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? A student panel discussion that included a display of the Prophet Muhammad cartoons descended into chaos, with one speaker calling Islam an “evil religion” and audience members nearly coming to blows. Organizers of Tuesday night’s forum at the University of California, Irvine said they showed the cartoons as part of a larger debate on Islamic extremism.
But several hundred protesters, including members of the Muslim Student Union, argued the event was the equivalent of hate speech disguised as freedom of expression. Although there were numerous heated exchanges, no violence was reported. The panel, which included one Muslim speaker, was sponsored by the College Republicans and the United American Committee, a group that says it promotes awareness of internal threats facing America.
During the discussion in a nearly packed 424-seat campus auditorium, six cartoons were displayed: three depicting Muhammad and three anti-Semitic cartoons. The discussion got off to a contentious start with the Council on American-Islamic Relations — an invited guest — boycotting the event and calling the United American Committee a “fringe group.”
Damn!! I would’ve throwed down just for the hell of it! hehehe
No but at least they get to discuss it, I want to see what would happen to an american guy here if they wanted to discuss it in Kuwait University!
hehehe, what would be funnier, is what if it happened in saudi
looool! Posting the video on google would be necessary! lol
“the event was the equivalent of hate speech disguised as freedom of expression”
The logic behind such a comment kind of explains what we are dealing with here. This whole “freedom of speech” thing is a right that a lot of Arab countries and it’s people are not used to and can’t tolerate because of years of living under strict and limited freedom of expresion. Honestly, I remember seeing skits and hearing jokes on TV or the internet that make fun of our religion and prophets. Anybody see Team America?
Furthermore, i think this whole Danish boycot thing is simply dumb. If we want to get anal about boycoting who ever says anything bad to our religion or prophets, then our super markets will only be selling KDD and Mara3i stuff!
Fahad
btw, KDD is not Danish….its Kuwaiti!!!
man, geting upset about something 5 months after the original thing happening, is wrong.
imagine if muslims found out when the news was “fresh”?
how many embassies would have been burnt? etc.
i think the extermists are happing that they did something, and people actually listened to them, could be the start of something bad
allah yastr 3alaina bas, moo min il danish/americans/whoever, mina e7na.