Jihad and the people of the world

Dear fellow humans on planet Earth: I am a Christian who wish to protest the attack on the honorable Elijah Mohammed as he is the supreme leader of the Muslim religion, just as Jesus Christ is the supreme leader of Christianity. Given the world has conceded to stop attacking Jesus Christ, why can’t we do the same for Mohammed? The line of “doing unto others as you would have them do unto you” was crossed, which is why there is so much turmoil in the world over cartoon pictures. Genuine respect is a “reciprocal phenomenon” that we should all keep in mind to avoid the travesties we have just witnessed at the magazine and now throughout the world wherever there are Muslims.

The cartoon attack on Mohammed was an attack on the entire Muslim community and that was wrong and even the stereotyping of an entire group of people and their religion in a negative connotation. I don’t condone the attacks and violent behavior but I do support the protest. Just imagine if the magazine was making fun of Jesus Christ. We might see very similar violent and terroristic reactions by extremists, even in America.

Making fun of the pope and people considered mortal in today’s world is OK and accepted throughout the world but attacking the foundations and founders of the world’s religions is not the way of the world, which is something the late and great Michael Jackson might say. I am humbly and respectfully asking all news media outlets to ban any attacks on Mohammed and Jesus in the future to end this silly cartoon fiasco that has caused so many deaths as more people have died in the name of religion than any plague or wars combined. The media outlets should be making fun of the terrorists and their jihad messages to better serve the world’s anti-terrorism cause. The media should be educating everyone on why we must all join in to fight terrorism—not make fun of a religion. Make cartoons about some of the dead and living terrorists disappointing Mohammed but not Mohammed as he was not a jihadist or terrorist. We are one people on one world who should all work for one common cause—religious freedom—not a jihadist that wants to force everyone on planet Earth to be a Muslim or die. It is absolutely ridiculous!

Ambrose M. Bennett
Kagman, Saipan