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(Dr. Zakaria Al-Sheikh – en forurettet mand)

Jordan: En islamistisk forening forsøger disse dage at få Kurt Westergaard, Tøger Seidenfaden og resten af slænget udleveret til retsforfølgelse for blasfemi. Dampmaskinen har skimmet foreningens hjemmeside, og viderebringer herved et par guldkorn:

Dr. Zakaria Al-Sheikh: It was time for a change. All the major media players were invited to a brain-storming session to find a new way. It was agreed that the Danish newspapers had unleashed a media war. The logical response is for the media to take up the gauntlet and enter this war. Kilde.

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Dr. Zakaria Al-Sheikh: Could this be a historic turning point? Can we celebrate this as a final victory? They attacked us with their cartoons; we responded with street marches and attacks on embassies; they republished the cartoons; we started a full scale, united economic and legal campaign; they back down. We are hopeful that at long last the penny has dropped – that the West is now realizing that freedom of expression does not apply to certain important matters. Kilde.

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Aseem Shrivastava: “The misplaced defense of free speech”. The “free” media in the West do not bother to investigate the events of September 11, 2001, or allegations that the Central Intelligence Agency itself may have been involved in the Bali bombings of 2002. [...] how much freedom is there left to defend? Freedom is to know the balance between silence and speech, to know when and about what to speak in public, not to rave and rant at will, not caring for the sensitivities of others. Hate-mongering is not freedom of speech. In a world situation fraught with potentially fatal geopolitical tensions generated around Islam by Western powers, it may easily become the kickoff for a terminal world war. It also demonstrates irresponsible journalism, atrophying under the force of the commercial imperative that compels it to confuse newspaper with tabloid. Kilde.

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Dr. Zakaria Al-Sheikh: I was really captivated with Mrs Agjee’s detailed description about how her students feel about Palestine. Then for some strange reason she began speaking about Coca Cola. She said that she loved to drink Coca Cola. She was addicted to it. Even when she heard that she was diabetic and was strongly advised by her doctor to avoid it, nothing would stop her from drinking the black liquid. Then she heard a fatwa that one should not drink Coca Cola because part of its profits went to the Israelis. Although feeling somewhat guilty, she still could not stay away from it. I was somewhat taken aback by her admission and could not make sense of her lack of commitment. Then it all became clear.  Mrs Agjee said, ‘One day a grade three student approached me and asked me why was our canteen selling Coca Cola and funding the Israelis so that they can buy bullets to kill Palestinian children. I was really shocked by this and immediately vowed never to touch the drink again. I immediately called a meeting of my staff and put the issue to them. They all agreed that we should instantly stop all sales of Coca Cola at our canteen. For me the happiest moment of my life was to call the distributor of Coca Cola and tell him that we are terminating our business with his company. It’s now three years since I stopped drinking Coke.” Kilde.

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