Cartoon Reprint Reignites Fiery Protests
Danish Newpapers Anger Muslims By Supporting Artist Of Prophet Muhammad Cartoon
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Pakistani demonstrators burn a Danish flag during a protest rally in Lahore, Pakistan on Feb. 15, 2008. Dozens of protesters demonstrated in Lahore on Friday to condemn the reprinting of Prophet Muhammad cartoons in Danish newspapers and to urge the government to expel Denmark's ambassador. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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A man walks past the Copenhagen offices of the Jyllands-Posten newspaper, Feb. 12, 2008. The newspaper on Feb. 13, 2008 reprinted a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad which two years earlier sparked mass outcry among Muslims around the world. (AP Photo/John McConnico)
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Riots In Pakistan
Images of the rioting that has swept through Pakistan - and the Muslim world - to protest a cartoon in a Danish newspaper.
Thousands of residents in the conservative Gaza Strip ruled by the militant Islamic Hamas movement marched in the Jebaliya refugee camp chanting: "What Denmark said is heresy."
"It is shameful that Denmark should renew its offense against the prophet," Hamas official Mushir al-Masri told reporters at the protest.
In Pakistan, hundreds of people rallied in various parts of the country, setting fire to Danish flags and demanding the Danish ambassador's expulsion. And in Denmark, a prominent Danish imam urged rioting youth to stop setting fires and hurling rocks at police.
The protests came after Denmark's leading newspapers reproduced one of 12 cartoons of Islam's prophet Wednesday in a gesture of solidarity after police said they uncovered a plot to kill the cartoon's artist. The drawings had sparked deadly riots across the Muslim world in 2006.
About 200 students from the International Islamic University in Islamabad vowed to organize a street march next Friday if the government did not accept their demand.
"We are even ready to sacrifice our life for our beloved Prophet," said Mahmood Sadiqui, a student leader.
About 200 people held a similar rally in Multan, a main city in the eastern Punjab province, burning Danish flags and chanting "Death to the Cartoonist!" and "Boycott, boycott of European products!"
At two rallies in Pakistan's biggest city of Karachi, about 150 supporters from radical Islamic parties torched effigies of the Danish prime minister amid calls to boycott Danish products.
Mohammad Imran, a student leader from Islami Jamiat Talba, a student organization linked with Pakistan's largest Islamic political group, Jamaat-e-Islami, called the cartoon "blasphemous."
"We demand the rulers to sever diplomatic ties" with Denmark and Sweden for publishing the cartoons. "The cartoonist and publisher must be hanged."
It was the second protest in Karachi in as many days. Dozens of Islamic students set fire to a Danish flag on Thursday. In Pakistan, blasphemy of Muhammad is considered a serious crime that carries the death sentence.
In Copenhagen, about 800 people protested peacefully in a march organized by the radical Muslim group Hizb ut-Tahrir.
Meanwhile, a prominent Danish imam urged rioting youth to stop setting fires and hurling rocks at police after a fifth consecutive night of vandalism there and in other Danish cities.
"Please stop what you're doing," Imam Mostafa Chendid, the leader of the Islamic Faith Community, said in an address to young people during Friday's prayer. "The prophet has not taught you to burn down schools, or burn cars or infrastructure."
Nine youths were arrested overnight Friday in Copenhagen, six of whom faced preliminary charges for throwing rocks at police officers, police said Friday. There were no reports of injuries.
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See all 64 CommentsThat should take care of the problem.
Now there is a cry to rally around!
Jeeze - Religion, so 12th century...
Bigots think that kind of thing is impressive and fun.
Actually it''s vile and corrupt.
Since over 85% of the Danes belong to the state church which is Lutheran it is fair to characterize Denmark''s behavior as a disgrace to Christian values.
The video, which appears to have been posted first on Google last December in an alleged anti-Al Qaeda Web film, shows five insurgents standing behind three blindfolded prisoners kneeling at the edge of a burning pit.
As he speaks, two of the insurgents pour liquid on the blindfolded prisoners. Then they push the bound men into the pit, where they are engulfed in flames.
DESPITE BEING BARELY HUMAN, AREN''T MUSLIM''S GREAT...?
Religious extremism, no matter whose, is a disgrace to the deity(ies) it worships, the prophets it honors, and the people who practise it.
Muslims....If others insult your religion through ignorance, malice or even to make a point; Simply stand tall, smile and say,
"Your words and acts tell me far more about your faith than it does about mine."
You will do Islam more honor than a million warriors with their swords will do in a lifetime
Read her autobiography for details.
They should all have their heads cut off with kitchen knives to avenge this insult to the Danish nation!! Let us learn from Islam!!
She seems to be an equal opportunity bigot actually.
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It is unfortunate that many Islimic countries do not allow their children to be educated properly, or educated at all. This type of behavior comes from ignorance and along with that a good dose of brain washing. If Islamic countries ever want to become a part of the greater world community, they have got to address and stop this constant cry for blood everytime they get their feelings hurt.
Posted by newster1 at 09:01 PM : Feb 15, 2008
This is why they did it.
"Denmark''s leading newspapers reproduced one of 12 cartoons of Islam''s prophet Wednesday in a gesture of solidarity after police said they uncovered a plot to kill the cartoon''s artist."
I guess things would be alright if they had suceeded and killed the cartoonist.
How many in the name of christianity, hinduism, islam, paganism, etc? thought so!
The more of these animals us and the Israelies kill the better off this world will be.
Meanwhile, here is another ''terror'' case where the authorities lied and ruined the life of their victim to create sensationalist anti-Moslem fear in the media. This doesn''t mean that the religion of the Mohammedans is not chock full of nuts... but it shows that the so-called Judeo-Christian world and its secularist and pagan managers (Tony Blair)is just as bizarre a place full of frothy hyper-concern over the most trivial of things to the neglect of truth and justice.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article3368163.ece
Bigots think that kind of thing is impressive and fun.
Actually it''s vile and corrupt.
Too bad so many people in Europe and here approve of hate speach, writing and cartoons - now, as in the past.
Nothing really has changed except the target of the abuse.
Perhaps, perhaps not. However one huge difference is when Pat Robertson makes his absurd and hateful statements, a lot of other people in the US jump all over him, criticize him. Where is this from the so-called "moderate Muslims"? Where is the public resistance to these few extreme mullahs? We certainly don''t see it. Are you all so intimidated by these fanatics you are afraid to speak up? Or do you secretly agree with them?
People in the US make fun of Jesus all the time. There was a movie called "Life of Brian" by Monty Python (British) that was one long satire about Jesus.
Nobody gets their head sawed off with a kitchen knife for it. And the religious extremists get answered all the time--just check out the postings on this board. Too bad in "Muslim lands" all dissent is viciously suppressed.
Posted by scottyusa at 07:57 AM : Feb 16, 2008
Both existed you might as well get used to it, saying they didn''t will not change anything
The irony extends to the fact that Hitler had the support of Anglo-American capital associated with the Harrimans and Bushs. But the greatest irony, I think, was, if memory serves...I believe it was Montague Norman head of the bank of England who, in words reminiscent of Ariel Sharon''s boast to Cabinet members regarding Jewish control of America, ''We control Hitler.'' (I believe this quote was in one of Edwin Black''s books...may have been in another along with the commemorative coin of top Nazis visiting the Palestine Zionists with a Swastika on one side and the Star of David on the other.)
There is more history to the Nazi rise to power than either the Anglo-American Oligarchs or the Zionists want people to know--and this history will not go away to satisfy the myth-makers who celbrate either Zionist innocence or Anglo-American benevolence in world affairs.
The Iranians say that the film, by the Dutch member of parliament Geert Wilders, is offensive.
The Iranian justice minister, Gholam Hussein Elham, wrote to his Dutch counterpart, Ernst Hirsch Ballin, calling for a ban.
Mr Hussein Elham said freedom of speech should not be used as a cover for attacking moral and religious values.
''Freedom of expression''
Mr Wilders says his film will show the Muslim holy book is an inspiration for murder.
But the Iranian justice minister says it is an unnecessary attack on what Muslims regard as the holiest of things.
He said the motivation behind the film was satanic and urged the Dutch government to stop its screening.
Mr Wilders has already been advised that he may have to leave the country for his own safety.
But the government has so far refused to intervene, saying the issue is one of freedom of expression.
In 2004, the Dutch film director, Theo van Gogh, was killed by a Muslim extremist in an Amsterdam street after bringing out the film Submission.
It dealt with the issue of abused Muslim women and included scenes of nearly naked women with Koranic texts engraved on their bodies.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7248629.stm
Posted by ilikecats1 at 11:35 AM : Feb 16, 2008
People all over the world have got to let the Muslim world know that they will not tolerate them threating death to anyone that upsets them.
Maybe if they just had some good pies they would think more clearly.
There are not enough Jews left in the Europe to pick on so they go after the Muslims instead.
Posted by CBS_Oliver at 11:41 AM : Feb 16, 2008
Why would they do that?
Our ''beloved Savior Christ'' taught us ''humility'', not pride, love not hate. Your "beloved Prophet" appears to have taught you, pride arrogance and hate. ''Pride'' can only be placed on something you ''own''. If you don''t have ''complete control'' of it then you do "NOT" own it. I love my Lord Jesus and I share him with all that care. I do not ''share'' from a position of ownership, (He owns me).
Posted by ToolMangler at 12:00 PM : Feb 16, 2008
Leading Muslim clerics often refer to the love of death. Chief Palestinian Authority cleric Mufti Sheikh Ikrimeh Sabri stated, "We tell them, in as much as you love life, the Muslim loves death and martyrdom. There is a great difference between he who loves the hereafter and he who loves this world. The Muslim loves death and [strives for] martyrdom." Saudi Sheikh Abd Al-Muhsin Al-Qassem in Al-Madina added: "The Jews preached permissiveness and corruption, as they hid behind false slogans like freedom and equality, humanism and brotherhood... They are cowards in battle... they flee from death and fear fighting... They love life."
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/stalinsky200405240846.asp
Are you ilikecats1 too?
Posted by CBS_Oliver at 12:41 PM : Feb 16, 2008
No CBS; I didn''t know we sounded the same. Is that a bad thing?
Wht aren''t they protesting the Muslims that were killed by the bomber?
A terrorist is anyone who threatens the basic human rights that all men and WOMEN have been granted by their existence.
A CARTOON made them angry. They want to KILL the cartoonist and the publisher as penance for the CARTOON. This is supposed to make us agree with their arguments and believe that Islam is a GOOD religion to follow.
Um, let''s see...cartoon=death. No thanks. I pass. Now...where did I put my cartoons from last Sunday''s paper.....
Islam is a horrific religion that breeds intolerance, hatred, ignorance, and incites violence and murders. It is not a religion. It is a cult.
Nope, just to hate and murder those that disagree with your "religious" views. By all means though, stop that burning and turn to killing anyone that disagrees!
Posted by MagicMerlin8 at 05:34 PM : Feb 16, 2008
Wenn Sie nicht in Ddnemark wohnen mvgen dann, verlassen Sie ....!
They would all come a kick your azz, but they are a bit occupied at this time. Mostly helping the US and A with Operation Peace Echo and getting free R&D money for western tech companies.
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