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Area Muslims React With Tempered Anger--Some Say Depiction Overstepped Liberties [DC]
Washington Post ^ | 2-4-06 | Caryle Murphy

Posted on 02/04/2006 6:11:10 PM PST by SJackson

Wearing a brown golf cap against the cold drizzle, Rocky Omary stood outside Walima Cafe in Falls Church, where he and about 50 other men of Middle Eastern descent had just watched the Tunisian soccer team take a drubbing from the Nigerians.

That trouncing was bad enough. But Omary had other, more disturbing, insults on his mind: specifically, the recent publication in European newspapers of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist.

(Nikki Kahn - The Washington Post) "I've been getting a lot of e-mails about it, and I'm distributing them all," said Omary, a Damascus native who sells real estate in Northern Virginia. "There is a limit to freedom. There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world. Let's have some respect."

A few miles away at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society mosque in Sterling, Zaki Al Barzinji, 16, was equally upset.

"Just because you can say something doesn't mean you should say something," the teenager said. "If somebody showed a picture of the Pope with a bomb on his head, that would cause a great public outcry. Nobody would be talking about freedom of speech."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: cartoons; fallschurch; loudoun; muslimamericans; virginia
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To: SJackson

"Technically, you have the right to walk into a crowded theater and yell 'Fire,' " said Uzma Unus, 34, a teacher in Sterling who is also vice president of ADAMS. "But is that responsible?"

This person is a teacher? If she is an naturalized citizen, I don't understand how she passed the test.


41 posted on 02/04/2006 6:36:37 PM PST by Sue Bob
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To: johniegrad

No. You don't understand his reply.

Evidently you do. What would the outcry be?


42 posted on 02/04/2006 6:36:50 PM PST by silentreignofheroes
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To: SJackson

I've seen pictures of the pope with a huge beer stein.

I laughed.

Muslims cannot stomach truth.


43 posted on 02/04/2006 6:37:59 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..".Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity"GW Bush)
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To: silentreignofheros

I didn't say that I did. I just suggested you ask him about it before assuming the worst.


44 posted on 02/04/2006 6:38:25 PM PST by johniegrad
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To: Leatherneck_MT

Many Americans have guns.

Europeans do not.


45 posted on 02/04/2006 6:38:54 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..".Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity"GW Bush)
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To: Chgogal
NO ONE, but no one should ever bow to the wishes of the evil death cult of islam!!!

Why is it fair for islam to run cartoons that depict Jews and Christians in horrible racist caricature's, but if someone does the same to islam they go nuts?

If islam cannot take it, don't dish it out!

There are 14 wars talking place in the world -- and they all have one thing in common. Islam is at war with their neighbors - from the muslims killing Christians in the Philippines, to the slaughter of Buddhists in Thailand by muslims, from the murder of Hindus in India, to the blowing up of Jews in Israel by the followers of Islam, to the enslavement and slaughter of Christians in the Sudan, to the slaughter of children in Russia by the followers of islam and the killing of Van Gogh in the Netherlands -- only one common thread exists --- islam's followers. islam is at war with the human race -- it is time the human race declare war on islam -- do we really want the terrorists islamists to blow up New York with a nuclear bomb!!! If we do nothing that is what will take place!
46 posted on 02/04/2006 6:39:37 PM PST by GaryMontana (The future belongs to the bold, not the cowards who hide under rags (ragheads)!)
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To: SJackson

I can see how Muslims might get upset at the depiction of Muhammed, how they might even protest. But what I don't see and can't accept is the way that they're protesting. Burning embassies and threatening mass murder, kidnappings, and beheadings; why would they expect Westerners to respond any way but negatively to that?


47 posted on 02/04/2006 6:40:32 PM PST by Zeroisanumber
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To: TASMANIANRED

"Many Americans have guns.

Europeans do not."

Many Europeans are brain dead then.


48 posted on 02/04/2006 6:41:43 PM PST by Leatherneck_MT (An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.)
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To: Leatherneck_MT

"Let them Protest as is their right, but boys, start getting stupid and rioting and a case of whoopass will be opened up on you so fast it will make your turban spin."(Leatherneck_MT)

I'll second that. If TROP tries any of that s*** they've been pulling in other places like Australia and Denmark, I will not be idley standing by, that's for sure. I've had it with the islamic death cult bastards. We stood down on 9/11, never again. They don't belong here and I'd like to show them the door.


49 posted on 02/04/2006 6:42:48 PM PST by Imperialist
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To: GaryMontana

There is not one word, one coma one period that I disagree with. You are 100% correct. Now the question is how do we win the war? Suggestions please.


50 posted on 02/04/2006 6:43:01 PM PST by Chgogal (CNN, the network that enabled Saddam.)
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To: SJackson
Virgin Mary depicted in elephant dung, a Crucifix immersed in urine as well as other anti-Christian artwork paid for by the US Government.

Put some ice on it Muslims.

51 posted on 02/04/2006 6:44:06 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Condimaniac)
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To: Leatherneck_MT

Europe has been emasculated.


52 posted on 02/04/2006 6:44:15 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..".Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity"GW Bush)
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To: Imperialist

"I'll second that. If TROP tries any of that s*** they've been pulling in other places like Australia and Denmark, I will not be idley standing by, that's for sure. I've had it with the islamic death cult bastards. We stood down on 9/11, never again. They don't belong here and I'd like to show them the door."

Amen brother, Amen


53 posted on 02/04/2006 6:44:19 PM PST by Leatherneck_MT (An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.)
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"There is a limit to freedom. There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world. Let's have some respect."

By all means. What caliber would you like it in?

54 posted on 02/04/2006 6:45:53 PM PST by Michael Barnes (One for the thumb)
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To: proxy_user

Or perhaps most of us are armed and getting tired of taking their endless crap.


55 posted on 02/04/2006 6:45:56 PM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: johniegrad

I'll do that. I never assume the worst..


56 posted on 02/04/2006 6:46:12 PM PST by silentreignofheroes
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To: SJackson
"If somebody showed a picture of the Pope with a bomb on his head, that would cause a great public outcry. Nobody would be talking about freedom of speech."

You idiot!
Being 16 is no excuse, specially living in a civilized country.

I would laugh at such an image. And I'm Catholic!

Muslim insane logic must be genetic, as well as their abject stupidity!

57 posted on 02/04/2006 6:47:05 PM PST by Publius6961
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To: SJackson

There was a great public outcry when BAM had the Maplethorp exhibit. Unfortunately, the outcry was to let it proceed. Everybody was talking about freedom of speech.


58 posted on 02/04/2006 6:48:22 PM PST by synbad600
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To: SJackson
"If somebody showed a picture of the Pope with a bomb on his head, that would cause a great public outcry."

Why don't you Google the name of Jesus and see what kind of cartoons, photos, statues, etc have been "showed" all across America and the world.

And Christians have burned how many embassys in return?

Get real Muzzies. We know how this story will end.

59 posted on 02/04/2006 6:49:10 PM PST by NewLand (Posting against liberalism since the 20th century!)
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To: Chgogal
Now the question is how do we win the war?

Well---I think I would start finding out where all the AK47 bullets, plastic explosives and rpg rounds are coming from. I watch the mohammadian lunatics firing their guns in the air...20...30 rounds at a time. It seems like they have an endless cheap supply. Maybe its time to bomb the bullet, explosive and rpg factories....wherever they are.

Could be some in downtown Paris???

60 posted on 02/04/2006 6:50:14 PM PST by B.O. Plenty (Islam, liberalism and abortions are terminal..)
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