Publication of cartoons about the Muhamad in Danish news paper has borned lots of anger in Muslim world. The media from all over the world are daily showing different rallies and protests done by the Muslims around the world.The news paper which was published those cartoons has already apologised with the Muslim community about the publication. But the people those who believes in Islam are being anger day by day and not satisfied from this. They are demanding formally apologised by the government.The case was nearly solved but after the re publication of cartoons by other news papers from many European countries made this issue more critical. The debate about whether it should be published or not is not solved yet, eventhough some newspapers from the North America are also trying to republish it.
The news papers which published those cartoons are claiming these as a part of press freedom. On the other hand side, the Muslim community are blaming the westerner for domination of their Islam religion and attacking on personal beliefs. So they wants not to repeat such case in future and wants to hear the apologise from respective countries, which they denied. The question raised here, Who is right and who is wrong?
This is of course very hard to answer. But even though I think both of them are right in their position.
European countries, who have very long history of press freedom and rights. Many scholars, writers and activist have sacrified thier lives for the name of freedom of speech and expression. They fought with their autocratic rulure in the past to return their rights. As a result, the rights including speech and expression has been guaranteed in such countries. The law does not give the ruler to control the press, since it is directly connected with the every rights of people as well as pace of society. Now the government can not do any thing to control,order or seize the press. The government doesnot represent the press like in developing and middle east countries. But the people from middle east and other Muslim countries are demanding to react by the government like in their countries, which could be a step to back the country and against their historical achievement of rights.
On the other hand side, the people who are protesting against those cartoons by giving reason that they hurt them.Which is quiet understood. Every one has a right to belief some thing. No one will bear or could tolerate if any thing is happend to encroach their rights. Some one has says that your liberty ends when his nose begains, which means every one has limited area where he could enjoy his freedom and while any one is enjoying own freedom they must respect other too.
So, I believe that both of them are right on thier position but only the missing thing is that none of them are trying to understand each other. There is a big gap between them. How much the western society is free and have right to expression is unbelievable for the people from middle east and developing countries. Like wise, how much the value of religion and their identity is worthy for those people are fully misunderstood by the westerners. As a result, the gap of East and West has created a big hurricane, mixed of anger and emotion. Instead of trying to understand those issues the government of respective Islamic countries are closing their diplomatic mission from the west. In the mean while, west is also showing their power rather than trying to pursude the issue.
The class of civilization which was underground for many years has came in the front once again. This incident has forced to lead all the Muslim nation against the west and seems that the west vs. rest principle has borned.On the other hand side, the growing population of Muslims in western countries and increasing involvement of muslims in crime and terroism has became the headache for European countries. The roits in France, bombing in London and Sweden, and increasing numbers of conflict with muslim community in Denmark has success to give the wrong impression on westerns.They were on the way to control these problems but were failed yet. In the mean while the case of cartoons has aroused the supremacy of native people.
In a nutshsell, the war of civilization never ends on this way. Neither west nor east will able to do progress untill they will continue to dominate each other. Like wise, It will be a utopia for the east that west should follow them. So only the solution a head is to minimize such cases as much as possible and try to increase north- south and east- west dialouge not only in the government level but also within civil society, scholars and even religious level. Exchange the dialouge between them and obviously respecting each others feeling and faith could be the best startegy for forthcoming days.
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