Posted on 02/17/2006 3:18:19 PM PST by voletti
ISLAMABAD: Former US president Bill Clinton on Friday condemned the publication of Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) caricatures by European newspapers and urged countries concerned to convict the publishers.
Talking to reporters after meeting Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz in Islamabad, Clinton said he disagreed with the caricatures and that the publication was against religious and ethical norms. Clinton said he had no objection to peaceful demonstrations being held worldwide, but this was not the time for violence. He said it was the time to promote inter-faith harmony and stand together on the issue.
He said the people’s religious convictions should be respected at all costs and the media should be disallowed to play with the religious sentiments of other faiths. He said the media could criticise any issue including governments and people, but nobody had the right to play with the sentiments of other faiths.
Clinton said people in the US had also condemned the publication and were deeply concerned over it. He said they respected Islam, as it was the fastest growing religion in the US. Clinton also called on President Pervez Musharraf and both men discussed the India-Pakistan peace process and Afghanistan’s peace and stabilisation process.
Musharraf underlined the centrality of the Kashmir issue in the Indo-Pak peace process and the importance of moving towards the conflict resolution stage. Clinton praised Musharraf’s efforts to promote peace and stability in the region. Musharraf thanked Clinton for the support extended to the Pakistani government by the Clinton Foundation for the HIV/AIDS programme. He also expressed the gratitude of Pakistanis to the relief and reconstruction assistance provided for the earthquake victims by the US.
Earlier, Aziz told Clinton that Pakistan was working towards peace and stability in the region through a strong economy, effective diplomacy, credible defence and promotion of inter-faith harmony. He said Pakistan was also making efforts to ensure peace in the region by settling disputes in an amicable way. He said Islam was a religion of peace and Muslims had been hurt by the publication of the caricatures, which reflected the ignorance and insensitivity of the western media. Clinton praised the role played by Musharraf and Aziz in achieving a high degree economic growth and wide-ranging structural reforms besides pursuing peace in the region and across the globe.
Convict them of what? Freedom?
Rhetoric from a man who wants Kofi's job.
Clintoon's been shooting his mouth off abroad, just like Al Gore. Whoring away for $$ or publicity and willing to say anything and everything however bad that may make America look or imperil our freedoms and values. Then there's Sandy berger, another clintoon admin crony who tries to steal sensitive documents, not to mention janet reno and then there's hitlery herself....
Shame on the clintoon admin and all its beneficiaries.
What we can look forwward to if Hillary gets in office. We think the press is afraid to publish anything negative about the Clinton's now, just wait...
Tell me if this guy isn't pimping for Sec General.
"He said the people’s religious convictions should be respected.."
Devil worshiping Islam should be respected? I think not...
what p.o.s this guy is
I don't recall Clinton wanting to convict Andres Serrano or the Blessed Mother with the dung artist when he was president.
This from a man who has no moral's at all and the idiots lap it up!
Put some ice on it, Bubba.
Amen.
Was Clinton president when the feds funded Serrano's "Piss Christ" or the Virgin Mary dung display?
oh, how i wish a reporter would stick a microphone in Hillary's face and ask her if she agrees with her husband that newspaper publishers should go to jail for printing these cartoons.
Our punk anti Christ has spoken
Not to be believed.
(Image courtesy of Jeff Head)
Caricatures are their livelyhood, Bill, you sh*t for brains yahoo. That would be like convicting you for making asinine coments.
Right. Our punk anti Christ isn't happy with the work he did to proliferate nuclear weapons. He has his eye on Kofi's job, wants to make the UN more of a menace. Anything can happen. Kofi Annan could keel over next week from a heart attack or get hit by a subway train
I've read it 4 times, but I still don't see where the pandering POS called for anyone to be convicted.
Good old Bill. Still saying whatever his audience wants to hear. And not an honest bone in his body.
There have been fascists running this country for almost 40 years, both Republican and Democrat. I pray the American people will have their eyes opened and fight to regain their freedoms guaranteed by the US Constitution.
>>urged countries concerned to convict the publishers.
Is that for real?!??!!! Astounding if it is!
Clinton said people in the US had condemned the publication of the cartoons and were deeply concerned over it. He's still peddling bullshit, I see......
I actually doubt he said that. I think this is Islamic spin.
ping
took him awhile to jump on the bandwagon, didn't it?
Off With Their Heads...Off With Their Heads
Muhammad (((:~{>
Muhammad playing Little Orphan Annie
(((8~{>
Muhammad as a pirate
(((P~{>
Muhammad on a bad turban day
))):~{>
Muhammad with sand in his eye
(((;~{>
Muhammad wearing sunglasses
(((B~{>
Muhammad giving the raspberry.
(((:~{P>
Giving Muhammad the raspberry.
;-P
Muhammad with a bomb in his turban
*-O(:~{>
What a da*ned liar he is!
>He (Clinton) said the people's religious connecctions should be respected at all times<
AS LONG AS THE RELIGION IS NOT CHRISTIAN.
Maybe it's time Christians begin to react to their grandual extermination by the press and the jurists. But no, Christians do not riot, and so the ... beat ... goes ... on.
Kofi's term ends this years.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060217/ap_on_re_us/un_next_secretary_general_1
You have uttered the magic word, IF.
Scoundrel though Slick Willie is, I’ll bet he didn’t day that.
But, Oh Bent One, the muzzies don't play. The just murder those of other faiths outright.
"Clinton said people in the US had also condemned the publication and were deeply concerned over it. He said they respected Islam, as it was the fastest growing religion in the US.
Speaking for himself, I'm sure. Whoever 'they' are, I don't think a handful of fearful and appeasing liberal/socialists democrats are representative of the opinion of millions of Americans who are in a state of controlled rage against the murderous cult masquerading as a 'religion' and invading our country.
tick....tick....tick
Separation of Bubba and reality...
Didn’t say that.
... never mind...
Hey, Bill! What about free speech, you moron?
Hmmmm, I think maybe you're right. Seems odd that only the Pak paper wrote it.
What we can look forwward to if Hillary gets in office. We think the press is afraid to publish anything negative about the Clinton's now, just wait...
Der Schlickmeister has just trashed the whole idea of the First Amendment's freedom of the press. And, yet, they still adore his sorry butt.
The idiots deserve to lose their freedom. Problem is, we'd lose ours, too...
I truly think this was a shot across by the bow by Clinton -- don't post negative articles about Her Shrillness or we'll get you. They probably still control minions within the IRS and can do extraordinary damage to their enemies.
BINGO!!!! bump
The first paragraph:
Former US president Bill Clinton on Friday condemned the publication of Prophet Muhammad's (PBUH) caricatures by European newspapers and urged countries concerned to convict the publishers.
For once DeBorchgrave has it right; this whole "Cartoon Intifada" is a sham, a fraud. These people aren't rioting because they are insulted at the abomination of the Danish cartoons.What do they know from Danish cartoons?
If the Danish Islamist Imams hadn't spread them all over the middle eastern press, and added a few phony "ringers" just to make their claims of sacrilege ring true, none of these Pakstani villagers, or Egyptian peasants, or Lebanese city dwellers would have ever heard or seen any of the cartoons in question.
No, this is just a new gambit in the Al Qaida Wahabbists war against Western Civilization, since they are currently losing both militarily and in the PR sense. Support for Bin Laden and his terrorist ilk has declined precipitously since the foolhardy attacks by Zarquawi in Jordan, and the successful elections in Iraq.
Remember the old Warner Brothers cartoons, where some character is bamboozled into being a "sucker" and his entire head is replace with the image of a giant candy sucker for a moment? Look at Clinton as he spouts this nonsense and realize that this "brilliant" Rhodes Scholar has been taken in and sold a bill of goods by the worst terrorists in history. Stupid isn't the word for it... gullible is more appropriate. Heaven help us if these idiots gain power again!
Urging the world to arrest and throw the media in jail
Way to go Bill ... keep talking you idiot
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