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Article: FORCING THE ISSUE; CARICATURES OF MUHAMMAD USED TO INFLAME EXTREMISM.(Editorial)(Editorial)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- February 8, 2006
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Is the cultural divide between Islam and the West growing? Not necessarily. Certainly the forces at the extremes are doing their best to widen the chasm.
The latest incident is a curiously delayed reaction to publication last September of a dozen caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam. His depiction is banned by Islamic tradition and teaching to prevent idol-worship. The cartoons that first appeared in a Danish newspaper eventually unleashed a torrent of passions that drowned out the original, modest rationale for forbidding such illustrations amid cries of "desecration" and "insult."
The protests started peacefully, but did not stay ...