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Nablus: Rioters close French center over cartoons
AP ^ | 2/5/6

Posted on 02/05/2006 8:48:08 AM PST by SmithL

Dozens of Palestinian gunmen on Sunday defaced the entrance to a French learning center and attacked a man who tried to protect the building in the latest Palestinian protests against caricatures of the Islamic prophet Mohammed published in European newspapers.

In Nablus, about 30 gunmen arrived at the French cultural center planning to vandalize the building, but agreed, after negotiating with Palestinian police guarding the building, only to write on the building. They scrawled in black on the door an "X," "This place is closed" and "God is great."

At one point an unidentified man tried to stop them, telling them "this is against Democracy. What you are doing is not good," witnesses said.

One of the militants then grabbed the man, pointed an M-16 gun at his head, and then fired the weapon in the air. Palestinian police intervened, taking the man away for protection.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: angrymuslims; cartoons; frenchmuslims; trop
France or rioting Muslims? It's hard to find anybody to like here.
1 posted on 02/05/2006 8:48:11 AM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL

These fanatics are nothing more than rabid animals.


2 posted on 02/05/2006 8:49:36 AM PST by Clara Lou (A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. --I. Kristol)
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To: SmithL
ROP showing it's genler side again.

Here is a query to my fellow FReepers. Who said this, and when?

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science – the science against which it had vainly struggled – the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

3 posted on 02/05/2006 8:51:02 AM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: ScaniaBoy

genler = gentler


4 posted on 02/05/2006 8:51:35 AM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: SmithL
They're just like us. Really.

Except insane.

5 posted on 02/05/2006 8:53:46 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("It'sTime for Republicans to Start Toeing the Conservative Line, NOT the Other Way Around!")
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To: ScaniaBoy

The Pope?


6 posted on 02/05/2006 8:54:46 AM PST by westmichman (Please pray with me for global warming)
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To: westmichman

No, try again!

:)


7 posted on 02/05/2006 8:56:05 AM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: ScaniaBoy
Churchill

(Gotta luv Google)

8 posted on 02/05/2006 8:56:47 AM PST by tsmith130
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To: ScaniaBoy

Churchill?


9 posted on 02/05/2006 8:59:57 AM PST by johniegrad
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To: ScaniaBoy

I'll go with the next two answers.


10 posted on 02/05/2006 9:01:57 AM PST by westmichman (Please pray with me for global warming)
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To: tsmith130

Well done - and, yes, aren't the search engines good to have around.

The quote is from The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pp. 248-50. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899 by Winston S. Churchill.

Hat tip from

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/759


11 posted on 02/05/2006 9:02:57 AM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: SmithL
30 gunmen arrived at the French cultural center planning to vandalize the building, but agreed, after negotiating with Palestinian police guarding the building, only to write on the building.

Ponder that.

The police negotiated how much vandalism they'd permit.

12 posted on 02/05/2006 9:08:53 AM PST by Dog Gone
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To: SmithL

We have pried open the soft underbelly of the beast!

Don't stop now!

DRAW MORE CARTOONS!!!

Then the world will begin to see this trash for the Nazis that they are.

DRAW MORE CARTOONS!!!

ALL ARTISTS TO THEIR PALLETTES!

MORE CARTOONS HERE: http://retecool.com/comments.php?id=13539_0_1_0_C


Danish bloggers are having a field day...



While looking at the mob of angry islamo-facists with behead those that insult Islam signs...

I picture Munchkins from the Wizard of Oz singing, "We represent the lollipop league, the lollipop league, the lollipop league. And in the name of the lollipop league... we wish to welcome you to Munchkin Land."

Try it... it works well.

Just overlay the Jihadists with Munchkins and do the song.

See how it works for you.


Somebody needs to do a cartoon with Mohammed bent over, with his burka hiked up exposing his bare butt, pointing to his butt saying, “I got you're 72 virgins right here.”

And then we need to have T-shirts made with this cartoon.


13 posted on 02/05/2006 9:24:02 AM PST by MedicalMess
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To: SmithL

14 posted on 02/05/2006 9:28:18 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: SmithL
One of the militants then grabbed the man, pointed an M-16 gun at his head, and then fired the weapon in the air.

Not an AK-47, but an M-16?

15 posted on 02/05/2006 9:51:40 AM PST by The Electrician ("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
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To: SmithL

16 posted on 02/05/2006 9:56:54 AM PST by blueminnesota
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To: SmithL

"X," "This place is closed" and "God is great."

Leave it to the AP to misinterpret these mouth-foaming fascists.

God the Father has nothing in common with Belzebub, Satan, Allah, the devil or whatever you want to call him.

What they meant to say was:

"X," "This place is closed" and "Satan is great."


17 posted on 02/05/2006 9:59:25 AM PST by Emmet Fitzhume ("Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure." President Reagan)
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To: ScaniaBoy
and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science – the science against which it had vainly struggled –

Scaniaboy,

Christianity is the sheltor for science, not the other way around.

It is through the philosophy of Christianity that the scientific method gave birth, in that God created a rational universe. Christianity is responsible for the monasteries, and first universities, and hospitals from which modern science arose.
18 posted on 02/05/2006 10:04:53 AM PST by wintertime
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To: SmithL
"God is great."

Yes, He is. But I don't think that's what he painted, since he worships a pedophile. Could AP be less than honest? I'm shocked!

19 posted on 02/05/2006 10:22:15 AM PST by BykrBayb (Impeach Judge Greer - In memory of Terri <strike>Schiavo</strike> Schindler - www.terrisfight.org)
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To: The Electrician
Not an AK-47, but an M-16?

Yes, the preferred weapon of Palestinian thugs, and police, but I repeat myself. Not quite sure where they get them. Did the Bent One provide them with a bunch for their "police", or do they get them from some third country which manufactures them, either under license or makes rip off copies. I seem to recall that the Chinese make or made rip off copies.

20 posted on 02/05/2006 4:53:40 PM PST by El Gato
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