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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

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To: thesharkboy

I don't. And I'm a U.S. citizen.

Folks really need to learn how to say:

"I speak for MYSELF" because often they don't speak for me.


61 posted on 02/03/2006 9:19:06 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people believe in Intelligent Design (God))
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To: thesharkboy


62 posted on 02/03/2006 9:19:15 AM PST by freedumb2003 (American troops cannot be defeated. American Politicians can.)
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To: thesharkboy
Inciting religious or ethnic hatreds in this manner is not acceptable.

Thus placing the burden of responsibility for the violence elsewhere than on those who actually commit the violence.

63 posted on 02/03/2006 9:19:18 AM PST by RonF
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To: thesharkboy

How many papers DIDN'T run the infamous Mapplethorpe porn pictures.


64 posted on 02/03/2006 9:19:23 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: Soul_of_Chogokin

65 posted on 02/03/2006 9:19:26 AM PST by michigander (The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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To: thesharkboy

Time to clean out foggy bottom. I'd like to hear Bolton's thoughts on the matter.


66 posted on 02/03/2006 9:19:28 AM PST by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/israel_palestine_conflict.htm)
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To: samtheman
Why make fun of someone's belief system, when it's so much more to the point to satarize their bad behavior?

Because it is a legitimate position to argue that their belief system condones, encourages and incites their bad behavior, that's why.

And the fact that the bad actors will threaten violence against anyone who make this argument is reason enough to demonstrate the limits of their "right" to not be offended by publishing these cartoons.

Think of it as a clarifying line in the sand.

That's why.

67 posted on 02/03/2006 9:19:36 AM PST by Maceman (Fake but accurate -- and now double-sourced)
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To: Stellar Dendrite; NRA2BFree; Happy2BMe; Spiff; Pelham; Das Outsider; moehoward; ...
This is a *PING!* to all who are concerned with both the direction the US is going under Bush 43, and what we are doing in the Middle East!

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."

So..is ANYONE still a believer in GWB's lips anymore?

Bush 41: "Read my Lips...No New Taxes!"

Bush 43: "But over time, it's going to be important for nations to know they will be held accountable for inactivity. You are either with us or you are against us in the fight against terror."

New required reading in the Bush 43 La Hacienda Blanco, and obviously at the State Department...

Now the only question is, do we surrender to Mexico or the Islamazis first under these Globalist PINHEADS!

68 posted on 02/03/2006 9:19:55 AM PST by Itzlzha ("The avalanche has already started...it is too late for the pebbles to vote")
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To: mbraynard

There is no conflict. The left doesn't really have a coherent political philosophy. Their overriding mandate, seems to me, is to take the side of whoever they think has less power (political, cultural, military, whatever) in a conflict and side with them.

They have an almost pathological need to think that a more powerful opponent is probably wrong. They invariably side with whoever they anoint as the weaker one.


69 posted on 02/03/2006 9:20:03 AM PST by HitmanLV (Listen to my demos for Savage Nation contest: http://www.geocities.com/mr_vinnie_vegas/index.html)
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To: thesharkboy
Okay, now it's time to some some Christianity bashing.

But don't you dare ridicule these evil despots.
70 posted on 02/03/2006 9:20:12 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people believe in Intelligent Design (God))
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To: thesharkboy

I just called the State Department, and the operator argued with me that it was the right of the papers to publish these cartoons. I have always been told that the State Department represented foreigners over the US, but I was shocked to hear how true it is.


71 posted on 02/03/2006 9:20:21 AM PST by superdad
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To: thesharkboy
The Arabists Among Us
72 posted on 02/03/2006 9:20:36 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: samtheman
However: it wasn't really Mohammed who organized 9/11, was it? It was Bin Laden and the nut-cakes of extremism in Saudi Arabia.

Wouldn't it be more to the point if this cartoon was about an email to Bin Laden than to Mohammed?

No. Osama and company base their actions and beliefs directly on the actions and beliefs of Mohammed. Osama isn't perverting Islam as set forth by Mohammed. He's following it to the letter. You can't separate the two.

73 posted on 02/03/2006 9:20:45 AM PST by Mordacious
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To: thesharkboy
Notice to Islamofascists:

The State Department does not speak for the People of America!

74 posted on 02/03/2006 9:21:24 AM PST by MamaTexan (I am NOT a ~legal entity~, nor am I a *person* as created by law!)
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To: thesharkboy

bttt


75 posted on 02/03/2006 9:21:37 AM PST by RayStacy
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To: thesharkboy

If they think they are scosring brownie points with those people thay are frikin' crazy.


76 posted on 02/03/2006 9:21:55 AM PST by oyez
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To: samtheman

islam is as islam does.

I don't see how the violence and blooshed adocated in the koran can be confused for anything but violence and blooshed.


77 posted on 02/03/2006 9:22:01 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: samtheman

"Why make fun of someone's belief system,"

Why not?


78 posted on 02/03/2006 9:22:08 AM PST by Sweetjustusnow (Oust the IslamoCommies here and abroad.)
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To: tallhappy

"The response is of course crazy. But the idea of insulting people's religion is common among liberals and the like."

Many liberals hate religion to the point that they will go out of their way to insult it. If you are angered at pictures of crosses in urine, then you should be angered at this - both are irresponsible depictions meant only to provoke (hate-speech?). It's pretty much the same thing in my opinion. Having rights also means having responsibility which is something all too forgotten these days.


79 posted on 02/03/2006 9:22:17 AM PST by Owl558 (Pardon my spelling)
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To: thesharkboy

State has a long history of being against US interest imo.


80 posted on 02/03/2006 9:22:28 AM PST by zek157
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