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.
If we Christians have to tolerate "artists" putting a crucifix in a jar of urine, and other such tripe, the Islamowhackos surly must tolerate editorial cartoons that depict their prophet.
I'd like to read that, Michael. Do you have a link for it?
Way to go Germany! Way to go France!
> The Euros have been blaspheming Our Lord for over a century.
Naw, it's been a thousand years since the blaspheming of Odin began.
How much do you want to bet these countries start revoking citizenship based on some obsure argreement like......agreeing to abide by the laws and regulations, etc. of their newly adopted country of residence and/or citizenship.
Sounds like a perfectly weaselike EU way to run your country doen't it?
Personally, I've always believed that journalists in general are an irreverent lot. As soon as it became known that the Muslims say you can't print this or that, the journalists will go ahead and do it. The bigger issue is that this will inflame the arab street (not a hard thing to do) and be used as more hate propaganda by the muslims. There will be death threats and fatwas. But the journalists are also knocking the chip off the muslim's shoulders. COuld this be the provocation that will provoke the mulsims into rioting and trying to burn Europe before the planned time? With the election of Hamas and the showdown with the nuts running Iran, it is making me nervous that a smack down is coming soon.
This is a great sign. It proves that democracy AND Islam cannot coexist.
Rather sooner than later.
Important issue.
His envy of other men's functional penises is probably why he was gay.
That is to say, "gay" when he wasn't having sex with animals.
Actually, I guess he was technically "Bi" since he enjoyed water-sports while being "dommed" by women.
It's too bad he lived when he did: he would have fit perfectly in today's submissive, transvestite culture.
No sorry, it was in my daily printed paper.
I think you're right, doc.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1569012/posts?page=9#9
I want to see Mohammed floating in a jar of urine ...
Sounds like they're starting to get it.
First Danes, now French and Germans. Maybe if enough
countries print these cartoons, they can laugh the
Muzzies off the continent!
I love it. Proves a point.
Good one!
Mohhamed (pig skin be upon him) was a phony pedophile.
We should all do this. Every single newspaper in the world should do this. Mohammed is not beyond lampooning is garbage.
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