Anger over Mohammad cartoons spreads (Danish PM refuses to apologize -- Publication spreads)

Reuters (via Swissinfo) ^ | 3 February 2006 | Kerstin Gehmlich

[ValenB4]

It's amazing that such a insignificant thing, a satirical cartoon in a Danish paper, could do more to wake people up to the inherent dangers of Islam than all the warnings coming from those already aware of those dangers.

The Muslim complaints are off base and inappropriate. People require protection of the law, not ideas.

[ECM]

These people are absolutely insane (Muslims).

[ValenB4]

"Islam has not suffered this spiritual decline; and in the contrast between [our religious chaos and] the religious certitudes still strong throughout the Mohammedan world ... lies our peril."

Belloc isn't entirely correct. Our strengths are also our weaknesses. Certitude in incorrect ideas inevitably will lead to problems. Muslim certitude in a primitive, violent, warlike religion will be the undoing of Islam. Sure, the West and the rest of the non-Islamic world is fragmented, divided, and sometimes uncertain of itself and its own values. But when push comes to shove, and when survival is at stake, the West will rise again.

When that day comes and what it will take, I don't know. But these comics have done more to wake people up than all the warnings from people usually written off by the media as "Islamophobes". Amazing.

[bella1]

"pigs be upon him"

Hilarious. Mind if I borrow it?

[bella1]

The real infidels are the Muslims.

[Virginia-American]

Be my guest, I borrowed it from someone, can't remember who.

[pookie18]

[jec41]

Religion, government, and society are of philosophy, faith, and belief.
They can be reasoned, debated, argued, logically deducted but never reconciled except by that which is imposed and that which is suppressed.

[PatoLoco]

Or piggy banks.

http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/000647.html

[From many - one.]

Can anyone on these threads confirm:

1. Images of Mohammed, as opposed to Allah, are forbidden by the Koran.

2. They are forbidden to anyone other than Moslems?

3. It is forbidden by the Koran just to make or to worship the image?

[nightdriver]

"French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy condemned the protests in a television interview. "I am totally shocked and find it unacceptable that -- because there have been caricatures in the West -- extremists can burn flags or take fundamentalist or extremist positions which would prove the cartoonists right," he said."

Yes, Philippe, the moose-limbs ARE indeed reinforcing a stereotype that they object to.

Just be careful that you don't fall into the classic French response, and that is:

:1. Placate

2. Supplicate

3. Capitulate

and

4. Abdicate.

[floridaobserver]

Just loaded up on some Danish Ham and Carlsberg beer. Will buy some Danish Butter cookies tomorrow!