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...most controversial of which portrays Muhammad's headdress transformed into a bomb with a burning fuse. Their intention was to strike a blow for free speech, but by publishing the cartoons, Europe's media outlets were perceived by some Muslims to be willfully ignoring religious sensitivities, which fueled the anger even more. Yet the demands by Muslim leaders that European governments punish journalists who have run the cartoons--Middle Eastern Interior Ministers gathering in Tunis last week expressed no preference for how, although a prayer leader in Gaza urged beheading--strike Europeans and Americans as unreasonable infringements on the ideals...
...religion; in 1992, for instance, after Sinead O'Connor outraged Catholics by ripping up a photo of the Pope on Saturday Night Live, NBC reran the show without O'Connor's performance. To Muslims, disrespect for the Prophet is a rallying point beyond worldly politics. And so as anger plays out in Muslim hearts, the challenge for the West in the days ahead is to figure out how to contain...
...stopped? The controversy over Danish caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad has mushroomed into another major crisis in relations-one that appears to have developed a self-perpetuating momentum that will be hard to stop. It has escalated rapidly in the last few days, with imams around the world fanning anger in last Friday's mosque sermons, and mobs in Damascus and Beirut attacking embassies over the weekend. Muslim television and newspapers have provided blanket coverage, bloggers have stoked outrage on the Internet and more governments and Islamic groups have declared support boycotts...
...According to the study, “lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) students,” were more likely to be affected by sexual harassment than their heterosexual peers, with higher percentages of LGBT students reporting anger, embarrassment, fear, and other negative reactions than among heterosexual students...
...strike, and a lot of them don’t know how to channel that energy,” said Sarah Dell’Orto, who is a member of the pro-striker group Graduate-Undergraduate Solidarity. “A lot of times, [undergraduates] take that anger or frustration out on GSOC, instead of trying to be supportive,” Dell’Orto said...