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"Iranian paper gets 700 cartoons about Holocaust"
Columbus Dispatch (registration required) - via AP ^ | March 14, 2006 | Nasser Karimi
Posted on 03/14/2006 11:35:21 AM PST by Dan Middleton
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian newspaper’s contest for Holocaust-related cartoons has drawn entries from 200 people, with some drawings mocking the World War II slaughter. One entry shows Jews going into a gas pipeline.
Most contest entrants are Iranian, but six are Americans and a few cartoons have been submitted from as far away as Indonesia and Brazil, according to the Hamshahri newspaper. A few of the drawings have been posted online.
Hamshahri began the contest last month as a test of the West’s readiness to print cartoons about the Nazi killing of 6 million Jews."
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http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s06030097.htm
ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 609, Lake Forest, CA 92609-0609 USA
Visit our web site at: www.assistnews.net -- E-mail: danjuma1@aol.com
Thursday, March 16, 2006
RADICAL ISLAMISTS TERM BUSH 'ENEMY OF MUSLIMS'
By Sheraz Khurram Khan
Special Correspondent for ASSIST News Service in Pakistan
MANSEHRA, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- Pouring scorn on the West for publishing caricatures satirizing the Prophet Muhammad, speakers at a Hurmat (reverence) Conference on Wednesday, March 15, alleged that US President George W Bush was an enemy of Muslims.
an Urdu daily quoted speakers of the conference as saying, “We will not broker any compromise on the issue of publication of the sacrilegious caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. We are prepared to give any sacrifice to protect the reverence of the Prophet Muhammad”.
The fiery speakers alleged the religious organizations engaged in fighting a holy war had been banned by the government at the behest of the US.
They were also critical of the ban government imposed on taking out anti-cartoon rallies.
The decision to ban the rallies came after some five people across Pakistan were killed as anti-cartoon protesters turned violent.
Describing US President George Bush as enemy of Islam they alleged that he (Bush) had now wrested backing of the EU.
“It’s time for Muslim rulers to wake up from their slumber. Perpetuation of criminal silence would only bring humiliation to them”, the Urdu daily quoted speakers as saying.
Speaking on the occasion Hafiz Abdul Rehman Maki said that of the problems facing Muslims currently the issue of reverence of the Prophet Muhammad was of fundamental importance.
Not only the EU, he said, but Muslim rulers should also boycott all ‘infidel’ institutions and forums.
The six party religious alliance’s deputy parliamentary leader in the national assembly Hafiz Hussain Ahmad said that infidels had been hatching conspiracies against Islam throughout the history.
He alleged that earlier, the UK had backed Mirza Ghulam Ahmad to crush Muslim holy warriors “and now the US is making President Musharraf work against Mujahideen (holy warriors)”.
Hafiz flayed rulers for effecting toppling of Taleban government in Afghanistan. The fall of Taleban, the religious alliance’s leader alleged had rendered the boundaries of the country insecure.
Former ISI chief General (retired) Hameed Gul, who also addressed the conference, challenged the West’s concept of secularism and termed it as false.
“The west has hurt sentiments of the Muslims by publishing blasphemous sketches of the Prophet Muhammad”, he remarked.
Alluding to President General Pervez Musharraf’s concept of “Enlightened Moderation”, he said protection of reverence of the Prophet Muhammad was not only mandatory for the people having beard but also for those who call them moderate and enlightened.
Major General (Retd) Zaheerul Islam said that infidels would continue to attack unless and until the nation waged holy war against them.
Meanwhile, a central leader of the six party religious alliance Liaqut Baloch said that the alliance would hold Shan-e-Mustafa (reverence of the Prophet Muhammad) conference on March 23.
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The writer is a freelance journalist based in Pakistan.
** You may republish this story with proper attribution.
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Articles from WND are generally older news...but in this case, they may be right. We have several articles coming off the Hill saying that guest-worker provisions are close to being hammered out.
They'll die in the House, if Tancredo and Sensenbrenner have their way.
"do you remember how many incidents we saw at TM the first year or two?"
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Yes, I do. I think a very large number of those were indeed "terrorist related". I think a lot of it is probably still going on, but we have fewer reports, because I think people have become less vigilant, than they were shortly after 9-11.
Great job breaking and covering this story over the past few days. Fox News just reporting it this morning as though it just happened.
Who should we believe?
FBI denies media reports of danger at Sears Tower
The FBI on Thursday refuted media reports that a terrorism investigation was under way into an incident involving three men who behaved suspiciously outside the Sears Tower.
While three men did stop near a loading dock at the tower in October, they were not a threat, FBI spokesman Ross Rice said. (Snip)
The men never took any photographs, Rice said Thursday. They were immediately approached by Sears Tower security officers and asked to leave. Chicago police investigated the incident and determined the men were not a threat, Rice said.
The men were driving a rental car that was leased to one of the men under his name, not a false name, Rice said.
(snip)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0603170318mar17,1,5984197.story?coll=chi-news-hed
There really is five sides to every story.
LOL, indeed.
FBI investigates bomb threat at NMSU
LAS CRUCES, N.M.
A bomb threat that forced the evacuation of most of New Mexico State University during midterm exams is being looked at as a possible terrorist threat, the FBI said.
The FBI is trying to determine who called the university and whether it was a hoax, said Special Agent Bill Elwell. A similar call to the Las Cruces Sun-News newspaper also led to an evacuation of workers and a lockdown at nearby Central Elementary School.
A man with an Arab accent called the NMSU president's office and the newspaper around 8 a.m. Thursday.
The caller to the Sun-News said, "they were going to blow up (the university) as high as the heavens, so people will know that al-Qaida lives on," according to a receptionist who took the call.
The campus reopened about three hours later. The elementary school and the newspaper reopened about two hours later.
No explosives were found at NMSU or the newspaper.
http://www.tkb.org/NewsStory.jsp?storyID=111512
The early RUMINT suggested that this operation was directed at high value targets (mainly Al-Zarqawi). While there are terror targets in the area, this operation is more likely a 'graduation' style exercise for the Iraqi army. The Iraqi army has been participating in progressively complex operations of size and detail over the past 6 - 8 months. These exercises do more to train the leadership in command, control, communications and maneuver. What this furthermore makes clear that the MSM doesn't present, is that the Iraqi army is taking a much larger role in counter terror/insurgency operations than they have in the past. This is setting the stage to free up US troops for pullout.
Expect to see more large scale joint operations over the next few months as the Iraqi army begins to flex its muscles as assume its position as defender of Iraq.
Doubt it. The spin that I currently see is that this is a 'wag-the-dog' exercise to deflect attention off W's currently low popularity polls.
Thanks for that update Velveeta.
Well, that's good.
Apparently it seems that it all went well.
I wrote ABC here and told them not to let it go and thank you
Here's today's news:
Activity at Sears Tower, Boeing probed
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-terror17.html
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/front
after examining more than 100 reports of suspicious activity since 9/11-We want terrorists to look at Chicago as too hard of a target.
Me too!
Locally I am only vesting truth in ABC not the ABC's -g-
Thanks FFNJ...I was actually laying down with my headphones on listening to news, almost asleep and the story was already 5 hours old and I figured best post here ;)
The Alpha's are contradicting the local reports, guess they have there reasons, but ABC is not to be quelched
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