Moe Hamad
Posted on 02/04/2006 2:27:52 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Flags burned and protesters chanted from Europe to South Asia as outrage over satirical cartoons of the prophet Muhammad spread yesterday from the Pakistani parliament to the streets of Gaza to a meeting between Danish leaders and Muslim diplomats.
The cartoons reprinted this week in European newspapers lampoon Muhammad, with one showing him as a jihad warrior wearing a turban shaped like a bomb. The drawings, including one that quotes Muhammad as running out a virgins for his suicide bombers, have been condemned by imams as an attack on Islam.
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen met with ambassadors from Middle East countries in an effort to calm the furor that began in September when the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten first published the cartoons. The 12 drawings have since appeared in newspapers across the continent, becoming emblems in a battle between Western values of free speech and Islamic reverence for the prophet.
"Neither the Danish government nor the Danish nation as such can be held responsible for drawings published in a Danish newspaper," Rasmussen said after the meeting with envoys. "A Danish government can never apologize on behalf of a free and independent newspaper ... This is basically a dispute between some Muslims and a newspaper."
The Egyptian ambassador to Denmark, Mona Omar Attiah, indicated that Rasmussen should do more to diffuse passions. "I want the prime minister to speak with Jyllands-Posten about getting them to give a real apology," she said after the meeting.
Danish flags have been burned and protests, some of them violent, have been staged at European institutions in Indonesia, Gaza, Afghanistan and other countries. Protesters marched yesterday in Baghdad, Iraq, and Tehran, Iran. Boycotts of Danish products across the Middle East.
European officials are concerned that Muslim anger could lead to extremist attacks, strain nuclear talks with Iran and further trouble relations with the newly elected militant Hamas party in the Palestinian territories. Sermons by religious and radical leaders called for bloodshed against the West. At a demonstration organized by Hamas tens of thousands of protesters marched, chanting: "Those responsible should have their hands cut off."
BRUSSELS JOURNAL.com: "'THE WAR IS ON'" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Yesterday (Thursday) Mullah Krekar, the alleged leader of the Islamist group Ansar al-Islam who has been living in Norway as a refugee since 1991, said that the publication of the Muhammad cartoons was a declaration of war. "The war has begun," he told Norwegian journalists. Mr Krekar said Muslims in Norway are preparing to fight. "It does not matter if the governments of Norway and Denmark apologize, the war is on.") (February 3, 2006)
ISLAMONLINE.net: Cairo - "WARNINGS CARTOONS RISK VIOLENCE" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The blasphemous cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by a Danish daily and other European newspapers are risking to trigger acts of violence around the world, officials and commentators warn." (February 2, 2006)
What should happen to the 'artist' who displayed a cross in a glass of urine? Or how about that tasteful display a few years back in New York, wasn't it the Last Super with cow dung thrown all over it or something to that effect, or just the Mother Mary's portrait that was defiled?
Oh never mind, that was freedom of speech. But offend a Muslim... @X!!
"At a demonstration organized by Hamas tens of thousands of protesters marched, chanting: "Those responsible should have their hands cut off." - JUSTICE in the demented collective mindset of a psychopathic cult.
Quite beyond Old Testament requirement of "An eye for an eye."
Good people throughout the world, beware...beware.
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Good people throughout the world, beware...beware.
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What should happen to the 'artist' who displayed a cross in a glass of urine?
So called art at taxpayer expence...
Moe Hamad
The slims that are preaching this cretin garbage should have their tongues cut off.
We really need to put Midol and Pamprin in the Islamic World's drinking water.
Why is Mullah Krekar still breathing?
And the libs will defend these Muslims with their violent calls for revenge, yet act like Christians are at the gates with pitchforks!
Rectal/cranial inversion to the max.
I pulled this letter from www.instapundit.com
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On the "dreadful mistake bit". Of course we Europeans (I am Belgian) have only ourselves to blame but Americans have to understand how fearful we are becoming of this violent minority in our midst. Muslims are already a majority in the lowest age groups in several large European cities. The potential for civil war is clearly there and what is even more worrysome is the dedication of most our governments to appeasement.
For the US State dept to seize this opportunity to burnish its image with the "muslim community" was only to be expected however and I am pretty sure that this is exactly the kind of noise our governments would want to hear from the US at this stage. So no harm done to us in any case. It will gain you zero goodwill from the fanatics, but it will not harm us. I do hope however that nobody at State dept really thinks that the fanatics have to be appeased and that those caricatures should not have been published. *That* would be a mistake of the first magnitude.
Bernard Vanden Bloock
Overijse
Belgium
If they try this crap here in America like Europe, I for one will be at the counter protest and probably end up in jail for knocking heads.
OPINION: Mullah Krekar...seems to have as least as much teflon in him as BJ Clinton and Hillary put together.
Thanks for the snippet.
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