Courtesy of Pookie18's Today's Toons thread.
Posted on 02/03/2006 9:04:55 AM PST by thesharkboy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington on Friday condemned caricatures in European newspapers of Islam's Prophet Mohammad, siding with Muslims who are outraged that the publications put press freedom over respect for religion.
"These cartoons are indeed offensive to the belief of Muslims," State Department spokesman Kurtis Cooper said in answer to a question.
"We all fully recognize and respect freedom of the press and expression but it must be coupled with press responsibility. Inciting religious or ethnic hatreds in this manner is not acceptable."
WTF BARF!
Time to flood Foggy Bottom. This is absurd.
Courtesy of Pookie18's Today's Toons thread.
Well...at least the feds condemned that stupid cartoon in the WAPO the other day...so they're 1-1...in the great toon wars.
Oh, "State Department". That explains it.
Not unbelievable. These people are cowards who quake in their tasseled loafers when hearing the word "Muslim."
1) Absolute free speech in the press
2) 'Religious tolerance'
I looked, too. Never mind.
Mistake, mistake , mistake.
Get your State Dept. under control Condi.
I'm not a great believer in poking fun at other people's religions. Nonetheless, freedom of the press in other countries is their business, not ours. And not the business of Jihadists.
Our State Department is an absolute mess of hippies and morons.
The response is of course crazy. But the idea of insulting people's religion is common among liberals and the like.
The response is a separate issue.
The use of the pictures and inclusion of very nasty pictures not drawn by the same European but presented as such throughout the Middle East is also a seperate issue.
Is this satire?
There is a difference between cartoons that make fun of Muslims and Islam and cartoons that draw caricatures of Mohammed. In the name of free speech, I support all cartoons of both categories. But from the point of view of diplomacy, I do see a difference.
Personally, if I had talent as a cartoonist, I would eagerly draw cartoons showing how stupid and brainless the Islamic world is, without having to actually draw a picture of Mohammed. Why make fun of someone's belief system, when it's so much more to the point to satarize their bad behavior?
She's had a long time to do that.
It ain't happenin'.
Did the US threaten to fire cruise missiles at the papers that do? Nope. Free speech...it is a bitch.
All smokescreen folks. Just like Bush calling Islam a "Noble Faith" in his SOTUA. You could almost see him gag while saying it. If anything the state department making this comment actually invites more public mocking of Islam and Mo-Ham-Head.
These people will sell us into dhimmitude. I side firmly AGAINST the muzzies.
Arabists have always been the dominant power in the State Department.
Islam is not a religion. It is a violent political philosophy that masquerades as a religion. Very similar to Nazism.
Well, just as I've thought for a very long time: The State Department is full of pussies.
Because the "belief system" is a murdering death cult, and needs to be eradicated. Humiliate them and treat them like Nazis, who also sought to kill or enslave everyone else.
That statement, coming from an official State Department spokesman, makes us look more scared than France and the person who uttered it is an idiot.
She does not speak for "Washington."
Screw her, and any supporters in the US government.
Diplomats. Worthless to a man.
Now that is one funny cartoon...
However: it wasn't really Mohammed who organized 9/11, was it? It was Bin Laden and the nut-cakes of extremism in Saudi Arabia.
Wouldn't it be more to the point if this cartoon was about an email to Bin Laden than to Mohammed?
I fart in the general direction of Kurtis Cooper.
Now all of a sudden its sensibilities awareness meter is now fully activated.
Duh..we are addicted to Oil
Any relation to CAIR spokesjerk Ibrahim Hooper?
You said it. The French Prime Minister has more backbone than the US Department of State. Condi, put those boots on and go kick some butt!!
So your strategy would be:
Why go after thousands of extremists when we can pick a fight with 1.3 billion people all at once?
Good strategy.
PS: I'm for free speech. I support the Danish cartoons and those who want to print them. I just think the State Dept also is making a valid point here. So go ahead: Flame On!
Osama is a character on this series of cartoons as well, he's in a deeper hell than Mohammed is though--not sure of a site that shows them though. Mark Davis on WBAP was discussing these this morning.
The world turned upside down: The Euros are showing more cajones on an issue than the U.S.
I wouldn't side with the muslims even if they showed mohammad doing a donkey.
He should have left it at:
"We all fully recognize and respect freedom of the press and expression."
The rest of the statement is reprehensible.
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Incredible. I can't believe I just read that.
If that is so, who is to decide what is responsible?
This whole cartoon affair is just more proof that islam is against freedom and, for some strange reason, the Department of State of the United States of America has chosen to side with islam against the freedom of its own citizens.
Have we entered the Twilight Zone...
If the entire Muslim world can be brought to its knees by 12 cartoons, what would happen if you gave them a comic book? Mushroom clouds in Mecca?
The state department is full of left wingers left over from the cold war and from the ivory tower leftists who have never had a real job in the real world.
The core of the state department is ANTI-american and virulently anti-Bush and even more virulently anti-republican.
It is no surprise they would take a side opposed to the constitution or the USA.
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