Get a little more learning under your belt, and then perhaps you can offer up some good reasons and arguments for your point of view.
The strength of your point of view is not equal to the number of times you use an exclamation mark in your postings.
As has been said MANY, MANY times before on here, if it's against your religious beliefs to insult religions and people you consider to be prophets then don't do it.
You want to protest Qatar granting a visa to this man and having him come here?
Go right ahead.
You want to demand that the the Centre be abolished, that Mennard be fired, and that Qatar keep its current limits on freedom of expression and media freedom?
Go right ahead.
But YOU don't get to decide what everyone can say or think -- especially not when they're in their country, and especially when they don't subscribe to the same beliefs that you do.
Qatar is free to NOT have media freedom and to make its own rules for what is acceptable/not acceptable within its borders. As PM noted, perhaps it isn't ready yet to handle all that freedom of expression entails.
I suspect if that happens, then Northwestern U. will pull out (hard to run the same journalism program as in the US in a country that has no freedom of expression), and that will be a big blow to the image of Qatar as an educational center in the region.
Again, it's HH's decision to make.
If you want the "right to be bothered" (?) by what others say and "demote what someone has to say" (whatever THAT means...), feel free.
Just because 1.5 billion believe something doesn't make it right, doesn't even make it something I have to give a hoot about or be respectful towards, though one hopes most people would behave decently.
But you can't DEMAND they respect what you think and treat it with the same deference that you do.
Is that so hard to understand?
"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."
-- Maya Angelou
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Get a little more learning under your belt, and then perhaps you can offer up some good reasons and arguments for your point of view.
The strength of your point of view is not equal to the number of times you use an exclamation mark in your postings.
As has been said MANY, MANY times before on here, if it's against your religious beliefs to insult religions and people you consider to be prophets then don't do it.
You want to protest Qatar granting a visa to this man and having him come here?
Go right ahead.
You want to demand that the the Centre be abolished, that Mennard be fired, and that Qatar keep its current limits on freedom of expression and media freedom?
Go right ahead.
But YOU don't get to decide what everyone can say or think -- especially not when they're in their country, and especially when they don't subscribe to the same beliefs that you do.
Qatar is free to NOT have media freedom and to make its own rules for what is acceptable/not acceptable within its borders. As PM noted, perhaps it isn't ready yet to handle all that freedom of expression entails.
I suspect if that happens, then Northwestern U. will pull out (hard to run the same journalism program as in the US in a country that has no freedom of expression), and that will be a big blow to the image of Qatar as an educational center in the region.
Again, it's HH's decision to make.
If you want the "right to be bothered" (?) by what others say and "demote what someone has to say" (whatever THAT means...), feel free.
Just because 1.5 billion believe something doesn't make it right, doesn't even make it something I have to give a hoot about or be respectful towards, though one hopes most people would behave decently.
But you can't DEMAND they respect what you think and treat it with the same deference that you do.
Is that so hard to understand?
"Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."
-- Maya Angelou