Comments on: Debate on the cartoons in Prospect http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2006/02/23/debate_on_the_cartoons_in_prospect Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:43:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: F.N. Qadri http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2006/02/23/debate_on_the_cartoons_in_prospect#comment-2655 F.N. Qadri Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:31:51 +0000 http://www.blogistan.co.uk/ijwp/mt.php/2006/02/23/debate_on_the_cartoons_in_prospect#comment-2655 Insightful post. Yes, we have to see the cartoons in a wider context not an isolated incident. Jazak Allah Khair Insightful post.

Yes, we have to see the cartoons in a wider context not an isolated incident.

Jazak Allah Khair

]]> By: Shamil http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2006/02/23/debate_on_the_cartoons_in_prospect#comment-2654 Shamil Tue, 28 Feb 2006 19:13:17 +0000 http://www.blogistan.co.uk/ijwp/mt.php/2006/02/23/debate_on_the_cartoons_in_prospect#comment-2654 *Big difference - Ken was insulting a person, not a set of beliefs. The holocaust - assuming that people on this site accept that (a) it happened, and (b) was not a good thing - happened to Jews regardless of their actual beliefs.* What has that got to do with anything? He didn't call him that because he was a jew. Calling someone a nazi as an insult is quite common. Big difference - Ken was insulting a person, not a set of beliefs. The holocaust - assuming that people on this site accept that (a) it happened, and (b) was not a good thing - happened to Jews regardless of their actual beliefs.

What has that got to do with anything?

He didn’t call him that because he was a jew. Calling someone a nazi as an insult is quite common.

]]> By: Old Pickler http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2006/02/23/debate_on_the_cartoons_in_prospect#comment-2653 Old Pickler Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:54:32 +0000 http://www.blogistan.co.uk/ijwp/mt.php/2006/02/23/debate_on_the_cartoons_in_prospect#comment-2653 <i>Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London, is presently facing a tribunal which could deprive him of his position for suggesting that a Jewish reporter might have been a Nazi war criminal. </i> Big difference - Ken was insulting a person, not a set of beliefs. The holocaust - assuming that people on this site accept that (a) it happened, and (b) was not a good thing - happened to Jews regardless of their actual beliefs. Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London, is presently facing a tribunal which could deprive him of his position for suggesting that a Jewish reporter might have been a Nazi war criminal.

Big difference - Ken was insulting a person, not a set of beliefs. The holocaust - assuming that people on this site accept that (a) it happened, and (b) was not a good thing - happened to Jews regardless of their actual beliefs.

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