I am reading the controversy about the Danish Cartoons one last time after watching Salman Rushdie speak at the India Today's conference today. He spoke on the freedom of speech and expression and the one thing that I absolutely liked about his speech was a statement "You can and should savagely criticize an idea if you don't like it but you should be polite with people".
I liked his progressive thinking.
I don't know why I started about reading the Danish controversy again and I still don't know whether denigrating people's religions just to espouse hoopla is correct. I sometimes wonder if the portrayals are the result of the thinking "just because we can, we will".
Mental Note - Danish controversy
A Danish newspaper, Jyllands Postem invited 40 editors to depict how Prophet looked like. 12 of them sent their version to the newspaper which was published in October 2006. Portraying prophet is prohibited (in Sunnis especially). The major controversy arose as a result of a specific cartoon by one Kurt Westergaard who showed Mohammad wearing a turban with a bomb inside it! Obviously, he got multiple death threats due to the cartoon. He was also bestowed an honor by Germany's Angela Merkel for brave journalism!
PS: Rushdie talked about a book called Slaughterhouse Five. Checked it out and seems like an interesting read. Will read it if I get time and of course if the page count is low.
I liked his progressive thinking.
I don't know why I started about reading the Danish controversy again and I still don't know whether denigrating people's religions just to espouse hoopla is correct. I sometimes wonder if the portrayals are the result of the thinking "just because we can, we will".
Mental Note - Danish controversy
A Danish newspaper, Jyllands Postem invited 40 editors to depict how Prophet looked like. 12 of them sent their version to the newspaper which was published in October 2006. Portraying prophet is prohibited (in Sunnis especially). The major controversy arose as a result of a specific cartoon by one Kurt Westergaard who showed Mohammad wearing a turban with a bomb inside it! Obviously, he got multiple death threats due to the cartoon. He was also bestowed an honor by Germany's Angela Merkel for brave journalism!
PS: Rushdie talked about a book called Slaughterhouse Five. Checked it out and seems like an interesting read. Will read it if I get time and of course if the page count is low.
