Amir Taheri is an Iranian author of ten books on the Middle East and Islam. He is also a guest editorialist with Morocco Times. In a very interesting editorial he takes a shot at "the rage machine"...The “rage machine” was set in motion when the Muslim Brotherhood, which is a political and not a religious organisation, called on its sympathizers in the Middle East and Europe to take the field.
A” fatwa” was issued by Yussuf al-Qaradawi, a Bortherhood sheikh with a programme on the Al Jazeera television channel which is owned by the Emir of Qatar.
Not to be left behind some of the Brotherhood's rivals, including the Hizb al-Tahrir al-Islami (Islamic Liberation Party) and the Movement of the Exiles (Ghuraba) also joined the foray.
Believing that there might be something in it for themselves the Syrian Ba'athist leaders abandoned their party's 60-year old secular pretensions and organised the attacks on the Danish and Norwegian embassies and consulates in Damascus and Beirut.
The Muslim Brotherhood's position, put by one of its younger militants, Tareq Ramadan, who is, strangely enough, also an advisor to the British Home Secretary, can be summed up as follows:
• It is against Islamic principles to represent the imagery not only of Muhammad but all the prophets of Islam.
• The Muslim world is not used to laughing at religion.
Both claims, however, are false.
Go to source: Response to the cartoon controversy : What is right and what is wrong :: moroccoTimes.com
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