Qatar warns prophet cartoons will 'fuel hatred'

[Mosby]

Qatar warned Friday that publishing cartoons of Prophet Mohammed would "fuel hatred and anger", as a leading Muslim body called for peaceful protests against French weekly Charlie Hebdo.

Qatar "condemned the reprinting by French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and other European press of pictures offensive to Prophet Mohammed," the foreign ministry said in a statement.

"Freedom of speech does not mean insulting others, hurting their feelings, and mocking their religious beliefs and idols," said the statement published by the official QNA news agency.

"These disgraceful actions are in the interest of nobody and will only fuel hatred and anger," it warned, describing them as a "violation of human values of peaceful coexistence, tolerance, justice, and respect among people."

http://www.egyptindependent.com//news/qatar-warns-prophet-cartoons-will-fuel-hatred

[Xipe Totec]

1. No, Really? Is it even possible they can hate us more?

Were they holding back?

Give me a fucking break.

[glasshouses]

2. We must have a law against hurt feelings !

It's the only way

[Nuclear Unicorn]

9. My husband is fond of the cliche, "The beatings will continue until morale improves."

[Warpy]

3. I would never publish such a cartoon in his country.

However, it's fair game in mine, along with cartoons of the Pope, of Mormon leaders, of televangelists, even of Christian icons like Jesus or St. Peter at the pearly gates.

I will tolerate the Muslims and their right to make the laws in countries where they are the majority. They just don't get to make them here.

They need to be taught just how far they can swing that fist.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

4. Yes, that's exactly what freedom of speech means. The clue is in the name.

[NaturalHigh]

5. Here's the thing:

I don't doubt that such cartoons will offend people. They offend me, and I'm not even Muslim. Cartoons making fun of the Pope offend me. Using the Star of David as some sort of comic prop or punch line offends me. All of these things undoubtedly offend others even more. Taking offense to any of these does not justify murder.

I don't get what is so hard to understand about this.

[Fred Sanders]

8. The terrorist's ideology is not Islam....like the KKK's ideology is not Christian, then it makes sense.

The one with the gun is the terrorist, the policeman guarding Hebdo, slaughtered in the streets of Paris, is the Muslim.

[Rex]

6. Sooo...a million dead Iraqis...meh...a few cartoons...OMG OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!

I'll never understand religion.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

7. Qatar is also the financial lifeblood of Hamas.

[Prism]

10. I don't listen to lectures from slave nations

Or really any discussion of freedom at all.

Abolish slavery, and then we can talk cartoons.