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Viewing cable 06DHAKA887, Media Reaction: Prophet's Cartoon;Dhaka

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06DHAKA887 2006-02-20 08:38 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Dhaka
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 DHAKA 000887 
 
SIPDIS 
 
FOR I/FW, B/G, IIP/G/NEA-SA, B/VOA/N (BANGLA SERVICE) STATE 
FOR SA/PAB, SA/PPD (LSCENSNY, SSTRYKER), SA/RA, INR/R/MR, 
AND PASS TO USAID FOR ANE/ASIA/SA/B (WJOHNSON) 
 
CINCPAC FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY ADVISOR, J51 (MAJ TURNER), J45 
(MAJ NICHOLLS) 
 
USARPAC FOR APOP-IM (MAJ HEDRICK) 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KMDR OIIP OPRC KPAO PREL ETRD PTER ASEC BG OCII
SUBJECT: Media Reaction: Prophet's Cartoon;Dhaka 
 
Summary: "The Daily Star" op-eds say that the firestorm 
that has erupted around the publication of the by now 
notorious twelve cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad is in its 
own way a perfect encapsulation of what Tariq Ali has 
presciently called "the clash of fundamentalisms" and 
demonstrates with frightening clarity the extent to which 
the space for non-fundamentalist Muslims to be seen and 
heard has been severely constricted by the parameters of 
the current discourse of the "war on terror." 
----------------- 
Prophet's Cartoon 
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"Caught In The Crossfire Of The Clash Of Fundamentalisms" 
 
Independent English language "The Daily Star" op-ed article 
comments (02/17/06): 
 
The firestorm that has erupted around the publication of 
the by now notorious twelve cartoons of the Prophet 
Muhammad is in its own way a perfect encapsulation of what 
Tariq Ali has presciently called "the clash of 
fundamentalisms" and demonstrates with frightening clarity 
the extent to which the space for non-fundamentalist 
Muslims to be seen and heard has been severely constricted 
by the parameters of the current discourse of the "war on 
terror." 
 
On one side of the clash, we have the elements in the West 
that are hostile to Islam as a religion and culture, and 
believe that the world is currently enmeshed in a Samuel 
Huntington-style "clash of civilizations" between the 
Western world and the Islamic world, in which there can be 
no compromise and no conciliation, and from which only one 
side can emerge victorious. 
 
On the other side, we have the Muslim fundamentalists who 
are eager to portray the entire Western world as the 
enemies of Islam and those Muslims who do not sign up for 
the fundamentalist program as insufficiently pious 
defenders of the faith. 
 
In this context, the furor surrounding the cartoons can be 
seen as merely the newest front in the clash of 
fundamentalisms that threatens to one day damage beyond 
repair relations between Islam and the west. 
 
The war within the West is between those who wish to engage 
with the Islamic world on the one hand, and those who 
believe that Islam is a religion and culture that 
represents an assault on Western civilization that must be 
confronted both ideologically and militarily on the other. 
Commentators and politicians in the west have seized on the 
riots that have taken place to protest the cartoons to make 
their point that Islam is incompatible with western 
conceptions of democracy and tolerance. The fact that there 
has been a strong political component to the protests that 
have been orchestrated and the relatively small number of 
those who have protested violently is conveniently brushed 
aside. 
 
In the Muslim world, the cartoon issue has been manipulated 
by those who either want to burnish their own religious 
credentials to protect their right flank from the 
fundamentalists (see, e.g., Egypt, government of) or those 
who wish to whip up a furor against governments and 
policies that they deem to be too pro-western and thus move 
the political spectrum rightwards. 
 
In Bangladesh we have not seen violent protests and that is 
to our credit. There has been almost universal condemnation 
of the cartoons, but whatever protests have been registered 
have been peaceful enough. Last Friday, the Danish embassy 
was well protected by sensible law enforcement precautions, 
and as best as I can tell, Danes in Bangladesh are 
perfectly free to go about their business without fear. 
The clash of fundamentalisms is a long-term problem for 
non-fundamentalists in Bangladesh, and it seems likely that 
the immediate future will be marked by further escalations 
by fundamentalists on either side, and this will have the 
effect of backing non-fundamentalists even further into a 
corner. 
 
New images of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib have just 
surfaced as well as images of abuse of civilians by British 
troops in Iraq. In the war for the hearts and minds of the 
Muslim world, none of this helps much. 
------------ 
 
"Cartoons animated outrage? 
Independent English language "The Daily Star" op-ed article 
comments (02/17/06): 
 
If I am allowed to draw upon my scant knowledge of 
economics, I would say the recent controversy over the 12 
cartoons, which appeared in the Danish daily Jyllands- 
Posten in September 2005, is a matter of elasticity. We the 
Muslims are highly reflex elastic, which means we are long 
on sensitivity to give reactions, while they the Danes are 
resolve inelastic because they are short on sensibility to 
take decisions. If the apology they are giving now were 
given then, the fury which has been sparking violent 
protests across the Muslim countries could have been easily 
avoided. 
 
This is where the high-minded intellectual from a highly 
evolved society proved utterly naive or downright stupid. 
If it's the Danish tradition to satire everyone, it's the 
Muslim tradition not to draw the likeness or graven images 
of their prophet, let alone do his caricature. Why then 
should the Danes show disrespect to the Prophet of Islam? 
The red herring of the whole controversy has been the 
freedom of expression, which the Danish paper claims gave 
it the right to do what it did. But does it mean one is 
free to express anything? Are people allowed to streak on 
the streets of Copenhagen? Is it common in the public 
domain of Denmark to curse each other's mothers? No 
offense, I am just curious to know how far the freedom of 
expression can be stretched so that the holiest man of a 
religion can be gratuitously ridiculed in defiance of the 
sentiments of his followers. 
 
One must be honourable in one's exercise of freedom, and it 
demands that we don't say that a fat lady is fat, an ugly 
man is ugly, or a handicapped person is handicapped. 
Freedom is like breathing in the fresh air without denying 
others the right to do the same. Freedom is about tolerance 
and respect. When it comes to newspapers, the freedom of 
expression ought to meet the standards of accuracy, 
clarity, fairness, and taste. 
 
This is where the Danes have stumbled. Journalism is as 
much about courage as it is about good taste. The cartoons 
have been done in bad taste and I hope someday the Danish 
people will appreciate that freedom of expression doesn't 
mean to rub it in the nose of someone so that he feels 
offended. It's for the same reason why we don't use the "F" 
word in public or talk obscenities before children or 
elders. In the US, the word "nigger" is not used because it 
would hurt the sensibilities of African-Americans. 
 
Even in advanced societies, unbridled mouth brings outrage. 
In the past week, The Washington Post has been bitterly 
criticized for publishing an op-ed piece by a leader of the 
terrorist group Hamas. The Post has also taken flack for a 
Tom Toles cartoon, which appeared on January 29, 
criticizing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The cartoon 
showed a quadruple amputee in a hospital bed, which brought 
a flood of protests, including a letter signed by the Joint 
Chiefs of Staff, accusing the paper of mocking military 
amputees. Some of the speakers, including a former US 
President, are being excoriated for their inept comments 
made at the funeral of Coretta Scott King, the widow of Dr. 
Martin Luther King. 
 
Flemming Rose has recently said that his paper would 
publish a full page of cartoons satirizing Jesus and the 
Israel-Palestinian conflict to prove that it's not one- 
sided. Once again Flemming is showing his incorrigible 
capacity to miss the point. Two wrongs don't make a right. 
Besides, if he rips another man's clothes, it's an insult. 
If he rips his own clothes, it is madness, but not the same 
thing. 
 
The Danish newspaper and other western newspapers, which 
reprinted the cartoons to show solidarity to it, must 
realize that their madness makes its difficult for the 
moderate Muslims who are trying to have a sobering effect 
on their extremist co-religionists. Coming back to 
economics, it's Gresham's Law equivalent of sense and 
sensibility. Bad sense is increasingly driving good sense 
out of our minds. 
 
Chammas