Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Jyllands-Posten Mohammed - Wikipedia Promoting the Offensive Cartoon

While searching for "Jyllands-Posten Mohammed" on Wikipedia, I was shocked to see Wikipedia promoting the cartoon in such a manner. I will write more about this later as I would like to inform the authorities of the existence of this cartoon so it can be taken offline from Wikipedia.

This is what I said on the talk page for Jyllands-Posten Mohammed cartoons controversy


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Please either remove the cartoon or move it down. This cartoon is very offensive to Muslims and Islam worldwide and your polls are obviously biased. By publishing the cartoon you are putting more fuel over the fire already created by this cartoon.

By publishing the cartoon, Wikipedia is acknowledging that it is not offensive to publish this cartoon. There are many Muslims in the world and we need to be more considerate about this issue.

If ever highly controversial cartoons about other religions are published, will you publish them like this? I don't think so.

If the cartoon is not removed, I will be contacting the appropriate authorities to have this cartoon removed.



BY publishing this cartoon, Wikipedia is openly insulting Islam and letting a few people control how Wikipedia is run.

Muslims need to raise the awareness about how Wikipedia is letting some ill-intent users harm the feelings of Muslims. If the cartoon is not taken offline, people need to contact their attorneys to have it taken offline.

Following are some of the resources which you should contact to raise awareness about this issue:

Islamic Society of North America
aelhattab at isna.net

Embassy of Pakistan in Washington DC
info at pakistan-embassy.org

The Council on American Islamic Relations
cair at cair-net.org

CONTACT: Ibrahim Hooper, 202-488-8787 or 202-744-7726, E-Mail: ihooper@cair-net.org; Rabiah Ahmed, 202-488-8787 or 202-439-1441, E-Mail: rahmed@cair-net.org.

Please feel free to send me more contacts. Thanks for those who contributed the above contacts.

Frank


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1 Comments:

At 10:09 PM, Anonymous Adam said...

If you use the internet you're going to be offended.

 

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