So I think to myself. They're cartoons! Aren't there more important things out there that people should be up in arms about? War or poverty perhaps? Orphans in crazy places like Rwanda and Uganda? Apparently not. There goes yet another embassy.
In my rash initial thought, I have overlooked sympathy and targeted ignorance. I am Catholic-born and raised. I see the big J.C. everywhere. T-shirts, musicals, outside the Salvation Army on Vermont St. It doesn't offend me to see my Messiah.
But what if it did? What if I regarded it such blasphemy to see my Muhammad depicted – in a cartoon no less – that I felt the urge to storm the castle gates of the Danish embassy. How about the Norwegian embassy? Something tells me that these angry Muslims aren't throwing a fit because they didn't get the joke.
I don't think it is respectful or necessary to link the Muhammad cartoons or put them on to eHub. They are already out there. You do not have to see the cartoons to understand what they mean. You can read about them. Anyone with a computer can do a nice, neat Google search. We are a public university with a diverse family of students. To offend one religion is to offend all. Last time I checked there was some amendment out there that mentioned religion and the freedom pertaining-you may have heard of it once or twice. It is our job to tell the news, not become part of it.
With the same justification, I would not post the cartoons to my own blog. Sometimes you have to respect the pain caused to someone else before you can understand it.
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