Philippine Atheists

The overreaction of Muslims all over about the cartoons published by a Danish newspaper depicting the prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban shows how hypocritical people of faith can be by adopting a double-standard when it comes to their own religion. The newspaper that published the cartoons itself is guilty of hyprocrisy as it allegedly refused to publish a similar satirical comics of Jesus earlier in 2003.
In a welcome news today, Iran’s former president Khatami said a new Islam is ripe to embrace freedom, progress and democracy. But until it happens and until they embrace the right to free speech as it’s understood and enjoyed by freedom loving peoples, expect to see more outrage and rioting each time the sacred cow that is their religion comes under “attack” by the “Western” value of free speech.

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