Posted on 02/07/2006 8:14:09 PM PST by bnelson44
Well, it's done. I appeared tonight on Fox News Channel's Hannity and Colmes for an all-too-brief segment on the Muhammad Cartoons. Before I drove to the Washington, D.C., studio, I stopped by a Kinko's store, printed out the cartoons, and pasted them onto a piece of poster board. I then used my short time on the airwaves to do what no one wants to do on American TV:
I tried to show viewers all 12 cartoons to give viewers the full context of the Jyllands-Posten's decision to publish the artwork.
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
"..Is it any wonder that millions of people are turning to the Internet to get to the truth?.."
That is the truth and a damn shame it applies to FoxNews as well.
Next time print the pictures on your shirt!
I don't advocate the lampooning of anyone's religious icon. If this was Jesus, I'd not want all this parade of cartoons going on. Why is it okay for Malkin to do it?
The newspaper published the cartoons when a Danish author complained that he could find no-one to illustrate his book about Muhammad. Jyllands-Posten wondered whether there were more cases of self-censorship regarding Islam in Denmark and asked twelve illustrators to draw the prophet for them. Carsten Juste, the paper’s editor, said the cartoons were a test of whether the threat of Islamic terrorism had limited the freedom of expression in Denmark.
The publication led to outrage among the Muslim immigrants living in Denmark. 5,000 of them took to the streets to protest. Muslim organisations have demanded an apology, but Juste rejects this idea: “We live in a democracy. That’s why we can use all the journalistic methods we want to. Satire is accepted in this country, and you can make caricatures,” he said. The Danish imam Raed Hlayhel reacted with the statement: “This type of democracy is worthless for Muslims. Muslims will never accept this kind of humiliation. The article has insulted every Muslim in the world.”
Flemming Rose, the cultural editor at the newspaper, denied that the purpose had been to provoke Muslims. It was simply a reaction to the rising number of situations where artists and writers censored themselves out of fear of radical Islamists, he said. “Religious feelings cannot demand special treatment in a secular society,” he added. “In a democracy one must from time to time accept criticism or becoming a laughingstock.”
The affair, however, has also led to a diplomatic incident. On Thursday the ambassadors of eleven Muslim countries, including Indonesia, a number of Arab states, Pakistan, Iran, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, complained about the cartoons in a letter to Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. They say the publication of the cartoons is a “provocation” and demand apologies from the newspaper.
Jyllands-Posten was also included on an al-Qaeda website listing possible terrorist targets . An organisation which calls itself “The Glorious Brigades in Northern Europe” is circulating pictures on the internet which show bombs exploding over pictures of the newspaper and blood flowing over the national flag of Denmark. “The Mujahedeen have numerous targets in Denmark – very soon you all will regret this,” the website says.
Meanwhile in Brussels a young Muslim immigrant published a poster depicting the Virgin Mary with naked breasts. Though the picture has drawn some protest from Catholics (though not from Western embassies, nor from the bishops), this artist need not fear being murdered in the street. On the contrary, he is being subsidised by the Ministry for Culture.
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/382
I wasn't aware that the Southern Baptists had hijacked airplanes and killed 3,000 Americans in one day. We're in a war against these people. We need to do everything that we can to demoralize them.
Bill
Cool! What's Ann Coulter doing right now? Snoring? She could up the ante with Michelle! Those two and Laura can do a concert tour together when Laura gets back from Iraq.
I disagree with you. Maybe you take pleasure in demoralising people but I don't.
To be honest I have been watching with a little amusement today as the reaction of people pointing to muslim reaction to this cartoons as an example of ISLAM is evil. Unfort most people are forgetting our own Chirstian History as to this that resulted in riots deaths destruction also. Primarly the Heresy of Iconclasim and then the Calvanist rampage against all images in the Churches of Europe esp in England.
Brit showed at least the one with the fuse on the turban.
Are you advocating the return to the middle ages?
Or just making excuses for people who are stuck in them.
If this was Jesus, I'd not want all this parade of cartoons going on."
If it was Jesus,every media outlet would be falling all over themselves to air, print,and shout it from the rooftops.
If those people want to raise a little hell, we can publish actual pictures of beheadings, hangings, burned and blown up bodies, corpses pissed and shitted on, buildings in ruins, etc. LET'S GO!
I said the same thing at the beginning but even when people do depict Jesus shamefully, I don't riot. They are cartoons, these are the people who kill people because they aren't Muslims and say horrid things about them everyday. They want to exterminate every non-muslim in the world and I could care less if their panties are in a wad.
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