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1 posted on 02/08/2006 10:59:39 AM PST by SJackson
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2 posted on 02/08/2006 11:01:31 AM PST by SJackson ("Bin Laden our beloved, Denmark must be blown up," protesters in Ramallah)
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FYI, the source is listed as National Review Online, however the link is to The New Republic...


3 posted on 02/08/2006 11:01:44 AM PST by Zeppo
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Spoke to the store manager of a regional specialty grocery chain and suggested they set up a display of Danish products carried to help customers support the Danes.

He seemed receptive but could only pass the suggestion "up the line."

5 posted on 02/08/2006 11:05:59 AM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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I like that last paragraph. It bigs us up in Europe - heck, we need a bit of biggin' up.

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6 posted on 02/08/2006 11:06:05 AM PST by vimto (Life isn't a dry run)
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The point over the Piss piece and the Dung canvas was about public money and public support. My tax dollars should not be spent in those ways especially when courts demand that any positive image or expression of Christ -- say in a nativity scene -- should be banished from public buildings and never touch public funds. There is some major hypocrisy in the application of the First Amendment. Give me back my positive religious expression rights and then I'll shut up about the piss and dung nonsense. But it flatly is not fair that you can bash Jesus but you can't praise him.

No one that I can recall ever said that the "art" should be illegal to produce. And no one rioted over the issue.

7 posted on 02/08/2006 11:07:13 AM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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You know, since the combined output of all the middle east (taking out oil) is less than that of Finland - these boycotts can only go so far - they don't make anything and must purchase most of their goods from someone.


8 posted on 02/08/2006 11:07:23 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
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a European-Arab website--in retaliation, I suppose--has just put out a cartoon showing Anne Frank and Hitler in bed.

Well, obviously someone, somewhere, sees some kind of connection that is hidden from non-Islamofascists....

9 posted on 02/08/2006 11:08:31 AM PST by freebilly
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10 posted on 02/08/2006 11:10:27 AM PST by VOA
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Time to look for and buy Danish products.


12 posted on 02/08/2006 11:14:44 AM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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Here's a hint: those whose habits have not yet caught up with the Magna Carta or the Declaration of the Rights of Man The "protesters" are still mired in the 8th Century.
14 posted on 02/08/2006 11:16:15 AM PST by hsalaw
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16 posted on 02/08/2006 11:23:15 AM PST by bayourant
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"So, let them not depict him. But Christians and Jews, Hindus and Buddhists are not prohibited, and I assume that the Danish cartoonists were not Muslims"

Have you heard the Muslim spokesman who said he demands that "new rules" be established in Europe that make everybody play by Muslim standards? Gimme a break! Sounds a little bit like the homosexual activist civil-rightsers right here in the US of A...


19 posted on 02/08/2006 11:26:51 AM PST by jagusafr (The proof that we are rightly related to God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not")
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We wouldn't in any case: It would only bring more people into the circle of peril. If you're really interested you can find them on the web on your own.

Yes, and thank God for the internet. Aside from the blatant cowardice implicit in that statement it is inaccurate as well - peril shared is peril diluted. But check this one out:

But the European polis is not altogether controlled by the big corporations. The Europeans still have an attachment to their liberties, including their press liberties.

Nor is the American polis. And it isn't corporate control that is the issue here, it is the self-confessed cowardice of the author that is the issue.

The American press gets a big, fat zero from this pen. I am absolutely appalled at its craven submission and at its desperate intellectual backflips such as this author's to blame Bush or the corporations for it.

20 posted on 02/08/2006 11:28:05 AM PST by Billthedrill
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As I mentioned on another thread, I equate the muslim reaction to the kid who gets caught smoking and pop has him puff on a nice strong cigar to "get his mind right". The posting of these cartoon images on every tree, wall, telephone pole, etc. would illustrate our freedom of expression and our wish for freedom everywhere. The muslims acting out, as also with the democrats, does nothing but hinder their causes. Let freedom ring!!


27 posted on 02/08/2006 11:51:10 AM PST by vietvet67
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The very essence of liberal society is the willingness--OK, the doleful willingness--of its members and constituent groups to be slighted.

This statement seems to fly in the face of the current political correctness trend among liberals.

28 posted on 02/08/2006 11:58:10 AM PST by 6ppc
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*Muslims fly commercial airliners into buildings in New York City.  No Muslim outrage.
* Muslim officials block the exit where school girls are trying to escape a burning building because their faces were exposed.  No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims cut off the heads of three teenaged girls on their way to school in Indonesia.  A Christian school.  No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims murder teachers trying to teach Muslim children in Iraq.  No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims murder over 80 tourists with car bombs outside cafes and hotels in Egypt.  No Muslim outrage.
* A Muslim attacks a missionary children's school in India.  Kills six.  No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims slaughter hundreds of children and teachers in Beslan, Russia.  Muslims shoot children in the back.  No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims fire rocket-propelled grenades into schools full of children in Israel.  No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims murder more than 50 commuters in attacks on London subways and busses.  Over 700 are injured.  No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims massacre dozens of innocents at a Passover Seder.  No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims murder innocent vacationers in Bali.  No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims blow up commuter trains in Spain, murdering hundreds and wounding thousands. No Muslim outrage.
* Muslim newspapers regularly publish anti-Semitic cartoons.  No Muslim outrage
* Muslims are involved, on one side or the other, in almost every one of the 125+ shooting wars around the world.  No Muslim outrage.
* Muslims beat the charred bodies of Western civilians with their shoes, then hang them from a bridge.  No Muslim outrage.
* Newspapers in Denmark and Norway publish cartoons depicting Mohammed.  Muslims are outraged.

http://boortz.com/nuze/200602/02032006.html


31 posted on 02/08/2006 12:20:22 PM PST by Frances_Marion
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Lego is on the taboo list.

I bought some Lego the other day. Felt good, even if it was not for me.

32 posted on 02/08/2006 12:23:22 PM PST by zeugma (Muslims are varelse...)
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Let me see if I have this quite right. In these Muslim theocracies you are not allowed to have a picture/image of your great prophet, Mohammed but everywhere around the country are posters of a great mullah, imam, ayatolla, bin ladin, hussein, king, sheik or other party power. Interesting marketing plan.


34 posted on 02/08/2006 12:48:12 PM PST by Oystir
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Maybe the media execs were thinking about whether our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan would be in more peril if American press outlets reproduced the cartoons.

If that were true, they would not have hammered the Abu Ghraib story to death, or the phony Koran flushing, or printed every crticism of the war in Iraq on their front pages day in and day out. They were only concerned for their own pathetic safety.

Christains don't kill you over "piss christ", but muslims will slaughter your whole family over a damn cartoon.

As for boycotts of Danish products, Democracies everywhere should place a complete food trade embargo on any country that boycotts Danish goods. See how long they can keep it up when they start starving to death.

35 posted on 02/08/2006 12:51:18 PM PST by PsyOp (The commonwealth is theirs who hold the arms.... - Aristotle.)
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...I assume that the Danish cartoonists were not Muslims but Lutherans (an overwhelming majority of whom assert that they do not believe in God)...

LOL!

Funny.

37 posted on 02/08/2006 1:36:21 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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