I'm sure he looked a lot like this:
Posted on 08/31/2007 5:59:09 AM PDT by IrishMike
Marking the beginning of yet another dispute over free speech and religious sensitivity, the government of Pakistan has joined Iran in protesting the publication in a Swedish newspaper of a sketch featuring the head of Mohammed on the body of a dog.
"Pakistan condemns, in the strongest terms, the publication of an offensive and blasphemous sketch of the Holy Prophet in the Swedish newspaper," the foreign ministry in Islamabad said in a statement Thursday.
A Swedish diplomat was summoned to the ministry and "was told that the publication of the sketch had caused grave affront to the religious sentiments of Muslims," it said.
"Regrettably, the tendency among some Europeans to mix the freedom of expression with an outright and deliberate insult to 1.3 billion Muslims in the world is on the rise," the statement said.
A Swedish foreign ministry spokeswoman told Sweden's English-language The Local that the diplomat had apologized for any hurt feelings the publication may have caused.
The government in Stockholm has distanced itself from the decision by a regional newspaper, Nerikes Allehanda, to publish the picture on August 18. The sketch, by artist Lars Vilks, was used to illustrate an editorial on freedom of expression.
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A few months after a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, in September 2005 published a dozen caricatures of Mohammed, simmering anger among Muslims erupted.
The cartoons, later reproduced in other European newspapers, triggered death threats, diplomatic strains, a Mideast boycott of Danish products, and protests -- some of them deadly -- in a number of Islamic countries.
The ripple effects of the episode are still being felt, with the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), a 57-member bloc of Islamic states, working to have international institutions outlaw the "defamation of prophets" and combat "Islamophobia."
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Muslims cracking down on extremists is kind of like letting the bar crack down on bad lawyers isn’t it?
I posed this question yesterday -
if no “image of mo’ ham ette” is allowed, how do they know what he looks like, and consequently, how can they get into an uproar over an image if it may or may not be Mo’ HAM ette?
I like your thinking, good plan.
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“Mohammed the demoniac pedophile” ....NICE SUMMARY
He's just applying present-day standards to the arabs of old. Doubtless in 7th century Mecca it was socially acceptable to rape a nine-year-old girl. I mean, all the prophets were doing it...
Careful what you ask for. "Christian fervor" is what kept Europe and England in the grip of some very ghastly wars for close to 250 years.
Are you saying that Mohammed was a pedophile?
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Mohammed the demoniac pedophile ... HOW’S THAT !
The inclusion of two provocative entries in Australia’s most prestigious religious art competition has again highlighted the issue of distasteful art and Christians’ reaction to it. Critics ranging from Prime Minister John Howard to church leaders have questioned the appropriateness of the two exhibits — one depicting the Virgin Mary wearing an Islamic burqa, and another, a holographic image of al-Qaeda terror chief Osama bin Laden morphing into an image of Jesus Christ. The works, submitted for a 55-year-old annual award called the Blake prize, are on display at a taxpayer-funded gallery in Sydney. Howard has called them “gratuitously offensive to the religious beliefs of many Australians.” The chairman of the Blake prize, the Rev. Rod Pattenden, said in a statement it seemed that “a real nerve” had been hit.
I'm sure he looked a lot like this:
Exactly. The world, and especially our people, must realize, and soon, that these iSLAMists are absolutely incorrigible, implacable, and uncompromising in a way that Communism never was, or is..........
I think the difference isn’t that Muslims are more “faithful”.
One difference is that Christ suffered the most appalling torture and death for us:- dipping His image in urine is just a faint, demon-prompted echo of Calvary. Hell and Damnation didn’t stop Christ - some wee-wee in a jar just isn’t important.
Te other difference is that Islam is a made-up cult which revolves around the confused and chronologically abrogated ravings of a single tribal warlord. The man at the centre of such a cult must be kept ‘untouchable’ with the incessant use of violence and mental conditioning. Otherwise the entire memetic edifice will collapse.
That’s similar to the joke I’ve made:
I make an “image of mo’ HAM ette” every morning, but I flush it before I look at it.
Putting Mohammed’s head on a pile of horse poop would be an insult to horse poop.
Yes—and we should be more like them.
Not sure how soon given their numbers and birth rates . . . however . . .
such a strategy would be tolerable to me.
I greatly agree with you.
Just checked in to see if a picture of Islamic Rage Boy was posted yet. Nope.
a pile of camel dung with a towel on top would be close enough for me....:)
Doncha just hate that?
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Te other difference is that Islam is a made-up cult which revolves around the confused and chronologically abrogated ravings of a single tribal warlord. The man at the centre of such a cult must be kept ‘untouchable’ with the incessant use of violence and mental conditioning. Otherwise the entire memetic edifice will collapse.
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I think you have a point . . .
can’t allow serious thought about origins or the house of demonized cards tumbles down.
In all my ten years here at Free Republic, I've rarely if every read a post that alarmed, amazed, and frankly repulsed me as much as this one.
Too bad we Christians don't have the same fervor about Christ. Muslims, well, at least those in power, stand up to blasphemy.
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Maybe I'm wrong here. I could be. I apologize if I offend with my remarks.
I find nothing to admire about muslims; the fervent ones are nothing more nor less than the better-brainwashed among a billion followers of a fourteenth-century warrior death cult. So what you are saying, in effect is, "I wish more Christians were more like those better-brainwashed, violent muslims that riot at the drop of a cartoon." You are wrong --- very wrong. I urge you to re-think your position.
I hope that your post was just the result of frustration rather than your true beliefs.
I lived in Saudi Arabia for five years and saw their faith and fervor. It made me wish that we Christians still had some of it.
So what you are saying here is, "I wish that the USA could be more like Saudi Arabia?
In the words of Bill the Cat, "AACCCCKKK! TTTHHHPPPPT!"
We have it, to some extent, at the grass roots level but our leaders, political, social, artistic and educational, have NONE. But, then we elect them "leaders" so what does that say about US?
Well, what it says is two-fold; first, that our Founders, in their wisdom, saw the dangers and downside of the intermingling of church and state, and secondly, that that is how the American electorate wants it.
I'm not a Christian, but I am about 99% or better in agreement with the position of most Christians here on Free Republic so reading this post was an extremely unpleasant shock.
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