http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20060217/D8FQV798B.html
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) – A Pakistani cleric announced Friday a $1 million bounty for killing a cartoonist who drew Prophet Muhammad, as thousands joined street protests and Denmark temporarily closed its embassy and advised its citizens to leave the country….Qureshi said the mosque and his religious school would give $25,000 and a car, while a local jewelers’ association would give another $1 million. No representative of the association was available to confirm it had made the offer.”This is a unanimous decision by all imams (prayer leaders) of Islam that whoever insults the prophet deserves to be killed and whoever will take this insulting man to his end, will get this prize,” Qureshi said
And if you listen closely, you can hear the outrage by all the millions of Moslems worldwide at the atrocity of using their peaceful religion to promote 1st degree murder. Come to think of it, no, you can’t.
Huffington Post has an article about muslims protesting in Manhatton outside the Danish embassy. It’s come to the US.
The new york city muslims kept it peaceful. They know that after 9/11 they better not push their luck.
I still, even now, find it somewhat curious, that here in Denmark where all this supposedly originated, we’ve had NO wild riots, NO bombings,
and NO murders because of it.
Sure, such things may come later…
but the mere fact that it didn’t explode instantaniously HERE is something that is worth looking at, I think.
HMDK:
Curiouser & curiouser still.
& I read somewhere, that Germany refused to apologize as well.
Apparently, they released a cartoon where the Iranian soccer team were depicted as having bombs strapped to their chest.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/02/16/iran_renames_danish_pastries/
It’s freedom fries all over again.
Oh, I hate that:
http://www.boston.com/news/world/
middleeast/articles/2006/02/16/
iran_renames_danish_pastries/
Can that thing with the links be fixed?
There’s the way to fight fire with fire! YOU make fun of my prophet and I’LL rename the baked goods!!!! (Because I don’t want to boycott and have to give up eating them).
I know I wouldn’t want to give up eating MY Danish.
If only this had been the method of choice rahter than rioting to begin with.
TNA/Karen,
Since the freedom fries outbreak, I started calling American cheese ‘Idiot cheese’. It hasn’t caught on…
mxracer
Perhaps it’s a case of truth hitting too close to home?
Hairless
Perhaps all the muslims in DK are moderates and want to keep it that way. Maybe that’s why they distanced themselves from their homelands to start with. Emigrees, I mean. Don’t have any idea how many Danish-born muslims there might be.
Is there any rustle or murmur at all over there? Talk on the streets? Letters to the editor? A lone protester on the corner?
Karen sez:
“Is there any rustle or murmur at all over there? Talk on the streets? Letters to the editor? A lone protester on the corner?”
Whooo-boy!
The news and debate-shows have been full of these discussions from the very beginning.
And there are many moderate muslims here, plus some rabid ones.
The worst it really got here in Denmark was a centrist muslim politician, being guarded, intermittently, by police officers because he was threatened by e-mail by some ultra-jihadist loon.
That -really- is as high as the waves have gotten here in Denmark WHERE IT ALL STARTED.
Sorry if I keep printin’ that in capital letters, but it continually dumbfounds me.
The world goes nuts because of something happening here in the DK, (Population less than 6 mill.)
yet here, aside from some increased media attention, it’s just… well, normal.
I’m so glad they have a $1 million to spare what with all the poor people around.
Can Salmon Rushdie walk the streets again?
What’s the expiration date on a fatwah? Is it like milk?
I thought that there were TWELVE different cartoonists. Gee, does that mean that the “avengers of Islam” get $1,000,025 and a car for EACH murder they commit?
This looks like a good explanation for the cartoon riots:
The controversy regarding the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed completely misses the point. Of course, the cartoons are offensive to Muslims, but newspaper cartoons do not warrant the burning of buildings and the killing of innocent people. The cartoons did not cause the disease of hate that we are seeing in the Muslim world on our television screens at night – they are only a symptom of a far greater disease.
I was born and raised as a Muslim in Cairo, Egypt and in the Gaza Strip. In the 1950s, my father was sent by Egypt’s President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, to head the Egyptian military intelligence in Gaza and the Sinai where he founded the Palestinian Fedayeen, or “armed resistance”. They made cross-border attacks into Israel, killing 400 Israelis and wounding more than 900 others.
My father was killed as a result of the Fedayeen operations when I was eight years old. He was hailed by Nasser as a national hero and was considered a shaheed, or martyr. In his speech announcing the nationalisation of the Suez Canal, Nasser vowed that all of Egypt would take revenge for my father’s death. My siblings and I were asked by Nasser: “Which one of you will avenge your father’s death by killing Jews?” We looked at each other speechless, unable to answer.
In school in Gaza, I learned hate, vengeance and retaliation. Peace was never an option, as it was considered a sign of defeat and weakness. At school we sang songs with verses calling Jews “dogs” (in Arab culture, dogs are considered unclean).
Here’s the link for the rest of it:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21322
Here the link without animated ads:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=21322
Someone else here that reads frontpagemag?!
I am not alone…(sob)….
I got the frontpagemag link from another blog. I wouldn’t read frontpagemag because I boycott all websites that have animated ads. I don’t like to read something when there’s flashing commercials all over the place.
My question is, what makes muslims so “entitled”?
Let me explains. In Pakistan, where dozens have died in cartoon protests, so many people wear bin laden T-shirts. Obviously, they couldn’t care less how much this would hurt his vicitims(many of whom happen to be…well, muslims). But if a paper in a different country thousands of miles away publishes something they don’t like, you see wha happens.
So when someone says something I don’t like, all I can do is to learn to live with it and grow up.
Why not them, then?
Well, at least their not proving the cartoonist right by rioting or killing people…Oh, wait…
Somewhat off topic here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060220/ap_on_re_eu/austria_holocaust_denial
“VIENNA, Austria – Right-wing British historian David Irving pleaded guilty Monday to denying the Holocaust and was sentenced to three years in prison, even after conceding he wrongly said there were no Nazi gas chambers at the Auschwitz concentration camp.”
Interesting.
Well, for those who have accused moderate muslims of being silent:
http://egyptiansandmonkey.blogspot.com/2006/02/yay.html#comments
“Finally, some good news from Denmark:
Dozens of Danish Muslims are joining the network of moderate Muslims, the Demokratiske Muslimer (Democratic Muslims). About 700 Muslims have already become DM members and 2,500 Danes have expressed their will to support the network. The initiative has caused anger among the Danish imams and their leader, Ahmad Abu Laban, who have referred to the moderates as ?rats.? The imams feel that they are beginning to lose their control over part of the Muslim population.”
Let’s hope this was a wake-up call for them.
It may be too little too late, but I’m crossing my fingers.
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