will realations of west and muslim world come to normal after these cartoon crisis?
139650
Remember, the U.S. had nothing to do with that "cartoon"!  get over it.  You don't see Christians burning buildings and killing people when someone draws a cartoon of Jesus!  I have nothing against Muslims.  It's the radical uneducated jerks that need to learn tolerance.
680557
I'm not Muslim and I agree with your sentiment 100%. There is a two-tier structure to Muslims and tolerance. \n\nIn nations in which Muslims are a minority, they act much much different than in nations in which they are the majority.In a way, this mirrors Mohammed's attitude when he was starting out in Mecca and his behavior once he ruled in Medina. In Mecca before the "flight" Mohammed was very tolerant talking about love, peace, etc. Once he went to Medina and had his foothold, then we saw the real face of Islam.\n\nThe hope of Muslims in the west is that they show the "good" side of Islam and get enough converts to reach critical mass. Once that happens, then they can bring down the hammer of Allah.
94189
Actually some muslim newspaper is going to publish cartoons about holocaust and exuse with freedom of speech. Still I think these are too differnt things. People had died during holocaust, and Mohammed is just a religios figure. Even more, poeple actually die in his name....
994460
EVERYTHING HAS ITS LIMITS AND WHAT ELSE THAN THE TRUEST RELIGION ON EARTH THE ISLAM KNOWS THESE LIMITS.....WHAT U CALL AS TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL ADVANCEMENT IS NOTHING ELSE THAN TOTAL RUIN.......ITS MAKING WEST HEAD TOWARDS TOTAL DEVASTATION AND NOTHING ELSE...........BE AWARE DEAR
122444
When the artist Andres Serrano displayed "Piss Christ" (which depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a glass of the artist's urine) Christian's around the world didn't rise up and riot in the streets. They didn't kill anyone or call for the burning of embassies. The world didn't demand an apology from the artist....on the contrary, it was herald and given awards. Freedom of Speech groups rallied around and defended the piece.\n\nWhy are those groups not rising up now? The world is calling for an apology and it's simply ridiculous. I think that US News outlets should run the cartoons. Offensive or not, it's news.\n\nTo apologize and bow down to every little thing that irritates Muslims and terrorists alike is letting terrorism win. Don't get me wrong, I know that not all Muslims have a desire to "kill infidels." However, rioting in the streets, burning embassies and killing Europeans in the Middle East doesn't send a very good message to the rest of the world that they are a "religion of peace."
864268
nobody really cares that much about Islam in the west.\n\nJust a fact.
339613
You can achieve your desire to study in the west, Europe or continental America and still continue your life as usual.\nHowever the Niqaab ( face covering) would be a problem, especially with what ishappenig with the US and Iraq and all of the ani-Muslim (Anti_Islamic) rhetoric in the news.\nAs skertrevir said, you can easily contine with your head sarf.\nMany Muslim Girls and women do so and face minimum difficulties.\nMay God Bless you in yoru quest for Knowlege and to improve your life. Ameen
719428
You're preaching to the chorus my man.  If you want the west to accept Islam then you have to convince the dangerous radicals that Islam is a religion of peace.  Don't tell us, tell them.  The only thing we care about is not being blown up.
128941
with us maybe, but there has always and will always been turmoil of some sort in the middle east. I believe it will all depend on how the middle east continues to treat the rest of the world as a whole.
292706
nah, don't think that will happen. America will always have different nationalities, religions, or whatever.
574111
No. Iraq will, if at all it sustains democracy, take at least 3 decades to understand the system and get into main stream democratic countries. Religion will be a great hindrance to fully open up like a normal democracy. Situation does not change dramatically and I am not sure if any change at all will be possible.
298655
Nothing at all as I believe everyone has the right to free speech and if we start banning things because it offends some people then where do you draw the line\n\nThe cartoons were just that - cartoons.  Meant to be taken lightheartedly and not even published with the intention of causing offence.  When it's put into context Islam is one of the lesser mocked religions as I believe a lot of people are aware of the sensitivities that may be aroused in Muslims by speaking out against what to them is more than just a religion being as it is, a way of life.\n\nIn any event, there have been far more cartoons about Christ than about Muhammad (PBUH) and often much more hateful and disparaging.\n\nI don't have a religion as such and if I did it would probably be Baha'i which is effectively where the individual takes strands from different religions and lives their life according to them.
950520
I dont know where you got your data, but I will answer on the part of ramifications..\n\n\nSomeday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer from a muezzin. Europeans already are. \n\nAnd liberals will still tell you that "diversity is our strength"—while Talibanic enforcers cruise Greenwich Village burning books and barber shops, the Supreme Court decides sharia law doesn’t violate the "separation of church and state," and the Hollywood Left decides to give up on gay rights in favor of the much safer charms of polygamy. \n\nIf you think this can’t happen, you haven’t been paying attention to demographics. All one has to do is watch and see what is going on in Europe, & Australia and much of the pacific rim. A radical Islam wave is changing the way the rest of those populations conduct law, and the freedoms they would otherwise enjoy.\n\nThe future, belongs to the fecund and the confident. And the Islamists are both, while the West—wedded to a multiculturalism that undercuts its own confidence, a welfare state that nudges it toward sloth and self-indulgence, and a childlessness that consigns it to oblivion—is looking ever more like the ruins of a civilization. \n\nIn the ongoing conflict between the West and Islam, both the demographics and the will to power favor the Islamists. That a country like Spain for example, with a birth rate of 1.15 children per adult women, will extinguish itself in a few generations, while immigrants from countries such as Pakistan (birth rate 4.53) will move in to fill the vacuum. \n\nToday an aggressive, unassimilated minority edges closer to a majority (as in France, with an estimated 30% Muslim population in the under 20 age group), the character of the democratic institutions will become more closely aligned with Islamic law and culture.
754617
No.  The nation is divided into parts.  All those parts will never get along with all the other parts so long as religion and politics are intertwined together, which I think will be always.  Look at India...they had Hindus, Muslims, and Sikks.  They were divided along the lines of religion and politics.  They will always be at odds with each other until these two things become separate or one.
104454
well it doesnt have anything to do with the cartoon.  the cartoon was published 5 months ago.  it probably has to do with the iranian nuclear ambitions.
1100682
First of all, I like the phrasing of your question. That's awesome.\n\nDon't worry, man. They all go to heaven. And, by the way, when the Middle East runs out of oil in forty or so years, no one will ever care about Muslims again.\n\nThen you guys can just go back to slaughtering your own. And Whitey will leave you be.
151723
One could say that we are in WWIII right now, although most unlike WWI and WWII.  Seeing so many violent protests throughout the Muslim world over the cartoons of Mohammed published by Danish and other European newspapers, I can't help but think that the conflict between the Muslim world and the Western world has been escalating for centuries, and will soon erupt into a much larger scale conflict.  It's not about the war on terror, Bush trying to take over the world, Oil-rich capitatlists trying to manipulate the government, but an age old conflict of political ideology, religous beliefs, nationalistic pride, etc.\n\nBut if you refer to an all-out conventional/nuclear war between the most powerful countries of the world, i.e. America, Britain, France, India, Israel, vs. Russia, Iran, China, Pakistan; then my answer is no, thanks to globalization.  No matter how precarious relations between the world's most powerful and/or influential nations may be, most politicans will realize that such a large scale war is economically stupid, when even unsound peace is economically preferable.