On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 01:15:22PM +0000, David Gerard wrote:
On 18/02/2008, Prasad J prasad59@gmail.com wrote:
John Lee wrote:
To a Muslim it is offensive to say Jesus is God. It is offensive to view images of inappropriately clothed people. Muslims in Indonesia found the images in Playboy sufficiently offensive to riot over. Muslims in Malaysia frown on the usage of Muslim terminology in a non-Muslim context; the government has actually banned Malay-language Christian publications for using Malay words meaning "Allah", "angel", etc. There are a lot of things people find offensive; there are a lot of things Muslims find offensive.
I think you need to remember that not all Muslims are from the Taliban, just as not all Christians are cross-burning Ku Klux Klansmen. I studied in a Catholic school where several of our teachers
He's not speaking of some theoretical straw man, but of the actual laws in his country.
What exactly is the connection between Malaysian censorship laws and our editorial decision on how to display the Muhammad images?
Is this another straw-man?