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  • Growing Islamic Anger Over Mohammed Cartoons

    01/03/2006 6:35:13 AM PST · by oxcart · 60 replies · 2,673+ views
    CNSNews.com ^ | 01/03/2006 | By Patrick Goodenough
    (CNSNews.com) - For the government of one small European nation, the new year begins with a deepening crisis: growing anger in the Islamic world over a newspaper's decision to publish cartoon depictions of the prophet Mohammed. The Danish daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten last fall published 12 caricatures of Mohammed, causing an uproar that continues to build more than three months later. Muslims consider any images of the prophet who founded Islam in the seventh century to be blasphemous. The published cartoons showed "Mohammed" in various settings. One depicts him wearing a turban shaped like a bomb with its fuse lit, while...
  • The Fight over the Iraq vote and the strange hypocrisy of the American Right regarding Iraq [FR]

    01/01/2006 1:56:14 AM PST · by Watery Tart · 109 replies · 1,851+ views
    OpEdNews.com ^ | December 31, 2005 | Steven Leser
    The Fight over the Iraq vote and the strange hypocrisy of the American Right regarding Iraq The Islamic Republic of Iraq? Traverse any blog or website geared to Republicans and the Conservative Right here in the United States (such as Free Republic or http://www.freerepublic.com ), and a strange dichotomy becomes evident with regard to Iraq. First, they talk about every practicing Muslim and everyone of Arab descent as if they were a member of Al Qaeda and an animal. A popular photo on Free Republic shows a Grim Reaper with a skull and proclaims "Islam - It's the Evil...