Where is your opinion? [Archives:2006/922/Letters to the Editor]

Thomas Richers
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Switzerland
I read your editorial. It basically retold the story, but I missed your personal opinion on it.

Have you ever seen the cartoons? Do you want to see them? Do you know there is an internet list with pictures of your prophet throughout the centuries?

It is a misunderstanding if Muslim governments go to the Danish government to complain about its press. In “Western” countries, the press is absolutely free – it is the “fourth power.” In most countries, only Nazi symbols and Holocaust denial are prohibited.

I also am following Muslim discussion about separation of religion and state, as well as about Islam and “enlightenment,” which led to secularism and its freedoms in the West (not always in the U.S., though), a step Muslim societies have yet to make. Interestingly, most progressive Muslim thinkers live in Egypt or in the West.
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