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Thursday, 3 June 2010

Insulting the Prophets?


There was an uproar Globally about the insults to the Prophet
Mohammad via caricatures i think none of the muslim nations
were ignorant of this ... The protests and widespread condemnation
was articulated throuh protests and marches and typical flag burnings ..

Some muslims take the opinion that we cannot be biased and
make a distinction between the constant insults of the chosen one (annointed)
Christos-Jesus Son of Mary the Prophet of God ... And even the constant
depictions/insults of God Almighty himself .....! more or less on a regular basis ...

This is a strong argument and seemingly logical, how can Muslims suddenly be
biased and make distincion ... Surely God is Greater than any man ... and all the prophets
are brothers ...

I will go deeper and draw in a different perspective ... and try and detangle this
apparent confusion .....

First we have to acknowledge Why a Local paper affects a Worldwide audience,
Are muslims now responsible and taken on the burden of acknowledging and responding
to every local Paper Globally ? Surey this is a mammoth undertaking ?.. Or is
it was Have once again been the Victim of Global Media Histeria ? And fallen into the
trap once again .. ?

Is this a local issue for the Local muslims of the Dutch community to sort out ?

To understand the issue we have to understand that this issue is about
Current Culture and norm ... and not specifically about the insult of the prophet
himself .. Why? As i have just reiterated that the Insults of God and his prophet
are "normal" but so much greater in weighting ...

So the outrage of the muslims should be understood in that culture has changed and so
Now the Prophet Mohammad has been insulted ... thus breaking a cultural taboo/creating a cultural
norm ....

Maybe Wittgenstein was right for the need of creating a new language for philosophy ...
Since representing these arguments in purely premise terminology (X and Y) and logical form will not derive the truth,
as Wittgenstein so correctly pointed out that we need new principles, expressing contexts and forms in argumentation ..

Surely the limits of language and understanding has been lost in this issue of "insulting the Prophets" as Context, Cuture and weighting is lost in the simple-Language abstraction .

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