Posted on 02/05/2006 10:14:13 AM PST by Sabramerican
Jews dragged into cartoon controversy Herb Keinon, THE JERUSALEM POST Feb. 5, 2006
Non-Jews slander non-Jewish prophets and then come to hang the Jews, one could say of the latest, ugly twist in the Danish cartoon controversy, paraphrasing one of Menachem Begin's most famous lines.
A Belgian-Dutch Islamic political organization, the Arab European League, posted anti-Jewish cartoons on its Web site in response to the cartoons of the prophet Mohammed that appeared in Danish papers last year and offended many Moslems, unleashing violent demonstrations around the Islamic world.
One of the AEL cartoons reportedly displayed an image of Anne Frank in bed with Hitler, and another questioned whether the Holocaust actually occurred.
Dyab Abou Jahjah, the party's founder and best-known figure, defended the action on the Dutch television program Nova Saturday.
"Europe has its sacred cows, even if they're not religious sacred cows," he told the program.
The AEL espouses nonviolence but has gained a reputation for extremist views, and opposes Moslems integrating with non-Moslems. It promotes the participation of Moslems in political dialogue in European countries, but is internally divided as to whether or not to participate in elections directly.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry, which over the years has often protested anti-Semitic political cartoons in the Islamic world, stayed true to its policy regarding the Danish newspaper cartoon controversy and refused to issue a response.
One ministry official said that the "cartoon wars" were not Israel's battle, and that it did not want to get dragged into it. If Israel would react to the whole controversy, the official said, the Islamic world would eventually blame Israel for being behind the whole incident.
The Anti-Defamation League, however, did not feel the same restraints.
In a statement released on Friday, the ADL said the fact that despicable anti-Jewish caricatures appear daily in newspapers across the Arab and Muslim world has been overlooked in the whole controversy.
"While invoking the supposed 'freedom of the press' in their countries, Arab and Muslim leaders have refused to take any action to stem the drumbeat of anti-Semitism in widely circulated newspapers, many state-sponsored," the statement read. The statement said that the leaders of Egypt and Saudi Arabia have "virtually ignored" appeals from the United States and Jewish organizations to put an end to incitement in their media.
"One would hope that leaders of the Arab and Muslims would turn all of the anger being aimed at the European press into a larger lesson for their own people about the power of images," the statement read.
The statement said that the ADL was opposed to religious, racial and ethnic stereotyping in the media," and found "some of the cartoons in Jyllands-Posten troubling, particularly the direct linkage of Mohammed and violence."
At the same time, statement said the ADL was "gravely concerned" by the extreme violent reaction these cartoons have generated.
"It is certainly the right of individuals and governments to express their disagreement with these depictions," the statement said. "However, the use of violence, threats, boycotts and other extreme reactions are highly inappropriate and bode ill for future debates involving Islam, democracy and free speech."
Any Moslems around to tell me what I'm supposed to do now? Do I seek an Embassy to burn down or something?
The Anti-Defamation League, however, did not feel the same restraints.
Will these a**holes ever learn that sometime you just need to STFU?
Do I see Jews burning embassies because of this?
Uh, no.
But violence upon anyone who says Islam is violent! /sarcasm
"Any Moslems around to tell me what I'm supposed to do now?"
Oh, we get a choice. We can either convert to Islam or die.
But if they come after me, I am going to fight back.
No. I don't think so K
It is time for the human race to stand up to islam. There is not doubt that islam is the enemy of every thinking personon planet earth.
Why is it fine for islam to make fun of Jews, Hindus, Christians etc... but it is death to anyone who shows islam for what it truly is -- a savage cult based on a moon god that wishes to enslave the human race?
In response, balderdash.
Islamic papers have run Der Stürmer-like cartoons for decades.
From what I understand, anti-semitic cartoons are already common in the state run presses of the Arab world. These people are hypocrites, in addition to being violent thugs and, well, just plain tools.
I think the ADL actually has a point about the hypocrisy. However, let me say that words, cartoons, and all of that should only provoke a fight of words, cartoons, etc. The violence is unbelievable. And it certainly doesn't help their case, nor does their hypocrisy. You fight words with words and cartoons with cartoons. These people will never grow up. I can't even identify with them on any level.
It may be troubling but certainly not false.
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...
"Islam is an Abrahamic religion."
True. They are descendents of Abraham's illigetimate son who despise the legitimate son and covet his 'Promised Land' . Infantile sibling rivalry.
This one is hilarious:
"Now will paint a happy little Minaret..."
(dangit--"illegitimate")
Those are great!
Muslims hold a meteor as sacred. This is why some people call it a moon cult and refer to a moon god. As far as I am concerned they are all a bunch of mudering, child raping, beheaders of innocent people and just generally all around violent a**h**es, moon god or Abraham, they are still savages.
God did promise Ishmael a great nation.
"There is little doubt that Islam's god is the former chief deity of the polytheistic Arab pantheon, stripped of his consorts and offspring-a variation on the moon god common throughout the ancient Middle East, among the Babylonians known as Sin (the Sinai peninsula is probably named after him) and among the Sumerians as Nanna. Among the pagan Arabs, he was usually called simply "the god," al-ilah: Allah. The moon god Allah, whose crescent symbol today caps mosques the world over, headed a pantheon of over 300 lesser divinities, including three daughters called Lat, Uzza, and Manat. In fact, the controversy over The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie centers upon an embarrassing (and historically documented) episode during Muhammad's evolving "revelation" (after his death collected as his Koran-Qur'an, "recitation") in which he admitted the possibility of retaining the three daughter-goddesses under his new dispensation. He later rescinded this idea as having been of false-"satanic" inspiration. Muhammad (the son of Abdallah, "slave of Allah," a further attestation of the deity's pre-Islamic origin) was of the Quraysh tribe, the custodians of the Meccan shrine to the pantheon known as the Ka'bah ("cube"), which houses a black stone (probably a meteorite) that Muslim pilgrims continue to venerate. Pilgrims also perform other pre-Islamic pagan rites such as stoning the devil at Wadi Mina and partaking of the waters of the Zamzam well."
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