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Embassies torched as cartoon furore grows
Reuters ^
| Feb 4, 2006
| By Rasha Elass
Posted on 02/04/2006 12:23:06 PM PST by johnny7
DAMASCUS -- 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.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cartoons; denmark; embassy; globaljihad; norway; radicalmuslims; syria
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To: johnny7; All
Reuters - Sat Feb 4, 3:17 PM ET 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. (Khaled al-Hariri/Reuters)
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posted on
02/04/2006 12:37:06 PM PST
by
NYer
(Discover the beauty of the Eastern Catholic Churches - freepmail me for more information.)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
They're just like us. Really.Except insane.And smelly.
To: johnny7
This reminds me of an old Star Trek episode when a computer "god", Landreiu, had the entire planet under it's control.
Cartain Kirk used reason and logic to defeat the oppressor.
Even Captain Kirk and Spock could not reason with the insanity of Islam!!
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posted on
02/04/2006 12:40:36 PM PST
by
CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
(expell the fat arrogant carcasses of Congress)
To: RedBloodedAmerican
"Can we have a cartoon of Mohammed's followers torching embassies?"
We can have any cartoon we damn well please.
To: NYer
those flames are getting pretty close to that Church.
To: johnny7
I think that every newspaper in the world should publish the cartoon and end the craziness. They would just have to get over it.
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posted on
02/04/2006 12:41:59 PM PST
by
Eva
To: Right Wing Professor
Hey that means they have another thing in common with hippies.
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posted on
02/04/2006 12:43:35 PM PST
by
Camel Joe
(WANTED: Hot Tar and Feathers... I've Got a Rail)
To: Eva
To: Echo Talon
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posted on
02/04/2006 12:47:03 PM PST
by
tioga
(Speaking out from the god-forsaken frozen tundra of the Hildebeast.)
To: johnny7
As long as a country populated by supressed lunatics exists, so-called religions will be their only form of recreation.
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posted on
02/04/2006 12:47:17 PM PST
by
hgro
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To: johnny7
Time to go Viking.
To: johnny7; 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:
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posted on
02/04/2006 12:54:50 PM PST
by
backhoe
To: woogmonster
Big 'dif'... most of the EU is unarmed.
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posted on
02/04/2006 12:55:45 PM PST
by
johnny7
(“Iuventus stultorum magister”)
To: Travis McGee
When Muslims rioted because American troops made terrorists wear women's underwear, that twit Bush knelt before the Arab street and sent his wife in a burkha to the Al-Aqsa Mosque - something Islam forbids! Western leaders are a bunch of spineless cowards.
To: quantim
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posted on
02/04/2006 1:07:08 PM PST
by
JOE6PAK
(...diagonally parked in a parallel universe.)
To: BW2221
A bunch of self absorbed, insecure touch-holes if you ask me.
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posted on
02/04/2006 1:07:59 PM PST
by
oyez
To: backhoe
"Slay those who insult Islam"
Those Neanderthals look an the insult to me..
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posted on
02/04/2006 1:10:18 PM PST
by
oyez
To: Echo Talon
those flames are getting pretty close to that Church. From the Muslim perspective, destroying a Christian Church along with the Embassy, would be comparable to a 'double play'. Much like that Muslim woman 'trilling' after the Twin tTowers fell on 9/11.
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posted on
02/04/2006 1:22:34 PM PST
by
NYer
(Discover the beauty of the Eastern Catholic Churches - freepmail me for more information.)
To: Izzy Dunne
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posted on
02/04/2006 1:36:11 PM PST
by
kokonut
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