Posted on 02/03/2006 5:05:38 PM PST by Pikamax
I'd like to pay the proper "homage".
They won't publish any RAGHEAD cartoons but they run all kinds of trash about Bush Cheney and our GI's. WHAT A---HOLES.
A New Zealand blogger (he is conservative by New Zealand standards, which is roughly corresponding to US's moderate conservative side) has remarked on US media that:
"They wouldn't meet our standards for what we publish in the paper," said Leonard Downie, Jr., executive editor of The Washington Post, which ran a front-page story on the issue Friday, but has not published the cartoons. "We have standards about language, religious sensitivity, racial sensitivity and general good taste."
Downie of the Wahsington Post is the same a**hole who approved publication of a cartoon mocking a American soldier who was a double amputee.
I guess he is only sensitive to Muslim and anti-American interests.
Half of those among us are willing dhimmis. I never thought such vast swaths of American society would surrender with virtually no fight. Now I know how the French resistance felt (maybe I'm a bit melodramatic, but it's getting discouraging to see how much leftism has eroded our country).
I think the editors here detect a subtle difference between Moslem fanatics and Christians ~ namely, that it's not like the Christians will ever flay them alive, flense their bones, and toss them into the fields to be eaten by wilddogs ~ however, they can't count on that with the Moslems.
Interesting how they won't publish muslim stuff but they don't have a problem putting in cartoons, etc. mocking Bush/Cheney/Troops/etc. etc.
No problem posting a cartoon of a military combat amputee though.
State Department agrees with the US newspapers.
"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.
Note: Radio NZ = government owned radio network. Roughly like the US's NPR
Listerner = New Zealand Listener magazine. Generally considered the de rigeur intellectuals' magazine. Predictably Ann Arbor left-wing type and a bit like New Yorker, but may look moderate on the issue of race because it is something that the NZ Left is hypocritical.
NBR = National Business Review. A bit like WSJ and the most conservative NZ-based publication published in this country (excluding the NZ edition of Reader's Digest but it is American headquartered). RINO by US standards except on trade.
Radio NZ: http://www.radionz.co.nz/
NZ Listerner: http://www.listener.co.nz/
NBR: http://www.nbr.co.nz/
The print media refuses to show cartoons about the FASLE PROPHET Moohawmed, in deference to the moon worshipers.
Protests have never stopped them from slamming Jesus Christ and Christians.
I guess there becoming "sensitive" and "tolerant".
Hypocritical cowards...
Kind of like a life and times of Mohammed. This is also part of the religion. What I like about Islam is it is hard to misinterpret. - Tom
Volume 7, Book 72, Number 833: Narrated Abu Talha : The Prophet said, "Angels do not enter a house in which there is a dog or there are pictures."
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 834: Narrated Muslim:
We were with Masruq at the house of Yasar bin Numair. Masruq saw pictures on his terrace and said, "I heard 'Abdullah saying that he heard the Prophet saying, "The people who will receive the severest punishment from Allah will be the picture makers.'"
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 835: Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar :
Allah's Apostle said, "Those who make these pictures will be punished on the Day of Resurrection, and it will be said to them. 'Make alive what you have created.'"
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 836: Narrated 'Aisha:
I never used to leave in the Prophet house anything carrying images or crosses but he obliterated it.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 837: Narrated Abu Zur'a:
l entered a house in Medina with Abu Huraira, and he saw a man making pictures at the top of the house. Abu Huraira said, "I heard Allah's Apostle saying that Allah said, 'Who would be more unjust than the one who tries to create the like of My creatures? Let them create a grain: let them create a gnat.' "
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 838: Narrated 'Aisha:
Allah's Apostle returned from a journey when I had placed a curtain of mine having pictures over (the door of) a chamber of mine. When Allah's Apostle saw it, he tore it and said, "The people who will receive the severest punishment on the Day of Resurrection will be those who try to make the like of Allah's creations." So we turned it (i.e., the curtain) into one or two cushions.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 840: Narrated 'Aisha :
I purchased a cushion with pictures on it. The Prophet (came and) stood at the door but did not enter. I said (to him), "I repent to Allah for what (the guilt) I have done." He said, "What is this cushion?" I said, "It is for you to sit on and recline on." He said, "The makers of these pictures will be punished on the Day of Resurrection and it will be said to them, 'Make alive what you have created.' Moreover, the angels do not enter a house where there are pictures.'"
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 841: Narrated Abu Talha:
Allah's Apostle said, "Angels (of mercy) do not enter a house where there are pictures.'" The sub-narrator Busr added: "Then Zaid fell ill and we paid him a visit. Behold! There was, hanging at his door, a curtain decorated with a picture. I said to 'Ubaidullah Al-Khaulani, the step son of Maimuna, the wife of the Prophet , "Didn't Zaid tell us about the picture the day before yesterday?" 'Ubaidullah said, "Didn't you hear him saying: 'except a design in a garment'?"
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 842: Narrated Anas:
Aisha had a thick curtain (having pictures on it) and she screened the side of her i house with it. The Prophet said to her, "Remove it from my sight, for its pictures are still coming to my mind in my prayers."
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 7, Book 72, Number 843: Narrated Salim's father:
Once Gabriel promised to visit the Prophet but he delayed and the Prophet got worried about that. At last he came out and found Gabriel and complained to him of his grief (for his delay). Gabriel said to him, "We do not enter a place in which there is a picture or a dog."
I agree; the MSM is just being a bunch of spineless, hypocritical cowards.
This is one of the offending cartoons. Maybe they'd feel better if we flushed it down the toilet?
It's probably for the best that U.S. newspapers not publish these cartoons. Publishing them would not accomplish anything worthwhile, and certainly not benefit the national interest.
I don't like radical Islamists anymore than anyone else on FR. But there's no point in inflaming them unnecessarily, particularly when there's so little to be gained from it.
And the dinosaur takes one more step out into the tarpits...
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