Posted on 02/08/2006 5:25:10 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Danish Islamic scholar who brought cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad to the attention of Muslim leaders around the world says he was only trying to boost his campaign to get an apology from the Danish newspaper that first published them.
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Danish Islamic scholar Ahmed Akkari, right, and Carsten Juste, editor in chief of the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten, which published cartoons depicting the Prophet, before a debate on Danish television, Sunday, Feb. 5. (AP Photo/POLFOTO, Carsten Snejbjerg)
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"I guess we took the illustrations to influential people so they could help," Ahmed Akkari told CBC News on Wednesday. "Is it so tough giving an apology?"
The 31-year-old took the illustrations with him during a December trip to the Middle East. The cartoons – one showing the Prophet wearing a bomb-shaped turban – were originally published in Jyllands-Posten in September and later republished in various European newspapers.
Muslim tradition forbids any depiction of Muhammad, even if it's complimentary, out of concern it could lead to idolatry.
The cartoons have sparked violent protests in several Muslim countries, including Afghanistan, where at least eight protesters have died.
In an interview with the Globe and Mail, Akkari said he did not mean for his mission to lead to such violence. He said while he is still angered that the media would print images offensive to Islam, he would like to find a way to end the current crisis.
During his visits with Muslim leaders, Akkari also showed images that had not been published in any newspaper, but were part of hate mail sent to his colleagues.
Those drawings show the Prophet as "a pig, a dog, a woman and a child-sodomizing madman," says the Globe.
He said the images were not meant to be mistaken for cartoons published in newspapers, but protesters have cited the drawings during their rallies.
When asked by CBC News why he included these images when they had nothing to do with the published newspaper cartoons, Akkari defended his actions.
"It was taken out of context and somebody is trying ... to give us the guilt for what is happening."
Idiot.
Is it so tough accepting that no apology is forthcoming you evil maggot? How many people have you murdered trying to force an apology? There is a very hot corner of hell for the likes of you.
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From a Blog in Egypt:
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Cartoons were Published Five Months ago in Egypt
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INDEPTH: ISLAM
Muhammad cartoons: a timeline
CBC News Online | Feb. 8, 2006
The reaction to a dozen cartoons depicting the Muslim Prophet Muhammad has grown since a Danish newspaper published them in the fall of 2005. Apologies, defiance, reprints of the cartoons and demonstrations have escalated the response, to the point that people have died in rallies against the cartoons. These aren't the first violent reactions in the Muslim world to depictions of Muhammad.
In 2002, a Nigerian newspaper suggested that Muhammad might have chosen his bride from among the Miss World contestants. The resulting riots killed 200 people. In 1989, Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sentenced British author Salman Rushdie to death for his book, The Satanic Verses, based loosely in part on the life of Muhammad. Rushdie's Japanese and Italian translators were both stabbed, the former fatally, in 1991. Rushdie's Norwegian publisher was shot outside his home in 1993.
Feb. 8, 2006:
The Ulama Council, a leading group of Islamic clerics, calls for an end to violent demonstrations. "We condemn the cartoons but this does not justify violence," the council says.
Police fire into the air to disperse hundreds of protesters outside the U.S. military base in Qalat, Afghanistan. Police then fire into the crowd killing four and wounding 20.
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So the media knew the Muslim world would be enraged at the Abu Graib pictures and published them anyway since the outrage would be directed at our soldiers.
And now the media won't publish cartoons because the Muslim outrage would be directed at them. The media. Who, collectively, seem to be cowards.
Looks to me like that at the time the Cartoons were being shown in Cairo, he was complaining about them also being shown in Denmark!!!!
"It was taken out of context and somebody is trying ... to give us the guilt for what is happening."
Reminds me of a scene from the Blues Brothers:
[after a burst of gunfire from the Mystery Woman, Jake climbs to his feet, covered in mud from the tunnel floor]
Jake: It's good to see you, sweetheart.
Mystery Woman: You contemptible pig! I remained celibate for you. I stood at the back of a cathedral, waiting, in celibacy, for you, with three hundred friends and relatives in attendance. My uncle hired the best Romanian caterers in the state. To obtain the seven limousines for the wedding party, my father used up his last favor with Mad Pete Trullo. So for me, for my mother, my grandmother, my father, my uncle, and for the common good, I must now kill you, and your brother.
[Jake falls to his knees]
Jake: Oh, please, don't kill us. Please, please don't kill us. You know I love you baby. I wouldn't leave ya. It wasn't my fault.
Mystery Woman: You miserable slug! You think you can talk your way out of this? You betrayed me.
Jake: No I didn't. Honest... I ran out of gas. I, I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts. IT WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD.
How does this explain his creating new cartoons since the existing ones weren't outrageous enough (apparently)?
bump for the timeline
"The media. Who, collectively, seem to be cowards."
Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
Or better yet, using an AP photo from a french pig squealing contest!
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh!
Yes, guess Michelle Malkin was on Hannity & Colmes last night railing at CNN and their excus4es....see this:
CNN'S NEW STUPID EXCUSE
By Michelle Malkin · February 08, 2006 11:32 AM
I really don't have a burning desire to see us do anything that will turn attention negatively to our soldiers overseas, but the hypocrisy of the press is really too much sometimes.
If a Muslim finds that offensive, perhaps he needs a new prophet.
Looks like this piece of shit is not going to be prosecuted or deported?
He added those to help sell his case I guess.......
VIDEO: BREAKING THE TABOO
By Michelle Malkin · February 07, 2006 10:50 PM
There is a Blog in Britain that is all over the Blair Government for trying to smother things.....I'll see if I can find it from what I posted last night!
The article says:
When asked by CBC News why he included these images when they had nothing to do with the published newspaper cartoons, Akkari defended his actions.
"It was taken out of context and somebody is trying ... to give us the guilt for what is happening."
See, somebody is trying to give them guilt. I'm betting he'll soon "figure out" that it's the Joooooos doing it to discredit Islam.
Very Good answer to the queston as to WHY???
Just above ....
The Cartoons were published in Egypt in Oct 2005 and no one got upset!....
Once again, as (nearly) always, the media buoys up Islamists by treating their extreme and particularistic version of Islam as normative. IT IS NOT. Millions and millions of Sufis couldn't give a %&$*( about people drawing pictures of Mohamed. Millions of Shia probably have pictures of Mo or other Islamic saints in their homes. I'm no expert but don't doubt there are any number of other sects (or ethnic groups) within Islam that likewise tolerate, to one degree or another, religious imagery of persons and prophets.
LOL - Look at that photo at the top of the page - The Danish editor looks like Andre the Giant, compared to the pipsqueak Danish Imam to his right... No wonder the Danish Imam and his ilk have an inferiority complex!
THANKS! :-)
From Denmark?
Would seem to be in order......
Erratum - the Imam is actually seated at the editor's left, and appears on the right-hand side of the photo.
The cartoon jihad (2)
February 04, 2006
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The still escalating confrontation over the Danish cartoons dramatically illustrates the now pathological reluctance of the leaders of Britain and America to face up to the blindingly obvious and the extent to which they have already run up the white flag in the face of clerical fascism. With holy war declared openly upon the west, with death threats being issued against cartoonists and editors, with Danes, Scandinavians and other Europeans being hunted for kidnap and in fear of their lives, with blood-curdling intimidation, with mob demonstrations, calls to behead westerners and rallying cries for ‘holy war’ by Islam against Europe, the governments of Britain and America are busy prostrating themselves before this terror, apologising for ‘causing offence’ and blaming the victims of this assault; while their intelligentsia earnestly debates whether it is wrong to insult someone else’s religion, for all the world as if this were a university ethics seminar rather than a world war being waged by clerical fascism against free societies and with people in hiding and in fear of their lives for having exercised the right to protest at religious violence and intimidation.
Thus the spineless British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said:
There is freedom of speech, we all respect that, but there is not any obligation to insult or to be gratuitously inflammatory. I believe that the republication of these cartoons has been unnecessary, it has been insensitive, it has been disrespectful and it has been wrong.
While in the US, according to the Times, State Department spokesman Kurtis Cooper said:
We all respect freedom of the press but...inciting religious or ethnic hatreds in this manner is not acceptable.
Subsequently another State Department apparatchik tied himself up in knots in this press briefing trying simultaneously to condemn religious insults and defend freedom of speech against intimidation:
Our response is to say that while we certainly don’t agree with, support, or in some cases, we condemn the views that are aired in public that are published in media organizations around the world, we, at the same time, defend the right of those individuals to express their views. For us, freedom of expression is at the core of our democracy and it is something that we have shed blood and treasure around the world to defend and we will continue to do so. That said, there are other aspects to democracy, our democracy — democracies around the world — and that is to promote understanding, to promote respect for minority rights, to try to appreciate the differences that may exist among us.
Er... right. Would anyone really ‘shed blood and treasure’ to defend such equivocation?
Yet while declaring that free speech should be limited to avoid being insulting or gratuitously inflammatory, Britain also believes that it should be totally unlimited when Muslims incite mass murder.
Very true, they don't depict Muhammad. Interestingly, it seems to be OK to depict his grandson (see below).
I wonder if the Shia are more flexible on the "idolatry" issue.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060208/481/bag11202081509
You're right, he's not telling the whole story...
Creating Outrage: Meet the Imam behind the cartoon overreaction.
National Review ^ | 02/06/2006 | Lorenzo Vidino
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1572875/posts
"Abu Laban is not the kind of person who gives up easily. After having contacted ambassadors from Muslim countries in Copenhagen, he put together a delegation with the goal of touring the Middle East to "internationalize this issue so that the Danish government would realize that the cartoons were not only insulting to Muslims in Denmark but also to Muslims worldwide," as he explained in an interview with "Islam Online". The delegation met with, among others, Arab League Secretary Amr Moussa, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Mohammad Sayyed Tantawi, and Sunni Islam's most influential scholar, Yusuf al Qaradawi. The delegation showed each of these leaders the 12 cartoons published by Jyllands-Posten, along with others that had never been published by any Danish publication. The new cartoons were every more offensive, as showing the Prophet Mohammed with a pig face or having sexual intercourse with a dog. While the delegation claimed that the differentiation was pointed out to their interlocutors, there is no other evidence, and rumors about the more blasphemous images began to circulate in the Middle East. Moreover, the booklet that was presented by the delegation contained several other lies about the "oppression" of Muslims in Denmark, claiming Muslims do not have the legal right to build mosques and are subjected to pervasive racism."
Thanks for posting that. :-)
If the shoe fits...
CBC News is an oxymoron.
Stone the bastage.
Those drawings show the Prophet as "a pig, a dog, a woman and a child-sodomizing madman," says the Globe.
He said the images were not meant to be mistaken for cartoons published in newspapers, but protesters have cited the drawings during their rallies.
Pegs my bu!!$#it meter!
This weasel is responsible for international unrest, inciting riots on a global scale, murder, mayhem , and acts of war.
He should be drawn and quartered, live, on TV for all the Muslims to see as an object lesson.
And this Inman will not be prosecuted or deported from Denmark? I can't believe that the man who was basically the original source of all of this Arab road rage, would be allowed to continue to live in Denmark, where, to say the least he has worn out his welcome (an incredible understatement). But watch, the Danes will be too cowardly to do this, and so the Muslim bullying will continue unabated.
How about an explanation from him as to how he became a deceitful moron.
I heard this guy being interview on BBC radio, the reporter really took him apart about the additional images. For the usually staid news programming it was very agressive and this guy was dumbstruck. He eventually answered with something like "I'm not in court, I dont have to answer this". It never seems to strike these guys that the reason they're in Denmark is because they had to flee the lovely Islamic world in the first place.
MW: Oh, Jake...
(They kiss. Jake drops MW in mud)C'mon Elwood, let's go!
Elwood (tips hat as he passes MW) Ma'am..
And now the media won't publish cartoons because the Muslim outrage would be directed at them. The media. Who, collectively, seem to be cowards.
That is the one of the most explicitly accurate statements about this whole sordid affair. The MSM actions/inaction, as usual, tell the true story. Additionally, since the cartoons don't trash Bush, no need to print them.
It is becoming more and more apparent that the whole issue has become an orchestrated attempt to protect free-islam-speech. All the while the MSM genuflexes at the altar that will bring upon them their own demise.
In the meanwhile, less attention is paid to Iranian nuclear ambitions...
The Muslims will always run around saying, "it's the Jooooooooooooooooos!!!!!"
Question is, how does this guy classify himself as a scholar?
Or even better, how exactly does one become a "Muslim Scholar?"
What kind of credentials does this guy have?
Did he study at accredited universities?
Wonder what his thesis or dissertation covered?
Any chance that interview is available on the internet?
It goes without saying that his communications traffic, whereabouts, associates, etc. will be closely monitored.
With a fresh feeling of (over)confidence, the guy could be an intel goldmine without ever realizing it.
As they say, "It ain't over 'till it's over."
He may still wind up floating along, studying the bottom of a canal or something.
In the meantime, the story is slowly getting out that this guy is the Islamic equivalent of Dan Rather's "fake, but accurate" memos, Newsqueek's flushed Korans, and the NYT's Jayson Blair, all rolled into one.
With his lies and dissimilations he has exposed much of Islam for the mob it is. This will ultimately work against the lot of them.
'It is not what I want to happen' (Danish Islamic "Scholar" who started controversy)
Religion of Peace bump
One could become a bit weary over this stuff. Obviously the Islamic world of clowns just need crap they think justisfy the means to the end. And end is really to fire up the goons to burn flags, carry pictures of GWB then throw them on the ground in front of some anxiously waiting L/MSM or Arab film crew as they burn it and stump on it. Anything that the news goons feel is news. Boy I really like to use the word goons a lot. ha ha.
What? Is just about every Muslim named "Kevin" now?
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