Posted on 02/03/2006 2:57:32 PM PST by Dark Skies
They suggested Islam was violent! They must die! From AP, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Outrage over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad erupted in a swell of protests across the Muslim world Friday, with demonstrators demanding revenge against Denmark and death for those they accuse of defaming Islam's holiest figure.
In Iraq, the leading Shiite cleric denounced the drawings first published in a Danish newspaper in September, one of which depicted the prophet wearing a turban shaped as a bomb. But the cleric also suggested militant Muslims were partly to blame for distorting the image of Islam.
Gee, ya think?
Some European newspapers reprinted the caricatures this week, prompting protests Friday in Britain, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Palestinian areas. In Sudan, some even urged al-Qaida terrorists to target Denmark.
"Strike, strike, Bin Laden," shouted some in a crowd of about 50,000 who filled a Khartoum square.
I wonder what the Iraqi cleric thinks of that.
The U.S. and British governments criticized publication of the caricatures as offensive to Muslims, raising questions about whether the line between free speech and incitement had been crossed.
Come now. Any sane and reasonable person can see that the most the cartoons do -- and only a few of them at that -- is note the connection between Islam and violence that Muslims themselves have made. That's incitement? If anything that provokes huge anger is incitement, then it is. But do the U.S. and British governments have any criteria for determining whether the line between a reasonable reaction to incitement and a daft and disproportionate overreaction has been crossed?
The Danish government tried to contain the damage. Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller called Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and said the Danish government "cannot accept an assault against Islam," according to Abbas' office.
On Monday, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said his government could not apologize on behalf of a newspaper, but that he personally "never would have depicted Muhammad, Jesus or any other religious character in a way that could offend other people."
Many Muslims consider the Danish government's reaction inadequate.
What would be adequate? The destruction of Danish free speech, that's all.
Clerics in Palestinian areas called in Friday prayers for a boycott of Danish and European goods and the severing of diplomatic ties. Tens of thousands of incensed Muslims marched through Palestinian cities, burning the Danish flag and calling for vengeance.
"Whoever defames our prophet should be executed," said Ismail Hassan, a tailor who marched in the pouring rain with hundreds of other Muslims in the West Bank city of Ramallah. "Bin Laden our beloved, Denmark must be blown up," the protesters chanted.
Foreign diplomats, aid workers and journalists began pulling out of Palestinian areas Thursday because of kidnapping threats against some Europeans.
In Iraq, about 4,500 people protested in the southern city of Basra, burning the Danish flag. Some 600 worshippers stomped on Danish flags before burning them outside Baghdad's Abu Hanifa Mosque, Sunni Islam's holiest shrine in Iraq. Demonstrators also burned Danish journalists in effigy and torched boxes of Danish cheese.
Iraq's leading Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, condemned the publications as a "horrific action."
But in remarks posted on his Web site, al-Sistani referred to "misguided and oppressive" segments of the Muslim community whose actions "projected a distorted and dark image of the faith of justice, love and brotherhood."...
In Damascus, Syria, entrances to the Al-Murabit mosque were strewn with Danish, Israeli and American flags so worshippers could trample them as they entered. Banners outside called for a boycott of Danish, European and U.S. products "until Denmark is brought to its knees, regretting this farce of freedom of expression."
Some 1,500 worshippers in Jordan marched in the northeastern city of Zarqa, demanding that Denmark prosecute the cartoonist who drew the caricatures.
Pakistan's parliament unanimously passed a resolution condemning the cartoons as a "vicious, outrageous and provocative campaign."
That certainly sums up the reaction to the cartoons, at very least.
Clerics in Palestinian areas called in Friday prayers for a boycott of Danish and European goods and the severing of diplomatic ties.And a severing of aid to the pali's by the Europeans? Good!
I particularly liked that part.
WASHINGTON: The US on Friday blasted the publication by European newspapers of cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) as unacceptable incitement to religious hatred. “These cartoons are indeed offensive to beliefs of Muslims,” State Department spokesman Justin Higgins said when queried about the furore sparked by the cartoons. “We all fully recognise and respect freedom of the press and expression but it must be coupled with press responsibility,” Higgins said. “Inciting religious or ethnic hatreds in this manner is not acceptable. We call for tolerance and respect for all communities and for their religious beliefs and practices.” US Ambassador to Pakistan Ryan C Crocker also condemned the cartoons, saying that their publication does not reflect the respect that religious beliefs of Muslims have around the world. “These cartoons do not in any way reflect the views of the American people towards Islam,” he said. agencies
Think we could get the address of EVERY Muslim in the world and mail them all a wall size poster of the cartoon?
Robert Spenser ping.
I'm moving to a country that has guts...like France!
They should deport the Muslims back to Algeria or wherever.
There was an art work of the Madonna made out of elephant feces , I didnt see any Mooslims or anyone else outraged over that. Wasnt there an art work of the croos and urine?/ No outrage there.
Take your complaints and shove them Mooslims.
There is no suggestion that the sinking of the ferryboat in Egypt is related to the call for death, etc. by these crazed islamists. Someone might put two and two together, but there is no message in such a tragedy.
The UK is offering 3000 pounds to every immigrant who leaves.
This whole issue shows the weakness of the rest of the world in dealing with fanatics of a truly dangerous nature. Its alright, for instance, to use public funding in the United States to show not just contempt for Jesus Christ but to purposefully insult all who believe in Him and His ways. Its ok to malign, lie about and propagandize against Christians and work at removing them from office and influence in this nation. A nation, which, built a majority of its foundation on Christian ethics and morals. Further it is by those foundations we have our freedoms today, especially religion. But lets say that all of this was not, and that it was the Muslim faith that we were founded by and established on.
What would we then have?
This twisted faith that Muslim radicals have is a disease that many of their own do not share. Their hell bent hatred of all things not Muslim is coddled by LIBERALS who think that they can be dealt with.
Hint to Liberals: They do not want to be dealt with, or "reached" or "share" in your world view. They have no place for anything Christian, Agnostic, Jewish or Catholic. They are not inclined to listen to how to "get along" and seek our destruction and the subjugation of Women and children. THIS, is what you support when you coddle the nightmarish fascists of Islam who have no faith in any god but a god of pure hatred.
All these monkeys are doing is proving that the cartoons are true. Who would want to kill people over some cartoons, other than the muslims?
We cannot co-exist in peace with these people. More and more, I am convinced that either they go, or we go. And by "go" I mean six feet under the ground.
The cartoons certainly don't reflect the views of this American. They are far too tame. They don't begin to condone the loathing I feel towards the koran or the religion that it inspired-a loathing I've felt since the 1980s.
This cartoon is really more of a better reflection of the views of this Amreican:
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"“These cartoons are indeed offensive to beliefs of Muslims,” State Department spokesman Justin Higgins" - Did this come from the State Dept. or was the the French Gov.
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