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French daily prints anti-Islam cartoons
Al Jazeera ^ | Feb 1, 2006 | Staff

Posted on 02/01/2006 5:11:54 AM PST by AdmSmith

A French newspaper has reproduced a controversial set of caricatures, originally published in Denmark and decried in the Muslim world as blasphemous to the prophet Mohammed.

The Paris daily France Soir, on Wednesday, printed the dozen cartoons, explaining that it chose to do so to illustrate the polemic sparked by their original publication, in the Danish Jyllands-Posten paper last September.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Danish prime minister, had expressed alarm on Tuesday at the wave of anger in the Muslim world prompted by the caricatures.

"We are up against uncontrollable forces. It will take a huge effort to calm things down," he told Danish media after the offices of the paper which first published the controversial cartoons were evacuated following a bomb scare.

The bomb threat came as Muslim anger over the 12 cartoons, said to depict the Prophet Muhammad, boiled over into a diplomatic crisis threatening Danish trade relations with the Muslim world.

Rasmussen said that his government considered the growing dispute "extremely serious."

The French paper said it had decided to reprint them "not from an appetite for gratuitous provocation, but because they constitute the subject of a controversy on a global scale which has done nothing to maintain balance and mutual limits in democracy, respect of religious beliefs and freedom of expression".

According to France-Soir, "these 12 drawings could appear anodyne," but their publication, "which has tested the limits of the freedom of expression in Denmark has engendered a wave of indignation at anger in the Muslim world."


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: denmark; france; frenchmuslims; islam; mohammad; muhammad
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To: AdmSmith

Once again the Mudslimes show their abiding, bitter hatred for the most basic human freedom. Once again, here's a link to the cartoons:

http://www.di2.nu/files/Muhammed_Cartoons_Jyllands_Posten.html


This link loads slowly but is worth the wait because all of the cartoons are in English. Just in case representatives of the ROP manage to shut it down, here's another link to another source, but some of the cartoons are in Danish:


http://jihadimalmo.blogspot.com/


It's curtesy of Freeper ScaniaBoy.


21 posted on 02/01/2006 5:40:23 AM PST by libstripper
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To: SusaninOhio

OK, let defuse =>diffuse


22 posted on 02/01/2006 5:40:28 AM PST by AdmSmith
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To: AdmSmith

Been hearing of this for a long time.WHAT CARTOONS?Lets see em if they exist.


23 posted on 02/01/2006 5:40:49 AM PST by INSENSITIVE GUY
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To: GermanBusiness

Danish imported cheese and beer. Maybe some brands of sardines.


24 posted on 02/01/2006 5:45:06 AM PST by From many - one.
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To: AdmSmith

I would love to have someone, SOMEONE from the MSM print these cartoons. Show some (courage). If every country would print these cartoons to show that we will not be blackmailed by these thugs, the Islam nuts can't go after all of us. They would go crazy, not that we could tell the difference.


25 posted on 02/01/2006 5:48:44 AM PST by sportutegrl (People who say, "All I know is . . ." really mean, "All I want you to focus on is . . .")
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To: Mercat
OK, time for my buycott: Danish cheese for lunch and Legos for the grandkids.

Note: Buycott is not original with me, I saw another freeper use it first.

26 posted on 02/01/2006 5:52:09 AM PST by From many - one.
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To: AdmSmith
Direct from AP Wire

BERLIN (AP) _ A German newspaper on Wednesday reproduced a controversial drawing depicting the Prophet Muhammad, arguing that a ``right to blasphemy'' was anchored in democratic freedoms.

The drawing, which shows the prophet's turban transformed into a bomb, was one of several published in a Danish paper in September, which sparked outrage and boycotts in Islamic countries.

The caricatures offended Muslims both because of their critical content and because Islam forbids representations of Muhammad out of concern they could lead to idolatry.

But the German Welt daily put one of the drawings on its front page on Wednesday, saying the picture was ``harmless'' and regretting that the Danish Jyllands-Posten daily had apologized for causing offense. ``Democracy is the institutionalized form of freedom of expression,'' the paper said in a front-page commentary. ``There is no right to protection from satire in the West; there is a right to blasphemy.''

The French newspaper France-Soir also published the caricatures on Wednesday, saying that religious dogma has no place in a secular society.

27 posted on 02/01/2006 5:54:52 AM PST by NYer (Discover the beauty of the Eastern Catholic Churches - freepmail me for more information.)
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To: AdmSmith

Hmmm. . .Egyptian owner? I'd guess a Copt. The Copts are very confrontational with Islam, much moreso than other Christians in the Middle East.


28 posted on 02/01/2006 5:58:09 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: INSENSITIVE GUY

There are links two posts before yours (post 21).


29 posted on 02/01/2006 5:59:36 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: mewzilla

Islamonazis will call for a fatwa against infidel merely for portraying "he who shall not be seen", Mohammed.

The bomb is just something extra.

Odd how the response proves the point. "Take back what you said about radical Islamic followers or I will kill random people of your nationality."


30 posted on 02/01/2006 6:05:02 AM PST by weegee (Happy Holidays! Tis the season of MLK, Chinese New Year, Tet, Valentine's, Presidents...)
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To: weegee
Odd how the response proves the point. "Take back what you said about radical Islamic followers or I will kill random people of your nationality."

Well put. And there was a thread on here the other day that quoted a Muslim gentleman stating that members of his faith would never try to shove their views down other people's throats.

31 posted on 02/01/2006 6:07:10 AM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: The_Reader_David
Lakah is not owner of the newspaper:

France Soir sale deadline extended
By Pierre Tran in Paris
08 January 2006

http://www.thebusinessonline.com

ADMINISTRATORS running France Soir have won an extension to 12 January to flush out last-minute buyers for the tabloid daily which went into bankruptcy protection at the end of October.

The initial deadline closed at the end of December, with three bidders hoping to acquire the title.

Two have made previous approaches to the paper, whose proprietor, Franco-Egyptian businessman Raymond Lakah, has thrown in the towel after years of heavy losses.

Georges Ghosn bought the title in 1999 for a symbolic one franc from the Socpresse group, only to resell it a year later to the Italian company Poligrafici Editoriale.

Property developer Jean-Pierre Brunois, chairman of the Financière Hoche firm put in a bid in 2004 but failed to show up at the board meeting that would have sealed the deal.

Apparently, opposition from journalists at the paper put Brunois off, but he has come back with a second offer, this time teamed up with a sports journalist, Olivier Rey.

The third bidder is Vincent Lalu, who owns the specialist title La Vie du Rail, a weekly rail magazine.

The administrators hope that two more bidders will appear for the title, which will run out of cash at the end of January.

Belgian magazine publisher Dominique Van Lier and an unidentified media hopeful are said to be putting final touches to a bid.
32 posted on 02/01/2006 6:08:33 AM PST by AdmSmith
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To: NYer

The Knights of Islam- "Stop saying 'it'! Stop saying the word! Ohhhhhh"

The muslim world had no problems showing pictures stolen from a porn website and running them as "proof" of "American soldiers" raping "mulsim women" in Iraq at the time of the Abu Ghraib scandal. Thopse fake but accurate photos eventually were even printed in Ted Kennedy's hometown paper, the Boston Globe.


33 posted on 02/01/2006 6:09:59 AM PST by weegee (Happy Holidays! Tis the season of MLK, Chinese New Year, Tet, Valentine's, Presidents...)
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To: AdmSmith

Why is this station still on the air ?


34 posted on 02/01/2006 6:49:52 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: NYer

Berliner Zeiting is as well publishing the drawings.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1138622526823&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull


35 posted on 02/01/2006 7:14:39 AM PST by AdmSmith
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To: AdmSmith
"We are up against uncontrollable forces. It will take a huge effort to calm things down," he told Danish media after the offices of the paper which first published the controversial cartoons were evacuated following a bomb scare.

Rasmusen sounds like another knee jerk lib grab a$$. Doesn't he command an armed force? Place them on full alert and issue each man 200 rounds stupid.

These stupid politicians really make me angry. They actually equate the right of this reactionary bigoted minority to destroy their country with their citizens right to National Security.

36 posted on 02/01/2006 8:27:12 AM PST by kimosabe31
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To: AdmSmith
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Danish prime minister, had expressed alarm on Tuesday at the wave of anger in the Muslim world prompted by the caricatures.

How I wish the Christian world would react in a similar manner whenever this gang of jackals and hyenas destroys one of our religious sites (church, monastery) in Kosovo or Bosnia.

37 posted on 02/01/2006 8:31:28 AM PST by kimosabe31
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To: AdmSmith

The Germans did it today as well.


38 posted on 02/01/2006 8:33:14 AM PST by rattrap
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To: GermanBusiness
Are we going to let that big Danish milk company go bust?

From what I have been able to ascertain that Danish company, Arla, does not do business in Israel, although they do in a number of Gulf and European countries. I do not know whether they do that to avoid offending their Arab customers, but it would be ironic if they are observing their longstanding boycott of Israel.

39 posted on 02/01/2006 8:40:31 AM PST by untenured (http://futureuncertain.blogspot.com)
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To: AdmSmith

Does anyone have copies of these cartoons? I'd love to see them.


40 posted on 02/01/2006 8:43:50 AM PST by seanrobins (http://www.seanrobins.com)
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