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US sides with Muslims in cartoon dispute
Yahoo! News ^ | 02/03/06 | Yahoo! News

Posted on 02/03/2006 9:04:55 AM PST by thesharkboy

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington on Friday condemned caricatures in European newspapers of Islam's Prophet Mohammad, siding with Muslims who are outraged that the publications put press freedom over respect for religion.

"These cartoons are indeed offensive to the belief of Muslims," State Department spokesman Kurtis Cooper said in answer to a question.

"We all fully recognize and respect freedom of the press and expression but it must be coupled with press responsibility. Inciting religious or ethnic hatreds in this manner is not acceptable."


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To: thesharkboy

101 posted on 02/03/2006 9:28:23 AM PST by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: samtheman
I'm not going to flame you. It's the State Dept. that needs to be flamed for cowering in the face of murdering Moo morons.

No matter; those idiots will be ignored. See my tagline.

102 posted on 02/03/2006 9:28:26 AM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government "job" attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: thesharkboy
Un-freaking-believable. Did the State Department say the same thing when a cross was put in a jar of urine?

No, VERY believable.

It's OKAY to be anti-Christian, especially anti-evangelical and anti-Catholic. THAT'S part of the left-wing agenda....Christianity and Christians NOT wanted. It's open season on all that involves Jesus Christ. (Happy holidays! X-mas, no creches, but other images are allowed. The Passion of Christ was an excellent example of the anti-Christianity feeling in Sleazywood and the media.) The movies that mocked Christ were extolled.
Men and women of the Christian cloth are villified, mocked, derided and excoriated with regularity and consistency.
When CHURCHES get burned or vandalized it's not news unless the CHURCHES belong to minority parishes. When other houses of worship get vandalized, it's international news and breast-beating.
However, ALL OTHER RELIGIONS are welcome, loved, honored and glorified. Just look at who is called the hate-names when bigotry rears its ugly head. You never see the outrage at Christ-hating.
The "crucifx-in-the-urine" (not a cross, but a CRUCIFIX!) and feces-spatterd holy virgin were just two examples of how our tax dollars/government and "art" people coverge against Christ.

If you haven't seen that anti-Christian, PRO-all-other-religions bias yet, you just aren't paying attention.
I THINK I'm preaching to the choir. :o)

103 posted on 02/03/2006 9:29:12 AM PST by starfish923 (Socrates: It's never right to do wrong.)
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To: thesharkboy

Good memory.."Piss Christ" IIRC...What would be the Moslem equivalent?


104 posted on 02/03/2006 9:29:24 AM PST by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: Texas_Jarhead

thanks for the link. sent a message.
godspeed to our european allies.


105 posted on 02/03/2006 9:29:35 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: thesharkboy

Has it occurred to you that the State Dept doesn't want to offend the Iraqis (or any other muslims) that we're fighting for and with?


106 posted on 02/03/2006 9:29:41 AM PST by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: dead
Those are issues of taste and decorum, and it is not the business of our State Department to comment on such matters.

That statement, coming from an official State Department spokesman, makes us look more scared than France and the person who uttered it is an idiot.

There is more sense in those two sentences than the average State Department functionary could possibly comprehend.

I nominate dead for the post of Ass't Secretary of State for Clear Thinking.

107 posted on 02/03/2006 9:30:19 AM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Sir Gawain

Freedom of the press is nothing to lose your head over.


108 posted on 02/03/2006 9:30:24 AM PST by BooksForTheRight.com (what have you done today to fight terrorism/leftism (same thing!))
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To: thesharkboy; prairiebreeze

I was just going to post that! I've seen cartoons that use Jesus saying the most outrageous things and we don't riot.


Ping prairie; we were just discussing this.


109 posted on 02/03/2006 9:30:53 AM PST by Peach
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To: Hank Rearden

Foggy Bottom puts me in mind of what Ronald Reagan once said: "The nine most dangerous words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help'."


110 posted on 02/03/2006 9:31:11 AM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: thesharkboy
"We all fully recognize and respect freedom of the press and expression but it must be coupled with press responsibility. Inciting religious or ethnic hatreds in this manner is not acceptable."


111 posted on 02/03/2006 9:31:15 AM PST by the anti-liberal (Hey, Al Qaeda: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent)
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To: starfish923

You're right--I'm not surprised. And you're also correct that it was a crucifix, not just a cross. I had forgotten!


112 posted on 02/03/2006 9:31:36 AM PST by thesharkboy
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To: okie01

What's it pay? 8-)


113 posted on 02/03/2006 9:32:32 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Peach

US State Department = NWO


114 posted on 02/03/2006 9:32:34 AM PST by Halgr (Once a Marine, always a Marine - Semper Fi)
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To: Texas_Jarhead

I tried to do that and got an error message. PO'd me, for sure.


115 posted on 02/03/2006 9:32:53 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Itzlzha

They're smoking some really bad shi'ite in Foggy Bottom..


116 posted on 02/03/2006 9:33:02 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: nuconvert

Has it occurred to you that the governments of europe dont want to offend muslims either? But are refusing to be intimidated by saber waving peasants and standing by freedom of the press as a western value the muslim world needs to drag itself out of the 6th century to embrace.


117 posted on 02/03/2006 9:33:13 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: thesharkboy

The State Dept had no clue Hamas was going to win the Pali election. They better just stay out of this one.


118 posted on 02/03/2006 9:33:12 AM PST by WestCoastGal (-Flank2 - Wake up guys!! US may be in flank2 position)
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To: nuconvert

Has it occurred to you that the governments of europe dont want to offend muslims either? But are refusing to be intimidated by saber waving peasants and standing by freedom of the press as a western value the muslim world needs to drag itself out of the 6th century to embrace.


119 posted on 02/03/2006 9:33:15 AM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: nuconvert
Has it occurred to you that the State Dept doesn't want to offend the Iraqis (or any other muslims) that we're fighting for and with?

While we're trying to help them understand the concept of freedom of speech?

120 posted on 02/03/2006 9:33:43 AM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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