Posted on 02/14/2008 1:30:02 PM PST by knighthawk
Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Iran summoned Denmark's envoy to protest the reprinting of a caricature of the prophet Muhammad that triggered riots and the torching of Danish embassies two years ago, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
Denmark's three biggest newspapers yesterday printed Kurt Westergaard's cartoon of Muhammad wearing a bomb in his turban, first published in 2005, to show their support for the cartoonist a day after police foiled a murder plot against him.
Iran's Foreign Ministry told the ambassador "of Iran's serious concern about the republication of an insulting caricature about Prophet Muhammad," IRNA said. The ministry requested officials ensure there is no repetition of "such insults against the beliefs of over 1.5 billion world Muslims."
Westergaard was among 12 artists whose cartoons of Muhammad were printed in 2005 by Jyllands-Posten, prompting protests in January and February 2006 that culminated with the torching of Danish diplomatic offices in Syria and Lebanon. Riots also erupted in countries such as Pakistan, Libya and Nigeria.
The caricature of Muhammad was published yesterday by Politiken, Berlingske Tidende and Jyllands-Posten after Denmark's Security and Intelligence Service detained two Tunisians and a Dane with a Moroccan background who said they planned to murder 73-year-old Westergaard.
"It's unacceptable that a Danish newspaper artist has apparently been the target of a murder plan by fanatical Muslims," Berlingske said in an editorial. The newspaper said it published the cartoon "to document what's at stake in this case and as unambiguous support for the freedom of expression we all want to defend."
Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller said in February 2006 the violent reactions to the cartoons was "the worst foreign policy crisis Denmark has experienced since World War II."
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Don’t see Christians rioting when somebody insults them.
Some regimes just can’t get it through their heads that, in FREE nations, the government does NOT control what is printed, etc. and that it is only very rare instances (national secrets/ troop movements) that “prior restraint” is legally even possible.
A Look at More Than Cartoons
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
Has anyone out there seen this cartoon?
F. Y. I.
Yesterday I was reading what all the guards at Gitmo have to do to protect the Koran from being handled by infidel hands, and how thet go ballistic.
Today I went to the county library and wiped my butt, then went back and pulled every Koran off the shelves and ran my fingers thru them.
LOL!!!!!!
I presume that they requested 1000 framed copies. That such a clown could be considered a prophet tells us volumes about their culture. That Christ should be laughed at by liberals tells us even more about ours.
Every time an Islamo-creep tries to commit mayhem in response to these cartoons, the West should respond with a every increasing barage of cartoons and articles attacking Islam.
Apparently, Muslims consider the Prophet Muhammed Ali to be beyond criticism.
That would seem to set the stage for declaring him to be of divine nature.
Just another sun-crazed old sand hermit. They are a dime a dozen in the Middle East.
Most of them are suffering to some degree from a combination of schizophrenia and bipolar manic-depressive mental disorders.
Maybe that is a genetic predisposition of many of the tribes of the Middle East. That would explain a lot, but excuses nothing.
If every newspaper in the world published this cartoon once a week, all the Islamists could do is shut up and pout.
I look forward to the Danish envoy rubbing his blonde blandness all over the Iranian loons. They’ll probably die of frustration.
Many people have fled Iran one time or another. Even entire oil companies have done so. Say you will be there and run for your life. So it’s a lie, it’s allowed according to their ethics.
yes, last year at LGF
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