Posted on 02/18/2006 9:25:37 AM PST by ex-Texan
ROME (Reuters) - The row over controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad forced two ministers out of their jobs in Europe and the Middle East on Saturday after clashes between police and protesters claimed 11 lives in Libya.
Initially resisting calls for his resignation, Italian Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli stepped down after he was widely blamed for bloody clashes in Libya over cartoons of the Prophet which he had made into T-shirts and wore on television.
In Tripoli, the General People's Congress fired Interior Minister Nasser al-Mabrouk Abdallah and police chiefs in Benghazi saying "disproportionate force" had been used to disperse protesters who tried to storm the Italian consulate.
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Italian diplomats in Tripoli said Libyan authorities had told them at least 11 were dead and nearly 40 wounded.
As thousands of Muslims rallied in central London to keep up the cycle of cartoon protests around the world, there was fresh bloodshed in Pakistan when four people were wounded in gunfire at a demonstration in the central region.
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 834: Narrated Muslim: We were with Masruq at the house of Yasar bin Numair. Masruq saw pictures on his terrace and said, "I heard 'Abdullah saying that he heard the Prophet saying, "The people who will receive the severest punishment from Allah will be the picture makers.'"
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 835: Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar : Allah's Apostle said, "Those who make these pictures will be punished on the Day of Resurrection, and it will be said to them. 'Make alive what you have created.'"
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 836: Narrated 'Aisha: I never used to leave in the Prophet house anything carrying images or crosses but he obliterated it.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 837: Narrated Abu Zur'a: l entered a house in Medina with Abu Huraira, and he saw a man making pictures at the top of the house. Abu Huraira said, "I heard Allah's Apostle saying that Allah said, 'Who would be more unjust than the one who tries to create the like of My creatures? Let them create a grain: let them create a gnat.' "
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 838: Narrated 'Aisha: Allah's Apostle returned from a journey when I had placed a curtain of mine having pictures over (the door of) a chamber of mine. When Allah's Apostle saw it, he tore it and said, "The people who will receive the severest punishment on the Day of Resurrection will be those who try to make the like of Allah's creations." So we turned it (i.e., the curtain) into one or two cushions.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 840: Narrated 'Aisha : I purchased a cushion with pictures on it. The Prophet (came and) stood at the door but did not enter. I said (to him), "I repent to Allah for what (the guilt) I have done." He said, "What is this cushion?" I said, "It is for you to sit on and recline on." He said, "The makers of these pictures will be punished on the Day of Resurrection and it will be said to them, 'Make alive what you have created.' Moreover, the angels do not enter a house where there are pictures.'"
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 841: Narrated Abu Talha: Allah's Apostle said, "Angels (of mercy) do not enter a house where there are pictures.'" The sub-narrator Busr added: "Then Zaid fell ill and we paid him a visit. Behold! There was, hanging at his door, a curtain decorated with a picture. I said to 'Ubaidullah Al-Khaulani, the step son of Maimuna, the wife of the Prophet , "Didn't Zaid tell us about the picture the day before yesterday?" 'Ubaidullah said, "Didn't you hear him saying: 'except a design in a garment'?"
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 842: Narrated Anas: Aisha had a thick curtain (having pictures on it) and she screened the side of her i house with it. The Prophet said to her, "Remove it from my sight, for its pictures are still coming to my mind in my prayers."
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 843: Narrated Salim's father: Once Gabriel promised to visit the Prophet but he delayed and the Prophet got worried about that. At last he came out and found Gabriel and complained to him of his grief (for his delay). Gabriel said to him, "We do not enter a place in which there is a picture or a dog."
One man wears a Mo' T-shirt and others protest at his by murdering people thousands of miles away.
The man in the T-shirt was wrong.
QED.
Wow, the EU members are crumblng on this faster than I thought.
Well heck yes, this'll teach those Muslims that violence gets them absolutely NOWHERE.
off &#%$^@%$$@# sarcasm!!!!
Terrorism works. We've seen that proven now. People who published a cartoon fired or quit because of death threats. Clinton saying the other day that publishers of those cartoons should be convicted. Didn't happen to mention which law they broke and of course nothing about due process and a little thing called a trial.
Heck - let's just support the murderers and beheaders. Why not. Give in now. Sheesh. I have little hope the world is going to get it in time. Really.
Yeah, and torture and wiretapping work too. Except we aren't supposed to do any of that.
Yep, stuff like this makes me wonder if I ought not just go ahead and get fitted for my burka.
In a PIGS eye.....!!
Wow, another one steps into dhimmitude. He was initially refusing saying that western civ needs to be defended, but now this?
Somethings afoot over there, and we have yet to see it spin up.
Yes, the logic of "the West:" riots in Libya; Italian Minister resigns. Before his departure, Calderoli compared Europe to "melted butter."
Here's Reuters account of the ministers ousting. NOT ONE WORD about how the Danish imams added really inflammatory cartoons to the original 12 European ones and tramped them along with inciteful propaganda all over the Middle East.
Ministers forced out as cartoon row escalates
Sat Feb 18, 2006 1:35 PM ET
By Silvia Aloisi
ROME (Reuters) - The row over controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad forced two ministers out of their jobs in Europe and the Middle East on Saturday after clashes between police and protesters claimed 11 lives in Libya.
Initially resisting calls for his resignation, Italian Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli stepped down after he was widely blamed for bloody clashes in Libya over cartoons of the Prophet which he had made into T-shirts and wore on television.
In Tripoli, the General People's Congress fired Interior Minister Nasser al-Mabrouk Abdallah and police chiefs in Benghazi saying "disproportionate force" had been used to disperse protesters who tried to storm the Italian consulate.
The Congress hailed the dead as "martyrs" and declared Sunday a day of mourning across Libya.
Italian diplomats in Tripoli said Libyan authorities had told them at least 11 were dead and nearly 40 wounded.
As thousands of Muslims rallied in central London to keep up the cycle of cartoon protests around the world, there was fresh bloodshed in Pakistan when four people were wounded in gunfire at a demonstration in the central region.
Protests in Pakistan this week have resulted in at least five deaths, and on Friday it became the latest country where Denmark has decided to temporarily close its embassy. Denmark urged any Danes in Pakistan to leave as soon as possible.
In a bid to harness the escalating violence, Pakistan on Saturday banned protests in Islamabad. As the ban was introduced the country's main Islamist alliance, Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), said it would go ahead with its Sunday demonstration,
"The rally will be held in Islamabad. It will be a peaceful rally," Shahid Shamsi, an MMA spokesman said.
The cartoons, one of which shows the Prophet wearing a turban shaped like a bomb, were first published in Denmark in September, but last month newspapers in Europe and elsewhere republished them to assert freedom of expression.
FURY ACROSS THE MUSLIM WORLD
The publications caused outrage across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, becoming a showdown between religious tolerance and freedom of speech.
Muslims believe images of the Prophet are forbidden but moderate Muslims, although finding the cartoons deeply offensive, fear radicals are hijacking the issue to deepen rifts between the Muslim world and the West.
The shooting in Pakistan on Saturday occurred as hundreds of protesters pelted police with stones and tried to block a road in the town of Chiniot in the central province of Punjab. It was unclear whether police or protesters fired the shots.
Police detained 40 activists of the student wing of an Islamist group in the city of Multan as they staged a protest in defiance of a government ban on public rallies in Punjab.
Protests in Pakistan have been large and violent and many have taken on a distinctly anti-U.S. tone. In addition to burning Danish flags, demonstrators have attacked U.S. fast-food outlets and burned effigies of U.S. President George W. Bush, who is scheduled to visit Pakistan next month.
Britain's Muslim Action Committee (MAC) which organized the London event said they expected 40,000 to rally peacefully in Trafalgar Square. A police spokeswoman said 10,000 were present. One placard read: "Free Speech = Cheap Insults"
"We held the rally so the mainstream Muslim community could express their anger," Shaykh Faiz Siddiqi, the national convener of MAC told Reuters.
"We also want to invite the global community to a civilized dialogue. We want to say we don't need insults anymore. We don't need provocation any more."
Around 1,000 people protested in Copenhagen on Saturday against the cartoons.
On Friday, a Pakistani Muslim cleric and his followers offered rewards amounting to more than $1 million for anyone who killed the Danish cartoonists who drew the caricatures.
One of the cartoonists, asking for anonymity, said this has not been the first threat.
"This is not the first time we've been threatened, but of course I dislike it every time. The drawing I made was meant as a practical joke aimed at the paper and yet I have been dragged into this absurd situation," the cartoonist told Reuters.
"I didn't think anyone outside the newspaper's readers would see the cartoon and now a billion people have. It's a surreal situation."
It will have to get a lot worse before a vast change happens.
That said, you in the US are fine for now. A bit of dhimmitude here and there, but Europe is in peril.
There is not too much time to loose for us. For some nations it might already be to late.
*shakes head*
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