Developments in Prophet Drawings Case [Disgusting AP Bias]

ASSociated Press ^ | Feb. 7, 2006 | No name given

[Alouette]

Developments Tuesday in the controversy over drawings of the Prophet Muhammad:

• NATO peacekeepers exchange fire with protesters who attacked their base in a second straight day of deadly demonstrations in Afghanistan over publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Three demonstrators are killed and dozens wounded.

• An Iranian newspaper announces a contest for cartoons satirizing the Holocaust in response to the caricatures of Islam's prophet. The country's commerce minister announces Iran is cutting all trade ties with Denmark, where the drawings were first published.

• Police fire tear gas to disperse hundreds of Muslim protesters in Srinagar, India, wounding at least six demonstrators and two policemen.

• Chanting and burning effigies, about 5,000 people gather in Peshawar, Pakistan, to protest the caricatures.

• Masked Palestinian gunmen riddle a picture of the Danish prime minister with bullets and set fire to a mock Danish flag in the Gaza Strip town of Rafah.

• Thousands of Egyptians demonstrate peacefully in Cairo, demanding a boycott of Danish products and the expulsion of the Danish ambassador.

• About 50 protesters in Tehran hurled firebombs at the Norwegian Embassy; a small fire outside the embassy was quickly contained.

• Lawmakers in northern Nigeria burn Danish and Norwegian flags and bar Danish companies from bidding on a major construction project.

• Hundreds of Muslims burn a Danish flag in the Philippines in protest and urge a boycott of Denmark's products.

• Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen calls the protests a "global crisis" and appeals for calm.

• Denmark advises its citizens to leave Indonesia as a precaution.

• Australia temporarily closes its diplomatic missions in the Palestinian territories.

• An aid group that provides food to tens of thousands of people in Chechnya suspends operations after officials ban all Danish organizations.

• President Bush calls the Danish prime minister to express "solidarity and support" in the wake of violence over the drawings.

• China's government criticizes Western newspapers for publishing the drawings and appeals for calm.

• Japan expresses concern about mounting violence linked to the drawings and urges protesters not to further inflame tensions.

[Alouette]

This is beyond sickening. When did ASSociated Press ever mention "The Lord and Savior Jesus" or "The Lawgiver Moses"?

[Alouette]

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[MNJohnnie]

Yep. Simply sickening to watch the basic intellectual incoherence on the Hate American Always Left. Poor Islamo fascists were insulted and now they must be appeased scream the Junk Journalists. Yes, we should appease them by dropping Cluster Bombs and Napalm.

[penelopesire]

I am no AP fan, but this just looks like a listing of what has happened today in the 'cartoon war'. Nothing to get overly upset about with this report..imho.

[Cindy]

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[sheltonmac]

Disgusting AP Bias

Sorry, but what exactly was biased about this particular report?

[sheltonmac]

Simply sickening to watch the basic intellectual incoherence on the Hate American Always Left. Poor Islamo fascists were insulted and now they must be appeased scream the Junk Journalists.

Got all that from this report, did you?

[Patriot from Philly]

They started this with putting "holy" before Quaran after the Koran in the toilet controversy. I'll tell you the media sounds almost reverent when they talk about Islam, no smirk or elitist eyebrow raise like when they talk about Christianity.

Maybe that reverence is fear.

[backhoe]

Everything I have found about The War of the 12 Cartoons ( links, blogs, quips, quotes, aggravating pictures ) is located here- click the Pic, and scroll backwards:

[MNJohnnie]

Amazing is it not how desperate some "Freepers" are to make excuses for the junk journalists? Gee compare and contrast the respectful tone HERE for the "Prophet Mohamed" with the rabid defense of "free speech" and highly pejorative tone the SAME Asso Press organization used to cover protesters who PEACEFULLY protested things like the "Last Temptation of Christ" or the various "Artistic" displays where a Crucifix was displayed in a jar of Urine.

HMMM, I think you are trying way to hard to make excuses for the Left's intellectual incoherence on "Free Speech". Why is that SH?

[nikos1121]

I think the point is the listing Muhammed as Prophet...Or is it Profit..

[Prince Charles]

I can't imagine what would happen if someone were to take that Bomb-Turbaned Mohammed cartoon and drop it in a beaker of urine, a la "Piss Christ."

[SlowBoat407]

Maybe that reverence is fear.

Then the islamofascists' work there is done.

[MNJohnnie]

"I'll tell you the media sounds almost reverent when they talk about Islam, no smirk or elitist eyebrow raise like when they talk about Christianity"


Hmmm why is that Sh? Oh but that right, you are not interested in debating the facts just sneering at anyone who objects to the Left's situational principals when it comes to "Free Speech". Just another example of the intellectual incoherence of the Modern American Left.

[Steve_Seattle]

We need to keep in mind that any expression of disbelief in Islam or Muhammad is technically an "insult" to Muslims, and that the controvery over the cartoons obscures the real issue, which is Islamic intolerance, not Western insensitivity. We are far more sensitive to their concerns than they are to ours.

[penelopesire]

Let the world see these animals on rampage over cartoons of their prophet. Maybe the world will wake the hell up to the danger of Islamists having nuclear bombs!

[SlowBoat407]

If the AP were going to be truly objective, (I used to work there, so I'm pretty familiar with the pretense of objectivity that they have.) the would have written "the Muslim prophet Mohammed". There should be something to distinguish the first Mohammed from all the millions of others out there, but I'm surprised the AP didn't include (pbuh) after his name.

[sauropod]

FMCDH (BITS).

[Steve_Seattle]

Not everyone in the liberal press is siding with the Islamists on this. Today, the Seattle Times editorialized against the violence and the demonstrations. However, they also ran an idiotic "blame the West" column by Eugene Robinson, who did nothing but make excuses for the violence. (Among his more inane comments was repeating the canard that the Islamists don't like us because we support repressive regimes in the Middle East - we just overthrew two of the worst!!! Of course, he was against THAT, too. And who is over there fighting to RESTORE those dictatorships? The Islamists!!! And then he said Bush is only paying "lip service" to freedom in the Middle East!!! $100 billion dollars!!! 2,400 dead American soldiers!!! Lip service???!!!)

[Alouette]

Nothing to get overly upset about with this report..imho.

So everyone agrees with the headline, that "Prophet" (without the quotes) is an objective journalistic description of the subject of the cartoons.