Arab Foreign Ministers hate freedom of the press

BBC:

Arab foreign ministers have condemned the Danish government for failing to act against a newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

At the Arab League conference in Cairo, they said they were "surprised and discontented at the response".

Islam forbids any depiction of Muhammad or of Allah.

The Jyllands-Posten newspaper published a series of 12 cartoons showing Muhammad, in one of which he appeared to have a bomb in his turban.

The Arab League's ministers council said the cartoons were an insult to Islam.

The government's response "was disappointing despite its political, economic and cultural ties with the Muslim world", it added.

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There is a lesson here for Muslims. Freedom of the press means that people can say insulting things about you and your religion. They can be disrespectful. The problem with Muslims is that they do not think God can handle these situations himself and that they will be in trouble with him if they do not avenge the insults. It would be good for them to notice that the world does not end when they do not.

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