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(Excerpt)...over two weeks we witnessed a half-dozen cases of self-censorship, pitting freedom of speech against the fear of confronting issues about Islam. This was a legitimate news story to cover, and Jyllands-Posten decided to do it by adopting the well-known journalistic principle: Show, don't tell. I wrote to members of the association of Danish cartoonists asking them "to draw Muhammad as you see him." We certainly did not ask them to make fun of the prophet. Twelve out of 25 active members responded.

From What the Cartoons Were About: The drawings were commissioned by the Jyllands-Posten (Jutland's Post) to accompany an article on self-censorship and freedom of speech after Danish writer Kare Bluitgen was unable failed to find artists willing to illustrate his children's book about Mohammed for fear of violent attacks by extremist Muslims. Islamic teachings forbid pictorial depictions of Mohammed. The cartoons were published on September 30 with an explanatory article by the newspaper's culture editor, Flemming Rose. The following is a translated summary of the article and explanation of the cartoons published in the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia. "The modern, secular...

No word yet from the dhimmis on the evidence that the Religion of Peace is a FARCE! I wonder if they get it? Just to help prod their teeny, tiny brains along the path of elightenment, allow me to present photographic evidence of Islam's "peacefulness" and "tolerance". In the meantime, all this talk of extermination, slaying, beheadings, and holocaust has made me hungry. Lunch break! Religion of Peace = Holocaust A veiled Muslim protester, holding a placard, marches towards the Danish embassy during a demonstration in London, Friday Feb. 3, 2006. Hundreds of people protested against the publication of cartoons...

Need to catch up on the latest cultural jihad?? Here's your one-stop source... The Religion of Peace is at it again! The Danish cartoons themselves are not really that horrifyin' OR funny, IMHO. But the fury that has erupted around them is hilarious! I mean, we all saw these cartoons back in September when they first made a splash. No one ever thought we'd see WW3 because of it!! So why is Islamic fury building anew? To fan the flames of Muslim outrage, Danish Islamists fabricated their own blasphemies to pin on the Jyllands-Posten newspaper...