This 'toon would be against the law in the UK. Even on the UK internet? I suppose so
Posted on 02/08/2006 9:59:45 AM PST by dennisw
Muslims urge cartoons law change
Muslim scholars holding emergency talks called for a change in the law to stop insulting pictures of the Prophet Muhammad being published.
Officials from the Muslim Action Committee (MAC) meeting in Birmingham also called for the Press Complaints Commission code to be tightened to restrict British newspapers from following European media in printing the caricatures.
A protest march from Trafalgar Square to Hyde Park on February 18 involving around 50,000 Muslims would be staged, Shaikh Faiz Saddiqi, spokesman for the MAC, said.
Speaking at a press conference held at a mosque in Small Heath, Mr Saddiqi told reporters that discussions among hundreds of Muslim Scholars from around the UK resulted in agreement of a number of changes.
They included the modifying of the Race Relations Act to give Muslims the same rights as Jews and Sikhs along with the tightening of the Press Complaints Commission Code of Conduct.
He said the code should include rules stopping the publication of the Prophet of Muhammad.
"Insulting the Prophet of Islam is worse than insulting your wife, children or sister. It happens once, it happens twice but a third time you are going to take action. Enough is enough, we have to get back to being a civil society."
He said there had not been such an insult to Islam since Salman Rushdie published his book, the Satanic Verses.
"There has been reports of very deep offence because of the cartoons, and also deep anger and frustration that once again we have not learned the lesson from the last time the Prophet Muhammad was insulted.
"It is as if the media around the world just don't get it, the publication of an image of the Prophet Muhammad in itself is a deep insult."
Perhaps they will pass a law in the UK that makes it illegal to offend COnservative Republicans in the USA. I am always offended.
This 'toon would be against the law in the UK. Even on the UK internet? I suppose so
I hope the British have the sense to keep the freedoms they have now.
If they give in to this, there is no telling what the next demands shall be.
One small step at a time until fearful Europe is completely Islamicized and Sharia Law is the law of the land.
..yeah while your at it, check with the homeland IMAMS to find out why mosques are used for munitions storage areas and escape routes...guess ya overlooked that sort of carrying ons while tripping over your pulpit
Islamics are only 4% of the UK population but they want the English to kiss their butts, to live as dhimmis. Never have I seen such arrogance particularly from people who just got off the immigration boat. They have lived in the UK for at the most 30 years and are demanding from Englishmen who have lived there for centuries.
AMAZING!
They aren't stupid. They understand that they need to crush free speech in order to exert control over Western civilization.
The west's continud policiy of appeasment to these visiously brutal, oppressive people is playing into their hands.
Muslim populations are increasing. They are fighting our systems of rights and laws.
Their goal is to destroy our culture and replace it with their own.
They must be stopped.
Then be civil! Even when someone insults something you believe in.
"Insulting the Prophet of Islam is worse than insulting your wife, children or sister. It happens once, it happens twice but a third time you are going to take action. Enough is enough, we have to get back to being a civil society."
LAUGH OF THE DAY!! The misogynist Islamist barbarian complaining to the Brits (after rioting in the streets) about CIVIL SOCIETY and the veiled threat of more violence if their demands are not met. Good grief...WAKE UP EUROPE!!
Britain doesn't have a very good record lately of holding on to their freedoms. Just look at their gun laws.
It isn't insulting, my good man, it's criticism. Christians and Jews do not believe their prophets were without flaw (Abraham, Jonah, Noah.) They certainly don't believe a false prophet is above criticism. And atheist/agnostics believe they're ALL false prophets.
And we might have some more consideration for your sensibilities if you had any for ours.
Mrs VS
Islamic civilization: The oxymoron to end all oxymorons.
......and to equally give the same protection to the rest of the world and their beliefs.
(What? They didn't add the other beliefs to this discussion, too? Why not?)
Aren't these the same people who if you show them the bottom of your shoe are deeply insulted? They are tiresome.
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