The Blessed Model of the Holy Prophet Muhammad and the Caricatures — Page 6
sa ± _________________________________________________________________ between the Islamic world and the Western secular democracy, although it has nothing to do with society. As I said earlier, their majority has lost all sense of morals; immorality is espoused in the name of freedom, and modesty has all but vanished. Comments made by certain fair-minded observers Anyhow, even on this occasion, there are some decent and fair-minded writers among them who have stated that it is wrong to call this reaction a clash between Islam and Western secular democracy. Robert Fisk, a columnist from England, has written adopting a very fair approach. Someone from Denmark had written that this is a clash between Islamic society and Western secular democracy, on this he [R. Fisk] wrote that this is totally incorrect; this is not a clash of civilisations or secularism. He writes that this is not even a freedom of speech issue. It is just that for the Muslims, the Prophet received Divine words directly from God, in that he sa was God's spokesperson on the earth. Whereas they (Christians) consider (this is a Christian writing) that Prophets and Saints have been lost in the haze of history due to their teachings not being in concordance with the modern-day concept of human rights and freedom. Muslims consider religion a part of their everyday life and despite the passing centuries, and their ensuing alterations, they still maintain this thought. Whereas we have practically separated religion from everyday life. For this reason, we do not talk about Christianity versus Islam. Instead, we talk about Western 6