I agree with you Imran. I have also been involved in Journalism (although I'm not working as one now). Let me give you an example: When cartoons were published in Denmark, there were riots everywhere in the world. When Saddam was hanged there was bandh in Kerala. When US attacked Iraq there were some protests in some parts of India.
Why should Muslims react in India if the events happened elsewhere? If I was a Muslim I would go to Denmark or Iraq. If I was a powerful Muslim I would have gone to war with Denmark. In this way I would have kept the honour of defending Islam as well as projecting Islam as a powerful religion. But now it appears Muslims are peaceful wherever they are controlled properly and vice-versa. For example: take the case of Hyderabad where MIM people almost killed Taslima Nasreen. compare with Indonesia where an Islamic militant was given death sentence. So does it mean Indonesia is projecting Muslims as terrorists? (In fact it is the highest populated Muslim country, right?) But definitely the incidents in Hyderabad will only bring bad impression on Muslims because violence was used on an unarmed woman.
To put my opinions in short: As a Muslim do not practice violence but practice law and take those who insult Islam or Muslims to court (like Dr. Haneef). Then you will see that opinions will change.
