Posted on 02/02/2006 9:20:33 AM PST by neverdem
ASSOCIATED PRESS
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Armed militants angered by a cartoon drawing of the Prophet Muhammad published in European media surrounded EU offices in Gaza Thursday and threatened to kidnap foreigners as outrage over the caricatures spread across the Islamic world.
About a dozen gunmen with ties to the Fatah Party approached the office of the EU Commission. Three jumped on the outer wall and the rest took up positions at the entrance.
In a statement read by one of the gunmen, the group demanded apologies from the governments of Norway, Denmark, France and Germany and called on Palestinians to boycott the products of these countries.
Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank city of Nablus said they were searching apartments for foreigners from several European countries to try to kidnap them to protest the drawings. The claim by the gunmen could not immediately be verified independently.
In a phone call to The Associated Press, a member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a violent offshoot of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party, said members of his group are also asking hotel owners in the city not to host citizens of five European countries, including France and Denmark.
In Paris, the daily newspaper France Soir fired its managing editor after it republished the caricatures Wednesday, and Pakistani protesters chanting "Death to France!"
The furor over the drawings, which first ran in a Danish paper in September, cuts to the question of which is more sacred in the Western world - freedom of expression or respect for religious beliefs. The cartoons include an image of Muhammad wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with a burning fuse.
Islamic tradition bars any depiction of the prophet to prevent idolatry. The drawings have divided opinion within Europe and the Middle East, where they have prompted boycotts of Danish goods, bomb threats and demonstrations against Danish facilities.
France Soir and several other European papers reprinted the pictures in a show of solidarity with the Danish daily.
the Gaza fatwa in full...
"Al'Karhoon Euromufti Mustafa Hedacutza El Al Poop Ohnza Profitz Urbanturban"
Yep, there it is on page 552.
Well, the EU will just have to send them more money, I guess.
Welcome to FR.
I think this whole islamic 'panties in a twist' is GREAT! I clearly illustrates the repressive, ass-backwards societies which those islamofacsists embrace. If they get so worked up over a stupid drawing - how can they expect people/nations discuss important matters with them?It's especially notable in Gaza, where nothing works, the city is rubble, the economy is a manure pile. It's very important in that situation to focus on cartoons in a newspaper several thousand miles away.
How many pali's does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
lol! Maybe we should run a contest here at FR. :)
Their prayers don't come in lucid sentences. Hahahahahaha!
It's an understatement to say that many Muslims lack a proper perspective.
Whatever else is said about these clowns, no one can call them "civilized."
Instead of expressing their grievances by writing letters to the editor (like normal people do), they come after the newspaper office with guns. Just another example of the miserable state of the Muslim world.
A peaceful and rational response /sarcasm
Muslims put explosive belts on their own children and send them out to blow up and kill other children...
How is the depiction of Mohamhood wearing an explosive belt
an insult?...
Unless of course a muslim blows herself or himself up without taking out any infidels...Allah Fubar would be the appropriate caption... I guess...
This is getting dumber and dumber. It seems like satire. A guy draws a cartoon and the muslims go nuts and start boycotting every product made in the cartoonist's country, recall ambassadors, and start to demand that hotels not host Europeons from any country that has a single publication that published the drawing. And yet flying passenger ladden planes into building and blowing up school children doesn't generate outrage. It'll be a lot harder than Bush ever thought to bring democracy to this region. 'Dem folks crazy.
I already do.
If they're angry at that - don't let them watch South Park!
Good Grief!
That's good tagling material!
;-)
Piss on em.
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