MARGOLIS? 
BIGTIME! 
Posted on 02/15/2006 9:01:45 PM PST by USMMA_83
THE disgraceful racist cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed originally published by a sensation-seeking Danish newspaper have produced an international firestorm of hysteria and racism.
Mobs of enraged Muslims have rioted from Morocco to Indonesia and burned Danish and Norwegian embassies. Editors of other European newspapers that ran the offensive cartoons piously insist they did so to defend the sacred right of free speech.
This writer detests any form of censorship, including so-called ‘hate laws’ that are really modern forms of heresy and blasphemy statutes. But free speech, as the great American jurist Felix Frankfurter said, does not include the right to scream ‘fire’ in a crowded movie theatre.
And that’s just what the European newspapers did. They were trying to boost circulation and pander to anti-immigrant right-wingers by attacking Islam.
Nor is it a coincidence these grave insults occurred in Denmark. Its current rightwing government has been close to President George Bush, sent troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, and has adopted an unfriendly policy towards Denmark’s small Muslim community and the ummahh. While the Danish government had no direct responsibility for the cartoons, it helped foster a climate of hostility to Muslims.
This whole ugly business is really about anti-Islamism — the modern version of 1930s anti-Semitism. Today, promoting hatred and scorn for Islam and Muslims has become the only socially and legally acceptable modern prejudice in western society.
Just questioning the Jewish holocaust in Germany or Austria results in a jail sentence. Doing the same in Canada gets you thrown in prison or expelled. In the West, it’s totally a taboo to say homosexuality is wrong, or women are less intelligent than men. But it’s OK to slander Islam.
The Danish paper that ran the racist cartoons ‘to defend free speech’ refused in 2003 to run satirical cartoons of Christ, saying ‘it would provoke an outrage.’ So much for claims of defending free speech.
America’s four leading evangelical Protestant leaders, reverends Jerry Falwell, Franklin Graham, Pat Robertson, and Marvin Olasky preached a ‘crusade’ against Iraq. Graham branded Islam ‘an evil and wicked religion.’ They called the prophet ‘a terrorist.’ Among American evangelical Christians, 87 per cent supported invading Iraq and hoped to convert Iraq’s Muslims to Christianity.
Italian propagandist Oriana Fallaci churns out best-sellers calling Islam a dirty, backwards creed of violent thugs. In Paris, a Jewish newspaper editor, who should know about promoting hate against minorities, ran the Danish cartoons in his newspaper.
In liberal Holland, it’s cool to despise Muslims. In America, pseudo-historians and professional hate-mongers wage jihad in the US press against all things Islamic.
One Danish cartoon of Prophet Mohammed shows him with a long, hooked nose, thick lips, a sinister, malevolent glare on his ugly, semitic face and a curved dagger in his hand. Change the caption ‘Prophet Mohammed’ to ‘Jew swine’ and you have the exact double of Nazi anti-Semitic hate cartoons of the 1930s.
That’s what this is all about. Modern anti-Semitism, reborn. What Europeans are saying through these cartoons is, ‘we hate Muslims. We want all Muslims out of Europe.’ In the 1930s, Europeans held the same sentiments for Jews.
There can be no doubt all Muslims and Islam have been gravely offended. But having said this, too many Muslims have been reacting hysterically by rioting and burning embassies. The Prophet Mohammed and Islam don’t need rioters and arsonists to defend them.
In an act of pure childishness, Iran’s largest newspaper says it will solicit and run cartoons of the Jewish holocaust, proving there is no sickness as contagious as stupidity. This is no way for adults to behave.
Muslims suffered 150 years of the most brutal European imperialism and exploitation. Millions of Muslims were slaughtered by European and Russian colonialists, though we never hear about this green holocaust. Europe’s 20 million Muslims are third-class citizens. Muslims have every right to anger.
But where were all these angry Muslims when Serbs were massacring 250,000 Bosnians, gang-raping thousands of Bosnian Muslim girls and women, and blowing up mosques? Why have there been almost no protests over Russia’s horrifying genocide in Chechnya? Over, outside Pakistan, protests against India’s brutalities in Kashmir. Or the US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, and Australia’s annexation of East Timor?—Copyright Eric S. Margolis 2006
Eric, is completely out of his freaking mind! IOW, a LIB. see below.
MARGOLIS? BIGTIME! What "species" -- probably some kind of cockroach -- they spread like roachs, live in filth, spread disease and kill. They're also mindless.
neat wallpaper...?
My general view currently is that the root of all of this is the religous teachings of Mohammed and the Koran, its not muslims so much as its the Immans taking orders from the clerics that get diections from people like OBL and the prez of Iran.
I think the US can live with a westernized version of Islamic faith like total equality of woman, no Shariah laws and no subversive gatherings intent to disrupt the way of life in the US, in other words play by the rules or leave.
The current events of the cartoon jihad is from my point of view an amazing stroke of luck for the west, its showing the world what islamic extremists are capable of and focuses attention to the grave dangers of allowing leaders of this faction nuclear devices. There is no way to reason for peace here, they literally want our heads, we cannot buy them off, we cannot appease them with polical gratitudes or favors.They are the same as millions of army ants that cannot be stopped.
While waiting and defending our shores seems like the rightous and humble way its not the way to overcome a war, no war has ever been won by a strictly defensive posture, we must become offensive, we must destroy the will of the enemy.
Surgical strikes does little to convince the mass of the peoples the will to decry their leadership, we shot down Yamamoto and did the japanese surrender? Would the US or Britain have surrendered in WW2 if their leaders were captured or killed? We must create mass effect upon the peoples of the nations that are creating world terrorism, remove several cities from the map just the same as Hiroshima, announce which city 5 days in advance, capitulate entirely or suffer the consequences, remove another city every 48 hours until these regimes step down surrender and instruct their population that they are being capitulated.
We need to NOT go through a long drawn our war losing our servicemen to roadside bombs,snipers and such we have nuclear, neutron, and FAE devices that can erase small cities, now is the time to update our offensive strategies to the situations of many conflicts globally. We cannot invade half the earth, we can show our responce of how we intend to enforce freedom, we must send a clear cut image of what the world will do to the regimes of mass destruction and global terrorism.
Again I firmly believe we must create an image of absolute horror to any country that creates, harbors or supply terrorism, we will not send tanks and troops, we are not dropping smart bombs down ventilator shafts to miss the baby food factory above the bio research facility. We will simply remove the community from the face of the earth, all the inhabitants, buildings, infrastructure regardless of whether the people are military combat personnel or not. We can do THAT surgically and cleanly so think about that followers of the radical Islamic faith.
ping for later
There is sound looped over the images.
Wonder if it has anything to do with all the bombings?
What a dope!
hah! what do you call hordes of violent animals burning and killing in cities across the world? Over what? some pictures?
animals that is all they are
And that’s just what the European newspapers did. "
errr where did they do that? I haven't seen any newspapers make false disaster announcements? Now they add lies to the hypocrisy. They printed materials that only violate Islamic law this is just free speech nothing less nothing more
oh, ok
working with a computer, linux homemade with no speakers.
didn't hear it.
You're right. A clown wrote in to my local paper calling our theater's decision (since rescended) not to show Brokeback Mountain "racist"
"Millions of Muslims were slaughtered by European and Russian"
So what? Darwin's theory is correct and that is living (or dying) proof survival of the fittest is a true picture of how Islam is not compatable with civilization.
Since they are so hell bent on following Allah and "Mo" millions more of those islamic nitwits are going to be slaughtered. They have little value for their own lives and self worth, let alone the civilized world.
150 years of impinging civilization and they still can't bring themselves to join the human race. Why be sympathetic?
Exactly what race is Islam?? I see no clear race of people so how can my judgement be considered racist??
My judgement is based upon a profound knowledge and rationale that religous Islamic bigots preach and teach that killing people who do not believe in Islam is a good thing. And furthermore, intimidation and arrogance will not convert me or other non Muslims to change my point of view.
People who want to kill me because of my beliefs are my enemy. And since you were quick to point out the assumption that we on FR are all white is totally racist on your part. It is obvious you promote hatred of caucasians and probably teach the same to your children.
If you defend the enemy of freedom and progress to the civilized world, you too are an enemy.
Do I want to kill you? No! Civilized people do not condone killing just because someone has an opposing point of view. But DO NOT point your weapons at me or my family or I WILL exercize my right to defend what is mine and ours.
IS THAT CLEAR????????
I agree with your synopsys.
If we were to nuke several of those most defiant Islamic capitals there would be no reason for occupation forces.
Civilization would carry on without concern for the threats from the few that are left. Without a leadership network, they could revert to the 1600's gracefully.
that's so true - if you can't make fun about your superiors they probably are self rightious and incompetent.
In satire and jokes lies a disarming form of criticism that comes right from the base of the society. Any leader should have a look at how he is parodized - it's a form of feedback you don't get from your surrounding 'admirers'.
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