Posted on 2/8/2006, 1:25:51 PM by ovrtaxt
GLOBAL JIHAD
'Muhammad cartoon'
proved fake
Imam added 3 especially provocative images to fuel outrage
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
 Faxed photo, top, and original AP image |
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One of three especially inflammatory but undocumented Muhammad images distributed by a Danish imam as an example of an "anti-Muslim environment" in the European country turns out to be a poorly reproduced copy of an Associated Press photo taken at a French pig-squealing contest.
The weblog NeanderNews pointed out the image used by Imam Ahmad Abu Laban was a faxed copy of AP's Aug. 15 photo of Jacques Barrot competing at the annual French Pig-Squealing Championships in Trie-sur-Baise.
Since last week, Muslims throughout the world have engaged in protests and deadly riots in response to 12 cartoons caricaturing Islam's prophet Muhammad published in September by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten and three much more provocative images that Muslim leaders have been unable to document.
One of those images of mysterious origin, which never were published, is from the AP photo. Another depicts Muhammad as a pedophile demon and the third has a praying Muslim being raped by a dog.
Abu Laban, leader of the Islamic Society of Denmark, took the images on a tour of the Middle East in December to rally support for his protest against the newspaper and Danish government. Tour spokesman Akhmad Akkari explained the three drawings had been added to "give an insight in how hateful the atmosphere in Denmark is towards Muslims."
Akkari claimed he didn't know the origin of the three images, saying they had been sent anonymously to Danish Muslims. But he rejected a request by the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet to speak with the people who supposedly received them.
In a television interview, Abu Laban told Fox News the cartoons came from threatening letters, but he has not replied to the network's request to provide copies of the letters.
A profile of Abu Laban Friday night on Danish television documented his close ties to the Egyptian terrorist group Gamaa Islamiya.
Another program the same evening showed him speaking in English on Danish television in condemnation of the boycott of Danish goods, then, in an interview with the Middle East news channel al-Jazeera, happily remarking in Arabic about how well the boycott was going.
Walid Phares, senior fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington, asked in an article published on Counterterrorism blog, "Why did it take five months for what Western media dubbed 'instant reactions to the insult' to materialize?"
Leaders of the Muslim community in Denmark said they attempted to resolve the matter locally by asking the newspaper or government to apologize.
But some analysts, Phares said, "see more of a greater agenda: taking advantage of the harm made by the pictures to impose a new political order in that Scandinavian country, and beyond."
Abu Laban seemed to affirm that in the interview with Fox News.
The Muslim cleric told reporter Jonathan Hunt of his demand that Danish leaders "within their abilities and competence and within the concept of dynamism of liberalism to create … a new set of rules. … "
Hunt: So, you want a new set of rules for the way Western Europe lives?
Abu Laban: Yes.
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The cartoon that shook the world
 Three undocumented images Danish imams used as examples of anti-Muslim hostility |
Faxed photo, top, and original AP image
Fyi..
the cartoons ive seen on mideast tv are not in your post. man, i can tell you, they were the exact kind that would drive the muslims insane, no, wait, they already are insane. what i meant to say is it would really hit them where it counts. one showed mo with womens breasts. now you know how much they would like a westerner to picture mo as a transsexual? yep, get the matches and knives.
Oh! Gosh!
DANISH IMAMS BUSTED! (Posted a picture of a Pig Squealing Contestant as a Anti-Mohammed pic!)
Alienated Danish Muslims Sought Help from Arabs (DANISH MUSLIM STARTED THE WHOLE THING!)
That is actually what is going on.
So, Imams MIHOP?
Doesn't matter. They have their excuse for rabid behavior, and that's all that counts now.
Someone's got some 'splainin' to do.
A lying moslem "holy" man? What a shocker!
Send the lying bastard back to whatever third world country he came from.
It looks like a good time to be dropping leaflets over the arab world, telling them the truth about their "holy" men and their leaders.
Moslem = liar. I never thought I would become a bigot at my age but I guess I am one now.
Being Muslim means never having to say you're sorry.
Lying is justified in the Koran, as long as it furthers the cause of Islam.
Sick.
I dunno, the one on the left looks pretty accurate.
#1 could have been drawn by anybody, but clearly never appeared in a newspaper; if it were "real", it would be a rough sketch, not the final cartoon--but if it were real, the final cartoon would be available, rather than the sketch. But my gut reaction is that it was drawn by a Muslim. The imagery is precisely that used by Muslims in portraying Jews. It has that magic combination of being heavy-handed and moralistic, yet at the same time ignorant and bigotted that says "Muslim" every time. If it were drawn by a Christian, then I'd say it was drawn in the fifteenth century--but the word "pedophile" hadn't yet been invented then.
On #3, I'll go to my grave before admitting it made me laugh. I mean, it didn't. Not at all. Anyway, it screams "western" to me. For one thing, a Muslim wouldn't have come up with anything that funny (I mean, unfunny), and a Muslim would be unlikely to notice the humorous possibilities in the posture they assume five times a day. They're too used to it.
I'm betting the original for #3 was an Internet photoshop job. Indeed, I'd almost suggest FR or SacredCowBurgers as a source, except that it's too off color and wouldn't be allowed on either site. Also, it SacredCowBurgers prominently watermarks their pics. It might conceivably have been done by a freeper with a taste for obscene humor. Definitely a westerner, anyway.
Yes, #3 absolutely didn't make me laugh either. Not at all.
Photoshop ping!
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Fake, but accurate. Paging Dan Rather!
You beat me to it!
Also, as pertains to photo #3 - in the state of Washington - that is not illegal if the animal is consenting.
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