I beg to differ slightly. I don't think Qatarlady meant that the Prophet is everyone's prophet. Initially my reaction was that it would be right to have some limits. Clearly the Danish cartoon incident caused a level of genuine hurt and upset that, while hard to fathom to the non-Muslim mind, was nonetheless very real. There is no need to upset 20% of the world's population over a stupid little drawing in a newspaper that makes no contribution to art, knowledge or humanity's progress whatsoever. It is not worth the hurt feelings and what's more, offers nothing to any ongoing debate about anything anyway.
However, on probing the issue a little more, it seems that 'insulting the Prophet' is taken as license to censor art and literature and what's more, for people who don't even know what they are talking about to become the judges of what will and will not be allowed to pass. Cultures and societies progress and enrich the human experience through these media and under no circumstances should they allowed to be limited. If you don't like that fact, then you need to learn the great skill of 'looking the other way'.
I beg to differ slightly. I don't think Qatarlady meant that the Prophet is everyone's prophet. Initially my reaction was that it would be right to have some limits. Clearly the Danish cartoon incident caused a level of genuine hurt and upset that, while hard to fathom to the non-Muslim mind, was nonetheless very real. There is no need to upset 20% of the world's population over a stupid little drawing in a newspaper that makes no contribution to art, knowledge or humanity's progress whatsoever. It is not worth the hurt feelings and what's more, offers nothing to any ongoing debate about anything anyway.
However, on probing the issue a little more, it seems that 'insulting the Prophet' is taken as license to censor art and literature and what's more, for people who don't even know what they are talking about to become the judges of what will and will not be allowed to pass. Cultures and societies progress and enrich the human experience through these media and under no circumstances should they allowed to be limited. If you don't like that fact, then you need to learn the great skill of 'looking the other way'.