Posted on 02/04/2006 7:08:40 AM PST by janetjanet998
Breaking on CNN..Danish Embassy set on fire by Cartoon protesters
We're having a small get-together tonight, and my wife went out to buy beer. I told her to get some of this:
What could be better than drinking some fine Danish beer tonight?
S K A A L ! ! !
That's a bit harsh, now I suppose were going to see some dog pounds being bombed!
Let's get this straight, they want jihad for the world but can't take a little cartoon? Talk about a bunch of little wienies!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Denmark is too weak and cowardly to stand up to these terrorists. Denmark will Fall, France will Fall, Spain will fall.
Denmark...nation of cowards and Fools.
You are insulting me you ignorant fool!!!
Eating a Danish in the morning?
The correct name for these goodies is: Wienerbrod!!!
To his credit, W made that crystal clear at the outset.
I think Denmark is, but Sweden and Chile are not.
"Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?"
MUSLIMS BURN DANISH EMBASSY IN SYRIA
Yes, that is the message. And there is no public support from our State Department. Appeasement is interpreted as weakness by our enemy.
We want nuclear weapons
| Syrian demonstrators protest outside the burning Danish embassy in Damascus February 4, 2006. Several thousand Syrian demonstrators set the Danish embassy on fire on Saturday to protest the printing by a Danish newspaper of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri
Embassies torched as cartoon furore grows
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By Rasha Elass
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Furious Syrians set fire to the Danish and Norwegian embassies on Saturday as protests over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad showed no signs of abating despite calls for calm.
Oil giant Iran, already embroiled in a dispute with the West over its nuclear programme, said it was reviewing trade ties with countries that have published such caricatures.
Chanting "God is Greatest", thousands of protesters stormed the Danish embassy, burnt the Danish flag and replaced it with a flag reading "No God but Allah, Mohammad is His Prophet". They set fires which badly damaged the building before being put out.
No one was hurt as the embassy was closed at the time.
Demonstrators also set the Norwegian embassy ablaze. It was brought under control by firefighters.
Police fired teargas to disperse protesters there and also used water hoses to hold back others from storming the French embassy. Scores of riot police were also deployed to protect the U.S. mission.
Denmark and Norway advised their citizens to leave Syria.
Denmark is at the eye of the storm as the cartoons that Muslim demonstrators find offensive, one of the Prophet with a turban resembling a bomb, first appeared in a Danish daily.
A small Norwegian Christian newspaper was one of the first newspaper outside Denmark to publish the cartoons. They have now appeared in papers in Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Hungary, New Zealand, Norway, Poland.
Sweden, which shares its Syrian embassy with Denmark and Chile, was also dragged into the Damascus protests. It summoned the Syrian ambassador in Stockholm in protest.
Sweden, Denmark and Norway said the Syrian authorities had not done enough to protect their buildings in the capital.
There was no immediate comment from Syrian officials.
IRAN TRADE THREAT
The row has already had an economic impact with Arab countries boycotting Danish goods, but in a new twist on Saturday, Iran said it had formed a committee to review trade ties with countries that published cartoons deemed to insult the Prophet.
"A committee has been formed to review trade ties," a spokesman for the presidential office said.
From Afghanistan to Lahore, demonstrators rallied on Saturday to condemn the cartoons in what has developed into a face-off between press freedom and religious respect.
Newspapers have insisted on their right to print the cartoons, citing freedom of speech.
But Muslims find depicting the Prophet Mohammad offensive.
European leaders have called for calm, expressing deep concern about the furore that has become a lightning rod for anti-European sentiment in the Islamic world.
A black wreath was laid at the Danish embassy in Ankara. About 1,500 people were outside the Danish embassy in London.
About 100 people protested in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz with some shouting "Death to Denmark", a resident said.
Around 500 students of Islamic seminaries or madrasas protested in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, chanting "Down with Denmark" and "Hang the culprits".
Dozens of Palestinian youths tried to storm the office of the European Union in Gaza and pledged to give their "blood to redeem the Prophet".
PUBLICATION BARRED, EDITOR ARRESTED
In South Africa, a court granted a request by a Muslim group to bar publication of the cartoons.
Jordan's state prosecutor arrested the editor of a tabloid weekly which had published the cartoons. He had already been sacked by publishers of his Shihan weekly for reprinting the turban-bomb cartoon as part of an article headlined "An Islamic Intifada (Uprising) against the Danish insult to Islam".
Despite the number of European newspapers which had used the images, European Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini told La Repubblica it was not for the European Union to apologise.
"No, it's not Europe's duty, nor do I think it is the duty of (Danish) Prime Minister Rasmussen. We don't have the power to apologise in the name of the press. That would be violating the basis of freedom of the press," he said.
Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul of Muslim but secular Turkey, a European Union candidate country, called for calm and for mutual respect between Muslims and non-Muslims.
And a prominent British Muslim expressed outrage at placards carried at a rally outside the Danish embassy on Friday saying "Europe your 9/11 will come".
"I've been calling scores of Muslim groups around the country today to talk about this," Asghar Bukhari of Britain's Muslim Public Affairs Committee said. "Every single one of us is outraged by this bunch of thugs."
In Denmark, a network of moderate Muslims established on Saturday condemned the attack on the Danish embassy and urged restraint.
"It is terrible. This is no longer about the cartoons, the situation is out of control. I cannot take enough exception to it," said Syrian-born Naser Khader, the first immigrant member of the Danish parliament, who initiated the group.
Sweden, which shares its Syrian embassy with Denmark and Chile, was also dragged into the Damascus protests. It summoned the Syrian ambassador in Stockholm in protest.
Sweden, Denmark and Norway said the Syrian authorities had not done enough to protect their buildings in the capital.
Sooner or later,
If Abdul will pray,
To a smoking crater.
How dare a cartoonist imply that Islam is a violent religion! Off with their heads!
Maybe the rest of the world will finally wake up and see that no, this ISN'T about US policy, it's about religious fanaticism. But I doubt it.
Might not this be considered an act of war against Denmark, a NATO country? In such a case other NATO countries, including potentially usefully Turkey, would be required to come to the Danish defense. Depending on how the Syrian government acted during and after the attack the point could at least be argued. If we were looking for an excuse to attack Syria here is one. Of course if we ignore this one the Syrians will likely provide similar good excuses in the future.
The E.U. NATO, except U.K. = U.S. NATO!!!
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