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[New Zealand] MPs critical of [Muhammand] cartoons' appearance
Radio New Zealand (via TVNZ) ^ | Feb 4, 2006

Posted on 02/03/2006 7:47:42 PM PST by NZerFromHK

Ethnic Affairs Minister Chris Carter has warned that the decision by two newspapers to publish cartoons depicting the Muslim Prophet Mohammed, undermines New Zealand's reputation as a tolerant country.

The Dominion Post and the Christchurch Press re-published the caricatures, originally printed by a Danish newspaper, one of which pictures Mohammed with a bomb in his turban.

The cartoons have caused outrage across the Islamic world and Chris Carter says they could affect trade, New Zealand's troops in Afghanistan and even the situation of the Auckland student currently held hostage in Iraq.

He says publishing them was a disappointing decision.

The Maori Party says it is disgusted at the decision to print the cartoons.

Party co-leader Tariana Turia says the act will not only incense the feelings of the Muslim community but is also an outrageous attack on any efforts to create unity throughout Aotearoa.


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: baaaa; chriscarter; gwot; labourparty; madmoozies; newzealand; rotp; sheep; wot
Now for those who say Kiwis have grown spines over the ROTP, think again. Unfortunately a majority in this country is brain dead...
1 posted on 02/03/2006 7:47:45 PM PST by NZerFromHK
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To: Brian Allen; BlazingArizona; shaggy eel; Aussie Dasher; blueminnesota; Michael81Dus; ...

That's the reality over here. Sigh...


2 posted on 02/03/2006 7:49:39 PM PST by NZerFromHK (Leftism is like honey mixed with arsenic: initially it tastes good, but that will end up killing you)
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You wonder if the "Ethic Affairs" minister would protest a showing of "Piss Chr!st"?

Hypocrites.
3 posted on 02/03/2006 7:56:58 PM PST by Fido969 ("Everybody out of the pool!")
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To: NZerFromHK

Anthing to appease the Muslim extremists. I wonder how the Lebanon Lions would respond if the cartoons were published in Australia?


4 posted on 02/03/2006 8:08:46 PM PST by Fair Go
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To: NZerFromHK
Ethnic Affairs Minister Chris Carter has warned that the decision by two newspapers to publish cartoons depicting the Muslim Prophet Mohammed, undermines New Zealand's reputation as a tolerant country.

If New Zealand is such a tolerant country, then surely it can tolerate free speech.

The cartoons have caused outrage across the Islamic world and Chris Carter says they could affect trade,

With apologies to the Danes, considering they are weathering some of the worst of this at the moment, sacrificing national pride for the sake of trade dollars is never a good idea...

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation
For fear they should succumb and go astray
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested
You will find it better policy to say

"We never pay any one Danegeld
No matter how trifling the cost
For the end of that game is oppression and shame
And the nation that plays it is lost!"

...New Zealand's troops in Afghanistan...

I'm sure New Zealand's troops in Afghanistan would rather their government stood up for the things they are risking their necks for. and even the situation of the Auckland student currently held hostage in Iraq.

And that is called paying the Danegeld
But we've proved it again and again
That if once you have paid him the Danegeld
You never get rid of the Dane.

5 posted on 02/03/2006 8:19:59 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: Fair Go

"Anthing to appease the Muslim extremists."

Yep, it looks like the religion of hatred and violence is having its way.


6 posted on 02/03/2006 8:21:20 PM PST by American in Singapore (Liberals: They even lie in their diaries)
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To: naturalman1975

Middle New Zealand can be bought over by dollars. Many "moderates"/centrists and leftists, and even conservatives, sound lofty when they talk about "justice", "clean, green, nuclear-free New Zealand", and "free trade" but when they look at trade dollar signs they have forgotten everything about principles and personal dignity.

I'm not sure where Kiwis got this French national character from.


7 posted on 02/03/2006 8:31:54 PM PST by NZerFromHK (Leftism is like honey mixed with arsenic: initially it tastes good, but that will end up killing you)
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To: NZerFromHK
When we consider what New Zealanders are alleged to do to sheep after dark, it's not surprising one of their leaders would jump into bed with the moozies!
8 posted on 02/03/2006 8:35:45 PM PST by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: NZerFromHK

"Ethnic Affairs Minister Chris Carter has warned that the decision by two newspapers to publish cartoons depicting the Muslim Prophet Mohammed, undermines New Zealand's reputation as a tolerant country."

It's better then slavery.


9 posted on 02/03/2006 8:36:45 PM PST by George - the Other (400,000 bodies in Saddam's Mass Graves, and counting ...)
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To: NZerFromHK

The Toronto "Globe and Mail" has a report on the publishing of the cartoons. One clown responding to the article suggested that the publishing of the cartoons was the work of the right wing press and that the governments of Europe should clamp down on Christian extremists. I wonder where all these Christian extremists are with bombs strapped to their waists?


10 posted on 02/03/2006 8:39:12 PM PST by Fair Go
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To: Fair Go

It is time to tell tehse Canadian leftists to visit sites hosted by their mates in the US such as Democratic Underground. Even the DUmmies are calling to support these newspapers who published the cartoons!

IMHO we are witnessing the beginning of an ideological civil war within the Western Left.


11 posted on 02/03/2006 8:41:31 PM PST by NZerFromHK (Leftism is like honey mixed with arsenic: initially it tastes good, but that will end up killing you)
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To: NZerFromHK

I hope the civil war within the Left comes soon and that they both destroy each other.


12 posted on 02/03/2006 8:45:18 PM PST by Fair Go
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To: Fair Go

The Kiwis surrendered to the Left Extreme a long time ago. They have become spineless weenies. NZ has the world's worst case of P-Envy. They hate the Aussies, they hate the USA, they don't much like the British, but they love the Chicoms. Their newspapers are censored to only print the Government line. They are sliding into irrelevance very quickly, and have no REAL friends.


13 posted on 02/03/2006 8:53:29 PM PST by ex_desert_cowboy
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To: NZerFromHK

Whether it's the US State Dept. or NZ MPs, I don't see what business it is of any gov't telling newspapers what to print or not to print, regardless of whether the cartoons are offensive. And none of these official bodies have ever complained so far as I know about the constant insults to Christianity offered all the time, e.g., "Piss Christ," Offili's Madonna with elephant dung, "Corpus Christi" etc.


14 posted on 02/03/2006 9:18:00 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: NZerFromHK

15 posted on 02/03/2006 9:23:35 PM PST by Andy from Beaverton (I only vote Republican to stop the Democrats)
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To: Fido969; NZerFromHK

<< You wonder if the "Ethic Affairs" minister would protest a showing of "Piss Chr!st"?

Hypocrites. >>

Sharia "law" imposed by brainless mindless gutless idiot-savant socialist gangsters-posing-as-politicians.

Mongrel bastard Earth-worshipping humanist/panthiest bigots rubbish Christians and Christianity at every opportunity and the not-uncommon desecration of Jewish graves never raises an eyebrow.


16 posted on 02/04/2006 9:03:23 AM PST by Brian Allen (How arrogant are we to believe our career political-power-lusting lumpen somehow superior to theirs?)
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