{"id":5512,"date":"2011-02-21T12:01:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T10:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5512"},"modified":"2012-12-12T17:08:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T16:08:30","slug":"danish-cartoons-and-muslim-liberation-where-are-the-massive-demonstrations-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=5512","title":{"rendered":"Danish Cartoons and Muslim liberation: Where are the massive demonstrations this time?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You probably remember the uproar that was caused by the publication of Danish cartoons<\/a> that some Muslims found offensive. \u00a0Demonstrations around the world were massive. \u00a0According to Wikipedia there were over 100 deaths<\/a>. Now let’s leave aside the controversy over how offensive those cartoons were. \u00a0To me the point is that when Muslims want to organize and protest over something that is dear to them, they do.<\/p>\n

Presently there are 16 million Muslims in the European Union<\/a> who are watching their brothers getting massacred in countries such as Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, Bahrain and now Libya<\/a>. \u00a0Demonstrators who die for the liberation of their country from cleptodictators who have\u00a0been violating human rights and stealing for themselves and their own families for decades. \u00a0So why not massively demonstrate against them? \u00a0Muslims are a political force in Europe. \u00a0If Muslims organzed and obtained the support of the rest of society they could very well influence foreign policy in Europe towards democratization of North Africa and the Middle East. \u00a0Myself for example, I am a secular Jew, and I gladly would join a demonstration against Muammar Gaddafi<\/a>. \u00a0A demonstration for democracy in Libya. \u00a0A demonstration for the end of violence and free elections throughout the region. \u00a0But so far demonstrations are very timid. \u00a0In London for example yesterday, as their people were getting murdered only 200 went to a demonstration<\/a> for Libyan liberation.<\/p>\n

As the Danish cartoons show it is not lack of organization that is preventing Muslims for demonstrating because that time they were very well organized and even extremely violent. \u00a0A violence that goes on even 5 years after the publication. \u00a0So what explains this lack of support for Muslim brotherhood? \u00a0Could it be that Imams themselves are concerned that these demonstrations in the Arab world are mostly political, secular and in favor of democracy and modernization which they oppose? \u00a0I know Muslim friends of mine in Europe are glued to Aljazzera and Twitter as I am on the issue of the Arab revolts. \u00a0Why don’t they organize and influence EU foreign policy?<\/p>\n

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