Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Brit Hume: Muslim Cartoon Protests 'A Disgrace'
NewsMax ^ | 2/5/06 | NewsMax

Posted on 02/05/2006 10:04:37 AM PST by wagglebee

Fox News Channel "Special Report" anchorman Brit Hume said Sunday that violent demonstrations by radical Muslims protesting five-month-old cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Mohammed betray a "howling double standard."

"This is really a disgrace," Hume told the panel on "Fox News Sunday." "And it is a disgrace because of the obvious, howling double standard involved here."

"What is striking about this is what offends these Muslims who are protesting and these imams," Hume complained. "Does the slaughter of innocent people in many parts of the world in the name of Allah offend them? Is that a sacrilege worthy of protest?

"No, not in the least," he said.

Hume noted that there has also been no outrage on the Arab street over "the kinds of slurs against Christians and against the Jewish faith that are regularly spread abroad in the Arab world by the mass media and by many of these imams themselves."

Prior to Hume's comments, "Fox News Sunday" aired a shot of the cartoon deemed most offensive by the protesters - a drawing of Mohammed wearing a turban shaped like a bomb.

CNN, on the other hand, has only broadcast images of the cartoons with Mohammed's face digitally distorted beyond recognition.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: brithume; cartoons; foxnews; islam; notbreakingnews
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 241-252 next last
If we have to deal with Crucifixes in jars of urine being called "art", then it's high time the jihadists started dealing with the fact that a psychotic murdering pedophile is actually a psychotic murdering pedophile.
1 posted on 02/05/2006 10:04:39 AM PST by wagglebee
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: wagglebee

He's right. Slaughtering children getting candies from our troops in Iraq, for example, is a far cry worse than a few cartoons. The Muslims have a distorted sense of right and wrong.


2 posted on 02/05/2006 10:07:10 AM PST by KittyKares
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: wagglebee

Do you have any idea why this has suddenly become an issue. Were the cartoons recently re-printed?


3 posted on 02/05/2006 10:08:05 AM PST by Kimberly GG
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: wagglebee
Way to go Brit ...
4 posted on 02/05/2006 10:08:08 AM PST by tx_eggman (Islamofascism ... bringing you the best of the 7th century for the past 1300 years.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: wagglebee

The same guys who supported the "artist's" rendering of a crucifix in a glass of urine find it outrageous that European newspapers would print cartoons of Muhammad.


5 posted on 02/05/2006 10:08:20 AM PST by Brilliant
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: wagglebee


Just in case you haven't already heard my view of this stench:

We have pried open the soft underbelly of the beast!

Don't stop now!

DRAW MORE CARTOONS!!!

Then the world will begin to see this trash for the Nazis that they are.

DRAW MORE CARTOONS!!!

ALL ARTISTS TO THEIR PALLETTES!

MORE CARTOONS HERE: http://retecool.com/comments.php?id=13539_0_1_0_C


Danish bloggers are having a field day...



While looking at the mob of angry islamo-facists with behead those that insult Islam signs...

I picture Munchkins from the Wizard of Oz singing, "We represent the lollipop league, the lollipop league, the lollipop league. And in the name of the lollipop league... we wish to welcome you to Munchkin Land."

Try it... it works well.

Just overlay the Jihadists with Munchkins and do the song.

See how it works for you.


Somebody needs to do a cartoon with Mohammed bent over, with his burka hiked up exposing his bare butt, pointing to his butt saying, “I got you're 72 virgins right here.”

And then we need to have T-shirts made with this cartoon.


6 posted on 02/05/2006 10:08:27 AM PST by MedicalMess
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: wagglebee
If I understand correctly, these cartoons were part of a total anti-religious movement, not anti-Muslim bias. Jews and Christians just piss and moan about it or ignore it considering the source. We don't set crap on fire and stab priests. Once again, Brit nails it. He is the best news anchor on the planet.
7 posted on 02/05/2006 10:08:30 AM PST by satchmodog9 (Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: KittyKares

It would appear that they have no sense of right and wrong..


8 posted on 02/05/2006 10:08:40 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: wagglebee

He was great this morning. Outstanding! Too bad our State Department is so cowardly. Brit's statements were well thought out and said quite diplomatically. It would behoove all Western governments to stand up for themselves is such a calm matter of fact way.


9 posted on 02/05/2006 10:09:21 AM PST by Chgogal (CNN, the network that enabled Saddam.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: wagglebee
Way to go, Brit.


10 posted on 02/05/2006 10:09:58 AM PST by BunnySlippers (ìÏâ¡ëfêHé`äŸ)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: wagglebee
Double standards are EVERYWHERE in liberalism, socialism, terrorism, etc. Look at the girl who scored more than 100 points in a high school basketball game recently. Some people are saying scoring all those points equates to unsportsmanlike conduct and she should not be congratulated, as a result.
11 posted on 02/05/2006 10:10:18 AM PST by jdm
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: wagglebee

Plus I have seen pictures of their prophet in old Quran's on the Internet dating from the middle ages ... so what's their complaint???


12 posted on 02/05/2006 10:10:24 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad - Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: wagglebee

Piss Christ was titled an offensive name, as well as placed in a profane discharge, and I'll ask that the mods let this post stand. The US taxpayer had to finance that intolerant insult.

The media is decidely antiChristian. Then again, we knew that there would be days like this. Beats being thrown to the lions.


13 posted on 02/05/2006 10:10:25 AM PST by weegee (Happy Holidays! Tis the season of MLK, Chinese New Year, Tet, Valentine's, Presidents...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kimberly GG

Some in the West who are in a position to know are beginning to say this whole thing looks orchrestrated. Kind of strange the large number of Danish flags found on hand for burning in front of the TV cameras.

Something isn't adding up.


14 posted on 02/05/2006 10:10:46 AM PST by kjo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: satchmodog9
If I understand correctly, these cartoons were part of a total anti-religious movement, not anti-Muslim bias. Jews and Christians just piss and moan about it or ignore it considering the source. We don't set crap on fire and stab priests. Once again, Brit nails it. He is the best news anchor on the planet.

I think he's pretty good. And at least he and by connection Fox News had the guts to show the cartoon.

15 posted on 02/05/2006 10:10:52 AM PST by Stepan12
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: wagglebee

I think we should really abandon the "radical muslim" trope. Call 'em Muslims. If some Mulsims don't like that, then maybe they ought to start doing something to curb the actions of the violent ones. Until I see that happening, I cannot differentiate between "garden-variety muslim" and the "bomb-throwing terrorist radical muslim". They all seem the same to me. Deal with it.


16 posted on 02/05/2006 10:10:55 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All

Brit Hume for President! :)


17 posted on 02/05/2006 10:11:02 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: wagglebee
Prior to Hume's comments, "Fox News Sunday" aired a shot of the cartoon deemed most offensive by the protesters - a drawing of Mohammed wearing a turban shaped like a bomb.

CNN, on the other hand, has only broadcast images of the cartoons with Mohammed's face digitally distorted beyond recognition.

CNN wouldn't want to make the Islamist nutcases angry, now would they?

I wonder how long it will take for Brit's life to be threatened as well as all Fox News employees, and heck, all Americans. Oh wait, that last part is already in effect; that won't be "news".

18 posted on 02/05/2006 10:11:24 AM PST by KJC1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BunnySlippers

19 posted on 02/05/2006 10:11:48 AM PST by Andy from Beaverton (I only vote Republican to stop the Democrats)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: MedicalMess

I can't wait to see how the Comics Journal covers this international story.

I also wonder if all of the activist cartoonists who respond to scandal, tragedy, lawsuits, etc. by drawing more comics targeting those subjects are going to rise to this occassion.


20 posted on 02/05/2006 10:12:21 AM PST by weegee (Happy Holidays! Tis the season of MLK, Chinese New Year, Tet, Valentine's, Presidents...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 241-252 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson