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Michelle Oon ♥
"It's Belief that gets us there. Keep dreaming till the dream comes true"

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The name is Michelle Oon, also known as Michy Oon. Believe that everything is possible and each and everything that you and I do has hope in it. Never lose hope, because it is what that keeps you moving on and striving for success.

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Saturday, November 6, 2010


The cartoons which are not so humorous after all


The internet article summarizes the controversies between the Danes and the Muslims because of The Cartoons that Shook the World that occur four years ago. Danish newspaper published 12 caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that raise anger, rage and ferocity amongst Muslims around the world. Due to these illustrations, around 450 people were killed and some 800 were injured. This issue had affected the Danes as they are advised not to travel to Muslim’s country, and the exports of Danish goods were halt. The author of The Cartoons that Shook the World, Professor Jytte Klausen, indicates that Muslim’s may have misunderstood the meaning of the caricatures as some didn’t depict the Prophet at all(The Book Show 2010).

The cartoons that was published.
(Source:Brenda Patricia Noland Mora)


The main issue would then be audience perception due to different cultural backgrounds, hence different ideologies. Van Dijk (n.d.) notes that ‘ideologically based social representations of (and about) groups’ is part of the factor that creates racism. As stated in the article, certain group felt personally offended although the cartoonist drew the cartoon as an attack on the Danish newspaper, not on the Prophet Muhammad.

Also, Cass (2006) as cited by Mora (n.d.), mentioned that ‘“it is forbidden to depict any of the Prophets” in order to avoid iconic veneration, according to the Sunni Muslim tradition’. Many thought that the cartoons were unethical to even depict the Prophets, let alone the Western’s negative portrayal of the Prophet.
This then leads to the issues of regulations and ethical publishing. While Binderup (2007, p. 405) argues that “from a liberal egalitarian perspective”, ‘freedom of speech’ should prevail despite being culturally offensive, Wallace (1955, p.2) notes that “there are ethical standards which should control any situation in which speaker and writer endeavor to inform and to influence others”. In this case, the Danish newspaper failed to consider the possible reaction from the Muslim community in Denmark which cause them to take the issue to a higher level, in Middle East.

In my opinion, while controversy may lead to high level of publicity, there is a limit and publishers and writers should respect other races and carefully consider the subsequent consequences. Yes, one might think that the issue is not that serious, but because of different ideologies amongst culture, it may lead to rage and anger among many, due to what they perceived. What you and I perceive the cartoon as may be different from others’.

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References

Binderup, L. 2007, Global freedom of speech. TRAMES: A Journal of the Humanities & Social Sciences, 11, 403-418.

Cass, P. 2006, A dozen Danish cartoons and the wrath of the Muslim world, Pacific Journalism Review, 12, 148-154.

Mora, BPN n.d. The Ethics behind the Publication of the Muhammad Cartoons According to Wallace’s Political Perspective, Drury University, viewed 6th November 2010, http://www.brendapnoland.com/Files/Ethical%20Critique.pdf

The Book Show 2010, The Cartoons that Shook the World, The Book Show, viewed 6th November 2010, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2010/2804643.htm

Van Dijk, T.A. n.d., Ideologies, Racism, Discourse: Debates on Immigration and Ethnic Issues, viewed 6th November 2010, http://www.discourses.org/OldArticles/Ideologies,%20racism,%20discourse.pdf

Wallace, K. 1955, An ethical basis of communication, Quarterly Journal of Speech, 4, 1-9.

♥Michy Oon
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