Funny Cartoon sparks Islamic Jihad !
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This one is all over the news - Danish cartoons, originally published in September and hardly noticed at the time, have escalated to near crisis proportions. Newspapers now in France, Germany, Italy, Holland, and Norway have published the papers. Boycotts have been met by EU threats to bring the matter to the WTO. Arab nations threaten a UN resoulution. Danish citizens have been advised to leave Pelestinian terroritory and have been declared targets by terrorists groups. One cartoon showed Mohammed wearing a bomb-shaped turban, that's right folks, it's ok to portray Jews with hook noses, hoarding money, show Southern folk as 'redneck', showing off rude art like 'Piss Christ' a depiction of Jesus submerged in human urine and holy Mary covered with animal dungor even blaming world affairs on the Jewish conspiracy in the Arab op-Cartoons, but God forbid the same is done to them! Muslim protests and calls for boycotts continued to erupt around the world yesterday over cartoons regarded as an insult to Islam, few American newspapers followed the lead of European publications in showing the caricatures that were first published in a Danish newspaper in September. The protests spread to London with about 500 demonstrators chanting "Kill, kill Denmark!" and burning that country's flag as they passed the Danish embassy in a march from Regent's Park mosque.Anjem Choudhary, one of the leaders of the demonstration, refused to condemn the threat of another suicide attack in London on the scale of the July 7 bombings as a result of the perceived insult to Islam. "I am not in the business of condoning or condemning," he said. "The fact is that 7/7 was brought upon the people of London and Britain by the foreign policy of Tony Blair. There is no reason why there should not be more suicide bombings in London."
Passersby stopped police officers to ask why the marchers were being allowed to carry banners threatening further suicide attacks in the city.
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=183722006
http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_27263255.shtml
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=103669
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But it ain't the first time this happened, The best-known example in the West is the row caused by Salman Rushdie's novel, which culminated in the notorious death fatwa against its author by the late Iranian leader, Ayatollah Khomeyni. In Egypt, the Nobel Prize winner, Naguib Mahfouz, survived a knife attack in for allegedly insulting Islam in one of his novels. Hitoshi Igarashi was the Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie's novel but a fatwa was issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, calling for the death of japanese who spoke against Islam, and all those involved in the publication of Rushdie's book, Hitoshi is now dead. Another prominent writer, Farag Fouda, was gunned down in Cairo for alleged apostasy. The cartoons, first published by a Danish newspaper in September, appeared in the Dominion Post and the The Press based in Christchurch, both owned by Australia's Fairfax group. "It's important for our readers to see what the fuss is about and to make up their own minds. Ours is a secular society based on western ideals of tolerance and open debate, even if that may occasionally offend," said Tim Pankhurst, Dominion Post's editor."We do not wish to be deliberately provocative but neither should we allow ourselves to be intimidated," he added. Most American news outlets, caught in a dilemma between showing controversial cartoons of the prophet Muhammad so have declined to publish the drawings. In Washington, the U.S. State Department stepped into the fray backing Muslims against the NewZealand/European newspapers.Muslim protesters in London so faithfully lived up to their caricature "Freedom go to hell" read one of their placards. "Be
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Some random no name makes a controversial cartoon here, he's praised for his 'honesty' and what not. Sure, folks might protest, or boycott this or that, but generally nothing comes of it.
Now, take the lovely Muslim world. Terrorist saw the heads off of innocent men and women? No protest. Terrorist blow up a night club in Bali ? No protest. Terrorist blow up a wedding reception in Israel ? No protest. 200 school children are murdered, some raped before hand. No protest. Terrorsit hijack 4 planes on 9/11, well, they actually danced inthe streets for that one. ( get the picture ? this list could go on for a while.... ) But! Allah have mercy.... a few infidel Danes crank out a mildly amusing cartoon here and there, and the Muslims are on the war path?
Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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Perhaps they figure wedding receptions are fair game, simply because of the number of them your airforce seems to bomb ?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,748300,00.html
http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2004%20opinions/May/25
%20o/The%20Wedding%20Bombing%20at%20Maghar%20al%20Deeb%20By%20Mike%20Whitney.htm
http://www.doublestandards.org/oneill1.html
Mind you, when you don't control a media source such as aljazeerah.... well bombing them suddenly becomes an option ?
Don't think they give a shit
I'm with Signy and Rue
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Originally posted by GinoBiffaroni:
Perhaps they figure wedding receptions are fair game, simply because of the number of them your airforce seems to bomb ?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,748300,00.html
http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2004%20opinions/May/25
%20o/The%20Wedding%20Bombing%20at%20Maghar%20al%20Deeb%20By%20Mike%20Whitney.htm
http://www.doublestandards.org/oneill1.html
Mind you, when you don't control a media source such as aljazeerah.... well bombing them suddenly becomes an option ?
Don't think they give a shit
Well, one has absolutely nothing to do w/ the other, but I'm sure you sleep well at night siding w/ the terrorist. How, I don't even care to know. And one big difference, the US wasn't TARGETING a wedding party. That's the part you can't seem to wrap around your brick of a head.
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The Pentagon confirmed that a B-52 bomber did drop seven "precision guided weapons" on a cave complex, one of which missed the target.
It was dark, there was confusion, and during the heat of battle, the US crews thought they were being fired upon. Not much time for Q & A in that situation, sorry. There's no way for the pilots to know if a S.A.M. isn't about to be on its way to their plane.
Meanwhile, those whacky Pals over in Israel had strapped bombs onto their bodies with the specific intent to murder as many civilians as possible. The wife chickened out in this attack, I beleive, but the husband carried out his grim mission.
Bombing al jazeera seems like a viable option, as they are acting as the mouthpiece for the terrorist organizations. But if it's not been bomed yet, don't look for it to be. Not by the US, at least.
" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "
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Gino's comments are nonsense. As usual, he's just trying to perpetuating a bigoted opinion of Americans.
Based on some descriptions I can see how these images might offend many Muslims. I’ve not seen these images yet, so I can’t really critique them. Although it seems that the Islamic world has confirmed that they are more then just supposition. How twisted is a society that casts death threats, chants racist hatred, mass riots, and burns embassies to the ground simply because someone drew an offensive picture? The majority of so-called non-radical Muslims don’t seem to have much in the way of condemnation for their rioting radical brethren. This kind of thing illustrates the importance of changing the status quo in the Middle East. The Middle East is chalked full of people imbued with an intolerant philosophy who will go ballistic at the smallest offense and riot and kill at every corner. This is why Islamic terrorism is so common, and not simply an Islamic form of other terrorism. Islamic terrorism is a cultural institution nurtured by ever radicalizing cutlural segments and totalitarian states. When an editorial picture in a newspaper results in masses of Muslims burning embassies to the ground, the idea that a war is radicalizing Muslims seems to be clearly farfetched. The Danes didn’t drop any bombs on Iraq or Afghanistan. The Danes compose about 2% of the non-US troop compliment in Iraq.
But it also illustrates the importance of responsible news, which is often lacking in the Western world (the world in general, but the Western world should know better), where journalists knowingly make sensational comments and then hide behind freedom of expression. Journalists need to get on the ball and starting helping the governments who are trying to bring this war to a peaceful and gainful conclusion. And a little thing like not inciting riots would be of tremendous help.
Oh, he's so full of manure, that man! We could lay him in the dirt and grow another one just like him.
-- Ruby
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a few infidel Danes crank out a mildly amusing cartoon here and there
It's not the fact that it's a mildly amusing cartoon, it's the fact that it's a picture of the prophet Mohammed, which is a major no-no to their religion (on a level with defacing the Koran). Mohammed is not allowed to be pictured, due to rules about icons and worshipping graven images. This is a huge challenge to their beliefs, a slap in the face, at least as they see it. They were first insulted, then every newspaper in the West kept printing the cartoon, wondering what the fuss was about. Each printing added insult upon insult, in their eyes.
Personally, I'm finding it harder and harder every day to be relativistic vis-a-vis the Islamic universe. We're talking about Denmark, and now the Norwegian (and I think Swedish as well) embassies here, not exactly what you'd call the epitomes of foreign aggression. I think the Muslim world is long overdue for its secular liberals (or as secular and liberal as you can be in this area) to start taking control.
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a few infidel Danes crank out a mildly amusing cartoon here and there
Personally, I'm finding it harder and harder every day to be relativistic vis-a-vis the Islamic universe. We're talking about Denmark, and now the Norwegian (and I think Swedish as well) embassies here, not exactly what you'd call the epitomes of foreign aggression. I think the Muslim world is long overdue for its secular liberals (or as secular and liberal as you can be in this area) to start taking control.
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Here's how it goes in my mind, hitting Afghanistan was 100% correct, they stoned women to death, the Taliban and Mujahedeen banned foreign books, forbid music and they the assoles started hijacking US airplanes and destroyed the WTC killing many innocent American people including European sightseers, African tourists, Asian tourists, Muslims....
Then came Iraq, and the whole thing seemed something of a shady show. The bigger Bush, not the current shrub-Bush always had that fued going on with Saddam, inspectors wanted to make their report on WMDs that weren't there, plus George W. Bush and Donald new Iraq was sitting on a lot of Oil..
the Iraq war has been a bull story from day one.
However now that the Aussies, United States and British got stuck in Iraq, I felt it might be smarter for them to stay the course and re-build the country after the war, rather than leaving it in chaos.
but now I'm f-cking sick of all this sh*t
It is impossible to bring democracy to these places, No wonder there is so much crap in the world when a good chunk of the earth's population is offended by what is a satirical poke.
GINOBIFFARONI what you posted was the biggest heap of sh*t, very few times would I ever agree with FINN MAC CUMHAL - I think he's a right-wing NeoCon who constantly defends idiots like the baby-Bush handling of Katrina or rumsfeld.
These islamic nutbags are really pushing it this time, do we allow Taliban thugs to ban all Rap and Rock music all African-American dance because Muslims find it offensive, should we censor the Mona Lisa, Salvador Dalí pics, African art, Playboy magazine
do we burn Mark Twain books, Arthur C Clark novels, burn Margaret Mitchell's books because some Afghan radical doesn't like its content.
Maybe the hoardes of offended people could take a step back and realise 'gee, we really do look like a bunch of wankers when we get all antsy about a joke'. 'We are doing our darndest to improve our image in the media by OVERREACTING and burning multiple consulates in multiple coutries.'extremists in the Palestinian refugee camp called Ein-el-Hilwih tell crowd to kill Norwegians and Danish citizens, About two dozen Palestinian protesters stormed the German cultural center in Gaza City, smashing windows, breaking doors and burning the German flag, to protest cartoons deemed insulting to the Prophet Muhammad.
Down the street from the cultural center, about 30 Palestinians threw stones at the European Commission building, Danish embassy in Damascus ablaze Last year wacko Muslims in Britain blew up their fellow countrymen, crazy Muslims in France went on a torching festival... can only start guessing what they will do this year.
Now they have attacked the embassy of norway in damaskus, Norwegian Embassy in Syria is also reported to have been stormed by the mob and set on fire, recently Khomeini's fatwa against Rushdie was reaffirmed by Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a message to the crackpot Islamic pilgrims, there are violent protests now in Syria, Morocco, Indonesia...and all across the crackpot islamic landscape
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. . . very few times would I ever agree with FINN MAC CUMHAL - I think he's a right-wing NeoCon who constantly defends idiots like the baby-Bush handling of Katrina or rumsfeld..
Someone’s got to defend Bush and Rumsfeld. And it’s always an easy job.
Oh, he's so full of manure, that man! We could lay him in the dirt and grow another one just like him.
-- Ruby
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Couple of things worth noting here.
First, Islam is about 600 years "younger" than Christianity. For most of it's history the Christian faith wasn't especially cool about things seen as Blasphamy. In fact draw a "funny" cartoon depicting Christ or the Pope in Spain in the 1500's and those nice men from the Inquisition would take you away so you could explain it to them. In the past Christian sects have been eliminated by others Christian sects in what comes close to a holy war.
The fact that we spilled enough Christian blood to finally decide that it wasn't worth it, the fact that the principles of the enlightenment decided after this bloodbath to seperate Church and State was a hard won, expensive victory. I don't think we can expect Muslims to just take our experience and build tolerent civil societies, unfortunately they have to learn though their mistakes like we did.
As I see it we need.
1) An Islamic Martyn Luthor
2) An Islamic enlightenment.
unfortunately somewhere between those two is likely to be the bloodiest civil war in history.
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Originally posted by JaynezTown:
These islamic nutbags are really pushing it this time, do we allow Taliban thugs to ban all Rap and Rock music all African-American dance because Muslims find it offensive, should we censor the Mona Lisa, Salvador Dalí pics, African art, Playboy magazine
do we burn Mark Twain books, Arthur C Clark novels, burn Margaret Mitchell's books because some Afghan radical doesn't like its content.
Actually, I while ago there was something in the news that some Muslims in a more cosmopolitan suburb of London handed in a petition to make the Italian restaurant on their street stop serving wine, since it's offensive to their culture. Of course I'm not sure if that's not just a lot of bull, but I'm pretty sure I read it on BBC, in which case I'd have to say it probably actually happened. In any case, as some Muslims tend to overreact to a lot of things, it didn't surprise me at all.
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