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To: NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; Marine_Uncle; onyx; Mo1; MEG33; Brad's Gramma; Cap Huff; ...
Trying to chase thru a number of Blogs and see if I understand some of the earlier parts of the story....AND I SUSPECT the Imman is not giving the Straight story...

Looks to me like that at the time the Cartoons were being shown in Cairo, he was complaining about them also being shown in Denmark!!!!

6 posted on 02/08/2006 5:36:58 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

You're right, he's not telling the whole story...

Creating Outrage: Meet the Imam behind the cartoon overreaction.
National Review ^ | 02/06/2006 | Lorenzo Vidino
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1572875/posts

"Abu Laban is not the kind of person who gives up easily. After having contacted ambassadors from Muslim countries in Copenhagen, he put together a delegation with the goal of touring the Middle East to "internationalize this issue so that the Danish government would realize that the cartoons were not only insulting to Muslims in Denmark but also to Muslims worldwide," as he explained in an interview with "Islam Online". The delegation met with, among others, Arab League Secretary Amr Moussa, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Mohammad Sayyed Tantawi, and Sunni Islam's most influential scholar, Yusuf al Qaradawi. The delegation showed each of these leaders the 12 cartoons published by Jyllands-Posten, along with others that had never been published by any Danish publication. The new cartoons were every more offensive, as showing the Prophet Mohammed with a pig face or having sexual intercourse with a dog. While the delegation claimed that the differentiation was pointed out to their interlocutors, there is no other evidence, and rumors about the more blasphemous images began to circulate in the Middle East. Moreover, the booklet that was presented by the delegation contained several other lies about the "oppression" of Muslims in Denmark, claiming Muslims do not have the legal right to build mosques and are subjected to pervasive racism."


31 posted on 02/08/2006 6:09:41 PM PST by PsyOp (The commonwealth is theirs who hold the arms.... - Aristotle.)
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