Jean Fred

This danish cartoons affair raises questions far beyond that of the freedom of Press. What is at stake there is the right to think, speak ,draw, write different
and even more (because it may involve life or death) the expectation of the other side's reaction in proportion to such thought, speech, drawing or writing.Now proportionate response means a proper assessment of what it is called for. Were the cartoons offending and on what grounds?
Those who say that NO drawing of the Prophet is allowed by Islam and therefore ANY drawing is an insult to Muslims make it short, forgetting that
a) Islam rules Muslims, Muslims only,period. b) there are muslim drawings of the Prophet in Persian books (and later Ottoman ones) such as the Khamsa by Nizami or others by Rashid al-Din.Chiites ok, but Muslims anyway.
This leaves non-Muslims out of the rules Muslims have to comply with(and apparently some did not).
Now there are those who go farther and say that the commandments of Islam
are imperative to non-Muslims as well. Hopefully a minority but quite a noisy
(to the least) one. This overstepping the so precious line that parts freedom from tyranny gives us only one answer left : Resolute Resistance. Resistance to the non proportionate retort to a misinterpreted fact.
With all due respect for many a habibi I cherish in the Muslim community.