Just for a perspective, let us take the example of the unfortunate incident in Libya where a United States diplomat and three other Americans were killed by a group of gunmen who stormed the US consulate--- apparently as a backlash of video film made by an anonymous person claiming to be Israeli-American.
The incident would now most likely spark further protestation accross the world causes uncalled for inconvenience for many innocent people. The person responsible would sit back in their chair watching all this in amusement. It is very possible that the man who made the blasphemous video (God's curse be on him forever) is not even American or Israeli in the first place. He might be a common enemy of both Americans and Muslims. Yet he managed to let loose the angers of his two enemies upon each other.
It is important to catch and take to task this person, not a whole world of innocent people. And it is important for Muslims as well as America to launch a witchhunt for this man, no less rigorous than that for OBL, to track him down, and give him a punishment which would teach him a lesson that he and the world would never forget. If he can get away with his crime, we should not be surprised his crime to be followed by crimes by other people but of a similar nature.
The very same thing applies in the headscarf row. I do not want to sound harsh or insensitive, but it is a fact of the matter that humankind has been made this way. We tend to learn from experience. If we witness this man come out of this row altogether unscathed, we should be sure that anybody else would could also easily want to commit a similar crime without any fear of retaliation.
It is important that this man be identified, punished in the most appropriate way, and the bloody book of law be read to him, in the bitter letter. It should become an example for the rest of the people that it is simply not ok to challenge the rights of others since there is no way you could get away with it.
I commented on this one yesterday as well.
Just for a perspective, let us take the example of the unfortunate incident in Libya where a United States diplomat and three other Americans were killed by a group of gunmen who stormed the US consulate--- apparently as a backlash of video film made by an anonymous person claiming to be Israeli-American.
The incident would now most likely spark further protestation accross the world causes uncalled for inconvenience for many innocent people. The person responsible would sit back in their chair watching all this in amusement. It is very possible that the man who made the blasphemous video (God's curse be on him forever) is not even American or Israeli in the first place. He might be a common enemy of both Americans and Muslims. Yet he managed to let loose the angers of his two enemies upon each other.
It is important to catch and take to task this person, not a whole world of innocent people. And it is important for Muslims as well as America to launch a witchhunt for this man, no less rigorous than that for OBL, to track him down, and give him a punishment which would teach him a lesson that he and the world would never forget. If he can get away with his crime, we should not be surprised his crime to be followed by crimes by other people but of a similar nature.
The very same thing applies in the headscarf row. I do not want to sound harsh or insensitive, but it is a fact of the matter that humankind has been made this way. We tend to learn from experience. If we witness this man come out of this row altogether unscathed, we should be sure that anybody else would could also easily want to commit a similar crime without any fear of retaliation.
It is important that this man be identified, punished in the most appropriate way, and the bloody book of law be read to him, in the bitter letter. It should become an example for the rest of the people that it is simply not ok to challenge the rights of others since there is no way you could get away with it.