Nasrallah vs. Denmark

In relation to a very recent incident ...

Nasrallah has voiced his opinion. As usual, Nasrallah has logical statements, but his main irony is that those are almost always coupled with illogical ones. Now, it wouldn't have bothered me if he only supported the protest against the publication, because regardless of my opinion, it is after all his right.

The logical:

"What is worse today is that a French publication steps up and questions what is wrong with what happened. They arrogantly continued 'we have published funny cartoons of holy men of other religions before and no one said anything.' What kind of reason and logic is that? We the Muslims have a different culture. We don't tolerate our Prophet being humiliated and drawn in an ugly manner."

(Of course, the word "tolerance" irritates me for reasons extraneous to the Danish case ... )

The illogical:

À Beyrouth, le chef du Hezbollah, cheikh Hassan Nasrallah, a souligné que si la fatwa contre l’écrivain pakistanais Salman Rushdie avait été exécutée, « personne n’aurait osé » porter atteint au Prophète.

Roughly translated ... if the fatwa against Salman Rushdie had been carried out, no one would have dared attack the prophet.

Another illogical (the last sentence. The rest was put there for context):

"The Prophet of 1.4 billion Muslims has been debased ... the Danish Prime Minister said he wouldn't apologize because the newspaper, which published the cartoons making fun of our Prophet, 'didn't break the law and there are freedoms to be considered.'

"Who tells them that this freedom is absolute? OK, if someone decided to blow himself up himself somewhere in Norway or Denmark, then he is also free to do so."

Anyway, the end result, regardless of what happens, and what conclusions and compromises and understandings are reached, is that there is an even deeper divide between two large communities ... Incitement from either side, even if within the bounds of free speech, never really ends well ...

Mais c'est la vie.

posted by Lazarus, 9:43 PM