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Embassies torched as cartoon furore grows
Reuters ^ | Feb 4, 2006 | By Rasha Elass

Posted on 02/04/2006 12:23:06 PM PST by johnny7

DAMASCUS -- Furious Syrians set fire to the Danish and Norwegian embassies on Saturday as protests over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad showed no signs of abating despite calls for calm. Oil giant Iran, already embroiled in a dispute with the West over its nuclear programme, said it was reviewing trade ties with countries that have published such caricatures.

Chanting "God is Greatest", thousands of protesters stormed the Danish embassy, burnt the Danish flag and replaced it with a flag reading "No God but Allah, Mohammad is His Prophet". They set fires which badly damaged the building before being put out.

(Excerpt) Read more at today.reuters.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cartoons; denmark; embassy; globaljihad; norway; radicalmuslims; syria
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1 posted on 02/04/2006 12:23:07 PM PST by johnny7
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Nuts.


2 posted on 02/04/2006 12:23:39 PM PST by Rocko (Liberals -- they have a compassion you always hear about, but never witness.)
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To: johnny7
Can we have a cartoon of Mohammed's followers torching embassies?
3 posted on 02/04/2006 12:24:26 PM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: johnny7

What a bunch of frickin' IDIOTS!


4 posted on 02/04/2006 12:24:57 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: johnny7
make a cartoon of Muhammad throwing a Molotov cocktail.
5 posted on 02/04/2006 12:25:45 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: johnny7

We are NOT violent - if you say we are, we will BURN your embassies!


6 posted on 02/04/2006 12:26:33 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Echo Talon

Working on it pal... working on it.


7 posted on 02/04/2006 12:27:00 PM PST by johnny7 (“Iuventus stultorum magister”)
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To: Echo Talon

You don't have to be crazy to be Muslim ... but it sure helps.


8 posted on 02/04/2006 12:27:08 PM PST by BW2221
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To: johnny7

NTB."T" stands for "the", and "N" for "nuke".


9 posted on 02/04/2006 12:28:10 PM PST by GSlob
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To: johnny7
Furious Syrians set fire to the Danish and Norwegian embassies on Saturday as protests over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad

Exactly whose point are they trying to confirm?

10 posted on 02/04/2006 12:28:33 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: johnny7

It's funny how cartoons and books that don't jibe with their beliefs are more significant and offensive to these buffoonish savages than the very real violence that they themselves perpetuate. See a cartoon, burn an embassy, the scale of relativity is way off with these people. Funny in a curious, weird, odd way.


11 posted on 02/04/2006 12:29:02 PM PST by KellyAdmirer
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To: Rocko
Actually this just shows the world how lunatic Islam is. Already all over Europe people are getting fed up with Islam ....people who, traditionally, were the most tolerant of the tolerant. In essence, the Muslims are shooting themselves big time in the foot.

After all ....think about the sheer idiocy of the following dichotomy:

a) 'I am offended that you dare show muslims and Islam are malevolent and prone to terror activities.'

b) 'I will burn down buildings, and threaten kidnap and murder, because you drew a cartoon saying that I do all sorts of bad things.'

The muslims are their own worst enemies. They always have been since their faith was founded (where family member would kill family member, then join to kill another clan, then join clans to kill another tribal splinter, then join together to kill another tribe, then join together to kill another sect, etc) ....and they still are their own greatest enemy today.

After all, only a crazy group would make Europeans, who have always been a great support base, end up hating them. And that is exactly what the muslims are doing.

As you said ....nuts.

12 posted on 02/04/2006 12:30:14 PM PST by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: johnny7

You can vote one of two ways here.

1. Either all the Muslims have gone nuts over a cartoon

2. They were all crazy to begine with and this just set them off.

I vote number 2 and fervently hope this is a wake up call to any non-Islamic country that Islamics are more trouble that they are worth in your country and cant be trusted in their own.


13 posted on 02/04/2006 12:30:33 PM PST by sgtbono2002
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These loons need to be sent back to their medeastern countries of origin from all western societies.

There they could be dealt with using the fewest nukes.


14 posted on 02/04/2006 12:32:00 PM PST by Joe Bfstplk (I am going to be assertive...If that is OK with you.)
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To: spetznaz
We're going to find out,

Sooner or later,

If Abdul will pray,

To a smoking crater.


15 posted on 02/04/2006 12:32:11 PM PST by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: johnny7

Islam is incompatible with modern civilization. One or the other, eventually, must perish.


16 posted on 02/04/2006 12:33:03 PM PST by Right Wing Professor
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17 posted on 02/04/2006 12:33:23 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: johnny7


18 posted on 02/04/2006 12:33:55 PM PST by freedumb2003 (American troops cannot be defeated. American Politicians can.)
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To: Echo Talon

hypocrites...

19 posted on 02/04/2006 12:34:29 PM PST by quantim (If the Constitution were perfect it wouldn't have included the Senate.)
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To: johnny7
They're just like us. Really.

Except insane.

20 posted on 02/04/2006 12:35:50 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("It'sTime for Republicans to Start Toeing the Conservative Line, NOT the Other Way Around!")
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