Muslims Picket 'Philadephia Inquirer' After It Runs Cartoon

editorsandpublishers.com ^ | Feb. 7, 2005 | E&P Staff

[American Quilter]

TSA should have these muslims put on a watch list. Wouldn't trust them on an airplane, as they lack common sense just standing on the ground.

Absolutely. Monitor their phone calls and e-mail, too. Sorry, "moderates", but this is what you've brought on yourselves by not condemning and protesting against the Islamofascists. We non-Muslims are under no obligation to allow ourselves to be slaughtered or our country destroyed.

[SlowBoat407]

"It's disrespectful to our prophet to imply that he's a prophet of violence."

"VIII.39-42: Say to the Infidels: if they desist from their unbelief, what is now past shall be forgiven; but if they return to it, they have already before them the doom of the ancients! Fight then against them till strife be at an end, and the religion be all of it God's."

Lying is bad too.

[Rebelbase]

" "It's disrespectful to us as a people,"

Your sacred and holy prophet was a fraud and HE'S DEAD.

You'll get my respect when you can act like a rational, civilized human being that is grateful for the country that harbors you and allows you to worship in peace.

[D.P.Roberts]

Make no mistake: they'd have burnt it if they had enough thugs to get away with it. Their religion demands it.

[kokonut]

Maybe start with this one here and foment some more screaming Muslims? How about a $50,000 challenge to Muslims to disprove charges against Mohammed portraying to be a rapist, etc..?

http://kokonutpundits.blogspot.com/2006/02/50000-challenge-against-mohammed-and.html

[narby]

"It's disrespectful to our prophet to imply that he's a prophet of violence."

Two things: 1) It's true.

2) It's our right to hold that opinion and to publish it. Deal with it.

[trubluolyguy]

The editors at the paper better apologize if they want to keep their heads attached to their necks, I mean these nice people belong to the religion of peace but lets not provoke them!

(Dripping sarcasm off)

[Wallace T.]

Westminster Theological Seminary is located in the Philadelphia suburbs. Perhaps conservative Presbyterians (PCA and OPC), conservative Reformed believers (Christian Reformed, United Reformed), and Reformed Baptists should picket the Philadelphia Inquirer because they carried the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. Conservative Calvinists should be outraged that the greatest theologian since Augustine is represented as a impulsive, free spirited, and often mischievous six year old boy.

Calvinists in Philadelphia need to stage Protest Warrior counterdemonstrations to the Muslim protests. (Frankly, patriotic Arminians and Catholics should join in, even if they do not hold Calvin in much esteem.)

[VOA]

Amanda Bennett, The Inquirer's editor, and Carl Lavin, a deputy managing
editor, talked with the protesters outside the building.

Talk about a profile in courage.
I wouldn't blame them if they had extra security on hand.

[Paradox]

Muslims Picket 'Philadephia Inquirer' After It Runs Cartoon

I think this is fine, and a proper response. Its the whackjobs that got violent, now those folks probably just need killin..

[summer]

re your post #15 - You're right. And, I was very disappointed by this paragraph, with one of our nation's most popular cartoonist kow-towing immediately to these protesters and rioters:

In an e-mail to the San Francisco Chronicle, "Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau declared he would never use images of Muhammad. "Nor will I be using any imagery that mocks Jesus Christ....I may not agree with their reasons for dropping any particular strip, in fact, I usually don't, but I will defend their right and responsibility to delete material that they feel is inappropriate for their readership," he said.

He sounds like he is all for censorship. What happened to you, Garry? How would you have ever made a living that way?!

[D-Chivas]

This is why most newspapers in the US will chicken-out like the NY Times and publish an article about the cartoons, complete with local Muslim reaction, but fail to show them.

[freedomson]

Over at the DUmp the rats have come to a brilliant conclusion and are all chittering the same thing, religion is bad no matter which one they're talking about.

[Sopater]

"It's disrespectful to us as a people," Asim Abdur-Rashid, an imam with the Majlis Ash'Shura, an umbrella group for mosques in the Delaware Valley, told the Inquirer for a story today. "It's disrespectful to our prophet to imply that he's a prophet of violence."

How does the cartoon do more to "imply that he's a prophet of violence" than the actual actions of these radical Muslim militants?

Why doesn't the "peaceful" religious leaders of Islam protest as fervently against the behavior of the radicals that more strongly support such ideas?

What kind of sense does it make to rebut an implication that he's a "prophet of violence" with violent protest?

[RedRightReturn]

Can't wait till they boycott the US and goods produced here!

[refermech]

You got that right!!

[DogBarkTree]

Hey Muzzies, when they dunk a model of your prophet in a jar of urine then I'll feel your pain. Even then you'll just have to get over it.

[SueRae]

I am surprised that the (left leaning) Inquirer actually published them.. Hope springs eternal.

[Froufrou]

[applause] Well stated!

[FastCoyote]

"Neither I nor the newspaper meant any disrespect to their religion or their prophet," Bennett said in her paper. "I told them I was actually really proud of them for exercising their right to freedom of speech."

What exactly would it take for people TO show disrespect for a bunch of suicidal murdering baby killers with a camel pirate prophet? Perhaps a nuclear bomb?

Oh wait, they are already threatening that.