Cartoon issue looms large

By Al-Hassan Mahmud, Savar, Dhaka
15 March 2006, 18:00 PM
The western world has already launched a fresh and full-fledged war against Muslims in a naked way. In the name of so-called democracy, the US attacked and occupied Iraq and Afghanistan under the very nose of the UNO, brushing off humanity. France banned Hijab on the pretext of secularism. And at least A dozen of unhallowed cartoons of the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh) were published in a certain newspaper of Denmark. The dirty game is not over here. Some European countries like - France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Sweden Norway also followed the cartoons of the Danish daily. Besides, several Asian countries and New Zealand published the caricature of the second-rate cartoonist. Through this game the European and other countries have proved to be the birds of the same feather. So in response to this shabby style of journalism, orchestrated by the western pseudo-journalists and the Jewish lobby, the Muslim world is turbulent with storm of wrath.

It is a racist and blasphemous act to draw these ungodly cartoons of the holy prophet of Islam as it sharply wounds and bleeds the soft feelings and hard-core-beliefs of more than one billion Muslims and many non-Muslims alike across the globe. Such lunatic and monstrous discovery sows the seeds of hatred and malice among Muslims towards others. In this way the western media unmasked its hollowness and proved itself to be morally bankrupt and creatively sterile. It is no wonder that all European countries, excepting a few, live in each other's pocket. They all keep on harping on the same tune.

The controversial cartoons have triggered a storm of anger and are bound to raise Muslims hackles. The West itself is also plumbing the depths of a violent storm which is not to be easily tamed. The cartoons are a clear and strong manifestation of the ignorance and arrogance of the western world. To speak the truth, the media in the West pokes its nose into the affairs of the Muslims and their religion. It has hardly been concerned with what happens to other peoples. A quintessentially racist institution, the western media does not care about the non-western part of humanity. It cares only about the less than one third of humanity that live in the West. The people in Africa, Asia and Latin America hardly matter.

Only the Muslims are being hounded by the western media. In spite of all deadly blows, Islam will prevail.