Posted on 02/05/2006 10:04:37 AM PST by wagglebee
Fox News Channel "Special Report" anchorman Brit Hume said Sunday that violent demonstrations by radical Muslims protesting five-month-old cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Mohammed betray a "howling double standard."
"This is really a disgrace," Hume told the panel on "Fox News Sunday." "And it is a disgrace because of the obvious, howling double standard involved here."
"What is striking about this is what offends these Muslims who are protesting and these imams," Hume complained. "Does the slaughter of innocent people in many parts of the world in the name of Allah offend them? Is that a sacrilege worthy of protest?
"No, not in the least," he said.
Hume noted that there has also been no outrage on the Arab street over "the kinds of slurs against Christians and against the Jewish faith that are regularly spread abroad in the Arab world by the mass media and by many of these imams themselves."
Prior to Hume's comments, "Fox News Sunday" aired a shot of the cartoon deemed most offensive by the protesters - a drawing of Mohammed wearing a turban shaped like a bomb.
CNN, on the other hand, has only broadcast images of the cartoons with Mohammed's face digitally distorted beyond recognition.
He's right. Slaughtering children getting candies from our troops in Iraq, for example, is a far cry worse than a few cartoons. The Muslims have a distorted sense of right and wrong.
Do you have any idea why this has suddenly become an issue. Were the cartoons recently re-printed?
The same guys who supported the "artist's" rendering of a crucifix in a glass of urine find it outrageous that European newspapers would print cartoons of Muhammad.
Just in case you haven't already heard my view of this stench:
We have pried open the soft underbelly of the beast!
Don't stop now!
DRAW MORE CARTOONS!!!
Then the world will begin to see this trash for the Nazis that they are.
DRAW MORE CARTOONS!!!
ALL ARTISTS TO THEIR PALLETTES!
MORE CARTOONS HERE: http://retecool.com/comments.php?id=13539_0_1_0_C
Danish bloggers are having a field day...
While looking at the mob of angry islamo-facists with behead those that insult Islam signs...
I picture Munchkins from the Wizard of Oz singing, "We represent the lollipop league, the lollipop league, the lollipop league. And in the name of the lollipop league... we wish to welcome you to Munchkin Land."
Try it... it works well.
Just overlay the Jihadists with Munchkins and do the song.
See how it works for you.
Somebody needs to do a cartoon with Mohammed bent over, with his burka hiked up exposing his bare butt, pointing to his butt saying, “I got you're 72 virgins right here.”
And then we need to have T-shirts made with this cartoon.
It would appear that they have no sense of right and wrong..
He was great this morning. Outstanding! Too bad our State Department is so cowardly. Brit's statements were well thought out and said quite diplomatically. It would behoove all Western governments to stand up for themselves is such a calm matter of fact way.
Plus I have seen pictures of their prophet in old Quran's on the Internet dating from the middle ages ... so what's their complaint???
Piss Christ was titled an offensive name, as well as placed in a profane discharge, and I'll ask that the mods let this post stand. The US taxpayer had to finance that intolerant insult.
The media is decidely antiChristian. Then again, we knew that there would be days like this. Beats being thrown to the lions.
Some in the West who are in a position to know are beginning to say this whole thing looks orchrestrated. Kind of strange the large number of Danish flags found on hand for burning in front of the TV cameras.
Something isn't adding up.
I think he's pretty good. And at least he and by connection Fox News had the guts to show the cartoon.
I think we should really abandon the "radical muslim" trope. Call 'em Muslims. If some Mulsims don't like that, then maybe they ought to start doing something to curb the actions of the violent ones. Until I see that happening, I cannot differentiate between "garden-variety muslim" and the "bomb-throwing terrorist radical muslim". They all seem the same to me. Deal with it.
Brit Hume for President! :)
CNN, on the other hand, has only broadcast images of the cartoons with Mohammed's face digitally distorted beyond recognition.
CNN wouldn't want to make the Islamist nutcases angry, now would they?
I wonder how long it will take for Brit's life to be threatened as well as all Fox News employees, and heck, all Americans. Oh wait, that last part is already in effect; that won't be "news".
I can't wait to see how the Comics Journal covers this international story.
I also wonder if all of the activist cartoonists who respond to scandal, tragedy, lawsuits, etc. by drawing more comics targeting those subjects are going to rise to this occassion.
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