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• W343311259 abstract "Why should I give them my mind as well? --The Dalai Lama (1935-), when asked if he was angry at the Chinese for taking over his country. FEW THINGS so challenge the successful application of general semantics principles as a fundamental dichotomy of ideas. The global polarization brought about the publication of 12 cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten had none of the earmarks of such a rift, at least not at first. Yet, as I write this, fires smolder in the Danish embassies in Beirut and Damascus and Muslim protestors burn flags in capitols around the world. By the time you read this, some resolution may have emerged, or things may look even worse. But what can we say about this amazing explosion of fury and righteousness, this shouting match of claims and counter-claims, from a GS point of view? We contend that humans make meaning, rather than discovering it embedded in the words or actions of others. Humans assign meaning to events based on their training, beliefs, and choices about what they consider important or significant. From this perspective, we see that the Danish newspaper can intend one meaning by publishing the cartoons while Muslim readers can assign a very different meaning when viewing them. While this may seem obvious, especially to those acquainted with GS, not everyone agrees with this basic concept. To some, one particular meaning has such potency and substance that they cannot imagine how anyone could not see it or not feel it when they consider these cartoons. Strong beliefs like these can obscure the possibility of other valid viewpoints. But say we accept this, that different parties to this conflict extract different meaning from the publication of these drawings. Can we reconcile these meanings? The newspaper asserts that the cartoons grew out of the simple search by a Danish author for someone to illustrate a manuscript about the life of Mohammed. When no illustrator would brave the possibility of Islamic censure for creating such drawings, the paper issued a public challenge and published the results. Whatever they believed about their initial intention, it soon became an issue of free speech to them, free speech and freedom of the press. Eventually it became an issue of culture-clash. Some said that the decision to print or reprint the cartoons showed insensitivity, but defended the necessity of a free press. As Morag Mylne, Convener of the Kirk's Church and Society Council in Scotland noted, There will be times when the better judgment is not to publish something when it is known that it will cause offence. But that judgment should never compromise the fundamental value of free speech. (1) The Muslim reaction initially remained within Danish borders. In the view of most Muslims, secular law and religious thought come from the same source. As a result, they took their complaints to the Danish government. In the view of most Westerners, the press operates independent of government control. The Danish prime minister pointed out that he had no role or responsibility for the paper's actions and recommended that the Muslim clerics sue, a very Western remedy. Only after a Norwegian paper reprinted the cartoons and the Danish imams took evidence of the blasphemy to the Middle East to gather support did the rancorous debate reach the international headlines. Demonstrators in Iraq carried signs that said Butcher those who mock Islam while the French daily France Soir defiantly reprinted the cartoons, under the front-page declaration, Yes we have the right to caricature God. After that, Muslims from all across the world joined the protests. Some even petitioned the UN to pass a resolution condemning offenses against prophets, beliefs, and religion as crimes and calling for those who commit them to be punished. Mere days passed before the embassies began to burn. Some commentators have suggested sub-plots to this story, most notably that the intensity of the emotions expressed stems less from stated ideals than from tensions surrounding the immigration of Muslims into European countries. …" @default.
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