Posted on 02/08/2006 9:35:39 AM PST by oldleft
DUBAI, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Muslims have decried as hypocrites Western dailies which have cited free speech as the reason for printing disrespectful cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, saying the same newspapers take pains to avoid lampooning Jews.
The caricatures, first published in a Danish daily in September and then reprinted across Europe, have unleashed fury among Muslims who view any portrayal of their Prophet as blasphemous, let alone one showing him as a terrorist.
What is really insulting, some Muslim clerics and politicians say, is that Europeans do not think twice about denigrating Islam but view ridicule of Judaism as anti-Semitic.
"What about freedom of expression when anti-Semitism is involved? Then it is not freedom of expression. Then it is a crime," said Arab League chief Amr Moussa.
"But when Islam is insulted, certain powers ... raise the issue of freedom of expression. Freedom of expression should be one yardstick, not two or three," he said, adding that the Danish cartoons showed European disdain for Arabs and Muslims.
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Are these crybabies publishing the Mohammed cartoons? I doubt it.
ef 'em if they can't take a joke!
The press in the Muslim world has no scruples about "lampooning Jews," so doesn't that make them the hypocrites?
So I guess it would all be OK if a Jew was insulted too?
Honestly I don't understand this culture of hatred!
Translation: "You never print The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in your newspapers anymore!"
I am not aware of any American legislation that makes expressing anti-Jewish sentiments a crime. Are there such in Europe?
I don't mind being respectful of their death cult if they weren't such hypocrites. I find it offensive when the cross is dunked in a jar of urine and would prefer is such offenses aren't done...and I'd be willing to extend the same courtesy to muslims...but they are nothing but hypocrites when they do far worse than those cartoons on a daily basis and then expect better treatment...AND, the most offensive cartoons circulating around the muslim world are fakes presented by Abu Laban in an effort to stir up the exact sort of violence that has occurred. He has become a murderer and needs to be treated as such.
Why doesn't Allah just come down and smash some people, and let all their people stand back and cheer YEAH. I'm going to the Middle East and open up a flag shop, good business, everyone wants to burn a flag, we ought to SUPPLY that demand.
I know it's difficult for your tiny minds to grasp the concept, but freedom of the press applies equally to the choice of printing or not printing.
Self-censorship is another issue altogether, and let us deal with that here in the US.
So says the man who represents countries where this yardstick's length is measured in nanometers.
I will particularly go out of my way to offend muslims if, by my not doing so, they assume I respect or fear them.
In other words, any disrespect on my part is conscious and deliberate, in sharp contrast to their method of expressing disrespect, usually involving a dull knife.
Actually, Islam is not at all hypocritical: Mohammedans believe that theirs is the only true religion, and that this gives them the right to suppress the freedom of secularists and adherents of other (to their minds) 'false' religions, vilify their adherents, etc., with no reciprocal right given to others.
It took a long time for some Christian confessions to abandon a similar attitude (albeit moderated by the commands of the Gospel, rather than inflamed by warlike suras in the Koran). "Error has no rights," was formerly espoused by some Christians, it is now espoused by Muslims.
This position is not hypocritical, rather it is anti-human.
Hummm...I'm going to have a problem doing that...my scriptures tell me to turn the other cheek...not cut off the other guy's head.
Leave it to Reuters to push the party line of a bunch of totalitarian freaks.
There's hypocrites involved all right
... it's these lunatics being upset, mostly over a couple faked / doctored images produced by a few 'peace loving' Imams
I'd like to see more of the US news papers print what passes as cartoons in the Islamic world.
Yeah, and who knows hypocricy better than Muslims?
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