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Area Muslims React With Tempered Anger--Some Say Depiction Overstepped Liberties [DC]
Washington Post ^ | 2-4-06 | Caryle Murphy

Posted on 02/04/2006 6:11:10 PM PST by SJackson

Wearing a brown golf cap against the cold drizzle, Rocky Omary stood outside Walima Cafe in Falls Church, where he and about 50 other men of Middle Eastern descent had just watched the Tunisian soccer team take a drubbing from the Nigerians.

That trouncing was bad enough. But Omary had other, more disturbing, insults on his mind: specifically, the recent publication in European newspapers of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a terrorist.

(Nikki Kahn - The Washington Post) "I've been getting a lot of e-mails about it, and I'm distributing them all," said Omary, a Damascus native who sells real estate in Northern Virginia. "There is a limit to freedom. There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world. Let's have some respect."

A few miles away at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society mosque in Sterling, Zaki Al Barzinji, 16, was equally upset.

"Just because you can say something doesn't mean you should say something," the teenager said. "If somebody showed a picture of the Pope with a bomb on his head, that would cause a great public outcry. Nobody would be talking about freedom of speech."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: cartoons; fallschurch; loudoun; muslimamericans; virginia
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
You hate the West, Omary. Why are you here ?

I assume you know the answer to this question.

121 posted on 02/04/2006 11:22:28 PM PST by MarMema (Steelers favorite local seafood - mud eel chowder)
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To: MarMema
There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world.

They keep saying this as if it should matter. I think they are trying to suggest a threat with it.

They've been using this as far back as 12 Sept 2001 (Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR). It's *not* a suggested threat, it's an outright attempt at extortion, and should be treated as such. Last time *I* looked at the criminal law codes, extortion was a felony, so let's see some arrests and prosecutions the next time this comes out...

the infowarrior

122 posted on 02/04/2006 11:33:24 PM PST by infowarrior (TANSTAAFL)
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To: SJackson
"There is a limit to freedom. There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world. Let's have some respect."

NOW I understand why they feel it is okay to spout hate about Jews, Baha'is, Jains, Zoroastrians, etc: There aren't enough of them for Muslims to "respect" them.

So, what is their excuse for Christians, Hindus, Buddhists...?

Like everything else that they spout, "respect" has a twisted meaning.

Truth is, they only "respect" whoever is able to kick their teeth in, and then KEEP one foot either on their neck, or planted in their @55.

123 posted on 02/04/2006 11:34:42 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Mad-Mo! Allah bin Satan commands ye: Bow to him 5 times/day: Head down, @ss-up, and fart at Heaven!)
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To: TASMANIANRED

Thank God. That we are armed.


124 posted on 02/04/2006 11:47:21 PM PST by lndrvr1972
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To: johniegrad
Maybe better to waste him now than to let him grow up.

What??

125 posted on 02/05/2006 12:04:32 AM PST by M. Thatcher ( I truly hope for two things before I die. The death of the Democrat Party, and the death of Islam.)
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To: Leatherneck_MT
Yeah Where are the Euro soccer hooligans? Give them something constuctive ton do.
126 posted on 02/05/2006 2:48:42 AM PST by Blackirish
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To: SJackson; All
Everything I have found about The War of the 12 Cartoons ( links, blogs, quips, quotes, aggravating pictures ) is located here- click the Pic, and scroll backwards:


127 posted on 02/05/2006 3:34:57 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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To: SJackson

""There is a limit to freedom. There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world. Let's have some respect." "




The first sentence is the MOST telling thing I've read about the Middle Eastern mindset.


128 posted on 02/05/2006 3:43:00 AM PST by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve..)
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To: Lauren BaRecall
It's lurking below the surface. On the other hand, some of us really do dislike the arrogant attitude on the part of the National Review/Human Events crowd.

It is YOUR JOB to figure out the difference.

BTW, the point in showing the Nast cartoon was to demonstrate a "hat" that's been disburbingly modified. Notice the alligator teeth!

It's funny today. In its time it was pretty much the same thing as a Mo picture with a bomb in the turban.

129 posted on 02/05/2006 5:14:13 AM PST by muawiyah (-)
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To: infowarrior
Doesn't extortion necessarily imply the misuse of statepower for personal acquisition?

Last time I looked Ibrahim Hooper was NOT part of the government (thank God).

130 posted on 02/05/2006 5:16:11 AM PST by muawiyah (-)
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To: muawiyah
Doesn't extortion necessarily imply the misuse of statepower for personal acquisition?

That is only *one* form of extortion. Blackmail is legally extortion, and private citizens have been convicted of extortion before. The "protection rackets" done by numerous organized crime rings also falls under extortion. So as youi can see, one doesn't necessarily have to have an official position to extort...

the infowarrior

131 posted on 02/05/2006 10:09:56 AM PST by infowarrior (TANSTAAFL)
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