Worldwide Protests Over Muhammad Cartoon Drawings

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that right there is a good one

[ChicagoBengal]

[quote name='Nati Ice' post='215373' date='Feb 7 2006, 03:57 PM'][quote name='BadassBengal' post='215362' date='Feb 7 2006, 04:48 PM']
[b]I was watching The O'Reilly Factor last nite,[/b] and just heard about this. Crazy, crazy fucks. [u]I say nuke em all. Fuck your religion, and FUCK Muhammad. Towelie bastards.[/u][/quote]
whats sad is that the bold part amazes me more than the underlined part
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[Guest bengalrick]

[quote name='ChicagoBengal' post='215760' date='Feb 8 2006, 10:35 AM'][quote name='Nati Ice' post='215373' date='Feb 7 2006, 03:57 PM']
[quote name='BadassBengal' post='215362' date='Feb 7 2006, 04:48 PM']
[b]I was watching The O'Reilly Factor last nite,[/b] and just heard about this. Crazy, crazy fucks. [u]I say nuke em all. Fuck your religion, and FUCK Muhammad. Towelie bastards.[/u][/quote]
whats sad is that the bold part amazes me more than the underlined part
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badass has seen the light...

i think its funny is how scared people seem to be of Fox... whenever i hear comments bashing fox i feel like they are saying "but then you will hear the other side of the story...."

competing ideas are a good thing... badass is on the fast track to success

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Four more die in cartoon fury, Bush calls for calm
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QALAT, Afghanistan (AFP) - Appeals for calm in the furor over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed went unheeded as police shot dead four more protestors during rioting in Afghanistan, bringing the worldwide death toll to 13.

Eleven demonstrators have been killed since Friday in Afghanistan, and one each in Somalia and Lebanon.

The re-printing of the 12 offending caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in a French satirical weekly on Wednesday, along with a fresh batch of similar cartoons, was likely to deepen Muslim anger against what is perceived as an act of blasphemy.

French President Jacques Chirac reacted by condemning "all manifest provocation that might dangerously fan passions," according to a government spokesman.

US President George W. Bush urged governments around the world to quell the violent response to caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed but warned that the media had "the responsibility to be thoughtful."

"I call upon the governments around the world to stop the violence, to be respectful, to protect property, to protect the lives of innocent diplomats," Bush said as he met with Jordan's King Abdullah II.

Bush had assured Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Tuesday of his "support and solidarity," as had British Prime Minister Tony Blair and France's president a day earlier.

The latest deaths in Afghanistan occurred as protestors and police clashed in Qalat, the capital of southern Zabul province, while new demonstrations were held in the national capital Kabul and in the eastern province of Nangarhar.

The death toll from five days of demonstrations in Afghanistan rose one day after NATO troops were called in to a remote northwestern city where rioters attacked Norwegian-led peacekeepers.

Khaled Meshaal, head of the political bureau of the Palestinian Hamas movement, victor in recent elections, warned in Cairo that the Western press "was playing with fire."

Russia's President Vladimir Putin also slammed the cartoons -- first published in Denmark and later reproduced in dozens of mainly European papers -- as a provocation, equating them with child pornography.

He called on Denmark to "ask for forgiveness."

In Vienna, the current president of the European Union, Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel, denounced the "spiral of reciprocal provocations and insults" which, he said, fanned the flames of intolerance.

Neither "disparaging caricatures" of Mohammed nor "jokes about the Holocaust have any place in a world where cultures and religions should live side by side in a spirit of mutual respect," he said, alluding to an Iranian newspaper that has launched a contest for cartoons about the Nazi campaign to exterminate Jews.

European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana will work to ease tensions during a trip to the Middle East next week, he said, warning that the dispute could seriously strain relations between the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds.

Three United Nations human rights experts, Doudou Diene, UN monitor on racism; Asma Jahangir, expert on freedom of religion; and Ambeyi Ligabo, the world body's watchdog on freedom of expression; slammed the publication of the caricatures, but said violence was the wrong way to protest.

The Danish newspaper at the origin of the row said it would consider also printing cartoons of the Holocaust collected by Iran's largest-selling newspaper.

Iran's Hamsharhri newspaper said Monday it was holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

"But we will not make af decision before we have seen the cartoons, and it is in no way seen as remorse or a way to establish a false balance between our cartoons and the Iranian cartoons," Jyllands-Posten's culture editor Flemming Rose told AFP.

The Iranian paper said its intention was to turn the tables on the assertion that newspapers can print offensive material in the name of freedom of expression.

In Pakistan, meanwhile, thousands of protesters burned an effigy of the US president in a remote tribal area, the third day of large-scale demonstrations in different cities.

In the West Bank city of Hebron, scores of Palestinians hurled stones and bottles at the offices of a team of international monitors to protest the cartoons.

Denmark continued to close diplomatic outposts, also pulling out 11 Danish members of a peace-monitoring team in the West Bank, officials said.

Its embassies and consulates have been fire-bombed and stormed in Tehran, Beirut and Damascus.

In Ankara, a lawmaker from Turkey's governing party, Vahit Kiler, announced that the 110-store supermarket chain he owns would boycott Danish and Norwegian products.

Protests took place in southeast Europe, in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo and the Bulgarian capital Sofia, and a march is planned Friday in Rabat.

Journalists working for an Algerian television station which broadcast the offending images were fired.

Unrest has continued despite repeated calls by the United Nations, Western leaders and the Organization of the Islamic Conference for restraint and dialogue in the row over the drawings.

The satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo printed all 12 of the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed on Wednesday, along with an original front-page caricature of its own.

Muslim scholars in Britain, where a radical Islamic cleric was given a prison term Tuesday for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred, called for a change in the law to prevent depictions of the prophet being published in the British media.

The newly-convened Muslim Action Committee of imams and mosque representatives also demanded tightening the newspaper industry code of conduct to restrict the press from copying their European counterparts.[/quote]


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[Guest Bengal_Smoov]

These Danes are so fucking tough because they are thousands of miles from the Middle East. I think the Danes should just apologize and drop it. Why egg the Muslim world on and add fuel to the fire?

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[Guest BadassBengal]

[quote name='Bengal_Smoov' post='215973' date='Feb 8 2006, 05:09 PM']These Danes are so fucking tough because they are thousands of miles from the Middle East. I think the Danes should just apologize and drop it. Why egg the Muslim world on and add fuel to the fire?[/quote]

Apologize? It's freedom of speech. People make fun of all reliigons all the time. People make fun of Jesus and talk so much shit about Christianity, but I'm not offended. And if I am, IT'S THEIR RIGH TO DO IT. Fuck those whiny ass terrorists. We should put them in our newspapers also. If some crazy ass Muslims try to start some shit, I say shoot em on sight, or just beat the shit outta em.

[Guest ONYX]

[quote name='BadassBengal' post='216029' date='Feb 8 2006, 08:28 PM'][quote name='Bengal_Smoov' post='215973' date='Feb 8 2006, 05:09 PM']
These Danes are so fucking tough because they are thousands of miles from the Middle East. I think the Danes should just apologize and drop it. Why egg the Muslim world on and add fuel to the fire?[/quote]

Apologize? It's freedom of speech. People make fun of all reliigons all the time. People make fun of Jesus and talk so much shit about Christianity, but I'm not offended. And if I am, IT'S THEIR RIGH TO DO IT. Fuck those whiny ass terrorists. We should put them in our newspapers also. [b]If some crazy ass Muslims try to start some shit, I say shoot em on sight, or just beat the shit outta em.[/b]
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young skywalker, u are starting to worry me.

as your freestyle mentor and superior, i hope u dont travel down the "dark side of the force"

[Guest bengalrick]

[quote name='sneaky' post='216036' date='Feb 8 2006, 07:44 PM'][quote name='BadassBengal' post='216029' date='Feb 8 2006, 08:28 PM']
[quote name='Bengal_Smoov' post='215973' date='Feb 8 2006, 05:09 PM']
These Danes are so fucking tough because they are thousands of miles from the Middle East. I think the Danes should just apologize and drop it. Why egg the Muslim world on and add fuel to the fire?[/quote]

Apologize? It's freedom of speech. People make fun of all reliigons all the time. People make fun of Jesus and talk so much shit about Christianity, but I'm not offended. And if I am, IT'S THEIR RIGH TO DO IT. Fuck those whiny ass terrorists. We should put them in our newspapers also. [b]If some crazy ass Muslims try to start some shit, I say shoot em on sight, or just beat the shit outta em.[/b]
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young skywalker, u are starting to worry me.

as your freestyle mentor and superior, i hope u dont travel down the "dark side of the force"


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hey now... that doesn't make him conservative

[Jamie_B]

[quote name='ONYX' post='216036' date='Feb 8 2006, 07:44 PM'][quote name='BadassBengal' post='216029' date='Feb 8 2006, 08:28 PM']
[quote name='Bengal_Smoov' post='215973' date='Feb 8 2006, 05:09 PM']
These Danes are so fucking tough because they are thousands of miles from the Middle East. I think the Danes should just apologize and drop it. Why egg the Muslim world on and add fuel to the fire?[/quote]

Apologize? It's freedom of speech. People make fun of all reliigons all the time. People make fun of Jesus and talk so much shit about Christianity, but I'm not offended. And if I am, IT'S THEIR RIGH TO DO IT. Fuck those whiny ass terrorists. We should put them in our newspapers also. [b]If some crazy ass Muslims try to start some shit, I say shoot em on sight, or just beat the shit outta em.[/b]
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young skywalker, u are starting to worry me.

as your freestyle mentor and superior, i hope u dont travel down the "dark side of the force"


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Yes ... I can feel your anger ...

[Guest Bengal_Smoov]

[quote name='BadassBengal' post='216029' date='Feb 8 2006, 07:28 PM'][quote name='Bengal_Smoov' post='215973' date='Feb 8 2006, 05:09 PM']
These Danes are so fucking tough because they are thousands of miles from the Middle East. I think the Danes should just apologize and drop it. Why egg the Muslim world on and add fuel to the fire?[/quote]

Apologize? It's freedom of speech. People make fun of all reliigons all the time. People make fun of Jesus and talk so much shit about Christianity, but I'm not offended. And if I am, IT'S THEIR RIGH TO DO IT. Fuck those whiny ass terrorists. We should put them in our newspapers also. If some crazy ass Muslims try to start some shit, I say shoot em on sight, or just beat the shit outta em.
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Young man listen, if you know something is offensive before you do it don't be surprised at the reaction. The Danish newspaper knew that any cartoon of Muhammad would be considered extremely offensive, but they did it anyway. Now they are shocked at the reaction, fucking Danes....


[quote]Rage Over Cartoons Perplexes Denmark
Reaction to drawings of Muhammad forces the nation to examine its self-image of tolerance.

By Jeffrey Fleishman, Times Staff Writer

COPENHAGEN — This diminutive nation with an offbeat sense of humor and a strong self-image of cultural tolerance is not accustomed to having its flag burned, embassies stormed and coat of arms pelted with eggs.

But Denmark has become a target for the Muslim world's outrage at cartoons lampooning the prophet Muhammad.

The scope and intensity of the violence ignited by the caricatures, first printed in September by the country's right-leaning Jyllands-Posten newspaper and reprinted more recently in other Western publications, have left this country bewildered.

"A lot of Danes have problems understanding what is going on and why people in those countries reacted this way," said Morton Rixen, a philosophy student, looking out his window at a city awhirl in angst and snow. "[b]We're used to seeing American flags and pictures of George Bush being burned, but we've always seen ourselves as a more tolerant nation. We're in shock to now be in the center of this[/b] ."

On Wednesday, four people were killed and at least 20 wounded in a fresh round of protests in southern Afghanistan, and demonstrators in the West Bank city of Hebron attacked the offices of international observers, forcing their evacuation. President Bush spoke out about the protest for the first time, saying, "We reject violence as a way to express discontent with what may be printed in a free press."

Danes suspect that the furor over the cartoons has been co-opted by the wider anti-Western agenda of Middle East extremism. Yet they believe the [b]media images of fury over the drawings have cracked the veneer of their nation and exacerbated a debate about immigration, freedom of expression, religious tolerance and a vaunted perception of racial harmony often disputed by immigrants[/b].

Denmark is a small portrait of Europe's struggle to integrate a Muslim population that has doubled since the late-1980s and dotted the continent with head scarves and back-alley mosques. [b]The cartoons were sketched in an atmosphere of rising Muslim discontent, a surge in strength for the anti-immigration Danish People's Party, a commitment to keeping Danish troops in Iraq and the arrests here of suspected militants with reported ties to Al Qaeda .

Some worry that anti-immigrant political parties are exploiting the burning of Danish embassies in Lebanon, Syria and Iran to promote a xenophobic agenda. "Racism is suddenly popping up in this country," said Merete Ronnow, a nurse who worked in Danish relief efforts in Lebanon and Afghanistan. "I'm stunned by this. It's like now Danes can express exactly what they feel. My colleagues are saying, 'Look, this is how a Muslim acts. This is what a Muslim does.' "[/b]

Recent polls reveal a country of torn emotions and doubt. The Danish People's Party has gained 3 percentage points, but so has its nemesis, the Radical Left Party. A newspaper headline this week blamed President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair for not supporting Denmark through the ordeal. And nearly 80% of Danes believe a terrorist attack looms.

"I don't know what to do. It's amazing to see the Danish flag being burned," said Michael Hansen, an engineer. "It's not fear, it's more anxiety. There have been terror attacks in the U.S., Spain and in Britain. [b]We are the logical fourth. If they forgot about us, they've remembered now[/b]." [i]The logical fourth, huh[/i]

Hansen's roommate, Martin Yhlen, said: [size=4]"[b]The whole cartoon thing was a ridiculous provocation. The newspaper knew before they published it that people would be extremely upset. You do have freedom of speech, but with that comes a moral obligation. It doesn't benefit integration in Europe. It widens the divide."[/b][/size] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//41.gif[/img] [i]So maybe all Danes aren't complete idiots[/i]..

Even Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen seems baffled. "We're seeing ourselves characterized as intolerant people or as enemies of Islam as a religion. That picture is false," he said Tuesday during a news conference.

"We're facing a growing global crisis that has the potential to escalate beyond the control of governments and other authorities," he said. "Extremists and radicals who seek a clash of cultures are spreading it…. These are trying times for the Danish people."

Flemming Rose is not sleeping well these days. His cellphone glows with incoming calls. Cultural editor of Jyllands-Posten, Rose commissioned the caricatures. In an interview one recent night, [b]Rose said he was trying to correct what he viewed as a troubling self-censorship in the media and arts over depictions of Islam. His decision to print the caricatures came after a Danish children's book author could not find an illustrator to draw Muhammad because Muslims believe any depiction of God or the prophets is sacrilege.

The caricature Muslims apparently found most offensive in the Jyllands-Posten showed Muhammad wearing a turban shaped like a bomb. Another depicted the prophet complaining that paradise had run out of the virgins who suicide bombers believe await them after death. His publication, said Rose, was a rallying cry for freedom of expression and the Western values of political and religious criticism.[/b] [i]Rose is a fucking idiot, he knew what was doing and now he's trying to play the victim card, bullshit[/i]..

In a like-minded show of solidarity, many European publications have run the drawings since January, [b]when Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations began boycotting Danish goods, including dairy products that are costing Arla Foods about $2 million a day. Tehran announced Tuesday that it had cut trade with Denmark, which exports more than $250 million worth of products annually to Iran[/b].

Rose said that Islam should be treated no differently than Christianity or other religions regarding parody and political satire.

"[b]I think it's problematic when a religion tries to impose its taboos and rules on the larger society," he said. "When they ask me not to run those cartoons, they are not asking for my respect. They're asking for my submission…. To me, those cartoons are saying that some individuals have hijacked, kidnapped and taken hostage the religion of Islam to commit terrorism."[/b] [i]Uh no, it's offensive and racist, quit trying to justify your stupidity. Besides what does Rose know about Islam, he should respect their beliefs and not have drawn the cartoon, simple as that.[/i]

The chief editor of Jyllands-Posten, Carsten Juste, said he hadn't realized the explosive nature of the caricatures and apologized for offending Muslims. [b]Rose, however, has no regrets. When asked if the cartoons may have been too provocative in a time of strained relations between Muslims and Europeans, he said, "This has caused a great debate in Western Europe because it hits in the middle of the controversy. Freedom of speech. Religious respect. It's been very instructive[/b]."

Protests by European Muslims have been more muted than rallies and demonstrations held in the Middle East, where calls for bloodshed and fatwas are common. For Denmark's more than 200,000 Muslims, out of a total population of 5.4 million, democratic values and reverence for the prophet can conflict. Their struggle with a tricky cultural divide often goes unappreciated by native Danes, according to Muslim leaders.

[b]Rightist politicians and commentators, meanwhile, often blame Muslim immigrants for burdening the welfare state while making only cursory efforts to integrate. These sentiments have grown stronger as the Danish People's Party has become the nation's third most powerful party[/b].

"Twenty-five percent of all children in Copenhagen and more than 10% of all children in Denmark are being born to non-Danish mothers. What is happening is a gradual scooping out of the Danish population," Mogens Camre, a member of the Danish People's Party and the European Parliament, said in 2004.

"[b]Islam is threatening our future…. That faith belongs to a dark past, and its political aims are as destructive as Nazism was[/b]."

Ahmed Akkari is a scourge to populist politicians. A small man with an armful of disheveled papers, Akkari was part of a delegation of Danish Muslims who in December delivered the cartoons and other anti-Islamic sketches to religious leaders in Cairo and Beirut. The Danish People's Party says the trip was an opportunistic attempt to harm Denmark by triggering resentment across the Muslim world. The party recently called for deporting radical Muslims.

[b]Akkari said he traveled to the Middle East because Denmark's institutions and right-of-center government had ignored the concerns of the Islamic community. "Nobody listened to us," said Akkari, a spokesman for 27 Muslim organizations. "We are not saying censorship of the press…. But there must be limits on the freedom of speech when dealing with some things."[/b]

The son of a political refugee who fled Lebanon in the 1970s, Akkari was raised and educated in Denmark. He said the Danes think of themselves as tolerant but that minorities here encounter subtle discrimination and a "national pride" that often feels threatened by immigrants.

When asked about the Jyllands-Posten's right to publish the cartoons, Akkari said the paper should practice equality and publish derogatory caricatures of the Pope and a rabbi. "Then we will be satisfied," he said.

But these days [b]Akkari is more worried that Middle East violence will create a backlash in Europe over integration. "It's hurting our case," he said. "It's turning the picture completely[/b]."

The cultural backlash may already be underway. Martin Yhlen has tried to hide the fact that he is a Dane. Studying international development, Yhlen was working on his thesis in Yemen when the cartoon uproar swept the Middle East. Passions grew and the Danish flag went aflame. The Danish Foreign Ministry told him to leave.

"It's strange for us. Danes were always welcome in the Middle East, but now we're not. We've never seen this before. We've seen it with the U.S. and Israel, but not quiet little Denmark."[/quote]

Yo cms, what is the deal with the Danes, sounds like they are ready to kick all the non-Danes out of the country. Didn't Germany have a nationalist movement in the 1930's similar to the one the DPP is advocating???


The Danish newspaper knew that drawing a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turbin is highly offensive any Muslim but they did it anyway because they felt they had the right to. Sure, you have a right to offend someone but don't be surpised when the person you knowingly offend reacts in a not so kind way.

BAB, how would you feel if the Sycamore High School newsletter printed a picture of a buckwheat looking black man eating watermelon. Now the newsletter has every right to print that but they shouldn't because the image is highly offensive.

To me it sounds like the Danes are behaving like spoiled little kids, they need a spanking.

[Guest bengalrick]

or if they had a picture of Mary w/ cow shit all over it... or a picture of jesus that is made of porn picture... or a cross that is placed in piss...

wait a minute, all of these have been done... mass disrespect, no riots... what seems to be the problem?

btw, they are pissed about the dipiction of mohammed, right? what are they going to say about [url="http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004478.htm"]this[/url]?

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at US supreme court... both pics of mohammed...

all in all, this is disrespectful, in bad taste, but is protected from free speech... though i would agree, that it isn't a smart thing to do, and a responsible journalist wouldn't have done that..

[Jamie_B]

[quote name='bengalrick' post='216364' date='Feb 9 2006, 12:52 PM']or if they had a picture of Mary w/ cow shit all over it... or a picture of jesus that is made of porn picture... or a cross that is placed in piss...

wait a minute, all of these have been done... mass disrespect, no riots... what seems to be the problem?

btw, they are pissed about the dipiction of mohammed, right? what are they going to say about [url="http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004478.htm"]this[/url]?

[img]http://michellemalkin.com/archives/images/scotusmuhammad003.jpg[/img]

[img]http://michellemalkin.com/archives/images/scotusmuhammad004.jpg[/img]

^^^

at US supreme court... both pics of mohammed...

all in all, this is disrespectful, in bad taste, but is protected from free speech... though i would agree, that it isn't a smart thing to do, and a responsible journalist wouldn't have done that..[/quote]

Since when did free speach mean we cant call out things in poor taste due to the idea of free speech. Also remember not every country in the world has that freedom of speech. Though I do agree with what your saying about it being OK if its Jesus or Mary in the name of art and free speech, but not ok if its mohammad.

[Guest Bengal_Smoov]

[quote name='bengalrick' post='216364' date='Feb 9 2006, 12:52 PM']or if they had a picture of Mary w/ cow shit all over it... or a picture of jesus that is made of porn picture... or a cross that is placed in piss...

wait a minute, all of these have been done... mass disrespect, no riots... what seems to be the problem?

btw, they are pissed about the dipiction of mohammed, right? what are they going to say about [url="http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004478.htm"]this[/url]?

[img]http://michellemalkin.com/archives/images/scotusmuhammad003.jpg[/img]

[img]http://michellemalkin.com/archives/images/scotusmuhammad004.jpg[/img]

^^^

at US supreme court... both pics of mohammed...

all in all, this is disrespectful, in bad taste, but is protected from free speech... though i would agree, that it isn't a smart thing to do, and a responsible journalist wouldn't have done that..[/quote]


Here's the difference, the Muslims themselves don't allow cartoons or pictures of Muhammad. In the Christian religion it is ok to do make cartoons of Jesus or whoever. That is the issue, the Muslim don't do themselves because it goes against their religious beliefs, so you see why they are upset when non-believing infidels draw a cartoon of Muhammad with a bomb in his turbin.

[Nati Ice]

sure theyre upset...

is it in extremely bad taste? yes
are the christian representations in equally bad taste? yes
should western cultures and their govts outlaw or probit similar representations because of a possible backlash? no
but should those who create these pieces understand the shitstorm they are creating? absolutely

content creators and distributors should be the only ones legally allowed to moderate content... if a faction wants to start a war with western cultures over free speech than so be it... this is all fucking rediculous, some of these towelheads need to get out more*... sheesh












*note; it was a joke, please dont blow me up

[Guest bengalrick]

i didn't say i don't understand why their mad... i can see things making fun of christians, and it pisses me off...

the difference is: there aren't riots here... there are right now there...

i also said it was in bad taste, but its the editors and papers discretion of whether they run the pics or not...

jamie, i think i see your point... but the pics were originally printed in denmark, which has one of the most free presses in the world... and as i said, they were in bad taste...

[Ben]

[quote name='bengalrick' post='216380' date='Feb 9 2006, 01:20 PM']i didn't say i don't understand why their mad... i can see things making fun of christians, and it pisses me off...

the difference is: there aren't riots here... there are right now there...

i also said it was in bad taste, but its the editors and papers discretion of whether they run the pics or not...

jamie, i think i see your point... but the pics were originally printed in denmark, which has one of the most free presses in the world... and as i said, they were in bad taste...[/quote]
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[url="http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/ArabCartoons.htm"]http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/ArabCartoons.htm[/url]

[Ben]

Some cartoons done on this situation:

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[Guest BadassBengal]

[quote name='Bengal_Smoov' post='216360' date='Feb 9 2006, 12:44 PM']BAB, how would you feel if the Sycamore High School newsletter printed a picture of a buckwheat looking black man eating watermelon. Now the newsletter has every right to print that but they shouldn't because the image is highly offensive.

To me it sounds like the Danes are behaving like spoiled little kids, they need a spanking.[/quote]

I wouldn't go around killing people and burning embassies because I was offended by a goddamn paper. And this has nothing to do with race. Race is made fun of all the time, so I really dont give a fuck. This has to do with religion. Those retarded fucks need to realize that not everyone believes in their religion, and that if we wanna poke fun at Muhammad, we can. Also, how can they put the whole blame on the country because of what one newspaper did? Tards. Separation of church and state. You can't claim war on some country because they made fun of a reliigon anyways. I hope to god that we put these pictures in our news. Imma get a goddamn T-shirt with that shit on it and do the worm up and down my school

[Guest bengalrick]

[quote name='BadassBengal' post='216453' date='Feb 9 2006, 03:10 PM'][quote name='Bengal_Smoov' post='216360' date='Feb 9 2006, 12:44 PM']

BAB, how would you feel if the Sycamore High School newsletter printed a picture of a buckwheat looking black man eating watermelon. Now the newsletter has every right to print that but they shouldn't because the image is highly offensive.

To me it sounds like the Danes are behaving like spoiled little kids, they need a spanking.[/quote]

I wouldn't go around killing people and burning embassies because I was offended by a goddamn paper. And this has nothing to do with race. Race is made fun of all the time, so I really dont give a fuck. This has to do with religion. Those retarded fucks need to realize that not everyone believes in their religion, and that if we wanna poke fun at Muhammad, we can. Also, how can they put the whole blame on the country because of what one newspaper did? Tards. Separation of church and state. You can't claim war on some country because they made fun of a reliigon anyways. I hope to god that we put these pictures in our news. Imma get a goddamn T-shirt with that shit on it and do the worm up and down my school
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your ate up Badass

but you do raise some good points....

[Guest BlackJesus]

[b]you're in luck Badass.....

they are now selling T Shirts [/b]

[url="http://www.velvetprophet.com/"]http://www.velvetprophet.com/[/url]

[Jamie_B]

question, do the danes even have seperation of church and state?

[Guest BadassBengal]

[quote name='BlackJesus' post='216468' date='Feb 9 2006, 03:39 PM'][b]you're in luck Badass.....

they are now selling T Shirts [/b]

[url="http://www.velvetprophet.com/"]http://www.velvetprophet.com/[/url][/quote]

Look at this:

[quote]Seven startling similarities between Elvis and Muhammad:

* Both have a cult-like following.
* Elvis built his career on rock. Muhammad built his career on a rock.
* Millions of pilgrims flock to Graceland. Millions of pilgrims flock to Mecca.
* Elvis served in the military. Muhammad led the military.
* Elvis was born in Tupelo, Mississippi. Muhammad also came from nowhere.
* Both had a real taste for virgins.
* Both live forever in velvet.[/quote]

Hilarious.

I've been to Tupelo, Mississippi, though. Lots of casinos down there. Amazing place, really. The food is great.

[Guest Bengal_Smoov]

[quote name='BadassBengal' post='216453' date='Feb 9 2006, 03:10 PM'][quote name='Bengal_Smoov' post='216360' date='Feb 9 2006, 12:44 PM']

BAB, how would you feel if the Sycamore High School newsletter printed a picture of a buckwheat looking black man eating watermelon. Now the newsletter has every right to print that but they shouldn't because the image is highly offensive.

To me it sounds like the Danes are behaving like spoiled little kids, they need a spanking.[/quote]

I wouldn't go around killing people and burning embassies because I was offended by a goddamn paper. And this has nothing to do with race. Race is made fun of all the time, so I really dont give a fuck. This has to do with religion. Those retarded fucks need to realize that not everyone believes in their religion, and that if we wanna poke fun at Muhammad, we can. Also, how can they put the whole blame on the country because of what one newspaper did? Tards. Separation of church and state. You can't claim war on some country because they made fun of a reliigon anyways. I hope to god that we put these pictures in our news. Imma get a goddamn T-shirt with that shit on it and do the worm up and down my school
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