Posted on 02/07/2006 4:30:01 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The United Nations evacuated staff and NATO peacekeepers rushed reinforcements to a northwest Afghan town after deadly fighting erupted during a protest against publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, officials said.
At least one person was killed and dozens injured in the latest Afghan violence, which came as angry protests spread across Asia and as Denmark urged its citizens to leave Indonesia, The Associated Press reported.
The cartoons first appeared in a Danish newspaper and have been reprinted in several other papers in Europe, Asia, the United States and the Middle East. Islam forbids depictions of Mohammed.
Tuesday's rioting in the remote town of Maymana was one of about a half-dozen flashpoints that erupted across Afghanistan.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
You know, I was thinking that Isikoff is really the source of all this. When the Muzzies figured out that they could get official sympathy from Europe and the Left over their weird, hypocritical and arbitrary interpretations of religious rules, the door really opened to this sort of thing.
February 7, 2006
The War Behind the Cartoon War
By Jack Kelly
The Cartoon War began innocently enough. Kare Bluitgen, a Danish writer of childrens' books, complained he couldn't find anyone to illustrate the book he was writing about the Prophet Mohammed. The Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten invited cartoonists to offer their own interpretations. A dozen accepted. Jyllands Posten published their work last Sept. 30th.
Extreme Muslim sects, such as the Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia, regard any depiction of Mohammed as blasphemy. (The Koran prohibits only "idolatry," and throughout the last millenium Muslim artists have painted likenesses of the Prophet.) Radical Muslims in Denmark issued death threats, and the cartoonists went into hiding. On Oct. 20th, ambassadors from 11 Muslim countries asked for a meeting with Danish Prime Minister Andres Rasmussen to complain about the caricatures. Mr. Rasmussen said he was sorry the cartoons had given offense, but refused to meet with the ambassadors because "as prime minister I have no tool whatsoever to take actions against the media, and I don't want that kind of tool."
There matters rested until last month, when four Muslim clerics from Denmark, led by Abu Laban, who has terrorist connections, toured the Middle East. They had with them the 12 original cartoons, plus three truly vile ones (one depicts Mohammed with a pig's snout; another shows him as a pedophile) apparently of their own concoction.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-2_7_06_JKE.html
Abu Laban
http://islamonline.net/English/News/2005-11/18/article02.shtml
"We have fled our countries because we were denied freedom of expression so no one should play this tune with us.
"This is not a case of freedom of expression," averred Abu Laban.
This is not a case of freedom of expression?
UN staffers are complete wusses.
I don't remember killing anyone when I saw the piece of SERIOUS artwork of the crucifix in a jar of urine.
U.N. staff flee Afghan cartoon riots
There is simply no way to view this headline that makes sense to anyone outside TROP.
I think my life goal is to produce a document/drawing/photoshop that results in soldiers around the world needing to put down mobs of people. Prior to this episode I'd have never dreamt such a thing were possible.
Lets just nuke mecca and get the inevitable over with.
"UN staffers are complete wusses."
but staunch defenders of everything muslim
LOL! The headline did that to me as well.
The NATO troops, most of them Norwegian, fired on hundreds of protesters outside the base in Maymana after the demonstrators shot at them and threw grenades, said provincial Gov. Mohammed Latif. The protesters also burned an armored vehicle, a U.N. car and guard posts, prompting NATO peacekeepers to rush British reinforcements to the city.
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/02/07/ap2505479.html
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