THE BEAN IN ONE'S OWN EYE...
Yes, the caricature of
religious symbols and characters is in bad taste at the best and can often
- not
always - be interpreted as an attack on religious values of a faith.
Yes, all the co-religionists
of a faith disparaged in such a way can feel insulted psychically.
I wonder why, in general
public, Moslems show such a hurtable sensibility only
in the passive
role of being concerned, while they adopt very
often "western values", like free expression of opinion,
in their wild aggression against other religions.
The Magen
David (Star of David) is one of the religious symbols of Jewry and - as a
symbol also
on the Israeli flag - it is burnt, torn up, crushed
underfoot and mocked by radical Islamists, day by day
and hundred times.
In Moslem school-books,
particularly in Palestinian ones, you can find many rough anti-Semitic
icons and aggressive disparagements of Jewish religious
values and
years.
Nevertheless, the production
of such Moslem "teaching programmes" is
totally financed by EU-
aid programmes (in such a
way also by EU-taxes of European Jews!) and no presidency of the
European Council found a
simple word about it, never.
Are Jews also allowed to feel
insulted?
CHAVA
GURION