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Cartoon blasphemy uproar gathers pace
Reuters ^ | 02/02/06 | Tom Heneghan

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

Further excerpted

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at p288.news.mud.yahoo.com ...


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KEYWORDS: cartoons; danish; denmark; muslims; newspapers; riots
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To: InkStone
http://www.prophetofdoom.net/chapter13.html
41 posted on 02/04/2006 8:21:22 AM PST by quantim (If the Constitution were perfect it wouldn't have included the Senate.)
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To: narby

And again, the majority owner is Egyptian.

Le Monde jumped into the fray with a front page cartoon of its own.

The gu picked to replace the Soir editor quit in protest.

And, btw, our own state department weaseled, while, so far as I know the French governement didn't.


42 posted on 02/04/2006 8:31:10 AM PST by From many - one.
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To: JustaCowgirl
Well, I found another protest picture:


43 posted on 02/04/2006 8:35:23 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: Bear_Slayer
Here's his sidearm:


44 posted on 02/04/2006 8:45:57 AM PST by SquirrelKing ("I am certian there is too much certainty in the world." - Michael Crichton)
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To: JustaCowgirl

Their changing gears now. Watch what's next with caution..


45 posted on 02/04/2006 8:48:14 AM PST by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

HOW did he even get those to fit like that?!! F'en islamic IDIOT! Glad he's fighting for them.


46 posted on 02/04/2006 8:50:59 AM PST by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: InkStone

"It was a long and very well written assessment which basically said that overall they're worthless."

I have heard several U.S. commanders describe their shooting as "pray and spray". Apparently they close their eyes, pray and shoot all at once. Not exactly effective. Not surprising that the majority of our casualties are from IEDs.


47 posted on 02/04/2006 8:51:36 AM PST by L98Fiero
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To: manwiththehands
Would it not be ironic if the world finally confronts Islam in a world war ultimately started by reactions to cartoons?

Very ironic. But everything in the radical Muslim line of thought and action strikes me as off kilter.

48 posted on 02/04/2006 8:58:57 AM PST by JustaCowgirl (We're in this fight to win. These colors don't run. -- VP Cheney, 12/18/2005)
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To: bayouranger
HOW did he even get those to fit like that?!!

Maybe Allah doesn't like him any more than we do.

49 posted on 02/04/2006 9:15:06 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Ooga Chakka, Hooga Hooga, Ooga Chakka, Hooga Hooga" --D. Hasselhoff)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Oh, now that's just wrong...for his sake. Good one..my ribs still hurt.


50 posted on 02/04/2006 9:21:38 AM PST by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: D Rider

I saw that too.


51 posted on 02/04/2006 9:28:13 AM PST by RunningWolf (Vet US Army Air Cav 1975)
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To: bayouranger

Thanks - you can't let these b@st@rds make you stop laughing.


52 posted on 02/04/2006 9:29:13 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Ooga Chakka, Hooga Hooga, Ooga Chakka, Hooga Hooga" --D. Hasselhoff)
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To: narby

I believe the managing editor is a mooslim.


53 posted on 02/04/2006 9:54:34 AM PST by Beckwith (The liberal press has picked sides ... and they have sided with the Islamofascists)
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To: All
Everything I have found about The War of the 12 Cartoons ( links, blogs, quips, quotes, aggravating pictures ) is located here- click the Pic, and scroll backwards:



54 posted on 02/04/2006 10:17:22 AM PST by backhoe
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To: JustaCowgirl

Something doesn't look right in that photo.

Does he have the ammo belt loaded backwards in the drum magazine?


55 posted on 02/04/2006 10:25:23 AM PST by 2111USMC
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To: 2111USMC; All

Disregard my post.

(Other Freepers picked up on it right away.)


56 posted on 02/04/2006 10:28:20 AM PST by 2111USMC
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To: 2111USMC
Does he have the ammo belt loaded backwards in the drum magazine?

Other FReepers have said he does. Read further up in the thread. Much speculation about the latest version of the Islamic suicide machine.

57 posted on 02/04/2006 10:29:25 AM PST by JustaCowgirl (We're in this fight to win. These colors don't run. -- VP Cheney, 12/18/2005)
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To: oldbrowser

The problem is their religion defines all non-believers as second class citizens or worse..if you try to convince them otherwise, that would mean their religion is not true and therefore you are wrong, no matter what. They will never allow non-muslims to be considered equal, it flies in the face of mohammed and his version of truisms (i.e., lies). Get ready, the world is going to be rockin' for a long time as long as the mohammedans live in the West, they won't let it alone and will continue to fester and be a thorn in our side unless they convert or leave, neither of which they will do. If the West wishes to survive, it will have to force the muslims to leave, wipe them out or we capitulate, those are the only choices, otherwise the West will continue to experience this antagonism. Don't believe me? Ask the Israelis, the Fillipinos, the Indians, etc.


58 posted on 02/04/2006 10:35:57 AM PST by john drake (roman military maxim: "oderint dum metuant, i.e., let them hate, as long as they fear")
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To: john drake
They will never allow non-muslims to be considered equal, it flies in the face of mohammed and his version of truisms (i.e., lies).

Muslims are going to have to make some changes to their religion or come changes are going to be made for them.

59 posted on 02/04/2006 10:47:04 AM PST by oldbrowser (We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow......R.R)
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To: InkStone

" By the way, is it true that the Godly, Holy Mohammed took a "wife" of nine years old?"

This little tidbit has been circulating around the 'net for a while.

He didn't actually marry the girl when she was 9. He married her when she was 6 years old. He came to collect her when she was 9 and consumate the marriage.

Somehow if you are a muslim, this means it is not childmolestation. If you are intolorant enough to think (and speak)it is so, then you must have your head chopped off.

Its the religion of Peace after all.

Oh, and being dragged off your bike on your way to work and repeatedly stabbed is also appropriate.

Islam is a disease.


60 posted on 02/04/2006 12:03:02 PM PST by silver charm (Do not be deceived, God can not be mocked. A man shall reap what he sows. Gal. 6:7)
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