Can't wait until the western media reports that Dagwood is actually declaring a jihad on America.
Posted on 02/09/2006 4:49:30 AM PST by MillerCreek
The protests against the caricatures depicting the Prophet Muhammad are not disappearing. But the voices of sanity are getting louder.
As the fury over the caricatures in the Muslim world intensifies, the deeper fear in Europe is that this conflict is here to stay. Indeed, the daily images from the Middle East show no signs of abating on Wednesday, and Europeans have begun making moves to adjust their behavior for the long term.
As European leaders -- including French President Jacques Chirac and German Deputy Foreign Minister Gernot Erler -- continue urging calm and condemning the decision to publish the cartoons as culturally insensitive, other public figures are re-examining their own approach to Islam. Most are aiming at de-escalation.
Chirac, whose government was sobered by riots in Paris's Muslim-dominated suburbs late last year, cautioned against insulting a highly sensitive minority. "Freedom of opinion must be exercised with a sense of responsibility," he warned. "I condemn all obvious provocations which are clearly meant to inflame dangerous passions."
Despite the attempts to cool down overheated tempers in the Muslim world, violent demonstrations continued to rage on Wednesday.
In the city of Kalat in southern Afghanistan, police opened fire on several hundred protesters who had gathered near a United States military base. Afghan police said four demonstrators had been killed and 11 injured by gunshot wounds. They reported that eight police and one soldier had been struck by stones thrown by the protestors. Afghanistan's Ulama Council, the country's top Islamic organization, condemned the caricatures but also said their publication did "not justify violence."
In the West Bank town of Hebron, hundreds of Palestinians attacked the Temporary International Presence Headquarters there, firing stones through the windows and briefly trapping dozens of foreigners inside before the protesters were driven off.
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There is so much for them to learn in a short time, such as what times of day to say the 5 prayers, how to keep women covered...
Can't wait until the western media reports that Dagwood is actually declaring a jihad on America.
Yesterday a CNN reporter broadcasting from Europe couldn't restrain himself from saying "the Prophet Mohammad" at least 5 times in a 90 second "news" report.
What a dhimmi.
I suppose he also says "the Lord Jesus Christ" when reporting on Christianity?
Muslims worldwide burning Norwegian flags (Indonesia, Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, Europe), walking on EU flags, destroying Danish products, and worse, flaring flags that declare the supremacy of "Allah" and "Mohammed."
And buring embassies...
I saw one image with some Palestinian CHILDREN holding up a banner that reads, "Danes not welcome here" and I'm wondering how muslims even have the NERVE to try to allege that they are "offended" here.
Many in Europe and elsewhere seem to think that cowering is the way to make for "peace." I think that process has long since been shown to be faulty...I won't even capitalize the pedophile's name (muhammad). He's no prophet any more than Charlie Manson is or ever was.
Lowell Brown made a very good point the other day that the cartoonists went after a religion instead of the political leaders and terrorists.
But the rioting was definitely coordinated by Syria and Iran to avoid accountability for nuclear weapons.
Yes, but we now know that among 'the cartoonists' were muslims themselves.
And we also know from Amir Taheri and others that Muslims have depicted images in the past with no problem and that they have also made fun of their religion.
Yes, the "Cartoon Jihad" sure does look like a TERRORIST SLIP AND FALL scheme, no doubt about it.
This is such bullcrap. Egypt's newspaper printed the pictures and there was no outrage. When the home culture says it is not culturally insensitive but the adopted culture think it is then the world is totally insane!
Egypt is sitting there saying "This did not offend us" while Europe is telling them "You should be offended!"
Chirac must surely be in deep in favors he owes to Saddam and Iran.
What's concerning me is the genearlized "European" subservience to what is seen by most the rest of us as a planned (at least, prearranged) "reason to riot."
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