Posted on 02/04/2006 1:45:49 PM PST by lizol
Anger over cartoons spreads in Europe AP
Gaza City: Rage against caricatures of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) poured out across the Muslim world on Saturday, with aggrieved believers calling for the execution of those involved, storming European buildings, and setting European flags afire.
The cartoons, first printed in Denmark, and then published elsewhere in Europe, have touched a raw nerve, in part because Islamic law is interpreted to forbid any depictions of the Prophet.
Muslims in Europe have reacted less passionately than their counterparts in the Mideast and Southeast Asia, but on Saturday, anger in Europe swelled, too, with demonstrators clashing with police in Copenhagen and gathering outside the Danish Embassy in London.
A South African court, meanwhile, barred newspapers from reprinting the pictures
In Munich, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she understood Muslims' hurt, but denounced violent reactions.
"I can understand that religious feelings of Muslims have been injured and violated," Merkel said at an international security conference, " but I also have to make clear that I feel it is unacceptable to see this as legitimising use of violence."
A leader of the Hamas group, which recently swept Palestinian parliamentary elections, told an Italian newspaper yesterday that the cartoons were an "unforgivable insult" that should be punished by death.
"We should have killed all those who offend the Prophet and instead here we are, protesting peacefully," Mahmoud Zahar, a top leader of the militant group that won the Jan. 25 Palestinian elections, told Italian daily Il Giornale.
"We should have killed them, we should have required just punishment for those who respect neither religion nor its holiest symbols," Zahar was quoted as saying.
Hundreds of Palestinians turned out for protests yesterday. In Gaza City, demonstrators hurled stones at a European Commission building and stormed a German government cultural centre, smashing windows and doors.
Protesters also burned German and Danish flags, and called for a boycott of Danish products. In the West Bank town of Hebron, about 50 Palestinians marched to the headquarters of the international observer mission, burned a Danish flag, and demanded a boycott.
At least 500 Israeli Arabs gathered peacefully in Nazareth for the first protest against the caricatures on Israeli soil.
Angry demonstrators took to the streets in Denmark and Britain yesterday, a sign that European Muslims' emotions have heated up.
Poland's prime minister, Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, criticised a Polish newspaper for reprinting the images.
In Copenhagen, young Muslims clashed with police after they were stopped from boarding a train to go to a demonstration north of the Danish capital.
Past time.
Why do you think the dictators have always feared a free press? One man with a leaflet can inspire a revolution easier than one man with a gun.
My God is a Powerful GOD,my God is a Mighty God,He would not be stopped by the presence of dogs,pig's blood, or pictures. The omnipotent God of the universe has power over all He created, to believe otherwise is irrational.He has allowed humans free will to choose good or evil ,and sadly,many consistently choose evil. The worst humans then subvert other humans to that evil.
Jesus kept himself in good shape while he was around here. And he didn't blow up a bunch of crap. He actually helped people along with their lives.
I'd have thought this would spark more rioting in France, but I haven't heard a word about that. Makes me wonder if it's happening but they're supressing news accounts about it.
Perhaps they published it to inform their readers, a free people in a civilized country, what the story was about. To do so properly requires showing the cartoons. To have self-censored themselves would have been to surrender to the howling islamic savages...something, sadly, so many others are doing.
Europe can do as it pleases vis a vis depicting Mohammed the pedophile. Muslims can grovel all they want, but they have no right to demand that the rest of the world ape them.
The western response should be imprisonment of anyone within a country's borders who calls for the death of the cartoonists or a publisher.
And so it begins. We'll see if we recognize the war in time.
As this escalates, embasseys burn, etc. all their outrage beginning to take on physical violence gives me inspiration. It is time to make an effigy of mohammed, hang it from a tree limb, take our shoes off, beat it, and then burn it.
I find it disturbing the pussy footing our media is doing around this. To me it is an outrage that we will just keep our mouths shut, not print or show the cartoons, placate to their sharia laws, and not condemn them for their intolerance of FREESPEECH.
Excellent!
With all the heat about some pictures, guess someone got too close to the truth
The muslims are pushing our buttons its just going to get
worse people, what have the muslims brought to the West
besides HATE and we will kill you.That day the gets nearer
and nearer for when we will have to kick them out of the
WEST me myself I cant wait.
I wonder who manufactures the flags.
These people really have zero sense of humor...just like dems.
After beating him with his shoe, slaughter a pig and stuff the mouth of the effigy with suet
...Then burn it. ;)
Yes why dont we burn there flags and mohammed dolls
wait I just come up with something mo-hamm-could that
mean more ham please.
That's a good point.
How many different signs do they have ready for the next event? b/c you know there will be more to come.
Thats funny I thought of the same thing yesterday
Crusades #2 bring it on.
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