Burn the witch!
Posted on 02/06/2006 9:22:52 PM PST by presidio9
Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that first published the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that have caused a storm of protest throughout the Islamic world, refused to run drawings lampooning Jesus Christ, it has emerged today. The Danish daily turned down the cartoons of Christ three years ago, on the grounds that they could be offensive to readers and were not funny.
In April 2003, Danish illustrator Christoffer Zieler submitted a series of unsolicited cartoons dealing with the resurrection of Christ
(Excerpt) Read more at politics.guardian.co.uk ...
Jesus Christ has been lampooned for 2000 years. Actually, they killed Him.
Hey, I heard that the Jews run all the Danish papers (yeah, that's the ticket)...
There's a newspaper whose editor has his head screwed on right! We could learn something from the Danes here.
I agree. Where can I get a subscribtion?
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You beat me to the punch. Christians, as a general rule, don't decapitate non-believers while barking out incantations to their deity.
"Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that first published the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that have caused a storm of protest throughout the Islamic world, refused to run drawings lampooning Jesus Christ, it has emerged today. The Danish daily turned down the cartoons of Christ three years ago, on the grounds that they could be offensive to readers and were not funny."
It's there perogative to make these decisions. It's part and parcel to free speech.
Burn the witch!
Do these muslims not realize that men like Bin Laden and Zarqawi have brought this upon their religion? They should be outraged at them, not the Danish government. When "men" kill others in the name of Allah and Islam, how is that anyones fault but their own? Is it necessary to burn down buildings and be violent? What does that solve but more scorn toward yourselves from others? How liberals still not believe in racial profiling and this enemy being extremely dangerous is completely beyond me. America is at war with an enemy that the liberals are refusing to let us win. Pulling out of Iraq is like leaving your house and moving because it is full of roaches. You don't move. You take care of the problem. You smash the worthless scum.
Why would ANY newspaper run unsolicited artwork? Talk about reaching...
And so what?
The point is that the editor gets to choose what he wants to print, regardless of the merit, that's the whole point of a free press.
People then have the right to then react to it in any way they want, except violence. And I suppose they could even react violently, but the state then would need to go after them.
What the Guardian doesn't seem to get is that freedom of the press is protected - violence is not!!
Therein lies the difference. The bomb-headed Mohammed *is* funny.
The unfortunate deaths of 37 individuals in Salem, Massechusettes some 314 years ago doesn't change the fact that, as a general rule, Christians don't go around lopping off heads while barking out incantations to their diety.
The fact that the horrors of Salem are still remembered after all this time only proves the point. When an act of Islamic rage claims dozens of lives, it's usually only remembered until the next act of Islamic rage claims a few dozen more. And that's usually a matter of weeks.
If you need proof, do your own man on the street interviews of a dozen people. Ask them what comes to mind when you say "Salem". Then ask them what comes to mind when you say "Beslan".
I dig the Cleese picture, though. Funny stuff.
In one of my history classes, we were shown some Roman grafitti showing a man with a donkey's head on a cross with a caption something like, "Brutus worships his dead god". But let's not forget recent examples of government funded and museum showcased "art" in the US.
The Danes have never been lacking in testicular fortititude. When the nazis told Denmark to hand over her Jews, the Danes told them to go do something profane to themselves.
"What else floats?"
funny, liberals will be the first ones with their heads on the chopping blocks, yet they defend them.
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