Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Cheap Ticket to Fame

"Khaalif Tu'ruf" - Oppose and you will be known, a famous ancient Arabic saying that holds much value even in this day. Simply put, if you desire fame, oppose the norm. Under the guise of defending freedom of speech, Danish quasi intellectuals decided to insult and poke their twigs at a phenomenal personality that is loved by about 1.6 billion human beings around the world. All of that they did simply to see their names and faces plastered on the tabloids.

Rather than approach a subject matter in an intellectual or ethical manner, appealing to the minds and hearts of people, these alleged defenders of intellectual freedom dig their spears even further into the heart of intellect. I ask, were these noble safeguards of freedom ignorant of the world’s reaction to the first allegedly ill-calculated assault, one that led to the death of many innocent people and the destruction of very valuable property. Apparently not. Obviously, they had and still have little regard for the sympathies, lives, and properties of others, as their selfish egoistic desire for self-recognition prompted them to supersede all human moral and ethical barriers by repeating the same dreadful episode.

A reference for the future generations to come, their names in history can be found under the following headings: "twits", "Islamophobes", "bigots", and "so-called intellectuals".

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