الاسطبلات وحرية الفكر
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
أحياناً تتخفى العبودية في ثياب الحرية فتبدو انطلاقاً من جميع القيود ، انطلاقاً من العرف والتقاليد ، انطلاقاً من تكاليف الإنسانية في هذا الوجود!.
إن هناك فارقاً أساسياً بين الانطلاق من قيود الذل والضغط والضعف ، والانطلاق من قيود الإنسانية وتبعاتها
إن الأولى معناها التحرر الحقيقي وهذا ما ينادي به رب العالمين
أما الثانية فمعناها التخلي عن المقومات التي جعلت من الإنسان إنساناً وأطلقته من قيود الحيوانية الثقيلة وهذا ما ينادي به من لا يؤمنون بقيم ولا بمبادىء ولا بحقوق لآخرين...
نادي الفكر العربي في وضعه الحالي رمز للمعنى الثاني وللعبودية ويشبه إلى حد كبير إسطبلاً تشارك فيه بعض الوحوش البشرية المفترسة التي تجردت من أي ضمير أو مسؤولية إنسانية فتجاوزت حدود القيم العربية والإنسانية ..فمن الصعب قبول حجة أنهم ينادون بحرية الرأي بينما ينقمون علينا ذلك ويطبقون حريتهم تلك على أغراض دنيئة خسيسة لشرذمة من [MODERATOREDIT]الأعضاء هي حثالة [/MODERATOREDIT]العرب من الملاحدة
يصعب على أي عاقل أن يقبل كيف يمكن أن نصل إلى غاية نبيلة باستخدام وسيلة خسيسة!؟ وهل هناك خسة أكثر من تعمد إيذاء ملايين البشر في أعز ما يملكون من الذين يُفترض أن يكونوا إخوة لهم في الوطن ؟؟؟
قبح الله وطناً يشارك فيه أنذال لا هم لهم سوى إيذاء الغير
وقبح الله حرية رأي تُستعمل لأهداف خسيسة
ولعنة الله والناس والملائكة أجمعين على كل من يؤذي مسلماً في دينه
ولعنة الله والناس والملائكة أجمعين على كل عربي ينضم إلى صفوف أعدائنا فيطعن في ديننا
إن الغاية النبيلة لا تحيا إلا في قلب نبيل : فكيف يمكن لذلك القلب أن يطيق استخدام وسيلة خسيسة ؛ بل كيف يهتدي إلى استخدام هذه الوسيلة ؟!
وكيف لمن يزعم أنه عربي ألا يتأذى مما يتأذى منه إخوانه في الوطن كما يزعمون وهناك العديد ممن أدانوا تلك الرسوم وما سببته من إيذاء للمسلمين وعلى رأسهم الصحيفة التي نشرتها ورئيس سلوفينيا الذي انتقد حكام أوروبا لموقفهم وغيره كثير ومنهم :-
1- Cape Town, South Africa, in an editorial: "The position of this newspaper was not to publish the offending cartoons because they would be an affront to our Muslim readers and are, quite simply, racist in their stereotyping of Arabs as people with hooked noses and as terrorists. But we also reject the notion that ... any group could, on a presumption, interdict our newspapers from publishing content."
2- The editor of a Christian newspaper in Norway apologized Friday for offending Muslims by reprinting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in January. At a news conference, Magazinet editor Vebjoern Selbekk voiced regret for publishing the cartoons on Jan. 10, saying he failed to predict the pain and anger they would cause among Muslims.
"I reach out personally to the Muslim community to say that I am sorry that their religious feelings were violated by what we did," Selbekk said, according to the AP. "It is also only right for me to admit that I, as the editor, did not understand how offensive it was to publish the copies."
Selbekk made his apology at a news conference, where he appeared with the leader of the Islamic Council in Norway, Mohammed Hamdan, and Norway's Labour Minister Bjarne Haakon Hanssen.
Selbekk hailed the Norwegian Islamic community for insisting on dialogue rather than violence in its raction to the cartoons. "The Muslim community has handled this in a worthy and reserved manner. They deserve honour and respect for that," Selbekk commented.
3- French daily Le Monde said it had decided not to send its Friday edition -- which had a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed on its front page and an editorial defending freedom of speech -- to Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the Middle East.
Le Monde said it had taken the decision "given the extreme sensitivity of the issue" and because its distributor in Morocco was not planning to distribute the Friday edition.
4-Governments have stressed the right to free expression but also urged mutual respect, and both Britain and the United States on Friday condemned the drawings as needlessly inflammatory.
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the decision to republish the cartoons was "insensitive ... disrespectful ... and wrong."
The US State Department also marked its disapproval, calling the cartoons "offensive to the beliefs of Muslims" and their publication "not acceptable," warning that press freedom "must be coupled with press responsibility."
5- Evangelical Christians express little sympathy for Muslims' outrageBy Matt Stearns
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - Many conservative Christians have long regarded the media as enemy territory, where traditional values are at best misunderstood and often mocked.
So you might think they would relate sympathetically to Muslim outrage over the Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban. That outrage has sparked violent protests throughout the Islamic world.
But concerns about the goals of radical Islamic leaders, a sense that a double standard pervades the Muslim media and a general distaste for organized violence have overridden any empathy most Christian conservatives might feel for angry Muslims.
"Unfortunately, the protesters are hinting that the cartoonist might have been right," said the Rev. Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals. "They're killing fellow Muslims and destroying property. Maybe the radical protests are validating the cartoon instead of proving that cartoon wrong."
No Christian leader ever espoused violence to retaliate against "**** Christ," the controversial 1989 artwork - a photograph of a crucifix submerged in urine - by Andres Serrano, even though that riled many Christians, noted Gary Bauer, president of American Values and a longtime leader among religious conservatives.
"I understand why any religious person would get upset if they think their faith is disparaged in a drawing or a cartoon," Bauer said. "But ... how can (the cartoons) engender a greater emotional reaction than the daily bombings and attacks by groups claiming to do them in the name of Allah?
"It doesn't look like a call for respect," Bauer concluded of the Muslims' protests. "It looks like a call for submission."
Indeed, many evangelical Christians see militant Islam replacing communism as the greatest global threat, said Allen Hertzke, professor of political science and director of religious studies at the University of Oklahoma.
"They see this phenomenon as part of an orchestrated effort by what they call Islamo-fascists to take over the Islamic world," Hertzke said.
Then there's the apparent double standard for acceptable religious satire in Muslim media, especially regarding Jews.
Jews are routinely lambasted and stereotyped in the Muslim media. Hertzke recalled a Syrian TV program shown in Jordan that depicted Jews using the blood of children to make matzo. A recent cartoon on a Muslim group's Web site showed Adolf Hitler in bed with Anne Frank, a teenage Jewish martyr during World War II, saying "Write this one in your diary, Anne."
"Many evangelicals have very positive views toward Jews, and evangelicals support Israel," said John Green, a professor at the University of Akron who specializes in religion and politics. "And it's interesting that in the protests of these cartoons, the language quickly turned anti-Semitic and anti-Israel. That sends up a red flag for evangelical Christians."
Christian conservatives also generally echo the views of the Bush administration, which condemned the Muslim violence but backed off early criticisms of the cartoons themselves. President Bush pointed out that such are the vagaries of life with a free press.
"The appreciation of pluralism is something that every religious group has to grow in," Haggard of the evangelicals' group said. "We evangelicals struggle with this issue every time we send one of our kids off to college. But we think pluralism is a high value. ... Radical Muslim extremists have to grasp that pluralism is a fact of life for all cultures. We're into a new world."
6- Freedom of Speech Carries Responsibility, Annan Says
His words are directed at publishers of cartoons of Islam's prophet that have sparked protests.
By Maggie Farley, Times Staff Writer
UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Kofi Annan chastised newspapers Thursday that continue to publish cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad in the face of the religious controversy the drawings have ignited.
"Honestly, I do not understand why any newspaper will publish the cartoons today," he told reporters at the United Nations. "It is insensitive, it is offensive, it is provocative, and they should see what has happened around the world.
"This does not mean that I am against freedom of speech, or freedom of the press," he added. "But as I have indicated in the past, freedom of speech is not a license. It does entail exercising responsibility and judgment."
Caricatures of Muhammad first appeared in the Danish right-leaning newspaper Jyllands-Posten last fall and have been reprinted in recent weeks elsewhere in Europe. Their appearance has triggered often-violent protests among Muslims.
The protests continued Thursday, with about 2,000 Muslims rallying in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, Associated Press reported. Elsewhere, Malaysia's government indefinitely shut down a local newspaper for reprinting a cartoon of Muhammad, and Indonesia canceled badminton games against Denmark because of safety concerns, the news service reported.
When asked about claims this week by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Syria and Iran had inflamed the controversy and incited protests, Annan told reporters that he had "no evidence to that effect."
He also condemned the violent response by demonstrators.
"They should not attack innocent civilians," he said. "They should not attack people who are not responsible for the publication of the cartoons."
At the United Nations, a group of Islamic nations Thursday introduced anti-defamation language into a founding document for a new U.N. Human Rights Council, which is being formed to replace the widely criticized U.N. Human Rights Commission based in Geneva.
The proposed text would "prevent instances of intolerance, discrimination, incitement of hatred and violence arising from any actions against religions, prophets and beliefs which threaten the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms."
The text also says that "defamation of religions and prophets is inconsistent with the right to freedom of expression" and urges states, organizations and the media to exercise "responsibility in promoting tolerance and respect for religious and cultural values."
7- Pauntergras (sp?) the German novelist who is a Noble prize winner condemned the drawings as was published in the Spanish newspaper Pipes (sp?)
وختامــــــــــاً يا إدارة النادي : كفاكم عبثاً وأفصحوا عن هدف ناديكم هذا فما يجري يضع ألف سؤال وسؤال حولكم !
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