Posted on 02/25/2008 9:32:44 AM PST by NormsRevenge
AMMAN (Reuters) - Vowing "Revenge against Crusaders who attack the symbol of Islam," dozens of Jordanian Islamists burned the Danish flag on Monday to protest the reprinting of cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammad in Danish newspapers.
The Islamic Action Front, Jordan's main licensed opposition party and the political offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, demanded the government expel the Danish envoy until his government offered an official apology.
"Oh government, expel the Danish ambassador: Oh Dane... listen the Prophet is the symbol of our Islam. We will die for his sake and eradicate anyone who humiliates him," chanted angry protesters in the noisy sit-in near the Danish consulate in the capital Amman.
The Islamists also urged Jordanians to boycott Danish products, saying reprinting the drawings was a deliberate insult and part of "the crusade by the West against Islam."
Muslims consider depictions of the Prophet Mohammad offensive.
Protests and riots erupted in many Muslim countries in 2006 when the cartoons, one showing the Prophet wearing a turban resembling a bomb, first appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September 2005. At least 50 people were killed and three Danish embassies attacked.
The cartoon controversy returned this month after Denmark's five major daily newspapers republished one of 12 drawings of the Prophet that angered Muslims around the world two years ago.
The newspapers said they did so to protest a plot to murder one of the cartoonists who originally published the drawings.
Sheikh Hamza Mansour, a leading Islamist deputy in parliament, warned the repeated republication of the cartoons on "such a scale despite the past reaction would only stoke the fire of fanaticism, deepen hatreds and showed lack of respect by the West towards Muslims."
There have been protests or warnings to Denmark because of the new drawings in several countries, including Egypt, Iran, and in the Palestinian territories.
If they want to die for the pedophile, let ‘em. Bring on more cartoons!
Visualize a mushroom cloud over Mecca and Medina...for starters.
Entirely too messy. A couple of daisy-cutters would be adequate. And really, much more fun.
Let us just ignore them until they burn down our cities.
Oh, please, please, dear Danish people -- please, please burn Saudi flags until they scream for mercy. It's the green one with the koranic script and a sword on it. Oh, what a perfect squelch that would be!
Are any of these idiots gainfully employed?
The Islamists also urged Jordanians to boycott Danish products, saying reprinting the drawings was a deliberate insult and part of “the crusade by the West against Islam.”
What, no more Danish hams?
Oh, please, please, dear Danish people — please, please burn Saudi flags until they scream for mercy. It’s the green one with the koranic script and a sword on it. Oh, what a perfect squelch that would be!
Why don’t they just burn Korans in the street? That would really impress me!
President Bush should have ignored Afghanistan/Iraq.--- on 9/12 Mecca-Medina should have been on the same list as Hiroshima-Nagasaki.
“the crusade by the West against Islam.”
I’m down wid’dat. When do we start?
HELL YES!
I want to join you!
We torch their jihadis. They torch our flag. Seems fair.
I thought that the strict prohibition against depicting Mohammad in images was to prevent idolatry. Let's give these guys a gold star for missing the forest for the trees.
We need a rule that ALL threads related to Jordan have to have photos of the lovely Queen.
Learn to respect the tenets of other religions. Wonder why not even a single Muslim disrespect Jesus or any other prophet of any other religions. That’s the beauty of Islam which you will learn when come out of the world of begotry. Start living like a human first.
The funny thing is that the West has the power to destroy the Jihadist menace ten-times-over without breaking a sweat. If we in the West were really pissed off, the Mohammed cult would be history in two weeks.
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