A journalist works in the newsroom at French newspaper France Soir at Aubervilliers near Paris, February 2, 2006. The paper has sacked its managing editor after over daily printed cartoons in its February 1, 2006 edition.
Posted on 02/04/2006 7:27:41 AM PST by JustaCowgirl
PARIS (Reuters) - An international row over newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad gathered pace on Thursday as more European dailies printed controversial Danish caricatures and Muslims increased pressure to stop them.
A journalist works in the newsroom at French newspaper France Soir at Aubervilliers near Paris, February 2, 2006. The paper has sacked its managing editor after over daily printed cartoons in its February 1, 2006 edition.
A dozen Palestinian gunmen surrounded European Union offices in the Gaza Strip demanding an apology for the cartoons, one of which shows Islam's founder wearing a bomb-shaped turban. Muslims consider any images of Mohammad to be blasphemous.
Palestinian gunmen kidnapped and later released a German from a hotel in the West Bank city of Nablus, witnesses said. 
Palestinian militants from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) brandish their weapons during a rally in the West Bank city of Nablus February 4, 2006. Palestinian youths tried to storm the European Union office in Gaza in protest over the printing by European newspapers of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that has whipped up fury across the Islamic world. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini
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FREE SPEECH VERSUS TABOOS IN ISLAM?
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the issue had gone beyond a row between Copenhagen and the Muslim world and now centered on Western free speech versus taboos in Islam, which is now the second religion in many European countries.
"We are talking about an issue with fundamental significance to how democracies work," Rasmussen told the Copenhagen daily Politiken. "One can safely say it is now an even bigger issue."
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Pretty funny, It must hurt to get shot with a high velocity casing.
I was wondering about that myself.
Well, looks as if the rounds are backwards anyway.
Not this time.
The Soir was the first European paper to re-print the cartoons (none of ours have that I know of), the majority owner is an Egyptian, the replacement editor quit in protest.
Pretty good, I call it. Credit where creit is due.
The guy in the picture is obviously well trained, he's got his finger on the trigger.
"To counteract the rising cost of bomb vests, PalestineTech debuts the first suicide machinegun."
Jeez, I totally missed that. I was looking at the guy who has his finger on the trigger. They are certainly well trained and ready to go.
Hmmmmmmmm.....Actually, I was looking at his finger. It looks like the beginnings of Rheumatoid Arthritis to me....Good!
Notice how the courageous American Stone Age Press is afraid to print any cartoons about Mooselips?? They can rip our soldiers, Christmas & Christians but are censored by these murderous thugs. This is a battle for freedom of speech and the EU is fighting back.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
It's editor was the first to re-print, and got fired for it. France surrendered.
yes and the terrible part about all this is these fanatics believe their writings, and their false enlightened one (the goat's son, the dung spread by the butt of the pig) mo hammed most of the nations of the world don't trust them, and the moham's best wake up and smell the beans. They are toast if they move on the world chess board, but our own border will simply remain almost completely wide-open?
I don't understand the military stategy on this one mr. chertoff.
no problem the media isn't going to be asking about such.
Nope. Definitely backwards but isn't that the hallmark of the islamic cult? ;-)
I( realized the same thing. I hope he pulls the trigger. ;)
Do any of you remember that post, or maybe it was a link in a post re: the general effectiveness of Arab armies? It was a long and very well written assessment which basically said that overall they're worthless. And this photo is typical: all bluster!
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