I Love This Woman With All My Heart
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http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=470992007
Victim wears Mohammad cartoon to Madrid trial
" MADRID (Reuters) - A woman who lost her husband in the 2004 Madrid train bombings displayed an infamous cartoon mocking the Prophet Mohammad on her T-shirt in front of 29, mostly Muslim, suspects on trial for the attacks on Monday.
The woman's white T-shirt showed Mohammad wearing a bomb as a turban -- one of a series published by Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten which unleashed violent protests by some Muslims last year. "
" The woman sat in the front row of the court wearing the T-shirt for around half-an-hour before getting up, walking up to the glass cage containing the defendants and finally walking out of the court, judicial sources said. "
....and if she was making a statement against Christianity, Buddhism or whatever; I would love her equally.
God bless her!
Don't know which God, but what ever God there is; he certainly appreciates this woman's courage and the pain and grief she has endured.
Victim wears Mohammad cartoon to Madrid trial
" MADRID (Reuters) - A woman who lost her husband in the 2004 Madrid train bombings displayed an infamous cartoon mocking the Prophet Mohammad on her T-shirt in front of 29, mostly Muslim, suspects on trial for the attacks on Monday.
The woman's white T-shirt showed Mohammad wearing a bomb as a turban -- one of a series published by Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten which unleashed violent protests by some Muslims last year. "
" The woman sat in the front row of the court wearing the T-shirt for around half-an-hour before getting up, walking up to the glass cage containing the defendants and finally walking out of the court, judicial sources said. "
....and if she was making a statement against Christianity, Buddhism or whatever; I would love her equally.
God bless her!
Don't know which God, but what ever God there is; he certainly appreciates this woman's courage and the pain and grief she has endured.
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Also remember, right after the bombing, the spanish people spoke, they elected a new government.
I feel sorry for her, but I just don't get it.
it was kind if an in your face protest against the violent strains of islam... kind of a challenge: is this what your religion really stands for? i think the resounding answer is no.
I can see that, I just think that it would've made more sense if her husband was killed by someone angry about the cartoons. then wear the cartoon shirt in protest.
The train bombings was about the iraq war, it was something kinda different. it was bad, but I think most of spain knew the cause of it. that's why they quickly changed the pro war government.
the cartoon rises above the iraq war and 9/11 and all of that nonsense. it is simply about the violent islamic fringe. and whatever their motives for the spain bombing were, they were part of that fringe. so it makes perfect sense.
well not quite,
You see, yes it was part of a violent fringe, they blew people up. but at the same time the reason for doing that came directly from the war. As I mentioned above, this is well known. this is what the people of spain have said. that was the conclusion they reached.
The cartoon protests was a seperate issue. you had mainly poor people being very angry when they felt that people were insulting the only thing they had. faith. now the only reason that these poor/third world people knew about the cartoons to start off with was because of a few so called clerics in denmark who sent these photos out to other countries. yes, those people are the crazy fringe. the people who wanted a heated reaction. so anger should be towards them. but now we are going away from the topic which is the train bombing. I guess they can be tied together in some way, but that just opens too many doors.
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you're not understanding me. her wearing the shirt has absolutely nothing to do with the cartoon protests, aside from th fact that she chose a famous cartoon to voice her protest. nothing at all. the intent of the cartoon was a criticism of the violent islamic fringe responsible for the madrid bombings, the london bombings, and 9/11. her wearing the shirt was simply using a well known cartoon to reinforce this message criticizing violence. it was not a comment on the angry reaction to the cartoon or at all related to that. it rises above that nonsense to remind us that the purpose of that cartoon was not to slam on islam, but rather a pointed criticism of a particular sect of islam. i dont know how to say it any clearer. it has nothing to do with iraq or the uproar the cartoon caused. it is solely a protest against religious justifications for violence, just like the cartoon was. she just used a well known cartoon to get her point across instead of a shirt with block text saying "what would mohammed really do?"
You'll make a decent lawyer my friend.
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But remember, one can also argue that her intent was not at all what you said. but merely trying to inflict as much psychological pain as possible on the people who took part in her husbands death. knowing that the only way to get them is to insult what they love the most. so as they had hate in their eyes, so did she.
That can and will only lead to more hate.
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But you know, i'm also playing just a bit of advocātus diabolī...well not playing too much of it. just for fun. get my brain working again. I have a bit of a flu.
Its cute, and I am happy if it eases her pain.. and perhaps gives her a feeling of revenge. But love her with all your heart? An insult to the muslim religion brings you joy?
ugh
This is precisely why I would have done it. If they had killed a loved one of mine I'd hate them and want to inflict as much emotional damage as possible.
People may be offended but there were nowhere near the actions of the violent fringe in the Muslim faith last time I remember art for the sake of offensiveness.
Yea different culture maybe. I guess it's not all faith that's to blame.
My university did a comic that had him giving head to a pig.....the dude who drew it refused to apologize and was removed from the paper. However the uproar was big (only vocal) but quickly dimmed away.
This does speak volumes, does it not?
Yea, of course. People aren't going to allow their savior to be depicted in demeaning ways. I think the drawing of Mohammed is the same kind of thing.
Sure, Christ represented the prostitutes and slaves of his time, he was all about them. But if represented a certain way, it's offensive.
Then again, offensiveness is entirely dependent on the individual. Yay, free speech!
If you find something tasteless you have the option to turn a blind eye.
Letting it inferiate you only shows a sign of weakness in my opinon. A weakness that goes straight to your belief. A strong willed person will ignore it and move on.
I don't see varying degrees of will.
Have you ever heard of piss christ by Andres Serrano?
Why not dude, Muslims feel free to insult "Westerners" all the time, and seem to derive great satisfaction from it. Feeling free to freely call us "infidels" in a totally derogatory way, and having no inhibition about attacking whatever about our culture they don't like.
I admire this woman also. She is showing her defiance and unwillingness to be cowed by these people.
There should be more of this from the Western world. I love her too !!!!!!!!!!
If I wear a shirt with chirst giving a blowjob to a pig, will you love me?
No, I haven't :(
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i suppose that's possible as well. if that is the case, id disagree with her decision, but can hardly blame her for making it.
It must be very difficult to deal with the thought that one has lost a loved one to a paramilitary agenda so inhumane and ideologically extremist, but not get sucked into the maddening folly of revenge-lust (which is usually very soul destroying). How does one come to terms with the murder of one's closest soulmate, not in the corny sense of "finding closure" (which I think must be impossible), but to the degree that one's anger gives way to something else? That something else, not necessarily being forgiveness or acceptance of the murderer's intentions or actions, but the realisation that prolonged conflict with them is ultimately irrational and self harming?
In trying as an empathetic person to understand her anger, pain, suffering and grief, maybe one shouldn't - as some might - advocate her behaviour as the best way of dealing with her husband's murder. Surely, concern for her longterm wellbeing (which must rise above the cycle of revenge and soul-killing ire, which political and religious fanaticism so often causes) must be our best way of expressing love for her. It would be more constructive than somehow willing on her desperately sad, passive-aggressive acts of revenge, would it not? The psychologists in court must have thought this, too, with the individual bereaved, rather than politics, as their main concern.
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Brilliant post, Fins.
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Only a life lived for others is worth living.
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Yea, that's a good post Fins, you don't see much of this kind of thing where people in most part agree. Of course it's only been a few hours...
I'm too discouraged by the general attitude around here to put much effort into my posts anymore. I'm gonna be more like BrainofC or whatever and just post one-liners in teletyped text.
Do you feel sorry for her because you think she is ignorant and small minded, or because she lost her husband in a terrorist attack? Sounded rather condescending to say you sympathize with her.
The train bombings being about Iraq (whatever) would never justify it, but yet you do. That is just plain wrong thinking.
She wore the tshirt because she wanted to piss them off, what is sad is that is all she can do ... she doesn't really have any other options does she?
No matter how much anyone hates the Iraq war, there is no justification for acts of terrorism. I cannot critize someone who has suffered from this violence for something as inane as wearing a tshirt.
Want to criticize, pick on someone who actually kills people.