Cartoons 'part of Zionist plot'

Guardian ^ | February 7, 2006 | staff

[liberallarry]

The furious international row over the publication of cartoons satirising the prophet Muhammad intensified today when Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, claimed it was an Israeli conspiracy motivated by anger over Hamas's win in the Palestinian elections.

Iran today also announced it was suspending all trade and economic ties with Denmark in protest of the caricatures. The move came after the EU had warned Iran that boycotting Danish goods would place further strain on already frosty relations.

[liberallarry]

This article has already been posted by SabraAmerican as it appeared in Arutz Sheva. I thought it was worth re-posting because it appears in the Guardian and because it's so unbelieveable. If this has appeared as a movie I would have dismissed it as typical, unrealistic, Hollywood horseshit propaganda. But lest anyone dismiss it remember that Hitler's rise was also greeted in this way, and that Chaplin, as late as 1940, ridiculed him as a pathetic, pretentious fool.

[onedoug]

So?

[vimto]

Yes it is interesting - the Guardian has been much more fair minded in this issue than it's usual liberal/left political stance would suggest. Better coverage than the Times indeed (hardly Right wing but usually a few degrees to the right of the Gruniard (as it used to be called by Spike ( I hate Portsmouth) Milligan (RIP - he told us he was ill)).

[Dahoser]

Right. Back in September, the evil Joos used their Futurematron and foresaw the Hamas win, so they had their Danish servants create those cartoons.

[QueenBee3]

We demand that whoever made the cartoons should be punished like a terrorist," Mr Durrani told the crowd. "Nobody has the right to insult Islam and hurt the feelings of Muslims."

We in free countries have a 'right to insult and hurt' you idiot. That is why we don't live in Syria/pakistan/saudi arabia. Why should their rules apply to the west?

[CMS]

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Ayatollah Assahola

[liberallarry]

So England is the only country in Western Europe whose newspapers didn't republish the cartoons in support of free speech. But the Guardian is very, very close.

[montag813]

Khamenei, claimed it was an Israeli conspiracy motivated by anger over Hamas's win in the Palestinian elections.

So the Israelis were angered over Hamas' election, went back in time and published the cartoons four months earlier? Sure, that sounds feasible.

[syberghost]

I'm just about to the point where my attitude on "Zionist plot to destroy Islam" is "to whom do I make out the check to donate them money? Do they have a mailing list? Bumper stickers?"

[edcoil]

I know Zion and he does not even own a plot.

[lilylangtree]

Another Israeli plot just like 911? RRRRiiigghhhttt! The islamic Iranian needs his head examined among many other things.

[Tzimisce]

Like Iran is a big Danish trading partner. I wonder if Iran will boycott all the French weapons it buys.

[Ronin]

Another for my already bulging "Why am I not surprised file."

[AmishDude]

By "unbelievable" do you mean "easily predictable"?

[liberallarry]

I meant incredible - like discovering that your favorite science fiction story was true - but, yeah, easily pridictable, too.

[BlueSky194]

hahah to funny.

Khamenei, claimed it was an Israeli conspiracy motivated by anger over Hamas's win in the Palestinian elections.

So the Israelis were angered over Hamas' election, went back in time and published the cartoons four months earlier? Sure, that sounds feasible.