http://spiritual-health.org Explores the spiritual, educational, psychological, political, legal, social, and ethical ramifications of Sufism for life. en-US 2005 Anab Whitehouse Interrogative Imperative Institute anab@spiritual-health.org Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:05:00 EST Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:07:00 GMT Sufism Interrogative Imperative Institute http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 120 http://sufi-spiritual-abuse-recovery-assistance.org/logo_01.jpg http://spiritual-health.org 140 240 http://spiritual-health.org/Sufi/Community/ThinkingAboutIslam/hypocrisy.htm I happened to catch part of an interview on a Sunday morning involving Wolf Blitzer of CNN and Senators Joe Liberman of Connecticut and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska. The first question asked was about the controversy surrounding the publication of cartoon drawings depicting the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in a very demeaning and derogatory light. The two Senators, each in his own inimitable style, said more or less the same thing. They defended freedom of the press and alluded to its importance to a strong viable democracy. In addition, they indicated such freedoms ought to be used responsibly with some intimation that, in this particular instance, the papers in Denmark, France, Germany, and Philadelphia (although none of these countries or the city were mentioned in the portion of the news program which I watched) may not have had their finest moment of journalistic responsibility. And, finally, they stated that while they understood and sympathized with the feelings of Muslims around the world who were outraged by the cartoon drawings, nevertheless, there could be no condoning the use of violence or the burning of property and embassies ... actions which were in evidence in many Muslim countries. The two Senators indicated that peaceful means, such as non-violent demonstrations, should have been used to protest the cartoons, not violence. anab@spiritual-health.org Islam http://spiritual-health.org/Sufi/Community/ThinkingAboutIslam/hypocrisy.htm Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:05:00 GMT