nazi. I believe Hitler once remarked to Albert Speer that he wished the Germans had been Muslims instead of Christians, since Muslims are a more warlike people. I can't quote the exact page that this quote appears in, but you can find it in Speer's
book "Inside the Third Reich."

"In Lebanon and Irak and other suffering of muslims"

Muslims in Lebanon and Iraq are suffering in large part due to their fellow Muslims. Example: Sunni suicide bombers attacking Shiites in Iraq.

SLAVERY OF RUSSIAN women in the USA or the busseness of Philipinos or Mexican women or south American or Blacks

Your right, sexual exploitation and slavery do go on all over the world. The difference is, in some countries like the Sudan and Mauritania, it is actually condoned and sanctioned by the government. Whereas in modern America such behavior is a criminal offense that would earn you serious prison time. As far as blacks go, slavery was abolished in the 1860s. Slavery was not officially abolished in Saudi Arabia until 1960. It is questionable whether slavery has ever really been abolished in Saudi Arabia.

"LOOK AT YOUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND STREETS FIRST ok."

I took a look out my door, I see the ocean, trees and friendly, tolerant (non-Muslim) neighbors. I took a look on television and saw Stone Age mobs burning embassies and chanting 'Allah Akbar' over cartoons.

AND PLEASE ALL OF YOU DO ME A FAVOR AND VISIT" WWW.AMRKHALED.NET to better understand us MUSLIMS PLS.

Thank you for the invitation, cemsultan, to this site:
WWW.AMRKHALED.NET

I will investigate it. I will also take you up on your offer to investigate the Quran a little further.

Don't take my first post about how I would never forgive Muslims for all the terrorist attacks, I was simply responding to the melodramatic comments of Shadi. I don't blame average Muslims for these sort of things and I would hope, despite being offended, Muslims will understand that the Danish people are not responsible for these cartoons. I am an American, and like the Danes, we value a free press. Boycott the newspaper's advertisers, or write letters to the editor, etc. Don't punish average Danish people for things they have no control over.

ooohhh bot ERIC, then you must be blind my friend,there is more to it then you trying to show, how about stealing the german sientists to create the atom bomb and missiles and actually using them,go you know that you are the only country actually used the weapons of mass distruction, you have more brothels and strip clubs then churches or restaurants in USA and you are the suppliers of deadly weapons of mass distructions to ones who serves your interest better and every pocket ones puts its hand there will be a US dollars coming out of it,africans have innuf naturall reacources ans there would not be any starvation if it was not for you guys and IMF,restricting them bringing out their Diomonds and controlling its production, CIA porred billions thorugh DEE BEERS to control the lease of natural reacources of africa and keep the governments currupt.So dont tell me about Africa which you know very little about and if you were so just the Germans commited the act of geneside not arabs, give the jews half of germany not Palastine.We would have dealt with Saddam our own way, you got in there with a LIE, well there is no weaponsw of mass destruction so LEAVE! as far as streets and neighborehoods of USA dont try to cover up bro, we all know the truth and your Media is the biggest giveaway of it all, and you still sell guns and machines of war to everyone and including your own all over the world,its easy to speak of piece but what you say and do is two different things and nothing but a cover up for your "DOUBLE STANDARDS"

OKAY Eric, please do and come back to me i wellcome you and i dont think that all people of Denmark is bad eighter pls read my earlier comments today, and i wellcome you my friend as i have lived in many countries and travelled the world only 20 times i love to have this diolog with you, so pls LETS.

Everybody, listen to MR. JIMMY CARTER today with LARRY KING intiviue, i think that he is the only American official that understands middle east and rest of the world, i wish he was still the president of USA.

hey guyz...how far u went..wr r talking about the pictures of the profit that the danish kept in there news papers.

we muslims want an official apology..Thats it! nothing longer...and even though if the didnt apology they r losing alot..because most of the danish food are stopped and many people now dont buy danish food..they r losing!

IT HAS BEING A LONG DAY for all of us everybody, i just want to end the day by appealing to you all piece loving people whether you are christian, buddist or a jew or any other, we Muslims belive in one and only GOD, ALLAH, we olso belive in all his messengers and to insult any of them is a what we call"GUNAH" which means "SIN" and we as Muslims can not tolarete it and will not stand passive in the face of "INJUSTICE" we do not like to JUDGE you that is up to ALLAH and you, we have in our "HOOLY QUR"AN the stories of all messengers of GOD and that includes JESUS, you dont have "MOHAMMED" in BIBLE eccept the news of him that HE will come and he came to us Muslim"s as an Arab, instead of to other races and i understand that is pretty hard to take for all of you however it was the will of GOD the one and only, so if you want to understand us Muslims and realise what we are defending and arguing for; all i ask you is to study QUR"AN and belive me you will then realise and understand us Muslims becouse there is no harm in reading for you the "HOLLY QUR"AN" and understanding then who really we are and what we stand for and only then we can start the most piecefull diolog between us and pls dont be afraid, i am not asking you to do anything that is harmfull, i am only asking you to open your horisens a little and learn more my friends, so as i said earlier pls visit and read another wonderfull story from "QUR"AN" at " WWW.AMRKHALED.NET, thank you all.

u guys are saying that muslims have a beautiful heart we all sure can see that since they bombed 2 churches where there was alot of people who died just cuz they put mohammed cartoons on a newspaper , i can see how open minded your religion is and how they forgive each other
please dont make mee laugh

sandra,

From what you mentioned in another posted comment of yours, it seems that you live in Jordan where the majority of citzens are Muslim... Did you ever witness a church that get any kind of Harm in Jordan???! The answer as far as we know is NO.

As for yesterday incident in Lebanon, what happened was on purpose and has nothing to do with the protests against the danish cartoons ... Listen to the news before accusing anyone!

To Sandra,
You really make me laugh about saying your relegion is real ....so listen to the trut ,you are wrong my dear ,Jesus is a grat massenger of God and he is now so sorry because of you, u just ruined his message shame on you .
Allah is the geattest and mohammed is the massenger of Allah.

sandra, look at the christians before u judge the muslims. Dont make us laugh plz,
look at the serbs (orthodox christian and what they did to muslims in bosnia and kosova) Look at the discrimination against muslims from christians all over europe and usa before u talk, Look at elie hobeika and bachir gemayel and what they did in sabra and shatila together with their christian soldiers. wasent that terrorism to?

or is it only terrorism when a muslim does something harmfull?

all christians arent bad and at the same times ALL MUSLIMS ARENT BAD EITHER ufft.

U only believe what u want to believe, the rest is not important for u to hear cuz that would stop you from believing u r better then us.

YOU ARE NOT BETTER THEN US.

And who ever a muslim would kill (im against violence) but if a muslims kills someone or kills many people or whatever, it will not be as horrible as referring to one of the prophets of allah as GODS SON (staghfirallah) , some christians even refer to the profphet issa jesus as GOD himself together with his "father God" (again staghgirallah) and the holy spirit.

STAGHFIRALLAH EL 3AZIM IS MY RESPONCE TO THAT.

I would rather be a "violent terrorist" (which means muslim in general for many people),
then to be a person who denies the truth of what ALLAH the almighty said.

God bless the muslims. We are the winners at the end!