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Rage at cartoons claims more victims
The Australian News, The Times & AFP ^ | February 08, 2006 | Anthony Browne

Posted on 02/08/2006 12:59:08 AM PST by abu afak

AT least six people were killed and dozens injured as enraged Muslims staged more violent demonstrations across Asia and the Middle East over the publication of cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed.

World leaders launched a desperate bid yesterday to stop the crisis spiralling out of control as more newspapers, including The Jerusalem Post, printed the pictures, more European embassies were attacked and more ambassadors recalled.

Iran suspended all trade with Denmark, where the cartoons were originally printed. Denmark warned its citizens to avoid travel to 14 Muslim countries. Travel companies cancelled flights to Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt, affecting 15,000 holidaymakers.

Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller said the protests were "beyond comprehension".

Demonstrators in Tehran threw petrol bombs and stones at the Danish and Austrian embassies. Four people were shot dead when police fired on two violent protests in Afghanistan, at the Bagram airbase and in the city of Mihtarlam. Danish troops in Afghanistan came under fire.

A teenager was killed in a stampede in Somalia after police fired in the air to disperse stone-throwing protesters in the city of Bossaso. The body of a protester was found in the building that houses the Danish embassy in Beirut, which was torched by demonstrators over the weekend, along with the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Syria.

The murder of an Italian Catholic priest in Turkey was linked to the fact the cartoons were published in Italian newspapers, although there appeared to be no conclusive evidence.

Police fired on demonstrators in Indonesia after they began attacking the US and Danish consulates in the city of Surabaya.

In Delhi, Indian police fired teargas to disperse demonstrators who were burning Danish flags.

The furore spread to Australia, South Africa, Ukraine, Romania and most significantly Israel, as newspapers there printed the cartoons for the first time, bringing to at least 24 the number of countries in which they have appeared. As well as Denmark, the cartoons had already been printed in Austria, Norway, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, The Netherlands, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Hungary, US, Japan, New Zealand, Jordan, Malaysia and Poland, where the editor of a leading daily and the Foreign Ministry apologised for any offence.

In Australia, the cartoons have been published in Brisbane's The Courier Mail and on the website of commentator Tim Blair.

Chechnya's acting Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov said all Danish organisations would be banned from working in the mainly Muslim region.

The crisis, the biggest between Islam and the West since the Salman Rushdie affair two decades ago, started in September when the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published 12 cartoons of Mohammed.

Iran joined Libya, Syria and Saudi Arabia in withdrawing its ambassador from Denmark.

Austria, which holds the rotating EU presidency, summoned the Iranian ambassador to protest at the firebombing of the Austrian embassy in Tehran.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; War on Terror
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1 posted on 02/08/2006 12:59:12 AM PST by abu afak
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To: SJackson; Alouette; Cindy; Yehuda

PINGO


2 posted on 02/08/2006 1:00:28 AM PST by abu afak (Mellita, domi adsum)
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To: abu afak

Denmark, Austria, Norway, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, The Netherlands, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Hungary, US, Japan, New Zealand, Jordan, Malaysia, Poland and Australia.


3 posted on 02/08/2006 1:04:06 AM PST by Dallas59 ((“You love life, while we love death"( Al-Qaeda & Democratic Party))
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To: All
ON THE NET...

Off-Topic.INTERNET-HAGANAH.COM: "YEAH, THAT'S A PAROLE VIOLATION...(February 7, 2006)

News.BBC.co.uk: "CARTOON PROTESTER WAS DRUG DEALER" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A Muslim demonstrator who imitated a suicide bomber in London to protest over cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad is a convicted drug dealer. Omar Khayam, 22, of Bedford, was jailed in 2002 and released on licence last year after serving half of his sentence for dealing heroin and cocaine.") (Last updated February 7, 2006)
WorldNetDaily.com: "'MUHAMMAD CARTOON' PROVED FAKE Imam added 3 especially provocative images to fuel outrage" (February 8, 2006)

MilitantIslamMonitor (TELEGRAPH.co.uk): "MUSLIMS CLERICS WHO 'DIALOUGED' WITH DANES WENT TO MIDDLE EAST TO INCITE VIOLENCE WITH FAKED MOHAMMED CARTOONS" (February 7, 2006)

MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch Series - No. 1087: "HAMAS LEADER KHALED MASH'AL AT A DAMASCUS MOSQUE: THE NATION OF ISLAM WILL SIT AT THE THONE OF THE WORLD AND THE WEST WILL BE FULL OF REMORSE - WHEN IT'S TOO LATE" (February 7, 2006)

TrackingAlQueda.blogspot.com: "FEBRUARY 13, 2006 THE NEW EMBASSY BURNING DAY" (February 7, 2006)

TrackingAlQueda.com: "2/10/2006 - Embassy Burning Day" (February 4, 2006)

"www.mohajroon.com/vb"

INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "HOW THE BROTHERS ATTACKED THE WEBSITE OF JYLLANDS-POSTEN." (SNIPPET: "Jihadis have claimed credit for attacking the website of Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten (jp.dk) on behalf of the Islamist hacker site 3asfh.net (listed in our database as 3asfh.com). They have done so by releasing a video purporting to document how they committed the crime, composed in the style of the jihadi videos which come out of Iraq. We found our copy via the jihadi forum Mohajroon:") (ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "Also implicated in this event is French Tawhid site tajdid.net which, to the best of our knowledge, was the first place to host the movie:") (February 7, 2006)
JAMESTOWN.org - Terrorism Focus: "INTERNET MUJAHIDEEN REFINE ELECTRONIC WARFARE TACTICS" by Stephen Ulph (February 7, 2006)

DANIELPIPES.org (NEW YORK SUN): "CARTOONS AND ISLAMIC IMPERIALISM" by Daniel Pipes (February 7, 2006)

DANIELPIPES.org (NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE): "THE CLASH TO END ALL CLASHES?  Making sense of the cartoon jihad" by Daniel Pipes (February 7, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs - Weblog (TELEGRAPH.co.uk): "RADICAL CLERIC: CARTOONIST SHOULD BE EXECUTED" (February 6, 2006)

Google - News Search: "OMAR BAKRI [Mohammed]"

JIHAD WATCH.org (SA via News24.com): "'We swear to God, if we catch one of their citizens in Iraq, we will cut him to pieces, to take revenge for prophet'" (February 6, 2006)

JPOST.com - JERUSALEM POST: "IRANIAN PAPER RUNS HOLOCAUST CONTEST" (Updated February 6, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (ABC.net.au): "TWO KILLED IN AFGHAN ANTI-CARTOON PROTEST" (February 6, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): "TURKEY: CATHOLIC PRIEST SHOT, KILLED BY ASSAILANT SHOUTING 'ALLAHU AKBAR'" (February 6, 2006)

OnlineJihad.blogspot.com: "ITALIAN PRIEST KILLED IN TURKEY - No Apology from Turkish Prime Minister" (February 5, 2006)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com: Beirut - "SYRIA SEEN AS INSTIGATOR" (February 7, 2006)

GlobalPolitician.com: "BEIRUT MOB TORCHES CONSULATE" by Jeremy Reynalds (February 6, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - Weblog - (TheAge.com.au): "CARTOON JIHAD IN NEW ZEALAND" (February 5, 2006)

INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "VOTE EARLY, VOTE OFTEN" (February 5, 2006)

IslamOnline.net - Views and Analyses: "CARTOONS OF THE PROPHET: A PITFALL TRAP" by Dal Nun Strong, Freelance Writer - UK (February 5, 2006)

THE COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG: "MORE LIES FROM DANISH IMAMS" (February 4, 2006)

MICHELLE MALKIN.com: "IT IS NOT A 'ROW'" (February 4, 2006)

ASSIST NEWS SERVICE: "ISLAMIC ANGER AGAINST PUBLICATION OF CARTOONS GROWS Dishonor Muhammad and Risk Execution" by Jeremy Reynalds (February 4, 2006)

AS-SAWAH.com: "The Ruling on the One Who Insults the Prophet of Allah" -posted by "terrorthreat" on February 2, 2006

JIHAD WATCH.org (BBC): "NORWEGIAN EMBASSY IN DAMASCUS TORCHED ALSO" (February 4, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): "DANISH EMBASSY IN DAMASCUS ABLAZE" (February 4, 2006)

BBC NEWS.co.uk: "TWO JORDAN EDITORS ARE ARRESTED" (February 4, 2006)

INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "E-CFR.ORG: CURRENT SITE OF THE 'EUROPEAN' COUNCIL FOR FATWA AND RESEARCH" (February 4, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org: "'you have started it, you are nurturing it and don't blame the muslims for their actions'" (February 4, 2006)

AFTENPOSTEN.no/english: "NORWAY USED AS TERROR BASE Islamic extremists are using Norway as a base for terrorist operations overseas, but the head of Norway's security police claims they're being watched." (February 3, 2006)

BRUSSELS JOURNAL.com: "'THE WAR IS ON'" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Yesterday (Thursday) Mullah Krekar, the alleged leader of the Islamist group Ansar al-Islam who has been living in Norway as a refugee since 1991, said that the publication of the Muhammad cartoons was a declaration of war. "The war has begun," he told Norwegian journalists. Mr Krekar said Muslims in Norway are preparing to fight. "It does not matter if the governments of Norway and Denmark apologize, the war is on.") (February 3, 2006)
AFTENPOSTEN.no/english: Aftenposten.no - Search Term: "KREKAR"

Google - Search Term: "KREKAR"

TrackingAlQaeda.blogspot.com: "EUROPEAN SITES HACKED BY MUSLIMS OUTRAGED OVER CARTOONS" (February 3, 2006)

MICHELLE MALKIN.com: "IN THEIR OWN WORDS" (February 3, 2006)

MICHELLE MALKIN.com: "THE 'INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ANGER'" (February 3, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (THESUN.co.uk): "'I love Al-Qaida' -- On London Baby's Bonnet" (February 4, 2006)

THE COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG: "'We Want Blood on the Streets of England'"(February 3, 2006)

alghurabaa.co.uk: "Kill those who insult the Prophet Muhammad (saw)"

INFOVLAD.net: "BOYCOTTING DANISH PRODUCTS GOES ON" (February 3, 2006)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "MUSLIMS AGAINST THE CARTOON JIHAD" by Kamal Nawash (February 3, 2006)

ISLAMONLINE.net: Cairo - "WARNINGS CARTOONS RISK VIOLENCE" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The blasphemous cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by a Danish daily and other European newspapers are risking to trigger acts of violence around the world, officials and commentators warn." (February 2, 2006)
THE COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG: "FABRICATED CARTOONS WORSENED DANISH CONTROVERSY" (February 2, 2006)

DAVIDS MEDIENKRITIK - blog: "WITH DENMARK: United Against Islamic Intolerance Time to Stand Up to Islama-Bullying: BUY DANISH!"

DAVIDS MEDIENKRITIK - blog: "DANISH CARTOONS: GERMAN JOURNALIST ASSOCIATION SAYS 'NO'...MAKE THAT 'YES'" (February 1, 2006)

THE COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG: "MUJAHIDEEN ARMY CALLS UPON FIGHTERS TO ATTACK DENMARK AND NORWAY" (January 31, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AFP): "FATWA AGAINST DANISH TROOPS" (January 31, 2006)

THE COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG: "DANISH LEFTIST GROUP OPENLY FUNDING TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS" -Posted by Olivier Guitta (January 29, 2006)

TrackingAlQueda.blogspot.com: "MUSLIMS BEGIN PING FLOOD AGAINST JYLLANDS-POSTEN" (January 29, 2006)

INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "THE DANISH THREAT This latest threat from the 'Glory Brigades in Northern Europe' targets Denmark" (January 28, 2006)

"www.internet-haganah.com/hmedia/28jan06-denmark/index.htm" (January 28, 2006

TrackingAlQaeda.blogspot.com: "Denmark is next - BOLO Denmark!!!" (January 27, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - Weblog: "The Cartoon Jihad" (January 27, 2006)

"www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/"

INFOVLAD.net: "NEXT TARGET - DENMARK?" (October 15, 2005)

4 posted on 02/08/2006 1:04:08 AM PST by Cindy
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To: abu afak

Let them show their barbarian arses off big time, the world needs awakened!


5 posted on 02/08/2006 1:04:43 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (MAY I DIE ON MY FEET IN MY SWAMP)
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To: abu afak

Let the games commence!


6 posted on 02/08/2006 1:10:02 AM PST by de Buillion (The French have always been there when they needed us.)
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To: abu afak
Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller said the protests were "beyond comprehension".

Only if you believe that "religion of peace" tripe.

7 posted on 02/08/2006 1:10:46 AM PST by appleharvey
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To: abu afak
Publish them Everywhere. Its time the islamofacists taste their own medicine. Publish it over and over till they get use to it.

Tim Blare's website and toons

8 posted on 02/08/2006 1:12:46 AM PST by adamsjas
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To: adamsjas
Somehow, I'm kind of getting the idea that Muslims in general are not good natured, happy, peace minded people who can take a joke.

Could this possibly be correct????


Perhaps such an attitude is the result of worshiping a false god, and a false prophet that preached hatred and murder???

Just wondering. I'm no expert on islam..

9 posted on 02/08/2006 1:33:36 AM PST by LegendHasIt
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Strange, they all hate the West and now they're killing EACH OTHER.


10 posted on 02/08/2006 1:41:05 AM PST by Bazooka (Just say what you think. They hate our guts anyway.)
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To: adamsjas

Thanks very much for those.

U hadn't seen the whole sequence or more than a few of them


11 posted on 02/08/2006 1:45:03 AM PST by abu afak (Mellita, domi adsum)
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To: abu afak

Huh. Well I guess Denmark is on the map now.
It's in old Europe, isn't it?


12 posted on 02/08/2006 1:50:09 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

Denmark was very good their Jewish citizenry during the occupation of Nazi Germany in that country. Hitler mistakenly thought the Danes would be grateful little Aryans and love him, but the Danes hated Hitler and the Nazis. When the Nazis ordered the Danish Jews to wear the Star of David, King Christian came out for his daily horse ride in the square in Copenhagen wearing a Star of David. He said something to the effect -- we are all the same here in Denmark, or maybe, we are all Danes. When the Nazis planned on taking all the Jews and deporting them to concentration camps, the Danes gathered all their Jewish citizens together and put them on a ship to Sweden and to safety. When the Nazis came to "collect" the Jews, almost all of them were gone.


13 posted on 02/08/2006 2:03:53 AM PST by bethtopaz ("You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you," Trotsky)
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To: abu afak

these cartoons have been widely published on the internet in the US, yet no protesting here. could these islamofacists realize that if they tried to create a stir here thay would be met with a huge backlash, not from libs or celebrities or their front organizations like the aclu, but from everyday Americans.


14 posted on 02/08/2006 2:14:51 AM PST by feedback doctor (Socialism, the opiate of liberals)
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To: abu afak

Protesting a cartoon is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of. What a bunch of buffoons.


15 posted on 02/08/2006 2:18:28 AM PST by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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To: advance_copy

Muslims are like Nazis, indeed they have declared war against anybody that is not a muslim. I am really surprised that the civilized nations of the world do not declare war and crush the nations that sponsor that muslim brand of terrorism. It must be done before these countries get nuclear weapons since they have no regard for human life.


16 posted on 02/08/2006 2:33:41 AM PST by chuckr
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To: MoHam; Obomba; Slick Willie



17 posted on 02/08/2006 2:37:08 AM PST by devolve (<-- (-in a manner reminiscent of Senator Gasbag F. Kohnman-)
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To: Cindy
 

18 posted on 02/08/2006 3:03:06 AM PST by wolficatZ (The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep.." (sleeper trolls)
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To: wolficatZ
Mahomet attached a peculiar blessing to the possession of goats.

"There is no house," he would say, "possessing a goat, but a blessing abideth thereon; and there is no house possessing three goats, but the angels pass the night there praying for its inmates until the morning."

19 posted on 02/08/2006 3:47:00 AM PST by kanawa (Freaking panty wetting, weakspined bliss-ninny socialist punks)
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To: abu afak

Islam on display around the world.

"A religon of peace......"

What a joke.


20 posted on 02/08/2006 3:56:29 AM PST by armydawg1 (" America must win this war..." PVT Martin Treptow, KIA, WW1)
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