[Cindy]

NATIONAL POST.com: "SOMALI MOSQUE APOLOGIZES FOR E-MAIL" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "TORONTO - A Toronto mosque has apologized for a Christmas Day message that said wishing someone Merry Christmas is comparable to congratulating them for committing murder or engaging in adultery. "The Board [of Khalid Bin Al-Walid Mosque] sincerely apologizes for the distress that this e-mail has caused to subscribers of its e-mail list, other Muslims, and most importantly, our Christian neighbours during this important season for them," a written statement said.") (010603)

[Cindy]

More "free speech (?)" articles of interest:

WorldNetDaily.com: "MURRAY'S MOUTH HAS CHALLENGERS LINING UP" by Joseph Farah (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "WASHINGTON - Sen. Patty Murray's safe Washington state seat isn't looking so safe any more. Following her remarks two weeks ago praising Osama bin Laden's generosity and criticizing the United States for its foreign aid budget and failing to work hard enough to make friends in the Third World, potential challengers are getting easier to find.") (010303)

THE LEDGER.com: "REPORTER'S E-MAIL DRAWS SUSPENSION" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Political writer and columnist Bill Cotterell, in an e-mail exchange, wrote "Except for Jordan and Egypt, no Arab nation has a peace treaty with Israel. They've had 54 years to get over it. They choose not to." The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations alerted its members, calling the remarks anti-Muslim and anti-Arab.") (010303)

ALBAWABA.com - THE MIDDLE EAST GATEWAY: "LEBANON BANS BY FORCE TV PROGRAM CRITICIZING SAUDI ARABIA" (010203)

[sheik yerbouty]

FM if they can't take a joke!

[doug from upland]

Would this one get them angry???

MIDI - BOBBY'S GIRL

I know that he wants me bad…I know that he wants me bad

I'm only 8 years old…he's still got it, I'm told
In just one year I'm gonna be his

Although I still am flat...he'll call me pussy cat
That I'm too young is nobody's biz

I will be Mohammed's girl…I will be Mohammed's girl
That is what I really want to be
When I am Mohammed's girl…I am Mohammed's girl
I know he will take good care of me

All of his wives are hags…they've turned into old bags
I am so fresh and very nubile

On me he's had his eye…he is my kind of guy
I'll be the next one he will defile

I will be Mohammed's girl…I will be Mohammed's girl
That is what I really want to be
When I am Mohammed's girl…I am Mohammed's girl
I know he will take good care of me

[per loin]

OK, I'll bite. Here's the most obscure mohammad joke I've heard:

Question: How do you tell the difference between Mohammad and a drunken goat?

Answer: By questioning the goat.

[fporretto]

Kathleen Parker nails it again.

It's not about respect for others' faiths, or even for one's own. It's about having enough humility not to take oneself so seriously that the comments of others, however intended, abrade one's civility. If Muslims possessed that degree of humility, Marlette's cartoons and Cotterell's E-mail would have been ignored as being badly off-target.

Of course, Muslims go a lot further than "civility abrasion." If they had the power to impose shari'a law here, they would -- and Doug Marlette and Bill Cotterell would be in danger of their lives.

Watch your back. Remember that Islam teaches that a Muslim has no moral duties toward a non-Muslim, that a non-Muslim has no rights a Muslim is bound to respect. Outwardly they may smile. Inwardly...no man can say.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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[mhking]