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cartoons of the prophet, killing a Christian, I can see the similarity.
all in all...it's just another brick in the wall....
BRUSSELS JOURNAL.com: "'THE WAR IS ON'" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Yesterday (Thursday) Mullah Krekar, the alleged leader of the Islamist group Ansar al-Islam who has been living in Norway as a refugee since 1991, said that the publication of the Muhammad cartoons was a declaration of war. "The war has begun," he told Norwegian journalists. Mr Krekar said Muslims in Norway are preparing to fight. "It does not matter if the governments of Norway and Denmark apologize, the war is on.") (February 3, 2006)
MEMRITV.org - Video Clip (with Transcript) #1049: "FILM SEMINAR ON IRANIAN TV: Tom and Jerry - A Jewish Conspiracy to Improve the Image of Mice, because Jews Were Termed "Dirty Mice' in Europe" ("Iran, Channel 4 - 2/19/2006")
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)
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)
BRUSSELS JOURNAL.com: "'THE WAR IS ON'" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Yesterday (Thursday) Mullah Krekar, the alleged leader of the Islamist group Ansar al-Islam who has been living in Norway as a refugee since 1991, said that the publication of the Muhammad cartoons was a declaration of war. "The war has begun," he told Norwegian journalists. Mr Krekar said Muslims in Norway are preparing to fight. "It does not matter if the governments of Norway and Denmark apologize, the war is on.") (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)
BRUSSELS JOURNAL.com: "OUR LADY OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCES" -from the Desk of Paul Belien (September 22, 2005)
INFOVLAD.net: "NEXT TARGET - DENMARK?" (October 15, 2005)
I've read this article twice now, and still don't comprehend what, on earth, it means.
Do they really construe the Muslims' violent reaction to cartoons of Muhammed be identical to western repulsion of executing a convert?
The only similarity is the Muslim response--ie. to kill the 'offending' party.
Even when they write a good article, the AP can't help but write the worst possible title to the story.
1. Someone drawing a cartoon that offended people versus someone about to be killed for thinking the wrong thing
2. People getting angry versus people getting angry and killing people and burning things
3. A system of allowing people to think whatever they want versus a system of killing people who think the wrong thing
The fact that this author is unable or unwilling to distinguish these things destroys all of his credibility. Freedom is just as good as oppression. Restraint is just as good as violence. There is no good and no evil. It can't even be said that everything is relative, because everything is the same.
Screw that.
That's the Christian response: You failed Logic 101!
Hold it right there Mr. baby-camel butt...
I can't read any further than this because if you believe what you just wrote, you've got to be dumber than a sackful of camel-droppings...
Let's see what you said... that killing, destroying and burning over the drawing of some images that offends you is the same as expressing concern over someone who is about to be killed over changing his religion?
Do I have that right?
And you actually plan to write several hundred additional words over this fatally flawed comparison? With a straight face?
G'wan! At least in the realm of human beings, that's a non-starter!
The hardline "insult to Islam" characters must be exterminated, else no one in any Moslem country can ever be safe, or prosperous.
A *MUSLIM* is saying this. Should be a wakeup call that "Sharia" and Freedom are incompatible.
So many dead in the Christian rioting....when will it all end?
Oh yeah. Zero dead. Lots of reasoned discussion and argument and pressure. No murders.