Area Muslims React With Tempered Anger--Some Say Depiction Overstepped Liberties [DC]

Washington Post ^ | 2-4-06 | Caryle Murphy

[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."

[Chgogal]

But Mohammad was a terrorist. I don't get it. ;)

[Cornpone]

Bwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[FreedomPoster]

They expect you to deny reality, and not rub their noses in it.

[Chi-townChief]

Where's this guy been? Just last week, Kanye West posing as the crucified Jesus was pretty much met with a collective Christian shrug.

[ClaireSolt]

If the pope was bombing and threatening the world, he'd deserve it, too. You can't demand respect. It must be earned.

[sinkspur]

"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."

Just because you can say something doesn't mean you should say something.

[American Quilter]

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

Let them show some respect to the non-Muslims of the world. Until then, we're taking them at their word--and deed--about intifadah and jihad.

[bordergal]

Europeans could have defused the situation by apologizing instead of staking out a hard-line position of upholding free speech, he said.

Yeah, those pesky Europeans, not letting the Muslims dictate how life should be run in a nonmuslim country.

[Leatherneck_MT]

The only reason these maggots aren't out in the streets protesting and doing what they do over in Europe is because they know for a fact that the great majority of Americans do NOT support their Cult and do see them for what they are.

Let them Protest as is their right, but boys, start getting stupid and rioting and a case of whoopass will be opened up on you so fast it will make your turban spin.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

You hate the West, Omary. Why are you here ?

[abner]

"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."

Doesn't mean you should burn down embassies or threaten to kill and behead people either.... DUH!

[Dark Skies]

There are 1.2 billion Muslims in the world. Let's have some respect.

This matter doesn't show disrespect for muslims...it tells the truth about islam. And islam is, at its heart, pure evil.

Muslims define themselves so closely with that evil that they can't see it for what it is. I suggest Jesus died for muslims as well as the rest of us.

But islam is, IMHO, purely Satanic.

[A CA Guy]

We know he was crazy, a pedophile and a false prophet as well.
The fruits of Islam speak for themselves. Especially regarding the abuse of women IMO.

I have an open mind to investigate what the truth seems to be, and after a lot of reading the above is my conclusion regarding the cult Islam.

[Travis McGee]

Anywhere Muslims are a majority, see how much freedom they permit "infidels."

Radical Islam is an insane murder cult; moderate Islam is its Trojan Horse in the West.

[Founding Father]

"Just because you can say something doesn't mean you should say something,"

Sure it does. Mad Mo is a pedophile, camel *&^*#@& pig.

[isrul]

Who, in their right mind would give respect to an ideology hose practitioners incite to murder at the slightest perceived offense. These whining dogs should be deported for supporting the terrorist organization that is islam.

I spit on Islam and its practitioners, their obscene book of hate and the pedophile founder.

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

JIHAD WATCH.org (BBC): "NORWEGIAN EMBASSY IN DAMASCUS TORCHED ALSO" (February 4, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): "DANISH EMBASSY IN DAMASCUS ABLAZE" (February 4, 2006)

BBC NEWS.co.uk: "TWO JORDAN EDITORS ARE ARRESTED" (February 4, 2006)

INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "E-CFR.ORG: CURRENT SITE OF THE 'EUROPEAN' COUNCIL FOR FATWA AND RESEARCH" (February 4, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org: "'you have started it, you are nurturing it and don't blame the muslims for their actions'" (February 4, 2006)

AFTENPOSTEN.no/english: "NORWAY USED AS TERROR BASE Islamic extremists are using Norway as a base for terrorist operations overseas, but the head of Norway's security police claims they're being watched." (February 3, 2006)

BRUSSELS JOURNAL.com: "'THE WAR IS ON'" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Yesterday (Thursday) Mullah Krekar, the alleged leader of the Islamist group Ansar al-Islam who has been living in Norway as a refugee since 1991, said that the publication of the Muhammad cartoons was a declaration of war. "The war has begun," he told Norwegian journalists. Mr Krekar said Muslims in Norway are preparing to fight. "It does not matter if the governments of Norway and Denmark apologize, the war is on.") (February 3, 2006)

AFTENPOSTEN.no/english: Aftenposten.no - Search Term: "KREKAR"

Google - Search Term: "KREKAR"

TrackingAlQaeda.blogspot.com: "EUROPEAN SITES HACKED BY MUSLIMS OUTRAGED OVER CARTOONS" (February 3, 2006)

MICHELLE MALKIN.com: "IN THEIR OWN WORDS" (February 3, 2006)

MICHELLE MALKIN.com: "THE 'INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ANGER'" (February 3, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (THESUN.co.uk): "'I love Al-Qaida' -- On London Baby's Bonnet" (February 4, 2006)

THE COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG: "'We Want Blood on the Streets of England'"(February 3, 2006)

alghurabaa.co.uk: "Kill those who insult the Prophet Muhammad (saw)"

INFOVLAD.net: "BOYCOTTING DANISH PRODUCTS GOES ON" (February 3, 2006)

ISLAMONLINE.net: Cairo - "WARNINGS CARTOONS RISK VIOLENCE" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The blasphemous cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by a Danish daily and other European newspapers are risking to trigger acts of violence around the world, officials and commentators warn." (February 2, 2006)

THE COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG: "FABRICATED CARTOONS WORSENED DANISH CONTROVERSY" (February 2, 2006)

DAVIDS MEDIENKRITIK - blog: "WITH DENMARK: United Against Islamic Intolerance Time to Stand Up to Islama-Bullying: BUY DANISH!"

DAVIDS MEDIENKRITIK - blog: "DANISH CARTOONS: GERMAN JOURNALIST ASSOCIATION SAYS 'NO'...MAKE THAT 'YES'" (February 1, 2006)

THE COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG: "MUJAHIDEEN ARMY CALLS UPON FIGHTERS TO ATTACK DENMARK AND NORWAY" (January 31, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AFP): "FATWA AGAINST DANISH TROOPS" (January 31, 2006)

THE COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG: "DANISH LEFTIST GROUP OPENLY FUNDING TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS" -Posted by Olivier Guitta (January 29, 2006)

TrackingAlQueda.blogspot.com: "MUSLIMS BEGIN PING FLOOD AGAINST JYLLANDS-POSTEN" (January 29, 2006)

INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "THE DANISH THREAT This latest threat from the 'Glory Brigades in Northern Europe' targets Denmark" (January 28, 2006)

"www.internet-haganah.com/hmedia/28jan06-denmark/index.htm" (January 28, 2006

TrackingAlQaeda.blogspot.com: "Denmark is next - BOLO Denmark!!!" (January 27, 2006)

"www.mohajroon.com/vb"

LittleGreenFootballs.com - Weblog: "The Cartoon Jihad" (January 27, 2006)

"www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/"

INFOVLAD.net: "NEXT TARGET - DENMARK?" (October 15, 2005)

[johniegrad]

He's just a kid. But he's an effin' idiot kid. Maybe better to waste him now than to let him grow up. Everybody likes kittens, it's what they grow up to be that they sometimes don't like.