Posted on 02/08/2006 4:06:18 PM PST by Pikamax
Muslims call for changes in law
Muslim scholars who gathered for an emergency meeting have called for changes to the law to stop images of the Prophet Muhammad being published.
Members of the Muslim Action Committee (MAC) who met in Birmingham called for changes to the Race Relations Act and the Press Complaints Commission code.
They are to stage a protest march in London on 18 February, expected to attract 20,000 to 50,000 people.
The MAC met to form a response to the publication of cartoons of Mohammad.
Shaikh Faiz Saddiqi, who chaired the meeting, said Wednesday's gathering of about 300 Islamic religious leaders was the largest meeting of its kind he knew of in his 25 years of living in the UK.
'Deeply offensive'
He said the MAC was meeting to bring cohesion to the debate among Muslims about how to respond to the publication of the cartoons in a Danish newspaper and their subsequent repetition in other countries.
The discussions among the religious leaders, who had travelled to an Islamic centre in Small Heath from across the UK, lasted for two hours.
What kicks can you get out of seeing this caricature, except to insult the Prophet of Islam?
Shaikh Faiz Saddiqi
Mr Saddiqi said they had concluded they wanted the Race Relations Act modified to give Muslims the same protection as Sikhs or Jews.
He also said the Press Complaints Commission code of conduct should be tightened to prevent publishing of any images of Muhammad, but added the clerics accepted criticism and discussion of Islam should be allowed.
He said the code was a voluntary code to ensure the media treated people with respect and called for that respect to be shown to Muslims, whose religion forbids any pictorial depiction of Muhammad.
The cartoons have been repeated in other papers, such as France Soir
Mr Saddiqi said: "That act in itself is deeply offensive, it's akin to someone standing up in your face and abusing your mum, your sister, your dad, and it's akin to a deliberate act of provocation."
He said Muslims could accept a one-off publication of such an image as a misjudgement and said this was why it took several months for anger at the cartoons, first published in October, to gain momentum.
But he said other media organisations continuing to show the cartoons knew they were causing offence.
He said: "It happens once, it happens twice but a third time you are going to take action.
"Enough is enough, we have to get back to being a civil society.
"What kicks can you get out of seeing this caricature, except to insult the Prophet of Islam?"
He praised the UK media for not publishing the cartoons.
Yeah, go ahead and demand special treatment for yourselves, just like spoiled children!
Sharia law getting a foot in the door.
Muslims, Get Out!! We have a culture; go back to yours. I am sick of this crap.
Since when are Muslim men opposed to the abuse of Muslim females?
Muslims call for changes in law
I would suggest that the British government round them all up, send them back to whence they came, or where their views are more in keeping with local cultural norms, and tell them to "Pound sand"...
It is high time that freedom loving people across the world put these lunatic-fringe 'clerics' out to pasture, and away from civilized folks.
We should never have to apologize for our culture(s), never appease outsiders for the sake of appeasement, and never, NEVER give up our freedoms.
"Enough is enough, we have to get back to being a civil society."
All things considered that is a pretty funny comment coming from a Muslim.
I would say that this is a group that just does not get it, but then again I think that they do....slowly chipping away all in the name of PC bull and pretty soon the EU is a nation of Islam.
Nobody ever had better say ever again that the Arab/Muslim world hates us because of X reason. They can be driven to the streets because a government doesn't jail a magazine publisher for publishing cartoons. They hate us for the same reason an impotent old man hates younger more virile men.
Says it all for me.
Maybe they should include stopping the words of muhammad from being published as well. Might as well make a clean sweep of it.
Follow the "prophet", make jihad
Sucks for you when you meet God.
If images of the Prophet Muhammad were never allowed then where did the images published by the Danish cartoonists come from? They came from a cartoonists imagination. This whole situation is surreal. The cartoons appeared back in September of 2005 and we are just seeing them now in February of 2006. Wow, Camel Mail is slower than Snail Mail.
omission: ...will begin piece by piece to demolish...
We're a minority in this government - which means if you don't give us what we want it will be racist.
Step 1: Limit the infidels free speech........
How about, NO!
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