Seeking Non-Muslims’ help to solve the Muslim-Extremist Cartoon Problem
Some predicaments are inter-cultural and to seek their potential solutions, you have to rely on people who understand both the cultures at play. I am a Muslim having lived half of my life in Pakistan and the rest half in America. I understand both the Eastern and Western cultures quite well now and want to make an attempt at bridging a gap of ideology between the two cultures.
In October 2020, the world witnessed a number of horrific events where a deeply disturbed student in France killed his teacher. His motive was to punish him for disrespecting Mohammad, the holy prophet of Islam by showing his caricatures.
These incidents are not new and over the years the French publication Charlie Hebdo has published similar cartoons multiple times and there have been similar attacks and resultant killings over the years.
Now here is the sad part. There is major disagreement between the Western and Eastern-Muslim philosophies when it comes to finding a solution to this ongoing problem.
The Muslim world always condemns the killings but also demands an end to promotion of such cartoons. The West feels differently and maintains that publishing such cartoons is their right claiming this to be exercising “freedom of expression.” Anybody who states that such…
