Posted on 02/08/2006 4:06:18 PM PST by Pikamax
Muslims call for changes in law
Muslim scholars who gathered for an emergency meeting have called for changes to the law to stop images of the Prophet Muhammad being published.
Members of the Muslim Action Committee (MAC) who met in Birmingham called for changes to the Race Relations Act and the Press Complaints Commission code.
They are to stage a protest march in London on 18 February, expected to attract 20,000 to 50,000 people.
The MAC met to form a response to the publication of cartoons of Mohammad.
Shaikh Faiz Saddiqi, who chaired the meeting, said Wednesday's gathering of about 300 Islamic religious leaders was the largest meeting of its kind he knew of in his 25 years of living in the UK.
'Deeply offensive'
He said the MAC was meeting to bring cohesion to the debate among Muslims about how to respond to the publication of the cartoons in a Danish newspaper and their subsequent repetition in other countries.
The discussions among the religious leaders, who had travelled to an Islamic centre in Small Heath from across the UK, lasted for two hours.
What kicks can you get out of seeing this caricature, except to insult the Prophet of Islam?
Shaikh Faiz Saddiqi
Mr Saddiqi said they had concluded they wanted the Race Relations Act modified to give Muslims the same protection as Sikhs or Jews.
He also said the Press Complaints Commission code of conduct should be tightened to prevent publishing of any images of Muhammad, but added the clerics accepted criticism and discussion of Islam should be allowed.
He said the code was a voluntary code to ensure the media treated people with respect and called for that respect to be shown to Muslims, whose religion forbids any pictorial depiction of Muhammad.
The cartoons have been repeated in other papers, such as France Soir
Mr Saddiqi said: "That act in itself is deeply offensive, it's akin to someone standing up in your face and abusing your mum, your sister, your dad, and it's akin to a deliberate act of provocation."
He said Muslims could accept a one-off publication of such an image as a misjudgement and said this was why it took several months for anger at the cartoons, first published in October, to gain momentum.
But he said other media organisations continuing to show the cartoons knew they were causing offence.
He said: "It happens once, it happens twice but a third time you are going to take action.
"Enough is enough, we have to get back to being a civil society.
"What kicks can you get out of seeing this caricature, except to insult the Prophet of Islam?"
He praised the UK media for not publishing the cartoons.
Here's an idea that just came to mind:
Go to a website that has the Koran on-line. Download a copy. Then erase it. Without much trouble you could write a small program to do this repeatedly, possible several times a second. In this way you can destroye millions of Korans every day.
Even better.
Order free hardcopies.
Then use them for toilet paper.
"What kicks can you get out of seeing this caricature, except to insult the Prophet of Islam?"
One could even flush it down a virtual toilet! The horror!
I really pray that our British allies do NOT fall for this crap...
I'd like to give Sharia a foot somewhere other than the door..........
What is the difference between their request and the Church silenced in England not being able to discuss homosexuality or gay?
This is what you get on the slippery slope of hate speech.
Says it all for me.
Works for me too!
Yep. Envy, pure and simple.
Oh, boy - here we go!
EXACTLY [and I don't often shout]
... but "The RoundUP" is long overdue
The truth is that there is no free speech in the United Kingdom. People have been tried for speaking "race hatred". There is no First Amendment like in the USA.
If I'm not mistaken, Mohammed bobble-heads are still ok under Islamic law.
if you follow domestic news in the UK you know they just narrowly missed passing a version of word- and idea-crime law that would probably have made publishing the danish cartoons an offence.
Step 2. To approve poligamy as they have already asked here in Spain...
Screw your stones on tight, Brits! Tell the buggers to live under British law or go back to where sharia is the law!
Just a theory, mind you, but the "scholar" who took these cartoons on a months long road trip also took some which had not been published anywhere. Those, even allowing that one was a badly faxed picture of a contestant in a French hog calling contest, were far more offensive than anything published.
The cartoons which were published were published some time back, and the fact that all of this 'spontaneous dissent' seems to have been orchestrated and coordinated is nearly inescapable.
With the NYT and others braying incessantly about monitoring of telecommunications, it is possible that this entire event has been staged to produce a veritable snowstorm of communications events in order to overwhelm monitoring of comuniques for the purpose of transmitting plans, instructions, or other data.
This entire thing reeks of a scam, but one with a deeper purpose. I expect the real feces will hit the fan after all this dies down
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