[MNJohnnie]

Sure nailed it. Great post.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Thank you for your posting. It is most helpful to hear from you. Our prayers are with you.

[nuconvert]

pong

[Hawk1976]

So all those Muslims and Arabs are just poor unsophisticated rubes? Easily played bumpkins? What exactly are they? Even a child (in the west anyway) learns definitively to never touch an oven burner of they do it once.

Turn on the TV, look for news from the Muslim world. I'll guarantee that somewhere, for some reason, Muslims can be found to be rioting over something. It can be anything, doesn't really matter. Christians in Sudan or Nigeria, Hindus in India, whatever can be turned into a good excuse. They tear down their own infrastructure, make themselves out to be jerks in the world media.

All of this is fueled from on high in the Saudi Royal family, The Iranian dictatorship, Syria, The new palestinian "government", from the Bully pit of a million mosques.

I am not a fool. I observe people saying they want to kill me for some perceived slight and ready to act on their threats. I don't know if they are practicing true Islam or false Islam. I do know that it's a fools bet to negotiate with them, because such only leave two outcomes. I can only take them at their word.

I am a peaceable person, I would rather avoid a fight. You cannot think that you can negotiate with people who would do violence to you.

[starfish923]

Too bad the Danes didn't let the insulting cartoon STAY under the radar. It HAD passed almost unnoticed way back in Semptember, 2005, in that obscure Danish paper.
Too bad they simply HAD to re-print it, rub it into Muslim noses and make it a world-wide issue.

One of the first remarks made was that Denmark said it had free speech. That was Denmark's reason for re-printing the cartoon. But then, Muslims pointed out Danish censorship of free speech regarding pro-nazism and denial of the holocaust (which is actually a crime).
Now, some Iranian talking head has threatened to start a cartoon contest which mocks/insults the Jewish holocaust. He would label the insulting cartoons "free speech."

This doesn't seem to be going away quicky, does it?

[higgmeister]

nuconvert, I really don't know what to make of you.

I clicked on your name to read about you and I see this
disturbing image.

The American flag is very improperly displayed. Our flag
appears upside down with the stripes above the union.
The Persian Lion is standing on the union which is very
disrespectful. Here our flag is on the right but it should
be displayed on it's own right (on the left as it is viewed).
Additionally, The American Eagle should have a bundle
of arrows in one talon to represent our ability to fight when
necessary but our American Eagle always looks toward
his other talon which holds an olive branch of friendship.

I held my tongue and explored more to find that this is
intended to represent the solidarity of expatriate Iranians
with American democracy.

It is interesting that a discussion about disrespecting the
Prophet revealed obviously unintentional disrespect of
the United States.

There is a much larger chasm than you imagine between
average Americans and Islam. This post named a man,
Al-Sistani, that lays the blame on the extremists and
Takfiris (sic) for the harm done to the image of Islam in the
World. Yet, where in the world are the arrests by Islamic
Police and trials and imprisonment or death by Muslim
countries of the Islamists that instigate or perpetrate
the "beheading, kidnapping and blowing up market
places and day workers in Iraqi cities/.../blow up mosques
during prayer time, kidnap murder and torture innocent
travelers, and all the other repertoire of atrocities
committed in the name of Islam?"

Islam itself is the harm, its image is the reality. All Islam
gives tacit approval of the bombings and beheadings
because they fear Allah will judge them if they speak out.
What a conundrum. You know it is wrong. You know you
will let it continue because one more dead nonbeliever
is another step toward fulfillment of the Prophet.

Until Islam controls itself it is heading toward destruction.
Western culture hasn't taken men to the Moon and space on
feet of clay.

Oh, by-the-way, women aren't chattel.

[Smokin' Joe]

It turns out the three most offensive cartoons were not even published in a Danish paper, but circulated by one of the islamic rabble rousers because he felt they reflected the opinion of Islam held by many of the Danes and other non-islamic Europeans.

link to story here

[demkicker]

Just curious, why do all the fanatics think this guy is Muhammad?