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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Sorry, I'm trying to post offensive cartoons and it's not working :(
Here's a world-class apology: We apologize if any individuals who are small-minded and easily-swayed-by-religious-propagandists were offended by our legal and protected expression of free speech and press which we intend to continue using and enjoying, as we continue to passionately tell the truth about militant Islam.
Apologize for insinuating our religion kills, or we'll kill you!
I wonder how many are seeing the irony of this whole damned thing?
Personally, I love seeing our enemies howl in pain. By the way, is it true that the Godly, Holy Mohammed took a "wife" of nine years old?
yes ... does seem...
as if everything sped up in the last 10 years?
I was able to display the second one. Couldn't get the first.
Maybe it dawned on the Mooses that they prolly don't want to fool around with Germany. They invented Nazis.
That presentation was very good. Is it from a Danish source?
That apology is very Naginesque. I like it.
The Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys put up the white flag first again.
if wrong, this whole islam rebellionthing outta be put done pretty easy. lol
It would be nice to find some Mohammed cartoon image that is particularly offensive to Islamunists, and have a nice bumper sticker made out of it. I'd have one on my car in a New York minute.
It would seem so, although I've read of some defiant gestures from France too (defying the Muslims, who would have thought).
That's pretty powerful!
Did it ever appear in any newspaper in this country?
I dont recall seeing in the newspaper. We need to be reminded of it every d@mn day. Lest we forget.
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