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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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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.
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~snips from this article I posted:
Activity at Sears Tower, Boeing probed
One officer said he was startled to learn that thousands of pounds of explosives are stolen every year in the United States, including 60,000 pounds in 2001
A sergeant who went through the training learned counterfeit cigarettes are considered a prime money-making venture for terrorists. He started looking for such activity and made arrests
"Everyone is being more vigilant," Risley said