"CAIRO, Sept 2 (NNN-KUNA) — Egypt’s Ministry of Awqaf (religious endowments)
Saturday condemned as “irresponsible and offensive” the publication of a
caricature of Islam’s Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) by a Swedish newspaper recently.
“Such an irresponsible act is not conducive to friendly ties between the Islamic
world and the west,” the ministry said in a statement here."
The rhetoric around this cartoon appears to be tamer than that which was circled around the last round of violence. The minister has a point here, that this isn't the best way to encourage communication between our cultures. On the other hand, if they are going to join the west, they are going to have to understand that the ideals of freedom are very important to us. There is always going to be people who will have harsh things to say about anything that is out there. Maybe the problem here is that this is being set up as one solid unit of the west versus another solid unit of the east. It is just not the case of that either the east or the west are solid units of any kind.
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