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Posted on 02/10/2006 11:03:00 PM PST by JohnHuang2
Years ago, elementary school children brought home report cards that contained a graded item called "Works and plays well with others." A "U" for Unsatisfactory on this graded item often resulted in the same consequence as an "F" in an academic subject. The Islamic world has certainly earned a "U" for their response in recent days to the cartoons published in the Danish press. Continues...
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Riots spread in Muslim world; Cartoons held on suspicion of involvement
I guess all of this rampaging and shooting and pillaging and burning could have been avoided if only we'd remind the mobs of Islamic pillagers and arsonists of how peaceful we think their religion is. I hope we do it soon, or things could get out of hand.
After the burning down of the Danish consulate in Beirut and the stoning of the Maronite Catholic Church nearby and the burning of the Norwegian and Danish embassies in Syria and the stoning of the Austrian Embassy in Iran and the flag-burnings and deadly shooting by "protesters" in Afghanistan, I don't know how much more of this peace we can take. All this killing and maiming and torching could harm Islam's 'civilized' image.
Well, at least they're not doing something really crazy like threatening to cut NEA funding. Or writing letters to the editor. After Andres Sarrano's Piss Christ and the Brooklyn Museum's portrait of the Virgin Mary adorned with elephant dung, I recall all those Christian rampages and riots that didn't happen.
As violent demonstrations spread across the world, about the only place you could find Muslims protesting peacefully was in Iraq -- you know, the place totally engulfed in violence.
Causing all the fuss are cartoons. In a push to win friends and influence people, Muslims are torching and shooting and stoning and rioting to "protest" cartoons that imply Muslims are intolerant. Nothing makes your typically laid-back and unexcitable Islamist fly into a rage quite like the claim he's easily excitable. You either consider us tolerant and open-minded, or we'll go native on you.
In one of the cartoons, first published in a Danish newspaper in September and reprinted recently in other European papers, the Prophet Mohammed is depicted sporting a turban-shaped bomb with a lit fuse. (Instead of a bomb, they might have tried a panty hat, but that might be over-the-top). In another, a blindfolded Mohammed stands between two women who are veiled in black, their eyes visible through a narrow opening. In response to this horrible "insult" that Islam has a blind spot regarding women's rights, Islamicists say the cartoonists should have their eyes gouged out.
So far, the Democrat response to all the rampaging by Muslim lunatics is to drag Alberto Gonzales before a Senate committee to show him why it's illegal for Bush to protect us from Muslim lunatics.
The twelve cartoons were commissioned by the cultural editor of the Danish daily, Jyllands-Posten, to see if fear of possibly getting beheaded, stoned to death or having popular parts of their anatomy amputated by Muslim fanatics would drive the cartoonists to self-censor their work. The cartoon series was printed to illustrate Islamic intolerance. I wonder if the jury is still out on that.
Actually, it wasn't the 'caricatures' that got the Jihadists all bent out of shape, but the notion that a well-known taboo of Islam -- drawing images of Mohammed -- is being violated by . . . INFIDELS! Pictures of Mohammed are against their religion. Images of Mohammed could lead to idolatry, you see, so they're forbidden. But it's cool to threaten to behead non-Muslims for drawing cartoons.
Fact is, depictions of Mohammed's face with a veil pop up often in Islamic countries, and that's OK. It's the full facial nudity stuff that makes your imam wanna sack an Embassy.
They want non-Muslims to show respect toward Muslims. And we all know the admiration and great respect Christians and Jews get in the Arab press.
In newspapers across the Arab world, Jews are depicted as hooked-nosed, swastika-wearing murderers drinking the blood of Palestinian children during Happy Hour. In one Turkish movie just released, American infidel soldiers in Iraq "crash a wedding and pump a little boy full of lead in front of his mother. They kill dozens of innocent people with random machine gun fire, shoot the groom in the head, and drag those left alive to Abu Ghraib prison -- where a Jewish doctor cuts out their organs, which he sells to rich people in New York, London and Tel Aviv" (Associated Press, 2/3/06).
Thus far, as of this writing (Monday), only one newspaper in the United States -- the Philadelphia Inquirer -- has reprinted the cartoons. The rest have bravely agreed to submit to Sharia law.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
Have a great weekend, y'all. God bless.
Mike
Excellent! (as usual!)
Michael, a ping to you since we've not spoken for awhile and I miss ya...
Hope you have a great weekend too.
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Good prose, John.
FReegards,
Kit.
Sounds like next year's Oscar for best foreign film.
Fabulous article! Muslim "tolerance" is something I have marveled at for a long, long time.
AttaBoy, John!!!
AAA+++++
Nam Vet
You get a gold star.
Thanks for a good read.
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well done JH2!
Great post as always John. Amen.
Oh, wait a minute, the mad mullahs might issue a fatwa on you...
Reminds me of an old song...Ol' Mohamed had a fatwa, e-i-e-i-o...
Have a great weekend.
5.56mm
Thank you so much for this excellent essay!
If nothing else, the cartoon uproar exposes the abyss between Western thought and what passes for intelligence in the Islamic world. (All religions aren't equal.) Islam coopts so much of a true believer's day that he doesn't have time to think, let alone invent anything of use....so they're mired in the ninth century and they're mad. Whose fault is that?
I think a US college newspaper reprinted the cartoons, and then the powers that be said NO and shut them down.
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