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Cartoons, New Film Target Muslims
Middle East Times ^ | February 29, 2008 | By Joseph Mayton

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...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crymeariver; iran; iraq; islam; israel; whiningmuslims
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NY Daily News | March 09 2008 | Michael Goodwin
Posted on 03/09/2008 12:19:57 PM EDT by knighthawk
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41 posted on 03/09/2008 10:03:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/______________________Profile updated Saturday, March 1, 2008)
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To: Fred Nerks
Mohammed borne on Gabriel's shoulders,

Mo looks like a woman.

42 posted on 03/09/2008 10:04:44 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Fennie
Many Muslims are asking whether some Europeans actually enjoy angering the Islamic world.

Impossible. The islamic world is already in a constant state of anger

43 posted on 03/09/2008 10:06:34 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Fennie
Muslims wonder about the so-called tradition of European tolerance.

Beheading is the tradition of Islamic tolerance.

44 posted on 03/09/2008 10:09:24 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: SunkenCiv
along with others that had never been published by any Danish publication...

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...

45 posted on 03/09/2008 11:04:05 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (a fair dinkum aussie)
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46 posted on 03/09/2008 11:11:31 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (a fair dinkum aussie)
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To: Fred Nerks

No lie is beneath them because lies serve Jihad which is the highest participle. Truth is a minor consideration. Phony prophet phony Allah


47 posted on 03/10/2008 12:17:49 AM PDT by dennisw (Never bet on a false prophet! <<<||>>> Never bet on Islam!)
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To: Fred Nerks

highest principle


48 posted on 03/10/2008 12:20:19 AM PDT by dennisw (Never bet on a false prophet! <<<||>>> Never bet on Islam!)
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To: dennisw

agreed...the more I learn about mohammadanism the more I like pigs.


49 posted on 03/10/2008 2:04:48 AM PDT by Fred Nerks (a fair dinkum aussie)
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To: Fred Nerks

My take is—— If you are stupid enough to believe in your false prophet then I don’t trust you on other matters


50 posted on 03/10/2008 6:21:01 AM PDT by dennisw (Never bet on a false prophet! <<<||>>> Never bet on Islam!)
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