Posted on 02/04/2006 10:32:25 AM PST by ncountylee
JEDDAH,Arab News: An influential imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah proclaimed a new spirit of defiance among Muslims after worldwide protests over cartoons denigrating the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in European newspapers.
“A great new spirit is flowing through the body of the Islamic Ummah... The world can no longer ignore this Ummah and its feelings,” Saleh Bin-Humaid said while delivering his Friday sermon.
“The nation has worked hard in support of its Prophet Muhammad in recent days. It is the right of every Muslim to show joy at this defense of our beloved Prophet,” he told hundreds of thousands of faithful who packed the Grand Mosque.
Bin-Humaid commended the leading role played by Saudi Arabia in campaigns protesting the provocative cartoons. The Kingdom withdrew its ambassador to Denmark, saying the government had not done enough to assuage anger over the cartoons published last September in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper.
Egyptian cleric Youssef Al-Qaradawi, told worshippers in Qatar: “The whole nation must be angry and rise up to show their anger... Anger is a must, we are not a nation of donkeys. We are a nation of lions.”
Washington yesterday condemned the caricatures. “These cartoons are indeed offensive to the belief of Muslims,” State Department spokesman Kurtis Cooper said in answer to a question. “We all fully recognize and respect freedom of the press and expression but it must be coupled with press responsibility. Inciting religious or ethnic hatreds in this manner is not acceptable.”
(Excerpt) Read more at muslimnews.co.uk ...
And thanks Washington for the French like surrender.
A quadruple embassy fire bombing.
Firefighters try to extinguish a fire at the Danish embassy in Damascus February 4, 2006. Hundreds of Syrian demonstrators set the Danish embassy on fire on Saturday to protest the printing by a Danish newspaper of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, a Reuters witness said. REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri
It used to be, that we had to watch for commies in our government. Now we have to look for sheethead terrorist sympathizers..
"...we are not a nation of donkeys. We are a nation of lions."
Wrong, Mo-ham-head. You're a fascist cult of pigpoop.
Oh, cut the crap! "Defiance," in the form of barbarity unknown in the civilized world, has been the moving spirit of Islam since its inception. There's nothing new about ragheads milling around in the street, shouting tired old slogans, and burning whatever comes to hand.
I thought it was a long - standing American tradition to be rude, crude, and sociably unacceptable. I feel like we just bowed to King George instead of telling him to piss off!
Thank you so much for posting those pictures, Chad.
Conflict of civilizations.
I'm gonna sound a bit intolerant, but, WHAT A BUNCH OF IDIOTS!!
They are offended by a cartoon, instead of being outraged at the sorry state of their cities, rotting cultures, corrupt governments, inequality, unemployment, and lack of personal hygiene.
ohhh...dang...this guy reminds me on Howard Dean...
If they want to see real mind numbed robots just watch the news...They are the protesters called Muslim Extremists.
Ha! Whatta gaggle of tards!
..land another thing - where on earth do they get all these Danish flags?
We're going to find out,
Sooner or later,
If Abdul will pray,
To a smoking crater.
heck those top images look like the Third Reich to me....
prayer of the Norwegan Lutheran Litany
"allah forgivatorum cartoonisumus giggle est mohamedorium pratus delictus in bombpissiorum turbanus, amen"
Then ask them if they still believe "we brought this on ourselves"?
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