Posted on 02/07/2006 2:42:18 PM PST by iPod Shuffle
Sweden: Muhammad cartoon contest initiated
Playing with fire? Online paper representing radical rightist party invites readers to participate in competition, expresses support for Danish newspaper that touched off controversy Roee Nahmias
Playing with fire in Sweden? A radical rightist online newspaper in Sweden has joined the cartoon fray Tuesday after initiating a prophet Muhammad cartoon contest.
The paper, Sd-Kuriren, justified its decision by saying it supports freedom of expression and backs the Danish newspaper that touched off the controversy by publishing Muhammad cartoons.
"Freedom of expression in Sweden outweighs the Islamic ban regarding prophet Muhammad," the paper's editor wrote.
The online publication operates in southern Sweden and represents a far right party characterized by xenophobia.
In his remarks, the editor addressed Muslim protests across the world and the anti-Denmark boycott announced by several Muslim countries, while noting the paper will continue to respect freedom of speech and calling on all those who find the issue important to take part in the cartoon contest.
Although the website in question is a marginal one, research institute "Global Justice Group" already identified radical Islamic online forums calling for the Swedish site to be destroyed.
The latest cartoon contest may push Sweden, which so far adopted a cautious line over the cartoon affair, into the eye of the storm as well. Currently, there are about 350,000 Muslims living in Sweden, with Stockholm being home to Scandinavia's largest mosque.
Iran has been calling the shots now for a few weeks. The comments about WW2, the whole nine yards, is designed to highlight differences between the two sides. They are firming up support. The cartoons were just the gift they were looking for.
I can't think there is anything to gain by doing that. I was more in favor of not pissing them off earlier than I am after seeing this reaction. The religions are incompatible. In fact, this proves it more than 9/11, because that could be blamed on a handfull. I'm no Christian, either.
...profit from the Prophet (pigs be upon him).
too funny.
"...gift they were looking for." I don't think you get it. If not the cartoons it would be something else just as irrelevant to islam-o-nazis. Like rap music.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1573827/posts
Q: What do you get with 32 Muslims in one room?
A: A full set of teeth.
Look at the timing. Please. They have been pissed about western culture forever. It's a political move. Sometimes I think the folks over there are a little more sophistacated about politics than we are. In fact I'm pretty sure they are. That's why the Iraqis haven't been going whack over the cartoons. They know what's going on and whose jerking whose chain. The cartoons are months old. Even the average Iraqi gets that this is a craven political power play by the Iranians and their clients in Syria, Lebanon and Gaza/West Bank.
Well, dang it.
I am glad to know that meatballs aren't the only balls they have.
So the Iranians want to be bombed? I say resist this crap now or you might as wll buy a burkha for your wife or daughter.
U.S. islam-o-nazi leaders complain about depiction of moe-hammad at Supreme Court:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1573853/posts
I think the Mohammadans were planning on hurting them anyway.
Actually, if you really wanted to drive Muslims nuts, just print off the existing Mo-ham cartoons on stickers. (The turban-bomb one would be best, I think.)
Then go into areas where Muslims go, and (discretely) leave them around. In men's room stalls. On light poles. In elevators. Have them turn up EVERYWHERE
Drive them NUTS
No they want to be ridiculed by the kuffirs so they can appeal to Muslim faithful that the US is bad and wants to destroy their religion. They are playing the Allah card.
I think you meant "goat-o-phobia" not homophobia. nyuk, nyuk.
The correct answer is none. Mohammets will sit in the dark forever and blame the Jews for it.
"kuffirs" ? kaffirs perhaps?
They ALWAYS play the allah card. I hate to say it but you sound like an appeaser. The "Can't we all get along?" crowd.
No compromise with people that wish to kill all the Jews and kill or enslave anyone who does not convert to islam.
What I find odd is that the threat of WMD within launch distance of Western Europe wasn't enough to motivate the idiots there to finally stand up.
Nope, it was the freedom to doodle on Mohammed that did it.
Even the French are outraged.
I watched TROP protesters storm the Norwegian embassy in Tehran this AM on Fox News.
When you think you've seen everything - the issue that is making people take sides literally comes down to whether or not we have the right to decide what to lampoon.
Well, if the Muslims are willing to wage world war on civilization over this and people in Europe start getting whacked to the point where they'll whack back, maybe this is OK.
What I HAVEN'T seen much of lately (besides Putin recently)is anybody saying our adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan are unjustified.
Right now, the debate in the editorial departments of the US's newspapers are whether publishing certain cartoons constitutes a strategic threat to their readers. I guess it is better than the alternative.
I would prefer a contest where Scarlett is dressed in a harem girl outfit and she increasingly tries to make me outraged.
Allah is so holy, you can find his name on a pig's balls!
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