Oh goody goody goody - the United Nations (oh sh*t) to make a law to insulting the prophet (profit?) will be a crime - save me from these hypocrites?

Better off banning religions and strident bastards who use religions to go and kill other people would be far better - like Bush and Roberertson wanting to kill Chauvez - and of course the Indonesian Muslims killing off Christians.

The United Nations is a failed exercise in stupidity adn 110% of them would not even know it was daylight unless they took their heads out of where you and I sit down.

From the Koran itself this damned prophet was a paedophile, adulterer and murderer - so tell me just how could one really insult a person of such impeccable honour - and the bloody Popes are no better either, their hands are bloodied as much.

Don't criminalize abuse of religions and so called prophets - criminalize religious abuse!!

It is the IslamoFacists who want to KILL freedom of expression.

The cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten raise the most important question of our times: freedom of expression. Are we in the west going to cave into pressure from societies with a medieval mindset, or are we going to defend our most precious freedom — freedom of expression, a freedom for which thousands of people sacrificed their lives?

A democracy cannot survive long without freedom of expression, the freedom to argue, to dissent, even to insult and offend. It is a freedom sorely lacking in the Islamic world, and without it Islam will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. Without this fundamental freedom, Islam will continue to stifle thought, human rights, individuality; originality and truth.

Unless, we show some solidarity, unashamed, noisy, public solidarity with the Danish cartoonists, then the forces that are trying to impose on the Free West a totalitarian ideology will have won; the Islamization of Europe will have begun in earnest. Do not apologize

You say: "Unfortunately, time and again, the world witnesses the incidents of promoting obnoxious and ignominious ideas by those filthy minds who claim themselves to be scholars, writers and journalists"

But you fail to make an important distinction in your following four examples.

What a "Salman Rushdie" or "a Bangladeshi feminist writer, Taslima Nasreen" spoke about are easily verifiable human rights violations (i.e. the most basic of freedoms).

What "a shimmering golden Star of David impaling a union flag, with the words "A kosher conspiracy?", or "a controversial theatre production of Corpus Christi [that] portrayed Jesus Christ as gay", are examples of pure antagonism.

Syed, I guess you agree with President Musharef's assessment of Pakistan's most notorious gang-rape victim: "in Pakistan, if you want to get [world] famous, just get yourself raped". Or the opinion of one of his ministers that "she's been given the red carpet treatment".

Merely citing examples from a diversity of faiths does not trick us into thinking of you as a balanced reporter.

Now, would anyone here concur with Syed's view that it is "unfortunate" that a Rushdie or a Nasreen has "received large popularity in the West"? If you did, you could never again refer to yourself as an "activist", let alone a "feminist".

PLEASE, any ONO posters still in denial ... don't listen to us, just listen to this "moderate" bigot.

Syed says- 'Unfortunately, time and again, the world witnesses the incidents of promoting obnoxious and ignominious ideas by those filthy minds who claim themselves to be scholars, writers and journalists.'

Calling Salman Rushdie a 'filthy mind who claims to be a journalist' is undoubtedly the most disgusting, offensive thing I've ever read by a writer on OLO. Syed, you do your religion no favours. All right-thinking muslims have a duty to unequivocally denounce the disgusting acts committed by Islam against a great writer.

"not to insult or promote disharmony"

A selection of anti-christian and anti-semetic cartoons in middle eastern newspapers which 'insult or promote disharmony'.

http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/ArabCartoons.htm

I AM OFFENDED THAT THERE IS ONE STANDARD FOR CHRISTIANS AND ANOTHER FOR ISLAMISTS!! is it then reasonable for me, as i am offended, to go and torch an embassy?

ALSO,

The Egyptian newspaper Al Faqr published the infamous cartoons of blasphemy last October, at the height of Ramadan, in the heart of the Islamic world, with not a single squeak of outrage.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=19143_Mohammed_Cartoons_in_Egyptian_Paper_-_October_2005&only

I AM ALSO OFFENDED THAT IT IS NOT A PROBLEM FOR AN ISLAMIC NEWSPAPER TO PUBLISH THE CARTOONS< BUT IT IS A PROBLEM IF A CHRISTAIN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHES THEM!!

The author of this article is an IslamoFacist, as he/she has a different standards for Christains and Islamists - which is offensive, and racist!!

Here's a test.

Choose a country to live. You can pick from,

"France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Holland, Hungary, Norway and Czech Republic"

(countries guilty of "promoting disharmony and humiliation worldwide")

or,

Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Indonesia, Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt...

Syed, ask yourself why 90 % of people would choose from the former group. What do you think it is that makes them nice places to live and the latter group, well, not so nice? If you think it's economics then ask again why that difference exists, and why the oil rich nations (i.e. rich due to geographical chance) still fall into the not so nice category.

It's not rocket science.