Posted on 02/11/2006 1:09:22 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Copenhagen, Denmark (AHN) - Denmark is pulling its ambassadors out of Syria, Iran and Indonesia to protect them. The Foreign Ministry says their safety was at risk after a Danish newspaper published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Denmark's embassies have been targeted by angry mobs.
The Danish Foreign Ministry released a statement saying, “The ambassador and expatriate staff at the embassy in Jakarta have left Indonesia, it added. "This is due to information about reliable security threats against staff at the embassy."
According to the ministry, the Finnish embassy will handle consular tasks for Denmark in Iran, and the Dutch embassy in Indonesia.
The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed last September and tension flared in the Middle East in January after other European newspapers reprinted the cartoons in the name of free speech.
Islam prohibits the portrayal of the Prophet Mohammed.
LOL...just for that I'm gonna burn the Danish embassy.
All this for cartoons NOT printed by the Danish government.
If muslims wanted to look more irrational, they couldn't have chosen a better way.
Here's the problem, DG.
The Muslims could care less if they are irrational.
And their apologists in the West could care less as well.
So the key question becomes, do enough people who haven't been paying attention now start to take a rational path or an irrational one?
The young and the old
Friday, February 10, 2006 Including this :
T. E. Lawrence's third chapter of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom summarizes his judgment of the Arab mind:
This people was black and white, not only in vision, but by inmost furnishing: black and white not merely in clarity, but in apposition. Their thoughts were at ease only in extremes. They inhabited superlatives by choice. Sometimes inconsistents seemed to possess them at once in joint sway; but they never compromised: they pursued the logic of several incompatible opinions to absurd ends, without perceiving the incongruity. ... The least morbid of peoples, they had accepted the gift of Me unquestioningly, as axiomatic. To them it was a thing inevitable, entailed on man ... Suicide was a thing impossible, and death no grief. ... Their convictions were by instinct, their activities intuitional. Their largest manufacture was of creeds: almost they were monopolists of revealed religions.
The supposed reason for not portraying Mo--to prevent his idolatry--clearly failed. The way Muslims are acting over the portrayal of someone who is only supposed to be first among equals shows that they place him on the level of God incarnate. They won't admit it but Mo is equated with Allah.
This should read:Denmark's ambassadors expelled from Syria, Iran and Indonesia by their respect governments.
LOL
Great graphic of the old Arabian Camel Dung :)
"This should read:Denmark's ambassadors expelled from Syria, Iran and Indonesia by their respect governments."
I'd rather see an article about the Syrian, Iranian, and Indonesian ambassadors getting expelled from Denmark due to those govt's refusal to protect Danish diplomatic personnel & facilities
Denmark has already wimped out. If you not willing to protect your property you loose it.
I think the cartoon fiasco is the best thing to open up eyes since 9/11 and it's caused far fewer deaths.
Even the western media who refuse to republish the cartoons realize the box they're in.
The whole episode is a very positive development for western europe and the WOT.
..???...I hope they did an American thing and left some funny Muslim cartoons on the walls
That was real nice!
Screw that. Here:
Actually, I read somewhere that prohibitions against depictions of Mohammed are NOWHERE IN THE KORAN. Anybody else see that and remember where?
"If you not willing to protect your property you loose it."
Yeah, a GAU mini-gun with a 10000 round ready magazine on each building corner would've done the job. Having more bullets than there are enemies to absorb them and the ability to deliver them quickly is the way to go!
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