Posted on 02/02/2006 8:22:08 PM PST by Pikamax
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Read this CNN report very carefully:
The international storm over cartoon drawings of the Prophet Mohammad published in European media gathered pace across the Islamic world Thursday with angry demonstrations and the shutting down of the EU office in Gaza City.
In Paris, the daily newspaper France Soir fired its managing editor after it republished the caricatures Wednesday, and in Pakistan protesters marched chanting "Death to Denmark" and "Death to France."
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying the cartoons -- one depicting the founder of Islam wearing a turban resembling a bomb --showed press freedom should have its limits.
Muslims consider it sacrilegious to produce a likeness of the Prophet Mohammad. CNN has chosen to not show the cartoons in respect for Islam.
Unbelievable. The news network reports on an international controversy, but refuses to show readers what the news is actually about and let them judge the cartoons for themselves.
Even more galling is CNN's newfound respect for religion.
Where was that deference when Ted Turner was calling Catholics "Jesus Freaks?"
Where was the sensitivity about offensive religious imagery when Jeanne Moos was mocking images of Jesus Christ or Jonathan Mann was reporting on the Virgin Mary covered in dung?
Why is it that American media, including CNN, have absolutely no qualms about splashing Kanye West-as-Christ all over the airwaves and Internet...
...but can't bring themselves to print the Forbidden Cartoons gallery (now available in thumbnail and full-size images over at Human Events Online, which is also running the photos with my column this week):
Reader Jake G. e-mails that NBC Nightly News tonight also refused to show the cartoons:
Just when I thought NBC might have had a moment of clarity (HA! Yeah, right!), I heard them tease a story on this for the Nightly News tonight. In the middle of the segment, the dropped the ball completely, refusing to show the cartoons! They made some weak statement about how they decided against airing the images out of respect for Muslims.
This from the network that showed no respect for Christians when it forged ahead with the religion-mocking show, "The Book of Daniel."
This from the network that plans to feature Britney Spears as the host of a fictional cooking segment called "Cruci-fixin's" in an upcoming "Will & Grace" epsiode:
NBC announced this week that pop star Britney Spears would make a guest appearance on the gay-oriented sitcom [Will & Grace] as a Christian conservative hired as a talk show sidekick to the gay character Jack played by series regular Sean Hayes.
In the episode, scheduled to air on April 13, Jack's fictional TV network is bought by a Christian broadcaster, leading Spears' character to do an Easter cooking segment on Jack's show called "Cruci-fixin's."
The American Family Association immediately raised objections to the planned episode, saying it "mocks the crucifixion of Christ" and will "further denigrate Christianity" by airing the night before Good Friday.
And see this.
"Out of respect" for Islam and Muslims?
No.
Out of fear.
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I've uploaded the idiotic NBC News segment that reports on the cartoons, "which we've chosen not to show," intones correspondent Dawna Friesen.
Download and watch the video (.wmv file -6.4MB).
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Check out the new Faces of Muhammad blog. (Hat tip: My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy)
Rod Dreher: Mohammed cartoon row grows
The blogger at Secular Blasphemy has received a death threat for blogging about the forbidden cartoons.
Meanwhile, still no word from the MSM on how Islamists faked cartoons and attributed them to the Danes (noted here this a.m.) to inflame the Arab world.
1015pm EST. The New York Times covers the story on the web tonight (for tomorrow's print edition), but has no room to link to or print the cartoons.
Excellent commentary tonight from Dr. Sanity, who writes about the Highway to Hell:
Just as the false promises of socialism and communism were found to lead to misery instead of happiness; poverty instead of wealth; enslavement instead of freedom--so too, have multiculturalism and political correctness, instead of harmony, brought lethal discord.
There can be no backing down now; because to compromise on this would be disaster--in every way the beginning of the end of our own values, freedoms, and culture. Besides, it is compromise that has brought us to this unbelievable situation in the first place.
The very first time we allowed the adherents of a medieval and primitive religion to believe that their feelings about that religion trump all the values of western civiliztion; the minute we began to apologize for our successes and make excuses--or even blame ourselves--for their failures; we were bound to come to this place...
Wretchard at The Belmont Club also has trenchant analysis, as always, on the continuing cartoon crisis and its much, much larger repercussions. Go read.
1100pm EST. The top Technorati search is "jyllands-posten mohammed."
Technorati tag: Buy Danish
Judith Apter Klinghoffer: Does the American MSM know the meaning of solidarity?" An excerpt:
Danish cartoonists need 24 hour protection. Another bounty was put on them today. The Le Monde cartoonist responds by drawing a portrait of Muhammad is entirely made up of lines saying "I must not draw Muhammad."
What do American cartoonist do? Well, The one working for the Washington Post draws the American army as a critically wounded soldier who lost both hands and legs. The Islamists could not have asked for anything more. Didn't Bin Laden and company assure them that one more push and the US will collapse just as the USSR did?
The Danish PM Fogh was on arab television today, the interviewer asked him: "Please explain to us: why haven't you yet punished the newspapermen?" A second editor is fired. This time it is Jihad El Momeni, a Jordanian editor, who keeps alive the hope of moderate Islam. In an editorial accompanying the cartoons he asks:
"What brings more prejudice against Islam, these caricatures or pictures of a hostage-taker slashing the throat of his victim in front of the cameras or a suicide bomber who blows himself up during a wedding ceremony in Amman?"
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I think folks should pick a cartoon, run off a dozen copies, and simply start posting them on light poles and such.
Someone should sell t-shirts.
Reminds me of John Cleese saying that Monty Python kidded Christians and not Muslims because Christians wouldn't blow you up. His honesty was refreshing and rare.
Banners, for the New Crusades. With Mohammed's Ugly Mug on them. And an international slash.
Good idea!:)
Western nations should begin immediatley to de-islamicize. Send them back to an Islamic land of their choice or to Somalia.
yeah, here's a redo of that editorial cartoon. A stab at thee Islamic terrorists!
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2006/02/mohammed-and-his-thousand-papercuts.html
Nightline showed the highly offensive and culturally insensitive bearded pedophile photos tonight. Very apologetically, of course.
"CNN has chosen to not show the cartoons in respect for Islam."
Thanks, george76, for the head's up!!
Please FReepmail me if you would like to be added to, or removed from, the Michelle Malkin ping list...
the idiotic NBC News segment that reports on the cartoons, "which we've chosen not to show," intones correspondent Dawna Friesen.
{continued...}... "which we've chosen not to show... now onto our next story - New Video and Pictures have been discovered from Abu Ghraib! We'll be showing them to you at the top of every hour from now until the end of combat."
REAL Arab cartoons: warning: graphic and disturbing
http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/ArabCartoons.htm
World war 1 started with the assasination of Arch Duke Ferdinand
World War 2 started with the Invasion of Poland
World War 3 started with the printing of Cartoons?
The Dread Cartoons of Blasphemy
Fake Cartoons Spread by a MUSLIM to Inflame
Here is an LGF slideshow of the Mohammed cartoons originally published by Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten: Jyllands-Posten slideshow. What's so revolting about all of this is how the American MSM has self-censored regarding this "blasphemy". Per my own accounting, at least 14 countries have published some or all of these cartoons, including Mexico and...JORDAN. And there's more to come...
What are these neanderthals going to do? Kill us all in those countries?
The power of Islam? HAAAAAAAAAAA! Le Monde prints a new Mohammed cartoon
My aggrievement:
Lexington Herald-Leader Columnist: Arabs Justified in Nuking Israel
Larry Webster, a contributing columnist for Kentucky’s Lexington Herald-Leader, says Israel deserves to be attacked with nuclear weapons. (Hat tip: Igor.) link: 144 comments
" The true face of the Left laid out for all to see."
A Peaceful, Tolerant Day of Anger
Sheikh Yussef al-Qaradawi, best pal of London mayor Ken Livingstone and leading frontman for the global jihad, is calling for a “day of anger:” Day of anger threatened over cartoons of Prophet. "Day of tantrum" is more to the point.
You know, a peaceful, tolerant day of anger. link: 89 comments Time for a Hanson archive piece "After 30 years of listening to nauseating chanting from Teheran to Islamabad to Nablus, hearing the childish rants about "The Mother of All Battles" and "The Great Satan," and witnessing presidents from Carter to Bush burned in effigy, the ritual torching of the American flag, the misspelled banners of hatred, the thousands of paint-by-the-numbers posters of psychopaths from Khomeini to bin Laden...The problem is you, not us — you, you, you…
We Got Mail!
Today a gentleman from Morocco searched Google in French for “Jyllands-Posten carton of mohamed,” discovered LGF, and used our contact form to fire off a fan letter with the subject line “mohamed:”
f*ck you!!!!! and f*ck to everybody wanna touch our mohamed... I think LGF is about to coin yet another great term: mohamed. I, too, wash my hands after I touch my mohamed :-) You know, this could become the Web's next "all your base" if we play it right.
Even more galling is CNN's newfound respect for religion.Where was that deference when Ted Turner was calling Catholics "Jesus Freaks?"
Where was the sensitivity about offensive religious imagery when Jeanne Moos was mocking images of Jesus Christ or Jonathan Mann was reporting on the Virgin Mary covered in dung?
Why is it that American media, including CNN, have absolutely no qualms about splashing Kanye West-as-Christ all over the airwaves and Internet...
…Out of "respect" for Islam and Muslims?
No.
Out of fear.
Thye've gone and shot both their feet with this one.
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