Posted on 02/01/2006 8:07:17 AM PST by ScaniaBoy
Two German newspapers on Wednesday reproduced controversial drawings depicting the Prophet Muhammad, with one of them arguing that a "right to blasphemy" was anchored in democratic freedoms.
The drawings were among several published in a Danish paper in September that sparked outrage and boycotts in Islamic countries. The pictures were also shown in a Norwegian magazine last week.
Palestinians in Gaza burned Danish and Norwegian flags this week in protest of the caricatures.
The caricatures offended many Muslims both because of their critical content and because Islam forbids representations of Muhammad out of concern they could lead to idolatry. In some of the pictures, Muhammad was shown to be wearing women's attire.
But the German Welt daily put one of the drawings showing the prophet's turban transformed into a bomb on its front page on Wednesday. It said the picture was "harmless" and expressed regret 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 Berliner Zeitung daily also printed two of the caricatures as part of its coverage of the controversy.
In France, the France-Soir daily published the drawings on Wednesday, saying that religious dogma has no place in a secular society.
(I never expected to write this without an end-sarcasm note!)
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Viva la Euroweenies. Must have taken a Viagra.
The press is stirring the pot...good on them!
You want to live in the western societies, you live by the rules of western societies...don't like'em...you are free to leave.
"Right to blasphemy".
No kidding.
The Euros have been blaspheming Our Lord for over a century.
I will admit to being surprised.
They hate the West. Why are they here ?
I'll be more surprised if they aren't brought up on "Hate" charges.
Now if we can get American newspapers to print them (front pages).
Wow, I can see some testicles peeking.
Now if we can only have a mass demonstration of koran flushing, the islamic world will spontaneously combust.
Good for both Germany and France! And for the Brits for not approving what amounted to a blasphemy law pushed by the Muslims, which was voted on yesterday.
The only way they are going to get this stuff to stop is to have it backfire on the Muslim community BIGTIME. Glad to see this happening. They have been pushing and pushing and it seems that finally the europeans have reached the point where they are going to push back.
After he read his words of wit
He ate those little balls of ....
(An old one I know, but I liked the rework.
Mohammad IS NOT GOD. Mohammad is a medieval, reactionary, psychopathic pedophile. He was as nutty as any islamofascist we see running loose today. Cartooning mohammad is not blasphemy.
That´s exactly what the press spokesman for the Bishop in Heilbronn (?) said yesterday!
Ok waiting for the NY Times, the Boston Globe and the Washington Post..waiting...waiting
Right on the front page.
http://www.welt.de/
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