Editor:
Worldwide Muslim outrage over the caricature in a Danish newspaper of Muhammed
with a bomb in his turban has manifested itself in violent protests, the
burning of Danish embassies in Lebanon and Syria, and calls for vengeance and
even death to the perpetrators and their supporters. Muslims keep insisting
that theirs is a peaceful religion but when provoked they call for retribution
against all who have blasphemed their prophet.
Compare this to Christians who likewise have been offended by the depiction of
Jesus in a bottle of urine, or his depiction in "The Last Temptation of
Christ" or in "The Book of Daniel" or in "The DaVinci Codes". They were as
outraged as the Muslims are today but they did not call for violence or
vengeance or retribution against the perpetrators.
The word of God says that vengeance belongs to God and that we are to resist
the impulse to retaliate but rather we are to do good to those who do evil to
us and thus show our life of transformation before a watching world.
Stephen Yulish