Posted on 03/01/2008 8:40:59 AM PST by Fennie
CAIRO - Many Muslims are asking whether some Europeans actually enjoy angering the Islamic world. As Danish newspapers republish inflammatory cartoons that portray the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb as a turban and a Dutch member of parliament calls for the Koran to be banned, Muslims wonder about the so-called tradition of European tolerance.
The day after Danish police arrested three Muslims of North African decent for allegedly planning to murder the Jyllands-Posten cartoonist, who drew the offending cartoons, newspapers across the country republished those cartoons. They said freedom of the press was under threat and the cartoons have come to symbolize that freedom.
Dozens of other international publications followed the Danish press and published the cartoons. The Egyptian government and other nations in the Muslim world responded by banning publications that printed the caricatures of the Prophet.
A vast majority of Egyptians, who see the Danish cartoons as yet another attack on their religion and beliefs, welcomed the decision in Cairo. Muhammad Shennawy, a graphic designer, told the Middle East Times that restraint and understanding was needed in art...
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Posted on 03/09/2008 12:19:57 PM EDT by knighthawk
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Mo looks like a woman.
Impossible. The islamic world is already in a constant state of anger
Beheading is the tradition of Islamic tolerance.
the scumbag used an image of an entrant in a french 'pig hoinking' contest, put it through a photocopier a number of times and tried to pass it off as a caricature of mohammad...
No lie is beneath them because lies serve Jihad which is the highest participle. Truth is a minor consideration. Phony prophet phony Allah
highest principle
agreed...the more I learn about mohammadanism the more I like pigs.
My take is—— If you are stupid enough to believe in your false prophet then I don’t trust you on other matters
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