Posted on 09/20/2006 4:31:29 PM PDT by Pikamax
Censor comments on Islam to avoid violence: Muslim expert 20th September 2006, 11:00 WST
Non-Muslims should practise selfcensorship to avoid triggering violent reactions, a prominent Perth Muslim says.
In the wake of violent attacks over a speech by Pope Benedict XVI that linked the Prophet Mohammed’s teachings to violence, Perth academic Samina Yasmeen said religious and community leaders should stop speaking about Islamic icons to avoid causing offence.
Associate Professor Yasmeen, director of the University of WA’s centre for Muslim states and societies, accused the Pope of deliberately provoking the aggression by inviting criticism of Mohammed.
She said the Pope and other religious leaders had the same responsibility as Islamic clerics to avoid encouraging violence by followers.
Previous emotive reactions, such as the violence following the publication of cartoons depicting Mohammed and Salman Rushdie’s 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, should have warned people not to criticise Islam. Professor Yasmeen denied that the first reaction of many Muslims to perceived insults was violence, despite calls by some clerics to kill those who insult Islam and the murder of an Italian nun in Somalia.
“I am not supportive of people killing and blowing things up, but people need to start looking at selfcensorship,” she said.
Professor Yasmeen said aggressive reactions were mainly limited to countries with low literacy rates and limited understanding of global politics, where Mohammed was seen to be the most important figure in a person’s life.
The Pope’s apology and explanation would have had little impact, she said.
Tiffany Laurie
Dhimmitude.
Wallpaper the problem...what an idiot.
Bring It On.
If Muslims would practice self-immolation, that would help, too.
Preferably in the privacy of their own homes.
I predict that this will not be a popular suggestion with the people of FreeRepublic.
It's called Freedom of Speech, raghead--Get used to the concept.
Why doesn't she just ask us infidels to all convert to Islam?
I stuck up for Muslims today. Someone said they weren't fit for pigs, and I said they were.
How about we NOT do that? Mohammed was a murderous pedophile and Islam is a death cult. Whatcha gonna do about it, Samina?
Seems like some moslems could benefit from self-censorship when they want to comment on other religions.
You have predicted wisely.
Perhaps the civilized world can learn from the example set by followers of I Slam in the way they speak of,and act toward,people of a different faith.
Attention liberals: Be careful what you wish for.
I had a heated discussion with a fellow teacher about this. She said that the pope should not be making inflammatory comments about Islam, not should cartoonists be drawing cartoons that inflame Moslem passions.
I made an analogy. It's what we English teachers are supposed to do. Here's what I told her:
Suppose your husband got angry at you for saying something that he didn't like. He beat you severely, and threatened to kill you. Would you tell the woman involved to speak softer and not antagonize the wifebeater, or would you tell her to have the guy hauled off and put in jail?
Of course, the real goal of the Islamists is to quash all dissent, since Islam means, literally, "submission." You can't submit and be a mouthy little infidel, can you?
Oh well, President of Iran told he UN that Islam will kill us all in our beds, and guess what MSM did? They censored the news for fear that Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists et al would take to the streets and riot...yea right. (Really) For fear that we'd all catch on to the midget dictator's evil plans
Allah is a devil, Mohammed was a demon, and the Koran is fit only for sweeping the $#!t out of a pig sty.
How's that for self-censorship?
-ccm
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