Comments on: Cartoon Violence http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2006/02/10/cartoon-violence/ A Journal of Jewish Thought and Opinion Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:03:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: YosefW http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2006/02/10/cartoon-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-52186 YosefW Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:07:04 +0000 http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2006/02/10/cartoon-violence/#comment-52186 excellent! excellent!

]]> By: Ahron http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2006/02/10/cartoon-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-52144 Ahron Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:17:22 +0000 http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2006/02/10/cartoon-violence/#comment-52144 This incident could indeed serve to give one a new perspective on the concept of silence in the face of curses. What we're seeing now is a process that unfolds when an entire society, in fact, seems to hold the very opposite of that concept; as though to say "To those who curse me, let my soul erupt." The "rage" coming from many Muslim quarters is simply chauvanism--then anger that Muslim treatment of non-Muslims has now been recompensed in kind to even a microscopic degree. It emanates from the belief that Islam is supreme, and the reaction is reflective of the same kind of supremacist ideologies that have always given Jews so much disaster--and it never stops with the Jews, as we're seeing again now. This incident could indeed serve to give one a new perspective on the concept of silence in the face of curses. What we’re seeing now is a process that unfolds when an entire society, in fact, seems to hold the very opposite of that concept; as though to say “To those who curse me, let my soul erupt.”

The “rage” coming from many Muslim quarters is simply chauvanism–then anger that Muslim treatment of non-Muslims has now been recompensed in kind to even a microscopic degree. It emanates from the belief that Islam is supreme, and the reaction is reflective of the same kind of supremacist ideologies that have always given Jews so much disaster–and it never stops with the Jews, as we’re seeing again now.

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