Japanese cartoon offends Muslims
The above-pictured scene from a Japanese cartoon has led to outrage in Egypt because it apparently depicts Muslims as terrorists:
The scene from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, adapted from a comic strip published from 1987 to 2003, generated angry responses on more than 300 Arab and Islamic Internet forums, with many accusing Japan of insulting the Koran, Kyodo said.
The scene depicts Muslims as terrorists, Kyodo cited Sheikh Abdul Hamid Attrash, chairman of the Fatwa Committee at Cairo’s Al-Azhar University, as saying. An unidentified official at Shueisha Inc., a Japanese publisher involved in the cartoon’s movie version, told Kyodo the Koran’s use was “a simple mistake” stemming from employees’ inability to read Arabic.
Cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb in his turban [scroll down to view it] were published in 2005 in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, prompting protests in Muslim communities worldwide and consumer boycotts of Danish products.
According to descriptions in the Japanese media, the offending scene is one in which a bad guy who had fled to Egypt reads a book written in Arabic and then calls for someone to be killed.
Over at Shueisha’s homepage there is a special link in English that takes visitors to this apology letter:
Like any corporation that would want to continue doing business in the Middle East, Shueisha apologized and suspended sales of the anime. But was an apology really necessary? What exactly is so insulting and offensive about the idea of a bad guy in the Middle East using the Koran to justify a killing?
Those filled with rage about the offensiveness of such a scene might want to focus more of their attention on what’s going on in the real world, because it’s not exactly rare to see groups using the Koran to call for violence, war, and killing. If, by some chance, the author of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure had actually intended for the book in question to be the Koran, he may have gotten the idea from some of the many individuals who have made international news in recent years by using the Koran to justify terrible acts of violence. It’s those individuals, not the creators of this manga/anime, who are making people around the world associate Islam with terrorism.
This news story will probably make manga/anime creators think twice before they dare make mention of anything related to Islam, especially those working with Shueisha. It’s even possible that things will become more like Europe and the United States, where many cartoonists have been scared into avoiding such topics.
It is unlikely that this will escalate into the mess that occurred back in 2005 cartoons. Shueisha seems to have reacted quickly with “heartfelt” apologies and a halt of sales, so there’s a pretty good chance that the situation won’t lead to riots and deaths. But when the irrationality of religious extremism is in play, it’s pretty hard to predict how people will react….
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Complaints about being offended work so much better when backed up with death threats. Instead of writing a strongly-worded letter to the editor, so much more effective to brainwash unemployed youths into blowing themselves up. Before complaining about cartoons showing Muslims terrorists, they should take a look at the news that shows Muslim terrorists.
My dear
I would like to clarify one oint.
Islamic rules are against terrorism. this is reality, other idea already taken from non muslim not tru at all. even not aal you see and hear at news are true. I hope japanese media will be only japanese as I respect japanese people and rules. I hope the media not affected by others (non japanese)
Shueisha should say “We are so sorry for showing reality. We wouldn’t even have thought of showing people reading from the Koran and then issuing Fatwas based on their interpretation of that work if you all weren’t doing exactly that everyday. We wouldn’t have dreamed of showing battle scenes taking place in mosques if you guys weren’t being shown on the evening news using the minarets as sniper nests – that is, doing so until a JDAM fell on the minaret and blew the whole building and its terrorist occupants straight to Hades. If we offended you in anyway, we suggest you look in the mirror, recognize that you are a bunch of hatred-spewing rabble stuck in the medieval era, and either join the rest of the world in the 21st century or blow yourselves up.
Sincerely yours,
People who couldn’t give a rat’s ass what you think”
Damn if it wouldn’t have caused more trouble and probably a bombing on japan I wish they would have sent that one
Oh, and did anyone else notice that the Sheikh saying Shueisha is depicting muslims as terrorists… is the chairman of the fatwa committee an a university?!? Hello??? So this guy whose job somehow involves religious death sentences complains that someone else is making him look like a terrorist because he is muslim.
Dear Sheikh Taykout Zatrash: don’t worry about what Shueisha says, your doing a fine job of looking like a terrorist all by yourself.
I think what people are overlooking here is that Dio, pictured above, is super-evil. He doesn’t need any books to “inspire” him – he was probably just reading to pass the time, since he’s practically immortal.
The author did not draw Koran, as you see in image above. Someone else used something Arabic-ish when s/he was making Animation version without knowing those sentences’ origin.
Some Japanese people still vividly remember that a Japanese interpreter-professor was killed in Japan by translating anti-Isram book, and Japanese culture makes people avoid any conflicts before discussion.
People who get their inspiration to kill from the Koran are offended that someone is depicted as getting their inspiration to kill from the Koran?
If all religion is a disease, Islam is terminal brain cancer.
Not all Muslims are killers you know, only the Jihad. Therefore, the Jihad would probably make up an extremely small portion of the audience, and an even smaller part of those people would be offended.
You are right about Islam being like a cancer. Ther don’t try and force members into their religion, unlike those horrid Xians, being more like some kind of AIDS.
I’m sorry to see that there are so much ignorants out there. Everyone seems to see whoever whom reads the Kuran as a terrorist.
If some of you ignorants would actually look into it, lots of ‘Jihad’ Kuran’ are altered and terrorist are taken when young so they can actually be brainwashed to think that what Jihad people say is actually true when the Kuran says other wise.
And it seems like all of you think that everyone, or who ever watched that show was a terrorist. Get your facts straight you idiots, terrorist wouldn’t complain, only civil groups would because they would see it as a generalisation of the american born term : arab = terrorist.
If you want more to rant about of why people are blowing themselves up, maybe you should look into why so many U.S soldiers fled to Canada after coming back and the stories they told about american soldiers to be ordered to shoot every single person they see if they are shot at, which is highly humane at all is it? Who are the true terrorist?
After all, isn’t the U.S there for oil? Who said their was ever a justified presence of the U.S military there in the first place? If they are dying, its because there have been 100 times more civilians killed than terrorist all together in this lame war.
The blowing up you see isn’t all terrorist, its more like civilians getting tired of their loved ones being killed for no reason by U.S forces and since the country has been taken over and that there is no one to protect the civilians, they decide to kill themselves and take some cowards who shoot civilians with them. ( If you don’t get this look it up like I said and you’ll have some facts rather than rumors).
And that is why in a way Muslims are tired of being addressed as terrorist when for Jihads Islam is a misconception of reality.
Maybe you should ask yourselves who are the actual cowards nowadays rather than 6-7 years ago before rubbing your mouths about why people complain when Islam is being generalised as a terrorist religion rather than a religion at all, if it was so, then we could use christianity as a terrorist cult in the middle ages for all the religious wars and civilian executions couldn’t we? But why don’t we? Because, the media controls who they want us to hate, so instead of always watching CNN or FOX all day, some of you americans should get off your couches and go read some actual neutral sided opinions on the internet or something, what do they teach you at school anyways?
Dubya’s war in Iraq started AFTER the current Islam=terrorist ideas. Those got a huge boost on 9-11, and are continually boosted through suicide bombers and the continued freedom of Osama bin Liner et al. The “Arab=terrorist” (or specially, “Islam=terrorist” image may be played up by the media, but it cannot be denied that a lot of current global terrorism is done by Muslims in the name of Islam.
The issue here is not Iraq at all – the comparison that has been made is to the Norwegian cartoons. Those caused riots and violence. It is a current axiom in the West that words should not be enough to cause physical violence (though they often are). To respond with annoyance because “we’re not all terrorists!” is fine. Great. Let’s hope that’s all it is.
The funny thing about the Koran, like the Bible, is that it can be made to say pretty much whatever you want it to say, by careful selection of verses and deciding what is allegory and what is factual.
I must agree with you on those points specially the last paragraph or so which is completely true and often not mentionned.
Raza, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this post is now dumber for reading it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
I’m a retired US Air Force Fighter pilot and we do our best to avoid civilian casualties even at the cost of our own lives. I don’t know where you get this idea that we the US Military are killing all these civilians. Plus the civilians are killing themselves because of the US Military. Have you been to Iraq? No you haven’t you get your talking points from some ultra left wing website that hates the US. Which is fine with me if you want to be neantherdal when getting facts from those type of news service with agenda. The ones who are doing all the civilian killings are the ones who have a jihad against the Jews and the Western world not the US…
And seriously, you sounded like a typical 35 year old with yellow stained teeth wearing a Che Guevara living at your grandparents basement.
And I guess you see quite alot of stuff on the ground when your flying a couple of miles up right? The only reason you defend them is because you’ve been in it and its like any fraternity you would join and defend which is typically normal behavior, but for a retired U.S.A.F pilot to come and say that he knows much when he hasn’t been there himself isn’t worth it is it either?
The info I gave out was from Canadian non or at least less biased news broadcastings which showed U.S marines who left the U.S to hide in Canada so that they wouldn’t be deployed back to Irak for murder and not self defense. Just look it up in youtube and you might find some stuff if your not completely one sided on this matter. If you are then I’de like to know why it is right for U.S marines to run over peoples cars in tanks for no reason and then keep going like nothing happened? Or shoot any passer by who goes by in a car without knowing its a gunfight which is going on? Or throw a dog off a cliff? Or throw a kid off a bridge? To me it seems more like a heck, no body will realise what were doing cuz we control the country. Some fight for freedom you guys are doing aren’t you.
Seeing that you are one sided, I would probably have to guess that your one of the idiots that voted Bush into his 2nd presidency of the U.S to get it into some billion-trillion dollar depts? Hmmmm…who cares, after all oil is important isn’t it even if it means taking over a country which the U.S supplied in W.M.D’s and then say: omg you got some weapons! Off course you fuckin morons you supplied them with em, and for some reason you guys never even found em which is akward isn’t it.
FYI: I’m 19, and I clearly got a bit more of information on the events that have occurred over the past years than you have. I am for freedom of speech regarding this post, and I also consider freedom itself as a necessity in our every day lives. I supported the war when it was to defend the Freedom of the U.S. But, is your own personnal freedom worth having to destroy some millions of others peoples freedom? Don’t forget, terrorist are groups of individuals, and I personaly don’t think its worth having to destroy so many lives for a couple of barrels of oil. And if you deny this fact, then seriously, you should seriously get informed because the U.S had all the world behind it until the world saw the actual goals of the war, and for now it seems that you guys are alone. Not every soldier fights for the same reason, but duty is duty. As of the army, I was in the C.A.F training facility 2 years ago, so I’m not completely ignorant about the army.
Shueisha did the right thing.
Just because there are Muslim terrorists doesn’t mean that it’s OK to portray ALL Muslims as terrorists. It just makes the problem worse.
I am against all form of government censorship but this is just Shueisha realising they make a mistake and apologising on their own volition.
@dabi: Even if this was deliberate, how is it “portraying ALL muslims as terrorists”? Even in the worst possible light it is still only showing ONE character as a muslim terrorist.
But HE DIDN’T portray all muslims as terrorists.
Yet you think he did. Why?
Let me know when they stop waging holy wars and blowing themselves up. Oh and let me play the 9/11 card here too.
I hate how people use the word “they”, every muslim in the world didn’t get together and decide to attack america, it was a small group. there’s a small group in america called the KKK who hate black people, does that mean you all do?
Probably, just look at this reply, its already on its own a pretty weak argument. And its a good thing you mention the KKK, because its in the same direction as the war.
It’s a small group certainly. And the character depicted in the show is just one guy. No one is making any general claims about Islam.
So what’s the problem?
Yes, the KKK exist, but when they show their faces and march in any town in the USA, 100 times their number come to COUNTER-protest. We “regular” non-racists, and non-extremeists fight the KKK, and they have almost no power these days. They used to be strong, but normal people beat them. I hope the Moslems can do the same.
Do the majority of regular Muslims counter-protest the jihadis? It doesn’t seem so.
The Islamic world seems much more like Nazi Germany to me. A small core of hard-line extremeists, and most of the “regular” people just go along with them, while maybe a few people protest, and they get killed for it, because most of the “regular” people don’t want to risk aiding protestors.
Instead the “regular” Moslems seem to try to argue with people like us, the Westerners who think Islam is a religion of hate. WRONG target. Wasted effort.
How about you ignore us “ignorant” non-Moslems, and clean up your own religion, then we will have no reason to think Islam breeds hate.
Oh. Right. We ignorant non-Molems won’t KILL YOU if you argue with us. It’s safer.
I understand. >:[
The reason that most muslims can’t do anything about it because Jihad’s don’t have white clothing and white pointy hats on which indicate that they are terrorists. They don’t go onto crusades with a burning cross or what so ever.
Jihad’s are slick, they disguise themselves as regular civilians with some explosives underneath their clothe and then go boom. You can’t distinguish them in normal crowds.
As of Jihad’s themselves. It is something you would see in any war. Just think of Kamikaze’s for Japan in the 2nd world war.
And what other wars can you list?
The use of Koran was totally inappropriate. I’m sure author did not know what he was using though.
We should all be offended by the idea that a holy book might be used to justify violence.
Because it has never happened? My sarcasm detector is off.
Wow, im impressed at how quickly and heartfelt the apology was! Probably a good job too, because when someone offends muslims (especially when it comes to cartoons), they get real mad, and the last thing Japan needs is the angry protesters baying for blood and threats that the Danish guys got.
IMHO this is way too defensive, without entering into a religious debate, I’d just say that muslims are just… way too defensive, anything said about them that doesn’t involve the slight grain of doubt or sarcasm is taken as the ultimate international offense…
It makes me wonder that perhaps, if they stopped taking every comment made by someone in a non-slamic country as offenses, it would be a lot easier for them and us. And btw whatever happened to freedom of speech again? You might want to read http://www.iheu.org/node/3123
A lot of people who are commenting on this need to go out and actually learn about Islam instead of believing everything they hear on FoxNews about it. Be informed before you make an opinion about anything, so go and actually talk to some Muslims.
A lot of you are making very very awful remarks which remind us that there still are absolute idiots in society.
*sighs*
totally agreed. people like that really annoy me.
The fact is that some Muslims are terrorists and there’s no reason why some of them cannot be depicted as such in fictional entertainment.
If you make a movie about the Ireland conflict, are you going to tell people that the IRA members appearing in the story are not actually Catholic?
If you make a horror movie where the serial murderer is a white Protestant male, does that mean that being Christian or white correlates to serial murder?
I don’t understand why certain Muslims have to be so overly sensitive and why people like you think that it’s their right to do so.
@lolz
Then I need to ask you why would you assume everyone that reads this is from america and watch Fox News? That is just to show ignorant you are.
And being informed, well, that is the problem isn’t it? If the muslims who asked the company to apologize knew more about what the term “freedom of expression” is, then we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
Indeed people, the reason why muslims are always generalized by most people(not that I think this is right) is indeed because you never see a commitment from muslims in regards to just letting the “western world” alone. They have this mentality that anything said about their religion, no where or how or why is potentially offensive. They need to realize the more they make themselves “victims”(of no crime I might add) the more people will resent them.
I think it is wrong the company should have to apologize for, well, nothing. They did not portray “every muslim as a terrorist”, in fact, like someone said, they were just portraying the real world. If the muslim leaders were more preoccupied on why there are parts of their society and religion that are willing to use Islam in the name of violence, and NOT trying to nitpick on every bit of western media about their culture/religion, then we wouldn’t have this problem. Again as someone said, the Islamic world have done absolutely nothing over the years to justify the “thrust” some westerns, including me, have that Islam is indeed a religion of peace. They haven’t done anything to improve their image in the west, on the contrary, it seems to me they don’t care what we think. If that is so than indeed it is a very sweat irony we should be bowing to their calls for “respect” or apology when no disrespect was meant and no crime was committed.
its not a matter of depicting muslims as terrorists..
its more that they are making a mockery of a holy scripture of a major religious group.. it doesnt matter which scripture it is, no film, cartoon, comic, etc should depict a religious scripture in conjunction with murder and bloodshed.. i dont understand why u r turning this whole issue into fundamentalism…
Because it’s the fundamentalists who are least likely to shrug it off in terms of “freedom of speech” or any of these new-fangled liberal hippy notions.
Religion should not be given any free ride in the “do not mock” stakes. It’s those that take it too seriously that do the damage.
I am not too certain but the anime is produced more than 10 years ago. Why is it now then it was brought up. And it is definitely not an intended offensive gesture by Shueisha. I wouldn’t say the same about the European cartoons which clearly is mocking the religious group. Anyway, I have read the entire manga series(which is still ongoing) and it is one of the most unique manga I ever read. It is also particularly famous in Italy.
Perhaps some of you Westerners have seen Bible Black, all about Satanism and the bible, obviously. Probably not many of you would be offended.
Or at least not offended enough to send death threats to the creators.
Nope, because.
a: Freedom of expression.
b: It’s a frikkin’ cartoon.
c: If I don’t like it, I just don’t watch it.
[So are there any hot anime chicks in it? Or giant fighting robots?]
d: I’m not a crazy Islamic jihadi.
Please Bible Black isn’t “all about Satanism and the bible” it’s all about schoolgirl lesbianism and tentacle porn. I wasn’t offended by that either.
Sadly, it is somehow acceptable to be ignorant and intolerant of Islam in this day and age.
Well seeming as how a large portion of the Islamic world thinks it is OK to be ignorant and intolerant of non-Muslims, to the point of at least tacitly condoning the death of “infidels” if not actually promoting the idea, I don’t have a problem with being branded as intolerant of muslims. None at all.
The world still awaits a clear, unequivocal condemnation from the various Imams for 9/11, or the slaughter of Christians in Darfur, or the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan, or the inhuman subjugation of women by the Taliban, etc. etc. etc.
Funny – muslims scream bloody murder about things like France refusing to allow female muslim primary school students to wear a headscarf in class, and yet let a western woman try to walk around in Saudi Arabia without one. They hand them out at the airport and say “you will wear this when in public”.
In some ways I can’t wait for a replacement for oil to be found. Then they will all revert to being poor, unimportant misanthropes instead of rich misanthropes with the world by the cojones.
Oh yeah, looking back, the title is absolutely awful. Using the word Some would be far more accurate than implying all Muslims are _________________.
This shows why blogs will never ever come close to measuring up to journalism.
Then again blogs can be changed easily?
Those suicidal bombers should get a life…
I find the ignorance regarding Islam expressed in this news post and many of the comments to it to be very offensive. Inadvertent perpetuation of stereotypes is unfortunate, but to willfully do so is, well, evil. I don’t understand why so many people find it acceptable to say discriminatory things about Islam and other religions/belief systems different from their own. Perhaps it’s technically different since creed is different than race, but it’s basically racism. I don’t mean to be cheesy or over-dramatic, but you guys have lost a reader. Not that I think you care.
It’s a fact that some Muslims have in the past reacted more violently to perceived blasphemy.
The author did not claim that all Muslims are like that, that would be what you call a stereotype and certainly false.
But it would be foolish to not take into account of the fact that is a violent minority that may react violently to this incident just as they have done so in the past. The author very clearly addresses his words to these people, and you certainly can’t claim that they don’t exist because imaginary people can’t set fire to embassies.
Get off your high horse. Political correctness does not mean factual correctness.
The time has definitely come for people to stop treading so delicately, terrified that their words might offend. Anyone has the right to be intolerant of anyone else for any reason. That is freedom, not evil.
Evil only occurs when they force their intolerance upon others as actions.
I refuse to live in a world where there are no standards, no right, no wrong. Everyone simply cannot be right, someone will always be excluded, someone may be offended. That someone might be “them”, it might be “us”.
It’s called the human race.
It’s called life.
The sooner we all realize this, suck it up and just move the heck on, the better.
Do muslims consider a lewd place where they think will sleep with 1000 virgins Heaven? I think there is already a flaw there.
Sounds like Heaven to me….
Okay.
This anime is called “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.”
Not exactly a show where you’d expect to find thoughtful social commentary.
So you’re damn right they better apologize for the accidental inclusion of the Koran.
Not every company wants to perpetuate flimsy racist propaganda.
(Although if they did, I can see from the comments here that they’d have a bid ol’ audience. C’mon people.)
Islam isn’t a race, so this is hardly “racist” propaganda.
But this is great news for owners of the original “Jojo” like myself; after Shueisha makes their cowardly changes to the manga, our unaltered copies will be worth substantially more. Since I expect Shueisha to be consistent on their newly embarked path of tolerance and understanding, I hope they go back and remove all the Christian references in “Death Note,” all the stereotypical Buddhist images in “Dragonball,” and burn every issue of “Saint Seiya” in a great big bonfire as a sacrifice for those who pray to Zeus and Athena. Our original collections of these series will sell for millions on eBay.
I’m confused. What exactly here makes the guy look like he’s a muslim? I mean, he has blond hair and fairly light skin, which, to my knowledge, are uncommon in people who didn’t convert to the religion from another background.
Oh, wait, my mistake, is it the fact that only Muslims are allowed to read Arabic? Oh, of course, my bad, sorry, I didn’t realise that it was hands-off the language.
(God, I don’t like Christianity, but at least they have the good graces not to raise a stink when some villain uses a Christian theme. Because, shockingly not all people who follow a religion are the same :O)
who ever u r Mr u r just making fun of a religion, God will surely punish you for this one more thing to say YOU R GOING TO HELL
After reading all the comments and contemplating the company’s actions, I have a few words.
First off, it seems like the cartoon was depicting A Muslim as A terrorist. This is very different from depicting ALL Muslims as terrorists. No matter your personal beliefs, it is a fact that there ARE Muslim terrorists. It’s also a fact that they are a very very slim majority of Muslims, but they still exist.
Secondly, if it was not the intention to specifically use the Koran in the scene (as it wasn’t specifically depicted in the comic), and they used it, then they SHOULD apologize. A large amount of people take serious stock in religious literature, and I see how that could be offensive. I could easily see a graphic artist in Japan who can’t read Arabic putting in a chunk of the Koran on accident. I assume tried to copy some Arabic writing found on the internet or somewhere else and accidentally ended up with a bit of the Koran. Even if the story was set in the Arabic world, this adds a layer to a character as a religious person. If that was not supposed to be part of the character, then it was a mistake and they should apologize.
However, if this was supposed to be the Koran, and it was a layer of the character, then they shouldn’t back down. Reading the letter of apology and viewing the picture of the original comic, that doesn’t seem to be the case.
In this case, I applaud the company for apologizing promptly and sincerely.
Unfortunately if that was the bible and they character was a common “westerner” few people would have turned their heads.
“Even if the story was set in the Arabic world, this adds a layer to a character as a religious person. If that was not supposed to be part of the character, then it was a mistake and they should apologize.”
So essentialy if there is any hint that a character on a “fictional” story is a follower of a religion that “remotely” resembles a real religion (Islam in this case), then you can’t show it because it is wrong or racist or discriminatory?
This has nothing to do with what is right or wrong, but with political correctness.
So pretty much “freedom of expression” on their books ir the same as “you can say anything as long as it is not related to our religion, culture or, and not to mention, you can’t bad mouth our leaders either, and btw if you do that, we will just let our religious extremist run loose, after all, even if we don’t support them, there is a reason why we haven’t tracked them down yet, they are way more effective in getting our point across you know…”
I think you misunderstood my comment. I am completely for freedom of expression on all levels. If they WANTED this character to be religious, then apologizing was spineless and cowardly of them.
If they didn’t intend on this being an aspect and, as they claim in their apology, this was an honest mistake, then apologizing was the right thing to do.
And there is a difference between a passage of a religious text and ‘religion that “remotely” resembles a real religion’ as you put it.
I do think people are overreacting, but the studio made a mistake and they apologized for it.
I recommend you spend more time reading and less time assuming.
I must agree with you keith on the fact that if it was an honest mistake, they did the right thing to apologize and cowardly for vice-versa.
As of depiction, it is true that lots of muslims react violently to issues regarding Islam, but personnaly being one, I think some of them are at their last straw. Meaning, just look at all the films that come out these days, all the shows and etc, its never a white american or a black man or asian guy trying to hijack a plane or blow something up, its always a brown man that speaks arabic and etc. Therefore having continuous stuff like this happen shows that lots of people do try to generalize stuff that shouldn’t be. And contrary to popular belief, lots of muslims don’t support the Jihad. I myself was for the war against Terror, till it ended being the war for oil and the killing of civilians started.
But the war isn’t the point, its just that with the past years, it seems that we are the only ‘race’ which is being portrayed as terrorist because of the war. And people cling onto it and see us as them. Why can’t kamikaze’s be used or what so ever. No, its always muslims, that is where the problem lies.
and no one cares of the anti jewish/christian cartoons and real person shows on their tv channels…
ridiculous
There’s really no excuse for getting offended by that scene but childishness and conditioned response. Fix their heads, wacky fighter anime!
I have to admit, JoJo does a good job with a plot where good and bad lose orientation. It says it’s bizarre in the title; don’t expect a treatise on how holy things are going to make the story fail in that.
I don’t get why so many Muslims are outraged by such things. I myself, being a Muslim, don’t think it’s a big deal at all that this happened. Some Muslims really need to stop acting like such turds. Seriously people, what if that character was reading the bible instead of the Qur’an? Would bible followers start going on angry rampages too? No, they wouldn’t.
And the fact really is that terrorism is most commonly commited by delusional Muslims these days anyways. So if you really want people to stop associating terrorism with Muslims, then maybe you should spend your time trying to come up with ideas and ways of stopping angry Muslims on killing sprees rather than writing letters of hatred and complaints to someone whose just trying to do their job.
I don’t think that an apology was necessary either (though it was probably just written to cool down all the over-reactors). If I were to write a letter in reply, I’d clearly state that all the opposers should take a chill pill and relax, because it’s just a damn cartoon.
sara u take a pill up ur XXX. i guess u wont even mind if some one watching u XXXXX in shower
suicide bombing is much more political motivated than religious. the political situation in middle east has brought out islam fundamentalist suicide bomber not the other way around.
A slight oversimplification of the situation. The people who inflame religious rhetoric are politically motivated (though there’s a huge overlap, especially in Islam) but they use religious fanaticism to motivate the uneducated masses.
I suggest all of you who still think Islam is a fundamentally peaceful religion and that terrorists are simply extreme should go read the book “Infidel” by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
“Bob” doesn’t care how you depict him.
Muslims need to get a sense of perspective.
Oh Dio Brando, you silly vampire you.
He’s the type of evil villian who’d use Mein Kampf as bedtime reading, so him reading the Koran would be right up his alley.
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I think that is stupid, but the bigoted comments are even more stupid.
Tamil Tigers from Srilanka have carried out more suicide bombings than any other group and they are a secular group with Hindu roots. During the Lebanon war there were Christian suicide bombers. Alot of the Kurdish resistance is Marxist driven. A lot of the various resistance groups in the Middle East were Marxists with a secular ideology. Therefore to link Islam to terrorism shows only a small part of the picture . Suicide bombings despite ethnicity, religion, ideology is usually carried out to get your enemy off your land. Or to try to make the occupation forces withdraw. There are Islam fundamentalist suicide bombers but they too are motivated politically. al Qaida aparently flew into WTC because they wanted the US forces to withdraw from Saudi and Israeli forces from Palestine. The train bombings in London was a reaction to the occupation in Iraq.
Do you have sources for that?
Here is an interesting article on suicide bombing:
http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/usscole/jir001020_1_n.shtml
Thanks for sharing the link. The article was from before 9-11 2001. Very interesting.
Tamil Tigers carried 168 suicide operations and Hezbullah 52. Loula Abboud was a Christian suicide bomber who blew herself up in Lebanon. Tamil Tigers is secular while Hezbullah is religious, Shia Muslim. I do not know the story of Srilanka too well but I know that there has been a bloody civil war as the Tamil people feel they are being suppressed by the Srilanka government. The suicide belts you see Hamas millitants dancing in on parades comes from Tamil Tigers. It was their idea. Palestine of course has been wiped off the map with the creation of Israel and that is why there is a conflict there and that it reaches to a point where people are willing to blow themselves up. Hezbullah emerged as a movement in 1982 after Israel invaded Lebanon and has been responsible for many suicide bombings. The reason they carry out suicide bombings is to make Israel retreat from Lebanon. It came as a counter reaction to the israeli occupation. Iraq had 0 suicide bombers up until the US lead invasion and occupation.
http://www.amconmag.com/2005_07_18/article.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/18/opinion/18pape.html?
To label Muslims as terrorists is an over simplification of things.
Get over it and yourselves, muslim nut balls! Always sooooo offended and playing the victims of the world. I am tired and annoyed at the seething that muslim always seem to have at the slightest thing! (and always right after Friday prayer)
And, if the shoe fits! Face it, all the terrorist these days seem to be MUSLIM that scream allah ackbar before killing someone!
Good non-terrorist muslims need to be a bit more vocal against the bad guys. How dare you be offended!
I think everyone in the world should fully understand what they are talking or writing about before doing so. If not, it is possible to make generalizations such as these that may insult people and only add wood to the fire of hatred and fear. On the other hand, if the shoe fits wear it. If it doesn’t, don’t take it personal, because it’s obvious a group of bad apples does not represent an entire nation. Ignorance is a sin.
Thanks for showing that you’re clueless. A fatwa is not a call for death. It’s a “religious finding.” Fatwas include things such as “this food is halal”. Al-Azhar never made fatwas that call for killings.
You’re missing the whole point: if he was a ‘terrorist’, why would he complain? He’s complaining because he’s not a terrorist and does not wish to be associated with terrorists. Use your heads, people.
The muslims are just shooting themselves in the foot by always complaining, “this is anti Islam,” or “if you do this you are an enemy of Islam.” This isn’t helping heal the wounds between the Muslims and the, largely, Christian communities that Muslim extremeists attack. All this kind of complaing does is fuel hate and anger twords innocent Muslims who had nothing to do with any of this. Of course the Muslim community could get off their rears and say something like, “we are not offended,” or, “it’s okay,” instead of leting the extremeists define thier culture, ideas, and morals. Of course this could stem to any group in the world that is extremeist in thier beliefs. It is just that with the world in a state of turmoil because of Muslim terrorists, words that would go largely un-noticed(like this ridiclous complaint)have a bigger impact and now are a bigger risk both for innocent Muslims and Westerners.