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Clinton urges EU to convict publishers of caricatures
Daily Times Pakistan ^ | 2/17/06 | Daily Times

Posted on 02/17/2006 3:18:19 PM PST by voletti

ISLAMABAD: Former US president Bill Clinton on Friday condemned the publication of Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) caricatures by European newspapers and urged countries concerned to convict the publishers.

Talking to reporters after meeting Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz in Islamabad, Clinton said he disagreed with the caricatures and that the publication was against religious and ethical norms. Clinton said he had no objection to peaceful demonstrations being held worldwide, but this was not the time for violence. He said it was the time to promote inter-faith harmony and stand together on the issue.

He said the people’s religious convictions should be respected at all costs and the media should be disallowed to play with the religious sentiments of other faiths. He said the media could criticise any issue including governments and people, but nobody had the right to play with the sentiments of other faiths.

Clinton said people in the US had also condemned the publication and were deeply concerned over it. He said they respected Islam, as it was the fastest growing religion in the US. Clinton also called on President Pervez Musharraf and both men discussed the India-Pakistan peace process and Afghanistan’s peace and stabilisation process.

Musharraf underlined the centrality of the Kashmir issue in the Indo-Pak peace process and the importance of moving towards the conflict resolution stage. Clinton praised Musharraf’s efforts to promote peace and stability in the region. Musharraf thanked Clinton for the support extended to the Pakistani government by the Clinton Foundation for the HIV/AIDS programme. He also expressed the gratitude of Pakistanis to the relief and reconstruction assistance provided for the earthquake victims by the US.

Earlier, Aziz told Clinton that Pakistan was working towards peace and stability in the region through a strong economy, effective diplomacy, credible defence and promotion of inter-faith harmony. He said Pakistan was also making efforts to ensure peace in the region by settling disputes in an amicable way. He said Islam was a religion of peace and Muslims had been hurt by the publication of the caricatures, which reflected the ignorance and insensitivity of the western media. Clinton praised the role played by Musharraf and Aziz in achieving a high degree economic growth and wide-ranging structural reforms besides pursuing peace in the region and across the globe.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: billclinton; cartoonjihad; clinton; convictclinton; freedomofspeech; fudgepakistan; jihad; pigsblooduponhim; unholyalliance
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To: MarineBrat; All
Aaaaaaarrrrrgggggggggh!

Didn’t say that.

41 posted on 02/17/2006 3:51:17 PM PST by dighton
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To: voletti
This delusional, embarrassing POS is really beginning to...

... never mind...

42 posted on 02/17/2006 3:52:09 PM PST by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: voletti

Hey, Bill! What about free speech, you moron?


43 posted on 02/17/2006 3:53:13 PM PST by Rocky (Air America: Robbing the poor to feed the Left)
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To: dighton

Hmmmm, I think maybe you're right. Seems odd that only the Pak paper wrote it.


44 posted on 02/17/2006 3:54:09 PM PST by Jeremiah2911
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To: Peach
"Former US president Bill Clinton on Friday condemned the publication of Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) caricatures by European newspapers and urged countries concerned to convict the publishers."

What we can look forwward to if Hillary gets in office. We think the press is afraid to publish anything negative about the Clinton's now, just wait...

Der Schlickmeister has just trashed the whole idea of the First Amendment's freedom of the press. And, yet, they still adore his sorry butt.

The idiots deserve to lose their freedom. Problem is, we'd lose ours, too...

45 posted on 02/17/2006 3:54:18 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: okie01

I truly think this was a shot across by the bow by Clinton -- don't post negative articles about Her Shrillness or we'll get you. They probably still control minions within the IRS and can do extraordinary damage to their enemies.


46 posted on 02/17/2006 3:55:20 PM PST by Peach
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To: DuncanWaring

BINGO!!!! bump


47 posted on 02/17/2006 3:55:42 PM PST by Libertarian444
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To: CaptRon
I've read it 4 times, but I still don't see where the pandering POS called for anyone to be convicted.

The first paragraph:

Former US president Bill Clinton on Friday condemned the publication of Prophet Muhammad's (PBUH) caricatures by European newspapers and urged countries concerned to convict the publishers.

48 posted on 02/17/2006 3:59:13 PM PST by DumpsterDiver
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To: voletti
I've always thought of Clinton as supremely corrupt and amoral, but now he exhibits tendencies of troglodite-like ignorance. Convict them? Of what, religious sacrilege? Wouldn't the majority of the leftist atheist block of the Democrat Communist Party be vulnerable to prosecution if such a precedent were established? Including his wife and the leader of the party itself? Or is it just cartoons he wants to outlaw? Then that Rall "cartoonist" fellow better find a good place to hide.

For once DeBorchgrave has it right; this whole "Cartoon Intifada" is a sham, a fraud. These people aren't rioting because they are insulted at the abomination of the Danish cartoons.What do they know from Danish cartoons?

If the Danish Islamist Imams hadn't spread them all over the middle eastern press, and added a few phony "ringers" just to make their claims of sacrilege ring true, none of these Pakstani villagers, or Egyptian peasants, or Lebanese city dwellers would have ever heard or seen any of the cartoons in question.

No, this is just a new gambit in the Al Qaida Wahabbists war against Western Civilization, since they are currently losing both militarily and in the PR sense. Support for Bin Laden and his terrorist ilk has declined precipitously since the foolhardy attacks by Zarquawi in Jordan, and the successful elections in Iraq.

Remember the old Warner Brothers cartoons, where some character is bamboozled into being a "sucker" and his entire head is replace with the image of a giant candy sucker for a moment? Look at Clinton as he spouts this nonsense and realize that this "brilliant" Rhodes Scholar has been taken in and sold a bill of goods by the worst terrorists in history. Stupid isn't the word for it... gullible is more appropriate. Heaven help us if these idiots gain power again!

49 posted on 02/17/2006 3:59:57 PM PST by Richard Axtell
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To: Peach
and urged countries concerned to convict the publishers.

Urging the world to arrest and throw the media in jail

Way to go Bill ... keep talking you idiot

50 posted on 02/17/2006 4:02:17 PM PST by Mo1 (Republicans protect Americans from Terrorists.. Democrats protect Terrorists from Americans)
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To: Supernatural
Convict them of what? Freedom?



Isn't a shame that this peace of white trash and nose cocaine snorting and the master receiver of blow jobs, which he claims has nothing to do with a sexual relationship, that the Senate let him off the hook scot-free???
By claiming this, he is only using his bent to pee.
Daughter chelsea looks like a mirror of webb hubbel with her porky libs. And hitlery is a pinkish lesbian, never had sex with the bent one!!!
51 posted on 02/17/2006 4:02:29 PM PST by danamco
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To: F.J. Mitchell
Let's see--who is the biggest d*ckhead--Carter, Clinton, or Gore? An unholy trinity if there ever was one. Every time they open their pie-holes, something more stupid than last time spills out. I have come to the conclusion that Demoncrats do not fear terrorism or radical Islam beause they would be the first to pay the jizya, indicating their second-class status in the umma, or to embrace the teachings of the false prophet outright. Since the end of WWII they have consistently identified with America's enemies, why wouldn't they do so now? They are truly the despicable DhimmicRats.
52 posted on 02/17/2006 4:02:49 PM PST by attiladhun2 (evolution has both deified and degraded humanity)
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To: voletti

"Clinton said people in the US had also condemned the publication and were deeply concerned."I suppose he is inferring he speaks for the American people?


53 posted on 02/17/2006 4:02:52 PM PST by Thombo2
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To: CaptRon

first sentence.


54 posted on 02/17/2006 4:03:02 PM PST by silverkor
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To: popdonnelly

Peice of garbage bastard he is.My hatred for him never ends. Traitor ...Fraud..Whore ..and yet the jerk offs of the world worship him...
PS We MUST NOT let his wife ANYWHERE near the White House..I fone gets in they all get in,,,


55 posted on 02/17/2006 4:05:12 PM PST by binkdeville
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To: CaptRon

>>I've read it 4 times, but I still don't see where the pandering POS called for anyone to be convicted.

Same here. It says it in the headline, but there's no actual quote of him saying that. One would have to ask... convict them of what exactly? I call BS, at least on the headline.


56 posted on 02/17/2006 4:05:24 PM PST by MarineBrat (Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.)
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To: danamco

What was it that our illustrious Senators said? That they wouldn't convict Clinton if he raped and killed a woman and they had it on film and Clinton had the smoking gun in his hand?

Some wouldn't even look at the evidence. It wouldn't have mattered, they were voting no anyway.


57 posted on 02/17/2006 4:05:57 PM PST by Supernatural (All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie! bob dylan)
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To: Richard Axtell

That is a myth that he is a Rhodes scholar. There is no evidence he even went to class. All he did when he was in Europe during the 60s was to do what he does now, undermine the United States. This country must have had its collective head up its a$$ for the 8 yrs that treasonous swine was in office.


58 posted on 02/17/2006 4:06:25 PM PST by attiladhun2 (evolution has both deified and degraded humanity)
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To: DumpsterDiver

Yeah I was looking for the same thing...

I think the Mullah Clinton is a treasonous quisling but, I dont see any quotes here from clinton to support the sensatonal headline. Im thinking islamabad has inserted their own editorial to make full use of clintons propoganda delivery.


59 posted on 02/17/2006 4:06:58 PM PST by Samurai_Jack (ride out and confront the evil!)
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To: popdonnelly
Good old Bill. Still saying whatever his audience wants to hear. And not an honest bone in his body.


He and jimmuh carter are Godsend to us as a time like this, PTL!!!
60 posted on 02/17/2006 4:07:25 PM PST by danamco
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