Posted on 02/03/2006 9:04:55 AM PST by thesharkboy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington on Friday condemned caricatures in European newspapers of Islam's Prophet Mohammad, siding with Muslims who are outraged that the publications put press freedom over respect for religion.
"These cartoons are indeed offensive to the belief of Muslims," State Department spokesman Kurtis Cooper said in answer to a question.
"We all fully recognize and respect freedom of the press and expression but it must be coupled with press responsibility. Inciting religious or ethnic hatreds in this manner is not acceptable."
No matter; those idiots will be ignored. See my tagline.
No, VERY believable.
It's OKAY to be anti-Christian, especially anti-evangelical and anti-Catholic. THAT'S part of the left-wing agenda....Christianity and Christians NOT wanted. It's open season on all that involves Jesus Christ. (Happy holidays! X-mas, no creches, but other images are allowed. The Passion of Christ was an excellent example of the anti-Christianity feeling in Sleazywood and the media.) The movies that mocked Christ were extolled.
Men and women of the Christian cloth are villified, mocked, derided and excoriated with regularity and consistency.
When CHURCHES get burned or vandalized it's not news unless the CHURCHES belong to minority parishes. When other houses of worship get vandalized, it's international news and breast-beating.
However, ALL OTHER RELIGIONS are welcome, loved, honored and glorified. Just look at who is called the hate-names when bigotry rears its ugly head. You never see the outrage at Christ-hating.
The "crucifx-in-the-urine" (not a cross, but a CRUCIFIX!) and feces-spatterd holy virgin were just two examples of how our tax dollars/government and "art" people coverge against Christ.
If you haven't seen that anti-Christian, PRO-all-other-religions bias yet, you just aren't paying attention.
I THINK I'm preaching to the choir. :o)
Good memory.."Piss Christ" IIRC...What would be the Moslem equivalent?
thanks for the link. sent a message.
godspeed to our european allies.
Has it occurred to you that the State Dept doesn't want to offend the Iraqis (or any other muslims) that we're fighting for and with?
That statement, coming from an official State Department spokesman, makes us look more scared than France and the person who uttered it is an idiot.
There is more sense in those two sentences than the average State Department functionary could possibly comprehend.
I nominate dead for the post of Ass't Secretary of State for Clear Thinking.
Freedom of the press is nothing to lose your head over.
I was just going to post that! I've seen cartoons that use Jesus saying the most outrageous things and we don't riot.
Ping prairie; we were just discussing this.
Foggy Bottom puts me in mind of what Ronald Reagan once said: "The nine most dangerous words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help'."
You're right--I'm not surprised. And you're also correct that it was a crucifix, not just a cross. I had forgotten!
What's it pay? 8-)
US State Department = NWO
I tried to do that and got an error message. PO'd me, for sure.
They're smoking some really bad shi'ite in Foggy Bottom..
Has it occurred to you that the governments of europe dont want to offend muslims either? But are refusing to be intimidated by saber waving peasants and standing by freedom of the press as a western value the muslim world needs to drag itself out of the 6th century to embrace.
The State Dept had no clue Hamas was going to win the Pali election. They better just stay out of this one.
Has it occurred to you that the governments of europe dont want to offend muslims either? But are refusing to be intimidated by saber waving peasants and standing by freedom of the press as a western value the muslim world needs to drag itself out of the 6th century to embrace.
While we're trying to help them understand the concept of freedom of speech?
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