Our media must give Muslims the chance to debate with each other
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1705411,00.html
We used to say 'When in Rome do as the Romans'; but Rome is now Tunis,
Cairo and Tirana, while London is all the world
Timothy Garton Ash
Thursday February 9, 2006
The Guardian
Facing me in my living room, Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed says a Danish
cartoonist who insulted the prophet should be tried in an Islamic court
and then "he will be executed according to Islamic rules". Of course
the Syrian-born Islamic cleric is not physically sitting in my living
room; he's on a television screen, live from Beirut, where the Danish
embassy has just been trashed by demonstrators. That makes the death
threat only slightly less threatening. Imagine how it feels to be one
of those Danish cartoonists.
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