For quite some time Tripurari Swami's Vaishnava News Network has been stuck on the same page. Although the date remains changing, the articles and pictures do not. I was first stricken by the mundane quality of the articles therein. Many were outright anti-Muslim.
Tripurari has separated himself from ISKCON. ISKCON does not write anti-Mulim articles. We embrace people of all faith. But the Swami's group seems to deem them as terrorists. Naturally this will bring out the terroritst element inherent within the Muslim community who were outraged by the very cartoon so prominently displayed on that first page for the last few months!
Just imagine how angry these people became when they saw that picture of a cartoon Muhammad, denying the martyrs entrance into the Heavens because he has run out of virgins as it says in the cartoon. Yes it certainly must be transcendental if Tripurari printed it, along with all the other anti-Muslim articles surrounding it. It is just too bad he didn't run a disclaimer stating he is not affiliated with ISKCON but has started his own group, after being run out by the GBC.
So far there have been no leads in the investigation. It is easy to see why. If a group claims responibility then with all the taping going on during Janmastami there may be some footage of the perpetrator. But I wouldn't be surprised at all to find out that when a perpetrator is caught he will say he saw it on VNN and that is what made them so angry.
Muhammad didn't want his picture drawn what to speak made into an offensive cartoon. It was out of his own humility that he didn't want his followers to worship him, the last in the line of prophets for Muslims, but instead wanted them to turn their focus to God. This cartoon is outrageous because it makes Muhammad look like a fool, which he is not, and also criticises the Koran, by saying they have run out of virgins, and also Allah as well.
How would you like a cartoon of your guru saying that Krishna's lotus feet are too small to take shelter of, come back after another 3,000.000,000,000 years? It criticises Krishna, the Bhagavad Gita and the guru.
Anyway these articles have no place among pure Vaishnava literature. It is too bad that in one article they list Srila Bhaktisiddhanta's lost footage that has been found and in several places all around they have placed such spiteful articles all around it.
Since his website was such a well hit one if nothing else Tripurari has caused some bad feelings among the Muslims that wasn't there towards the devotees before. I fail to see the spirituality in such an act. How is this helping to spread Krishna Consciousness? Better he had stayed with Srila Prabhupada's books.