Posted on 10/06/2005 10:41:15 AM PDT by Eurotwit
A Muslim cleric in Århus demands that daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten apologises for publishing cartoons featuring the prophet Mohammed
Daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten is facing accusations that it deliberately provoked and insulted Muslims by publishing twelve cartoons featuring the prophet Mohammed.
The newspaper urged cartoonists to send in drawings of the prophet, after an author complained that nobody dared to illustrate his book on Mohammed. The author claimed that illustrators feared that extremist Muslims would find it sacrilegious to break the Islamic ban on depicting Mohammed.
Twelve illustrators heeded the newspaper's call, and sent in cartoons of the prophet, which were published in the newspaper one week ago.
Daily newspaper Kristeligt Dagblad said one Muslim, at least, had taken offence.
'This type of democracy is worthless for Muslims,' Imam Raed Hlayhel wrote in a statement. 'Muslims will never accept this kind of humiliation. The article has insulted every Muslim in the world. We demand an apology!'
Jyllands-Posten described the cartoons as a defence for 'secular democracy and right to expression'.
Hlayhel, however, said the newspaper had abused democracy with the single intention of humiliating Muslims.
Lars Refn, one of the cartoonists who participated in the newspaper's call to arms, said he actually agreed with Hlayhel. Therefore, his cartoon did not feature the prophet Mohammed, but a normal Danish schoolboy Mohammed, who had written a Persian text on his schoolroom's blackboard.
'On the blackboard it says in Persian with Arabic letters that 'Jyllands-Posten's journalists are a bunch of reactionary provocateurs',' Refn said. 'Of course we shouldn't let ourselves be censored by a few extremist Muslims, but Jyllands-Posten's only goal is to vent the fires as soon as they get the opportunity. There's nothing constructive in that.'
Flemming Rose, cultural editor at the newspaper, denied that the purpose had been to provoke Muslim. It was simply a reaction to the rising number of situations where artists and writers censured themselves out of fear of radical Islamists, he said.
'Religious feelings cannot demand special treatment in a secular society,' he added. 'In a democracy one must from time to time accept criticism or becoming a laughingstock.'
It is not the first time Hlayhel has created headlines in Denmark. One year ago, he became the target of criticism from Muslims and non-Muslims alike, when he said in a sermon during Friday prayer, that Danish women's behaviour and dress invited rape.
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Howdy ho! It's Mr. 'Hammed, the Ramadan Poo!
http://pics.jp.dk/nybillede/default.asp?id=2253&pixid=31801
Here is one of them: 
The text means: Stop! Stop! We're all out of virgins!
Sorry you got a ZOT (again?) as I was just posting a reply to your #66 as it happened.
I think you may have forgotten your sarcasm tag (yet again?).
See, it helps when newbies (tho I doubt you are) do that, so it clears up any misunderstandings.
For the record, this is the second time in a week that someone with a penchant for sarcasm has taken the time to sign into Freep to deposit their first vile droppings upon my head. The first retread, merrkin, posted here, and was soon outed and zotted in another thread.
FYI, muhammed, once I stopped laughing and entertained the possibility that you may actually be serious, I decided to take the bait and have stab at a response.
*DISCLAIMER - Assuming that you are serious*
1. have you read the rules of the forums
Yes, I have. It's what prevents me from telling you what conclusions about you can be drawn by such idiotic posts.
2. what a racist!!
If that comment is directed at me, you have just broken the forum rules yourself.
If its directed at the genocidal mass murderer, rapist and pedophile who claimed to have heard voices in his head, killed members of his own Quraish tribe and started a death cult based on territorial conquest by the sword, then I agree with you. Let the charge of racism stand against him.
FYI, muhammed, Mohammedans, slaves of islam as they are, are not a race. If you contend they are a race, it would follow that they exclude members of other races from adopting the Mohammedan ideology and joining the cult of death, and therefore are guilty of racism themselves.
3. what did mohamed do for you to deserve all that hate
You have me there... perhaps its all those people who are trying to emulate his "perfect" example... or perhaps you could start by reading the sins of Muhammed, or some of the links on the sites below:
Tag, did you say tag? Nexus Blue, where are you?
For the record, this is the second time in a week that someone with a penchant for sarcasm has taken the time to sign into Freep to deposit their first vile droppings upon my head.
You're on a roll this week...swatting down the flies! Way to go!
I will continue to seek to enlighten all, including Mohammeds followers, with the truth about the man and his ideology, to save them from a fate worse than death.
Tag, did you say tag? Nexus Blue, where are you?
LOL... I'm so glad I took the precaution of having my tagline copyrighted.
This quite ancient illustration of the psychotic moohamMAD includes the arabic legend that tells of his 'journey to a far place on a horse with the breasts of a woman and a tail of peacock feathers' ... which is btw, the only claim the moohamMADans have in the koran to his ascending to heaven to meet allah at the site where an obscene mosque now stands on the Temple Mount... But it's OK to portray the 'prophet' as long as his face is left blank. (If he looked anything like the filthy night shirt wearing bearded arab clerics we have recently charged with terrorism activities in Australia, I can understand why.)
Hey Fred... I found that odd as I came across this "Mohammed's Believe It or Else!" booklet over at Islamcomicbook.com
(Alternate link to pages available here)
You mean to say that this "Abdullah Aziz" is not a good muslim because he has drawn the face of Mohammed? I'm confused now...
Oh BTW, I know the Koran is right because the hadeeths support it. A muslim told me so I know its true. Now, I know what you are thinking... you're about to ask me how I know the hadeeths are true. It's quite simple, my Muslim friends tell me, "It's because the Koran supports it!" Hey wait a sec... lemme off here. That circular argument has my head spinning again. Someone here said they had an alt-az prayer mat so I think I'll see if I can borrow it to have an after work nap...
Muhammed, shame on you for deliberately logging in, using the name of the prophet to name call and make accusations. Do you understand this directly incites hatred towards Muslims? Shame on you.
Muhammed, shame on you for resorting to emotional manipulation and going as low as to play the "race card."
Do you realize that race relations is a serious issue? Yet you trivialize the matter by throwing around the word "racist" like a liberal making it meaningless and hollow.
What would Jesus do? [You know him as Isa]
In Bukhari and Muslim:
Malik related to me from Yahya ibn Sa'id that 'Isa ibn Maryam encountered a pig on the road. He said to it, "Go in peace." Somebody asked, "Do you say this to a pig?" 'Isa replied, "I fear lest I accustom my tongue to evil speech."
And there you are making all sorts of unfounded allegations and slandering others. Shame on you for making Muslims look bad.
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You guys related? You better not be the Bush twins again. You had us all going when you played that trick on my uncle Hakim, and he still has the scars from that goat.
Who me? I was in tagline heaven!
38 Free Taglines
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1522626/posts
But I like the one I have now. It only cost me an arm and a head.
Please write out your complaint and concerns on a large piece(11X17) of coarse paper. When you are finished, roll it into a tight, stiff tube, bend way over and shove.......
Not another identity crisis!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1522194/posts
I know that he wants me bad…I know that he wants me bad
I'm only 8 years old…he's still got it, I'm told
In just one year I'm gonna be his
Although I still am flat...he'll call me pussy cat
That I'm too young is nobody's biz
I will be Mohammed's girl…I will be Mohammed's girl
That is what I really want to be
When I am Mohammed's girl…I am Mohammed's girl
I know he will take good care of me
All of his wives are hags…they've turned into old bags
I am so fresh and very nubile
On me he's had his eye…he is my kind of guy
I'll be the next one he will defile
I will be Mohammed's girl…I will be Mohammed's girl
That is what I really want to be
When I am Mohammed's girl…I am Mohammed's girl
I know he will take good care of me
(Repeat chorus)
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