karan.1970
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Its the mob reacting to someone's supposed "freedom of expression". Who controls the mob? You may not like my comparison, but it is the reality on the street. Ideally one can discuss till kingdom come that we should not inflame and we should not become violent in our reaction to such instigations, but it is happening.
So if mob reactions are uncontrollable, then it seems you would have no complaints against the world wide anti muslim reactions that happened post 9/11. That too was kind of a mob reaction to an inflammatory action (of the extremest kind) by some muslims..
That is not true. Muslims comply for the most part, but you will always have individuals who would disagree and that is an individual prerogative. Secondly, what freedom of non-Muslims is not reciprocated in the Muslim world? As an example, is the treatment of the Hindus by some in Pakistan representative of the entire Muslim world? After all Hindus live in Malaysia and Indonesia and do not encounter problems of the type that they are presented with in Pakistan. The life of Muslims in the West is not without challenges either. Yes some of the less educated Muslims societies need to mature, but minorities anywhere in the World are not without challenges.
Let me try and rephrase this.. What you said before was that there are certain things that may be acceptable in West (like the film in question) under the aegis of Freedom of expression, but are not so in the Muslim world. Hence westerners when living in Muslim world should not apply those standards..Fair enough.. But then the same thing in reverse (like Banning Burqa in France or minarettes in some Nordic country) is termed as Islamophobia by most Muslims (at least most Pakistani members here). Kind of like double standards