Death to unbelievers. Kiss your monitor.
Posted on 02/06/2006 10:49:47 PM PST by Daralundy
The Cartoon War began innocently enough. Kare Bluitgen, a Danish writer of childrens' books, complained he couldn't find anyone to illustrate the book he was writing about the Prophet Mohammed. The Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten invited cartoonists to offer their own interpretations. A dozen accepted. Jyllands Posten published their work last Sept. 30th.
Extreme Muslim sects, such as the Wahhabis of Saudi Arabia, regard any depiction of Mohammed as blasphemy. (The Koran prohibits only "idolatry," and throughout the last millenium Muslim artists have painted likenesses of the Prophet.) Radical Muslims in Denmark issued death threats, and the cartoonists went into hiding. On Oct. 20th, ambassadors from 11 Muslim countries asked for a meeting with Danish Prime Minister Andres Rasmussen to complain about the caricatures. Mr. Rasmussen said he was sorry the cartoons had given offense, but refused to meet with the ambassadors because "as prime minister I have no tool whatsoever to take actions against the media, and I don't want that kind of tool."
There matters rested until last month, when four Muslim clerics from Denmark, led by Abu Laban, who has terrorist connections, toured the Middle East. They had with them the 12 original cartoons, plus three truly vile ones (one depicts Mohammed with a pig's snout; another shows him as a pedophile) apparently of their own concoction.
On January 29th, gunmen in Gaza took over the offices of the European Union. In response, some newspapers in Norway, Germany and France published the cartoons to show solidarity with their Danish colleagues. This led to massive protests in the Middle East and among Muslims in Europe.
The editor of Jyllands Posten has apologized for publishing the cartoons, and the leader of the largest Muslim association in Denmark has accepted the apology. But it may be too late to put the genie back into the bottle, because radical Muslims seek to fan the flames.
"We want blood on the streets of England," said Muslim protestors in London, though no British newspaper has yet published the offending cartoons.
Saudi Arabia promoted the controversy to distract attention from the trampling deaths of 345 pilgrims in Mecca Jan. 12th, said "The Religious Policeman," a Saudi Web logger. The deaths attracted little attention in the West, but were big news in the Arab world.
Most of the anti-Western violence has taken place in Syria and Lebanon, where the Danish and Norwegian embassies were burned down.
Syria is a dictatorship. A mob could not have burned the building where the Danish and Norwegian embassies were located without the tacit permission, if not the encouragement, of the regime.
Syria also retains considerable influence in Beirut, where the rioting was not spontaneous. Syria would love to distract attention from the UN probe into the assassination of Lebanese politician Rafik Hariri, in which Syria is implicated.
Iran has been, after Saudi Arabia, the nation most active in promoting the boycott. The International Atomic Energy Agency has referred Iran to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions against its nuclear weapons program. The nation that will chair the Security Council when the IAEA recommendation is taken up, British Web logger David Conway noted, is Denmark.
"Suddenly the pieces fall into shape," he said. "The rumpus suddenly escalated, complete with fabricated offensive cartoons, to so inflame Muslim opinion that Denmark could be intimidated...into voting in favor of Iran."
Most of Europe's political leaders would like to respond with more appeasement. But ordinary Europeans wonder why they must accommodate the demands of bullying immigrants who have swollen their crime rates and welfare rolls.
Muslims deserve to have their faith respected, wrote Tony Parsons in the left wing British newspaper the Mirror.
"But when someone starts carrying placards in my city gloating about 9/11 and 7/7, when men with big mouths start promising death and destruction, when you tell us that we will be massacred if we offend you, then our tolerance is pushed to the breaking point," he said.
"If (the protestors) want a Muslim country, then perhaps they should go and live in one," Mr. Parsons said.
A Muslim member of the Danish parliament echoed that sentiment.
Speaking of the radical clerics who stirred up the cartoon controversy, Naser Khader asked: "If these imams think it is so terrible to live in Denmark, then why do they remain here?"
Want to see the ultimate religious hypocrisy by Muslims? How about the destruction of the Bamiyan of Buddha statue in Afghanistan? Check out the video.
http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2006/02/when-muslim-extremists-destroy-buddha.html
Why don't European governments deport all these Islamic troublemakers?
"But when someone starts carrying placards in my city gloating about 9/11 and 7/7, when men with big mouths start promising death and destruction, when you tell us that we will be massacred if we offend you, then our tolerance is pushed to the breaking point," he said.
It's really funny that these protesters want to see Europe cracking down on speech after uttering phrases like this...
No. They don't. They are supremacist bigots.
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Speaking of the radical clerics who stirred up the cartoon controversy, Naser Khader asked: "If these imams think it is so terrible to live in Denmark, then why do they remain here?"
Isn't bestiality legal in Denmark? That would explain it...
I didn't know that they had camels in Denmark.
Excellent analysis and explanation. Very clear. Thanks for posting it.
If only a cult would spring up around Helen Thomas -- and they would ban any reproduction of her visage.
Thes dweebs should be careful what they ask for, there are more than enough skinheads in England to give them what they ask for, only to bad for them it will be they and their fellow Muslims’ blood that fills the gutters.
Didn't Bush "fire" her?
Didn't Bush "fire" her?
this is what I meant to post in reply 12. Sorry, it's late.
Seperated at birth?
"Isn't bestiality legal in Denmark? That would explain it... "I didn't know that they had camels in Denmark.
Those imams aren't picky about their, uh, dates...
People are starting to wake up to the fact, that we are at WAR.
The more I study ths situation, the more I begin to appreciate how God has provided several institutions for believer and unbelever alike, for their mutual peace. Personal volition, marriage, family, and national governance being those divienly established institutions.
Those who reject God display some form of arrogance.
When we take two groups of arrogant people, and combine them in a counterfeit institution that rebels from Divinely established institutions, we observe a natural cacophony.
In this case, we observe some inbelievers, seeking to accept all other peoples within their borders, merging cultures without respect for national authority. On the other hand we have those who do what is right in their own eyes, devoted to judging others as they think they speak and act for God, with a propensity to violate the system of national governmments made available to them for each people to live amongst themselves.
Now one group antagonizes the other, at first perhaps unwittingly, while the other frustrates their thinking believing all actions were malevolently caused or properly handled as such, regardless the other's intent. Compound this with worldly thinking that all Muslims are hell bent to overthrow western government, further fanned by many Muslims who have been trained that such a condition is an eventual condition anyways, and we create a self-fulfilling prophecy of contrived conflict.
Let's take the Allah Ackbar and reinforce it with all power, riches, wisdom, strength, glory, honor, and praise to our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus. Forgive those who know not what they do, while providing them an example of how we are to remian faithful to Him in all things.
Can you be a bit less obtuse?
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