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Newspapers reprint Prophet Mohammed cartoon
cnn ^
| 2/13/2008
| cnn
Posted on 02/13/2008 6:35:00 AM PST by tobyhill
CNN) -- Newspapers across Europe Wednesday reprinted the controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed that sparked worldwide protests two years ago.
The move came one day after Danish authorities arrested three people allegedly plotting a "terror-related assassination" of Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist behind the drawing.
Berlingske Tidende, was one of the newspapers involved in the republication by newspapers in Denmark. It said: "We are doing this to document what is at stake in this case, and to unambiguously back and support the freedom of speech that we as a newspaper always will defend," in comments reported by The Associated Press.
Newspapers in Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands also republished the drawing Wednesday as part of their coverage of Tuesday's arrests.
The image, by Morgenavisen Jullands-Posten cartoonist Westergaard, was one of 12 cartoons about the Prophet Mohammed originally published in September 2005. Westergaard's cartoon depicted the prophet wearing a bomb as a turban with a lit fuse.
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posted on
02/13/2008 6:35:01 AM PST
by
tobyhill
To: tobyhill
LOL. Freedom of the press stikes back!
2
posted on
02/13/2008 6:36:22 AM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
To: tobyhill
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posted on
02/13/2008 6:36:45 AM PST
by
claudiustg
(We're Whiggin' out!)
To: tobyhill
Do we dare hope for Europe?
Maybe all is not lost?
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posted on
02/13/2008 6:37:09 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: tobyhill
Ah, if only our "mainstream" media had half the stones to stand up to the Mohammedans!
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posted on
02/13/2008 6:37:36 AM PST
by
Digital Sniper
(Hello, "Undocumented Immigrant." I'm an "Undocumented Border Patrol Agent.")
To: tobyhill
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posted on
02/13/2008 6:39:58 AM PST
by
buffyt
(Hillary, picking up other women's underwear off the bedroom floor is NOT presidential experience!)
To: Izzy Dunne
Don’t look for the same solidarity from the sissy American press.
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posted on
02/13/2008 6:40:22 AM PST
by
Monterrosa-24
(...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
To: Izzy Dunne
The savior of Europe may very well be journalist that don’t pick sides and criticize all sides equally but unfortunately for America our journalist aren’t up to that standard and we may very well have a Muzzie President because of it.
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posted on
02/13/2008 6:40:39 AM PST
by
tobyhill
(The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
To: Digital Sniper
American Journalist are rooting for a Hussein to be our President.
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posted on
02/13/2008 6:42:13 AM PST
by
tobyhill
(The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
To: Izzy Dunne
Do we dare hope for Europe?Did any of our major newspapers publish these drawings? I don't recall.
10
posted on
02/13/2008 6:43:04 AM PST
by
outofstyle
(There's a rake at the gates of Hell tonight)
To: Monterrosa-24
Don’t look for the same solidarity from the sissy American press.I never would have thunk I'd be sitting here going "Wow, check out the stones on that Danish dude!"
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posted on
02/13/2008 6:43:18 AM PST
by
libravoter
(Live from the People's Republic of Cambridge)
To: tobyhill
Newspapers in Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands also republished the drawing Wednesday as part of their coverage of Tuesday's arrests. Wow, newspapers taking a stand on something I agree with for a change.
12
posted on
02/13/2008 6:45:01 AM PST
by
Netizen
(If we can't locate/deport illegals, how will we get them to come forward to pay their $3,250 fines?)
To: outofstyle
Heck No. Our press won’t even print it for newsworthiness but they’ll certainly print offensive Jesus pictures and call that newsworthy.
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posted on
02/13/2008 6:45:24 AM PST
by
tobyhill
(The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
To: tobyhill
I guess, for all the jocularity and hilarity about the Europeans not having enough backbone to keep their own house in order, they are beginning to act in their own self-interest, and subject the invasive Muslims to a little taste of their own kind of xenophobia as practiced in their native lands.
Try to carry a Bible into Saudi Arabia. Then think in terms of reciprocity.
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posted on
02/13/2008 6:46:17 AM PST
by
alloysteel
(Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue)
To: alloysteel
Some Europeans are beginning to realize that their own survival depends on confronting the problem unlike many in the US that still believe that appeasement is our salvation.
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posted on
02/13/2008 6:49:08 AM PST
by
tobyhill
(The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
To: tobyhill
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posted on
02/13/2008 6:49:20 AM PST
by
G.Mason
(And what is intelligence if not the craft of out-thinking our adversaries?)
To: G.Mason
That’s good. I had not seen that one.
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posted on
02/13/2008 6:50:31 AM PST
by
tobyhill
(The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
To: tobyhill
Mohammed is not amused...
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posted on
02/13/2008 6:51:17 AM PST
by
evets
(beer)
To: tobyhill
But, but, but, they are so peace loving. The Marxist dimocrats in the Peoples Socialist States of Amerika (formerly known as the USA) said so.
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posted on
02/13/2008 6:53:30 AM PST
by
RetiredArmy
(VOTED: Disgruntled Voter of the Month)
To: buffyt
Considering how muslims celebrate suicide bombers, shouldn’t they consider the cartoon a tribute to Mohammad?
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posted on
02/13/2008 6:57:08 AM PST
by
FrdmLvr
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