Moe Hamad
Posted on 02/09/2006 1:54:55 AM PST by mal
'ABLESSING from God": So have Iran's leaders, starting with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, described the controversy over the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed. A closer look at the row, however, shows that the whole rigmarole was launched by Sunni-Salafi groups in Europe and Asia, with Ahmadinejad and his Syrian vassal, President Bashar al-Assad, belatedly playing catch-up. God had nothing to do with it.
To see how the whole thing was manufactured to serve precise political ends, consider the chronology of events:
The cartoons were published last September and, for more than three months, caused no ripples outside small groups of Salafi militants in Denmark.
In December, a group of Danish Muslim militants filled their suitcases with photocopies of the cartoons and embarked on a tour of Muslim capitals.
They failed to get to Tehran: The Iranians, being Shi'ites, saw them as Sunni activists bent on mischief. But they managed to go to Cairo, Damascus and Beirut and, were allowed to send emissaries to Saudi Arabia.
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ragheadping
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.
"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. "
EXCELLENT POINT !!!
can honestly say that was a Peach
Yep, that's about it I'm afraid.
Just my street fighting instincts.
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.
Brava.
>>The fight between Denmark and its detractors is not between the West and Islam. It is between democracy and a global fascist movement masquerading as religion.
That first remains to be seen. It is not at all clear that Islam, at root, is not a global fascist movement masquerading as religion. Hence the seemingly-oxymoronic truism "The only good Muslim, is a bad Muslim."
Denmark needs to throw these Islamofacists in jail for inciting violence and causing the destruction of property. While they're in jail, tell everyone what they did, how it is a disgrace, and that this is what will happen to anyone else who tries this stunt. Tell them if they don't like it, stay the hell out of Denmark.
You nailed it!
Very good deconstruction of the Mo' 'toon rage riots
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