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Kopel: Cartoon quarrel deadly serious
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion_columnists/article/0,2777,DRMN_23972_4457999,00.html ^ | 11 Feb 06 | Dave Kopel

Posted on 02/12/2006 7:15:40 AM PST by rellimpank

February 11, 2006 Suppose you were a newspaper editor, and you could run any or none of the following opinion pieces, which would you choose? 1. An article that points out that boxing champion Muhammad Ali claimed conscientious objector status to avoid the Vietnam War draft, and which calls Ali and his fans "chicken---- black boy draft-dodgers."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: caartoons; cartoonjihad; cartoons; freedom; jihad; muuslims

1 posted on 02/12/2006 7:15:42 AM PST by rellimpank
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To: rellimpank
I think the cartoon quarrel is a pivotal issue in this broadening conflict between the west and islam...and, actually, it has nothing to do with cartoons.

The issue is whether a religion or any group can dictate to peoples outside that religion or group how they must behave.

Islam is saying that it (sharia) is the ultimate authority and will redefine the WORLD in its image.

Free speech is the foundation for freedom. Islam has fired the first shot in this world war.

Islam screamed for suppression of free speech...and most of the west acquiesced like a submissive puppy.

2 posted on 02/12/2006 7:38:39 AM PST by Dark Skies ("A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants." -- Churchill)
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To: Dark Skies

Newspapers which refuse to run the cartoons are hiding their cowardice behind a veil of sensitivity.


3 posted on 02/12/2006 8:14:27 AM PST by zook
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To: Dark Skies

I would tend to agree on the importance of this cartoon flap, and its significance in defining the opposition more clearly in what, unfortunately, does appear to be developing as a clash of cultures.

It seems to me that one of the elements of Islam most unknown in the West is their (Muslims) inability to distinguish between Social, Religious, and Political elements of their lives. No doubt due to there being no distinction in the hard line Islamic societies between them.

Islam is proclaimed by the Iranian president, all of its 'leading' scholars, and nearly all of the prominent clerics to be a supra-religion, one that is above all others; and, that it is to be accepted as such in all parts of the world, as non-believers are infidels, less than the worst Muslim, worthy only of slavery or even death in the names of their god and prophet.

Several generations of closed societies, strident governance, and a docile (non-existent?) opposition has served to create a current generation that has been carefully brain-washed, inside a cocoon controlled by the Imams and Mullahs who are the theocracy of Islam.

Europe and the West must stand up to the encroachment of Islam, and re-assert their own national characters, without apology or appeasement.


4 posted on 02/12/2006 8:16:52 AM PST by PubliusMM (Just doin' my best to stay free and secure. God Bless our military personnel.)
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To: rellimpank
The article was OK until it got here: Several European newspapers have courageously stood up against Islamofascist censorship by republishing the cartoons. The front page of Rocky Mountain News Web site includes a link to the cartoons; the News is one of very few American papers that have made all 12 cartoons available to its readers.

Baloney. A better approach would have been to post a few of those cartoons on the editorial page with excerpts of other newspapers excuses for not printing them - like sensitivity. Alongside, show pictures of the "Piss Christ" and dung-spattered Virgin - along with examples of other newspapers reasons for not suppressing them - like free speech and freedom of the press.

I told him the same thing I told the Seattle Times' managing editor - if I have to go to the Internet to see the pictures, why should I go to the print media for news?

Even in their death throes, the print media won't realize it's not the medium - it's their message.

5 posted on 02/12/2006 8:24:08 AM PST by Oatka (Hyphenated-Americans have hyphenated-loyalties -- Victor Davis Hanson)
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OSINT.INTERNET-HAGANAH.com (WeeklyStandard.com): "THE CARTOON JIHAD - THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD'S PROJECT FOR DOMINATING THE WEST" by Olivier Guitta (February 11, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (NEW YORK TIMES): "CARTOON RAGE PLANNED AT OIC MEETING" (February 10, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org: "REBORN EXTREMIST SECT HAD KEY ROLE IN LONDON PROTEST" (February 11, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (YNET NEWS): "BRITISH MUSLIM GROUP DECLARES NEW JIHAD" (January 9, 2006)

ASSIST NEWS SERVICE: "BRITISH MUSLIMS CALL FOR LAWS TO PROTECT MUHAMMAD, AND PROTEST DANISH CARTOONS" by Jeremy Reynalds (February 10, 2006)

MICHELLE MALKIN.com: "THE WAR ON THE FREE PRESS The Cartoon Jihadists are winning..." (February 9, 2006)

WorldNetDaily.com: "MUSLIM NEWSPAPER RAN CARTOONS 4 MONTHS AGO No outrage when Egyptian publication headlined drawings on Ramadan cover" (February 9, 2006)

TOWNHALL.com: "THE CARTOON INTIFADA" -Commentary by Clifford D. May (February 9, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AFP): Kandahar, Afghanistan - "TALEBAN SAY 100 ENLIST FOR SUICIDE ATTACKS OVER CARTOONS" (February 9, 2006)

DAILY TIMES.com.pk: Islamabad - "TALIBAN OFFER 100kg GOLD FOR KILLING CARTOONIST" (February 9, 2006)

MEMRITV.org - Video Clip No. 1032 - Transcript: "HIZBULLAH SECRETARY-GENERAL HASSAN NASRALLAH: BUSH AND CONDOLEEZZA RICE SHOULD SHUT UP.  WE WILL DEFEND OUR PROPHET WITH OUR BLOOD" (February 9, 2006)

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FOX NEWS.com (AP): " RICE: SYRIA, IRAN INFLAMED VIOLENCE" (February 8, 2006)

ASSIST NEWS SERVICE: "IRANIAN PAPER PLANS HOLOCAUST CARTOONS" by Jeremy Reynalds (February 8, 2006)

TOWNHALL.com: "CALVIN AND HOBBES -- AND MUHAMMAD" -Commentary by Ann Coulter (February 8, 2006)

MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch Series - No. 1089 "Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi Responds to Cartoons of Prophet Muhammad: Whoever is Angered and Does Not Rage in Anger is a Jackass - We are Not a Nation of Jackasses" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In a February 3, 2006 Friday sermon, Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi, who is head of the European Council for Fatwa and Research, president of the International Association of Muslim Scholars (IAMS), and the spiritual guide of many other Islamist organizations across the world (including the Muslim Brotherhood), exhorted worshippers to show rage to the world over the Danish paper Jylland Posten's publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. The sermon was aired on Qatar TV on February 3, 2006.") (February 9, 2006)
WorldNetDaily.com: "U.N., EU TO APOLOGIZE TO ISLAM FOR CARTOONS" (February 8, 2006)

ASSIST NEWS SERVICE: "CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS, FREE SPEECH RIGHTS UNDER PRESSURE FROM RADICAL ISLAM Intimidation factor is real following riots and death threats" by Mark Ellis (February 7, 2006)

Off-Topic.INTERNET-HAGANAH.COM: "YEAH, THAT'S A PAROLE VIOLATION...(February 7, 2006)

News.BBC.co.uk: "CARTOON PROTESTER WAS DRUG DEALER" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A Muslim demonstrator who imitated a suicide bomber in London to protest over cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad is a convicted drug dealer. Omar Khayam, 22, of Bedford, was jailed in 2002 and released on licence last year after serving half of his sentence for dealing heroin and cocaine.") (Last updated February 7, 2006)
WorldNetDaily.com: "'MUHAMMAD CARTOON' PROVED FAKE Imam added 3 especially provocative images to fuel outrage" (February 8, 2006)

MilitantIslamMonitor (TELEGRAPH.co.uk): "MUSLIMS CLERICS WHO 'DIALOUGED' WITH DANES WENT TO MIDDLE EAST TO INCITE VIOLENCE WITH FAKED MOHAMMED CARTOONS" (February 7, 2006)

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INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "HOW THE BROTHERS ATTACKED THE WEBSITE OF JYLLANDS-POSTEN." (February 7, 2006)

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JAMESTOWN.org - Terrorism Focus: "INTERNET MUJAHIDEEN REFINE ELECTRONIC WARFARE TACTICS" by Stephen Ulph (February 7, 2006)

DANIELPIPES.org (NEW YORK SUN): "CARTOONS AND ISLAMIC IMPERIALISM" by Daniel Pipes (February 7, 2006)

DANIELPIPES.org (NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE): "THE CLASH TO END ALL CLASHES?  Making sense of the cartoon jihad" by Daniel Pipes (February 7, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs - Weblog (TELEGRAPH.co.uk): "RADICAL CLERIC: CARTOONIST SHOULD BE EXECUTED" (February 6, 2006)

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JPOST.com - JERUSALEM POST: "IRANIAN PAPER RUNS HOLOCAUST CONTEST" (Updated February 6, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (ABC.net.au): "TWO KILLED IN AFGHAN ANTI-CARTOON PROTEST" (February 6, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): "TURKEY: CATHOLIC PRIEST SHOT, KILLED BY ASSAILANT SHOUTING 'ALLAHU AKBAR'" (February 6, 2006)

OnlineJihad.blogspot.com: "ITALIAN PRIEST KILLED IN TURKEY - No Apology from Turkish Prime Minister" (February 5, 2006)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com: Beirut - "SYRIA SEEN AS INSTIGATOR" (February 7, 2006)

GlobalPolitician.com: "BEIRUT MOB TORCHES CONSULATE" by Jeremy Reynalds (February 6, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - Weblog - (TheAge.com.au): "CARTOON JIHAD IN NEW ZEALAND" (February 5, 2006)

INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "VOTE EARLY, VOTE OFTEN" (February 5, 2006)

IslamOnline.net - Views and Analyses: "CARTOONS OF THE PROPHET: A PITFALL TRAP" by Dal Nun Strong, Freelance Writer - UK (February 5, 2006)

THE COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG: "MORE LIES FROM DANISH IMAMS" (February 4, 2006)

MICHELLE MALKIN.com: "IT IS NOT A 'ROW'" (February 4, 2006)

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FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "MUSLIMS AGAINST THE CARTOON JIHAD" by Kamal Nawash (February 3, 2006)

ISLAMONLINE.net: Cairo - "WARNINGS CARTOONS RISK VIOLENCE" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The blasphemous cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by a Danish daily and other European newspapers are risking to trigger acts of violence around the world, officials and commentators warn." (February 2, 2006)
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6 posted on 02/12/2006 9:05:08 AM PST by Cindy
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To: rellimpank
Oh, cartoon QUARREL... I thought it said


7 posted on 02/12/2006 9:33:05 AM PST by kenth
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To: rellimpank

At a law school in the St Paul suburbs apparently a faculty member (?) posted some of these cartoons on a faculty board and put a sheet of paper up saying "Comments?"

She's under disciplinary action last I heard.


8 posted on 02/12/2006 10:54:41 AM PST by Terriergal ("My conscience is captive to the word of God...here I stand. I can do no other. So help me God." ML)
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To: rellimpank

http://wcco.com/education/local_story_041154512.html


9 posted on 02/12/2006 10:56:10 AM PST by Terriergal ("My conscience is captive to the word of God...here I stand. I can do no other. So help me God." ML)
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To: rellimpank

It is not just the 12 cartoons.

There are three more made up by the islamists to inflame the others!

Links to pictures below.

http://www.ekstrabladet.dk/grafik/nettet/tegninger40.jpg

http://www.ekstrabladet.dk/grafik/nettet/tegninger38.jpg

Compare the above.
Duo hogs top prize in pig-squealing contest
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8959820


http://www.ekstrabladet.dk/grafik/nettet/tegninger39.jpg


10 posted on 02/12/2006 12:23:55 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Islam, the religion of the criminally insane.)
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