A French newspaper reprinted on Wednesday a series of 12 Danish newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad that have sparked protests in the Muslim world and prompted Saudi Arabia to recall its ambassador from Denmark.
The France Soir daily said it had published the cartoons in the name of freedom of expression and to fight religious intolerance, saying a secular country like France could not be bound by the precepts of any religion.
Reuters
Now what? You’re going to boycott the F1 because Renault takes part in it? Stop buying French cars, technology, cheese? All of the above? Any one particular product? Wine boycott maybe?
Well, before you go jump off a cliff, I hope you realise that France Soir is owned by an Egyptian: Ramy Lakah, so we might as well boycott Egypt too! But as Egypt has no product to call its own, other than oil in the Sinai, reeds and some stones which belonged to the Kuffar of old, then I have no problem lumping it in the same pot as Norway, Denmark, and France.
So my prediction has come true! Don’t play with fire guys, let it go, for goodness’ sake let it go. This is not doing us as a nation any good at all. It just demonstrates our intolerance… but that’s nothing new now is it.
NEXT!
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Dammit. Me again.
Anyway to get a permanent cookie for this site? I keep forgetting to log in 😉
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Its risky giving these guys any ideas. You can suggest the most absurd thing to take the piss and next thing you know is that they’re claiming they thought of it first.
Scorpio
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You know,
Mnestahal. God. We’re so motakhalefeen!
Roba
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I am impressed the French (or some people in France) showed a bit of spine for once and published the cartoons. Contrast that with the chicken shit limp wristed reaction that the tarts at Geant showed by pulling products and this newspaper is truly a breath a fresh air. Sadly though the owner will now have a price on his head for this and his family as well. Now where are the tolerant moderate voices in the Arab world?
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I Hope ALL newspapers plaster this stuff daily.. it’s already on TV like every hour. What’s going to happen now? Close down TV sets? What about in buses and airplanes and trains.. where naturally they will carry such newspapers.. will transportation and media be banned now? so what now? can’t drive a French car? what about American? like no way.. what about German? Well they did it and put in their newspapers today… Asian? where do u go???!
If this boyoctting #%$#!%$% doesnt stop now, ALLL Hell will break out!
I can just imagine.. ALL forms of flags being burnt this Friday in Bahrain..
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Come on! You must admit it will be nice to see some other flags being burned other than the usual “Stars and Stripes” and the ISRAELI flag. Those flag burnings have been getting a little boring lately. Let us just hope that no one sets themselves on fire by accident. Kind of makes me think of that UNIBROW character. Anyone remember him?
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The Danish and Norwegian newspapers (which I know firsthand) were -abusing- their right to free speech. Based on some right wing/christian ideology they actively sought to offend other people.
While they can publish whatever they like, the protests/boycotts makes the rest of the population aware of the matter, and puts pressure on the editors to admit their own stupidity… which can only be a good thing IMHO.
– Dag from Norway
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Dag from Norway
You can’t claim the newspapers where “abusing” their right to free speech and then in the next paragraph say “they can publish whatever they like”. Your argument doesn’t pass the basic scratch and sniff test. Almost like saying you voted for something before you voted against it… Still can’t figure that one out…
Please explain your contradiction. There is either quote unquote “abuse” or there isn’t. Not much gray area there.
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[quote]Anon: “Now where are the tolerant moderate voices in the Arab world?” [/quote]
Hiding. They don’t run Islam. The headcutters do.
Steve
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Mahmood,
have you read this:
http://www.alarabiya.net/Articles/2006/02/01/20775.htm
Jaffar.
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Dag,
The only people abusing anything are the radical Muslims who demand we all bow down to Mecca. They are the same radical Muslims who demanded Piglet (from Winnie the Pooh) be banned in England because he is a pig. Encouraged by that success, they now make war on piggy banks and toy pigs. Their arrogant imposition of their intolerant religion on the rest of us must be opposed.
Basically, your choice is to put a stop to their nonsense now when it’s only about cartoons or later when they are burning your churches and synagogues down and demanding your nation recognize sharia law. They will not stop, Dag, until you stop them. If you don’t have the character to stop them, I recommend you learn the meaning of the word “dhimmi,” because you will be on your way to becoming one.
Steve
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so what now? can’t drive a French car? what about American?
Just for the record guys, American cars suck. If you get one, you end up sending it to the garage on a daily basis for repairs. So, if you were thinking of getting a Jeep or Ford.. Well.. I’d think again if I were you!
God Bless You All!
Ahmed
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Oh wow – thank you! Will let you know how it goes.
So brilliant of you 😉
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What I meant to say;
The can -legally- publish what they want regarding islam, though there is a -ban- on blasphemous writings regarding christianity by law!
From this privileged position a (right wing) christian newspaper publishes the cartoons with provocation in mind.
Sure I consider it abuse of free speech. Not from a legal standpoint, but from my own (de lege ferenda) standpoint.
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My pleasure!
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Dhimmiwatch is reporting that not only have papers in Francepublishing the pics, so are newspapers in Finland ,Iceland, Italy and Spain. And this is just for starters. In the comments people are reporting that even the Czech MSM are publishing them too along with a site for you to take a stab at it and post your own drawings of Mo…Draw your Mohamed campaign:
http://info.pravdaoislamu.cz/index.php/2006/01/31/nakresli-si-sveho-mohameda-vysledky/
Looks as if this is taking on a life of its own.
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Finally, an anti-American remark with which I agree. My last American car required me to replace the alternator five times, without remedying the problem. I should have known better when I drove it off the dealer’s lot brand new and a big piece of interior trim fell off before I got six blocks. The last straw was when the head gasket blew in the middle of Arkansas, fifty miles from the nearest dealership. My last two cars have been Toyota and they have been very well-behaved. My next car will be a Toyota, too.
Steve
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My interpretation is that it is European public opinion mobilizing against the excesses of Islam, and a long overdue mobilization it is. I’m only sorry that American media has not joined the European media is pressing this point. Wouldn’t you know it, the whole of Europe is making a point of sticking it to the Islamic extremists, and the Great Satan is the last to know.
Steve
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Unfortunately, there is truth to Ahmed’s comment. Maybe some competition will force our native car companies to get some quality control.
Aliandra
Get A Grip
This is getting really silly. People can say what they like within the laws of the land they live in. If that upsets people in other countries (or even their own), it’s a shame but not worth starting a war over. Get a grip folks!
Keefieboy
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Is everybody aware that there is a flattering statue of Mohammed on the freize of the US SUPREME COURT to honor his contribution to lawgiving?
Ugh OH!
thinker
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Dear Folks,
This is the reality of what we grew up in, so the terrorist/goon has no idea how we are conditioned to apply and withstand their antics.
Kindly
Augurwell
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What will they think of next?
“I was young. We had lots of money. It was very exciting.”
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[quote]Based on some right wing/christian ideology they actively sought to offend other people.[/quote]
I dont know about Norway but its a downright lie that the danish paper sought to offend anyone based on religion. I know norway is very christian but I can assure you *firsthand* that it doesnt include Denmark. Your ignorant conspiracytheory is mindnumbing.
-Dennis from Denmark.
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Ù…ØÂÂمود لتستغرب اذا بعض النواب طالبوبمقاطعة المنتجات الÙ?رنسية موالكلام عند بعضهم ببلاش تاخذهم الØÂÂمية ويقعدونيخورونايكلام 🙂
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Way to Go Steve! You made the right decision. Like you, I also had to learn this fact the hard way, but it’s a good thing I did so, because now I can pass this info for generation and generation to come :P!
A wise man once said, “Noone dies a virgin. Life screws everyone.”
I don’t know how it relates to this, but I thought it was cool :)!
Peace Y’All!
Ahmed
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The US is participating, they have a “Buy Danish” campaign.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/brussels013106.htm
They’d taken all the Lurpak off the shelves in Geant, so I had to find another brand. Was I going to buy Al Marai? Was I fk. I bought some French brand, as it was the only other thing available.
Then came home to read about the French support thing. Oh how sweet that butter tasted!
I can only presume they’re now going to have to shut down the whole of Carrefour and Geant 😉
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Aliandra,
Not many organizations can reform themselves once they have established themselves any more than dinosaurs could make themselves into mammals to survive. They usually must die out to make way for newer and better adapted forms. Likewise for Wahhabism.
Steve
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Vive la France!
And bad luck to Carrefour and Geant for being so fking craven as to remove Lurpak from their shelves – guess they had better shut down entirely now.
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Sez here that the French newspaper caved.
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But late on Wednesday its owner, Raymond Lakah, said he had removed managing editor Jacques Lefranc “as a powerful sign of respect for the intimate beliefs and convictions of every individual”.
Mr Lakah said: “We express our regrets to the Muslim community and all people who were shocked by the publication.” [/b]
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An op-ed piece in Norwegian newspaper “Nationen” echoes most of my argument; http://www.nationen.no/meninger/kommentar/article1932280.ece
Norwegian foreign minister Jonas G. Støre commented on national tv;
“The Muhammed-cartoons have not been published in other major norwegian papers. They have used their head and not published the cartoons.”
Spokesperson of the German Association of Journalists said in regards to the publication in german newspapers (www.netzeitung.de) “The publication is in contradiction with the presscode article 10 which says that “publication using words or images that, in form or content, may offend a group of people in regards to moral or religious questions, is not compatible with the responsibility of the press.”
I do not think it is a far fetched to consider JP right-wing, and Magazinet is clearly outer right-wing christian converative (www.magazinet.no).
Though JP have recently explained their “intentions” as not wanting to offend anyone, I rather share blogger Raapils view; (http://raapil-unblogged.blogs.com/raapil_unblogged/2005/10/ytring.html) (Danish);
“But maybe the muslims and their representatives – f.ex. those ambassadors, which the prime minister (of Denmark) very unpolitely refused to meet with – should have focused more on the content of the famous cartoons, than on the dogma that Muhammed should not be pictured. Several of the cartoons – those of Kurt Westergaard and Rasmus Sand Høyers in particular- can be grouped in the genre of “political caricature in bad faith” having proud traditions back to “Der Stürmers” jewish caricatures and the Danish cartoons of Pia Kjærsgaard as a rat.”
Comparing them to “Der Stürmer” is harsh (and not necessarily something i agree with), but lacking bad-faith on the part of the editors there is not much left but sheer stupidity in regards to the understanding of foreign cultures/beliefs.
And I have not been convinced by JPs “apologies” that this is/was the case.
But such views are clearly those of conspiracy-theorists… riiiight!
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While it is a wonderful surprise to find Europeans who support America, I don’t agree with this guy banning Germans and French from his cafe because their countries don’t support America. It seems like he’s personalizing it. Who needs this kind of personal rancor in our everyday lives?
Let the Germans and French back in, I say. It should suffice to erect a shrine to Dubya in a corner of the shop and play “I’m A Yankee Doodle Dandy” all day.
Steve
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It’s not amazing to me that the Right defends free speech while the Left insists on political correctness. Thus were it ever so.
Steve
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[i]Hiding. They don’t run Islam. The headcutters do.[/i]
Yeah, the fundies are having a field-day all around.
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[i]I Hope ALL newspapers plaster this stuff daily.[/i]
I’ve just published one on my blog. I hope others join me in the show of support for free speech. The fact that I found most of the cartoons to be in poor taste doesn’t take away from the fact that I feel tyranny must be opposed. Particularly the tyranny against ideas and thoughts.
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Steve,
An interesting side note is that for all the lament about the decline of the Americn automobile industry, the year when the greatest amount of Americans were employed in the manufacture of cars was… 2005. My Avalon was designed and engineered in California and made in Kentucky.
Cheers,
Jared
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This idiotic affair is all over newspapers and tv channels, to miss knowing about it you would have to live in a cave!
I have a great proposal for all offended Muslims out there: Go right ahead boycott ALL western imports! That way you make sure you cover every eventuality, and that all our infidel nations are punished for their ‘blasphemy’ and villanous ways. I would love to see how long they could last without, and I mean WITHOUT…
After all, do they not import pretty well everything that makes for ‘creature comforts
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I was being sarcastic. I know it’s the lowest form of wit, but low wit is all that lefty fascist deserved.
Viva freedom!
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Wow, you really are a twerp.
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I can believe that, though my guess is that the dynamic has more autoworkers employed down south in new factories for foreign brand names than up north for the old unionized American brand names.
Steve
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[quote]”But late on Wednesday its owner, Raymond Lakah, said he had removed managing editor Jacques Lefranc “as a powerful sign of respect for the intimate beliefs and convictions of every individual”.”[/quote]
Not to include those individuals with powerful belief in and conviction for free speech, untrammeled by the arrogant demands of religious supremacists.
Steve
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I think you will probably find that this situation with France Soir is a cooked thing… they are suffering from a financial crisis, they have declared their bankruptcy (I think) last November, so it is not inconceivable that they printed the cartoons just to lift their circulation and all that goes with it.
I know it sounds so much like conspiracy, but it stinks of it too.
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It is being re printed elsewhere too
[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4672688.stm[/url]
The whole thing was blown out of proportion and it’s not going to be easy to get out of it ”emerging victorious” for the keepers of religious righteousness.
-Aakash.
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I reset the cookie name to the default, I think I was having problems with the new cookie name as it kept me not logged in. I hope it’s ok now. If not, let me know would you?
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How amazing that defending free speech seems now to be regarded as a “right wing” thang. Wasn’t it the left that used to claim to be the champions of liberty and equality? My, how things change. The left is becoming right wing and the right is becoming left wing …
Anyway, long live freedom!
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funny that the french are supporting the danes…. look what the danes think of the germans and french…. there owner of this cafe doesn’t allow french and german people in his cafe cause they don’t support the US led war in IRAQ…
[url]http://www.aagespizza.com[/url]
look at the shirts he sells…
[url]http://www.cafepress.com/aagespizza[/url]
makes you think twice about the danes…
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^^ this is the cafe owner’s message…
After my boycott of German and French patrons, I have been forced to close down my business on Fanoe, and I am now trying to start Aages Pizza as a internet store/business.
On this website you can read more about following: My boycott of Germans and French, the reason why I changed my businessplan, a few words about myself, my futureplans, upcoming products and items you already can buy.
The website also have a guestbook where you can read comments and you are more than welcome to write a few lines yourself. Finally you can read about my opinion towards international/national political topics.
Aage Bjerre
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It seems void to argument on your level since you seem to be pulling stuff out of the same nothingness of which your theories are based upon. I fail to see what the norwegian newspapers political view has anything to do with JP, same goes for the german presscode and what a random blogger feels about the situation. Any comparisons with the naziproganda against jews is sad and far fetched.
We will never let fundamentalists of any religion and ignorants dictacte our law.
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Oh yea lets all hate danes because of one mans actions. Thumbs up.
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Before any bombs or threats will happen.. we the ‘sane’ Arabs will do death threats on anyone declaring himself ‘Islamic’.. I will see him as only having 1 agenda in his mind.. instill Anger and Danger around the world and his words will go and only his words.. so thats it.. the moment I identify someone who is ‘Islamist’ literally I will make his life HELL.
So before ALL the world looks at us Arabs as idiotic brain-blowing haters of anyone and everyone who is not of their like.. we would be probably perished because of this potential regional civil war… I swear NO MORE IS NO MORE..
I dont care how much I have to explain.. its useless it really is.. ‘Islamists’ have done HARM. PERIOD. NOW REPENT AND BY GOD I WILL STOP YOU ISLAMIST $#$%@@#$#@#$#$^
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Here is a portion of what you are up against. More power to you in you quest to clean things up. I applaud your desire.
This is a partial list of what has done in the name of Islam, the peaceful religion:
Armenian Genocide – Muslims
Ambon Massacre – Muslims
Beslan School attack- Muslims
World Trade Center attacks (Twice) – Muslims
Pentagon attack – Muslims
Malcolm Kerr, Pres. American University, kidnapped & murdered – Muslims
Paul Johnson, kidnapper and beheaded – Muslims
Pan Am Flight 109 bombing – Muslims
Orly Airport attack – Muslims
Istanbul Airport attack – Muslims
Assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II – Muslim
Skyjack Sunday, 3 planes hijacked and blown up – Muslims
Planet Hollywood bombing in Cape Town – Muslims
La Belle nightclub bombing in Berlin – Muslims
AK-47 attack on CIA employees in Virginia – Muslim
Metro bombings in Paris (Twice) – Muslims
US Embassy bombing in Peru – Muslims
Russian Apartment Complex bombings – Muslims
Tunisian Synoqogue bombing – Muslim
Dagestan bombings – Muslims
US Consulate attack in Karachi – Muslims
North Ossetia Hospital attack – Muslims
Bombing of Mariott Hotel in Jakarta – Muslims
Australian Embassy bombing in Jakarta – Muslims
British Consulate and HSBC bombings – Istanbul – Muslims
Sudan Genocide – Muslims
US Embassies in Kenya & Tanzania attacks – Muslims
USS Cole attack – Muslims
Nicholas Berg, kidnapped and beheaded – Muslims
Bali nightclub bombings – Muslims
Moscow subway bombings – Muslims
Twin bombings of Russian airliners – Muslims
Murder of Theo van Gogh – Muslims
Kidnapping of hundreds of civilians & beheadings of scores in the Philippines –
Muslims
Luxor Attacks – Muslims
Attempted attack on Egyptian President Mubarak – Muslims
Lt. Col. W. Higgins, kidnapped & murdered – Muslims
US Embassy in Beirut attacks (Twice) – Muslims
French Embassy in Beirut attack – Muslims
Hijack of TWA Flight 847 – Muslims
Bombing of Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires – Muslims
Moscow Opera House attack and hostage taking – Muslims
Bombings & Suicide attacks in Tashkent and Boukhara – Muslims
Marine Barracks attacks Beirut – Muslims
Egyptian Embassy attack in Pakistan – Muslims
Dhahran Housing Attack – Muslims
Thousands of beheadings in Algeria – Muslims
Madrid Train Bombing – Muslims
Suicide Bombers in Iraqi and Israel – Muslims
Margaret Hussan, kidnapped and murdered – Muslims
Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and beheaded – Muslims
Beheading of bound and defenseless noncombatants – Muslims
Sarajevo Market Massacre – Muslims
Modern Slave Trade in Africa – Muslims
Somnath Slaughter – Muslims
Taliban – executions of thousands and destruction of Afghan culture – Muslims
Enslavement and trade of Africans into Western Europe and Americas
Honor rapes and killings – Muslims
Oppression of women – Muslims
Oppression and suppression of other religions – Muslims
Plus hundreds of other attacks, bombings, rapes and murders
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Anon above ..
Stupid email there. You are given a chance to get the moderate muslims to fight against the extremists with this stupid fallout over the Denmark affair .. and then you aqueeze the moderates by making a sterotypical blanket statement about Islam?
As far as I am concerned, good on the Europeans because the civil war of Islamic thought and the manifestation of Islam in people’s lifestyle will be fought there .. not in Asia and not in America.
As far as Steve and his Toyota .. sweetie .. you will be driving Chinese cars soon ..
JJ
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Anon;
[quote]Eurabia was just a bullshit concept by those Americans [/quote]
Eurabia is a concept coined by Bat Yeor, an Egyptian Jew. Go google it.
Aliandra
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Looks like cold hard facts to me JJ. Perhaps a bit too much for the moderates to swallow but facts nonetheless So what is it you object to JJ. The truth? If the so called moderates rail against the truth then I submit to you they are not moderates but rather a part of the problem. A problem that is affecting the world. Not just Islamic nations. Look at that list JJ. Are these not actions done in the name of Islam? You and I both know that the fast majority of Muslims do not suscribe to the Death Cult cries of the extremists. The lack of loud voices shouting down the crazues concerning. The world I am afraid is getting tired of waiting for the moderates to find their voice.
Let us hope the problem in the Red Sea today won’t be added to the list above.
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“its craven policies towards Israel ”
Are the Americans mistreating Israel?
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JJ,
If the Chinese build a better car, I will buy it. I don’t believe in subsidizing incompetent American labor that builds a product that makes my life hell. You would not have wanted to hear what I had to say about General Motors as I was standing beside their $%&# product, smoke coming out from under the hood, on that lonely Arkansas freeway in that long ago December.
Besides, you can’t get good products by subsidizing bad products. You must support the best ones where ever they come from and who ever makes them. However, that said, I don’t think the Chinese have the quality discipline that the Japanese have. Their quality control consists of shooting factory managers who make too many bad refrigerators.
Steve
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Atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Christians
Spanish Inquisition – Christians
Holocaust – Christians
World War I – Christians
World War II – Christians
Vietnam War – Christians
Napoleonic Wars – Christians
You can give us another list of the atrocities caused by muslims, but the list above should remind you that barbarians come in all forms, whether they are christians, muslims, jews, or any other types of followers. Before you loose the plot, think of it like this: Bin Laden is as a monster first, and a religious fundamentalist second. Same goes for Hitler.
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This is quite a distortion of history. Of these historical events, only the Inquisition killed people for religion. The rest were not fought over religion, whereas the list of terrorist acts presented before were perpetrated to propagate Islam.
I might also point out that the Japanese started the war in the Pacific with Pearl Harbor and did not do so because they were Christians. We dropped the Bomb on Japan twice to end their war, killing 300,000 in those air attacks to end a war which would have killed millions if allowed to be fought to the end conventionally. Your criticism is uninformed.
Likewise, it is crazy to call the Holocaust a Christian atrocity. Hitler and the Nazis were pagans, not Christians. They wanted to create their own half-baked religion based on Nordic gods and bits of the occult. The Nazis did not put Catholic priests in positions of authority in the Nazi regime, they put them in concentration camps.
As for Vietnam, it was North Vietnam, not a Christian country, which invaded South Vietnam and sought to conquer it, not the other way around. North Vietnam is officially atheist, not Christian.
It is crazy to call Hitler a religious fundamentalist. He didn’t care about religion any more than Stalin nor Saddam. However, Osama Bin Laden is all about Islam and propagating it by violence. They are all evil, but only Bin Laden is quoting a holy book to justify his murders.
Steve
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Now it comes out that the Islamic Society in Denmark, which drummed up the hate by publicizing the cartoons in the Middle East, apparently didn’t think the cartoons were offensive enough to they conjured up three more fake ones and included them with the rest to get the hate-pot boiling.
This follows a pattern of Muslims lying about blasphemy to whip up hatred. This is similar to the phony Koran desecration incident in Gitmo, where Muslims rioted in the streets over a bogus accusation that Gitmo guards were abusing the Koran, when in fact the only abuse was done by a Muslim prisoner who tore his Koran up and tossed it down his latrine. At Gitmo, it was the Muslim who did the desecration. In this cartoon flap, it is the Muslims who produced the most abusive cartoons. In both cases, blasphemy by Muslims was attributed to Westerners, which is the other favorite Muslim pastime: Shifting blame to the Other.
All of this is part of a campaign of bullying and intimidation by radical Muslims to manipulate the opinion of the gullible Muslim masses so as to gain power over the West.
Steve
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Damn those muslims, Steve! With their muslim looks and their muslim talk! Muslims in Muslimland everywhere. With their muslim food and muslim walks, muslim cafes and muslim calendars. Muslim muslim muslims! Apparently they all look like muslims who think like muslims! No individuality, ofcourse in Muslimsville. The currency is muslim and their names all begin with Muslim and end with Muslim. They speak a muslim language and all, I repeat, all must hate anything thats not muslim.
Don’t worry about it, man. The same narrow view you have about those wacked out muslims, they think the same way about you, cowboy.
ps. I loved you in Brokeback Mountain!
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Wow! Apparently the real perpetrator here is the white man!
thanks for clarifying that, Stevo.
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I thought paganism is some form of religion…
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Steve I’m sure that you are intelligent enough to understand that it is not about Islam, it is not about religion – it never was. It is simply about politics, control, and greed. Regardless of how the fundamentalists call themselves, the ultimate thing is that they want control of a country and people.
That’s all my friend.. let’s just ban all religions. Once we do that, there is a better chance of living harmoniously!
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My office looks out on the Pentagon, where Muslim murderers crashed their suicide jet and killed 189 people. I can also see the Capitol, where Muslim murderers wanted to crash their fourth suicide jet. I walk downtown past buildings that appear in Al Qaeda surveillance videotapes of possible targets. A few miles from my house, Muslims set up “charities” to gather money for Al Qaeda. Also, only a few miles from my house, Saudi Arabia has set up what amounts to a madrassa that teaches Muslim kids to hurt and steal from non-Muslims. Some of its staff and graduates have been arrested as terrorists. I ride the Metro which Muslims want to blow up, just like they did in Madrid and London.
These are not figments of my imagination. They are incidents of Muslims doing murder in my neighborhood, planning to do further murder in my neighborhood, and teaching their children to make war on America. That inspires my rightful contempt.
If you want me to respect Muslims and Islam, stop doing murder in my neighborhood. Stop planning to do murder in my neighborhood. Stop teaching your children to do murder in my neighborhood. It’s that simple.
Steve
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While I grant you that radical Islam provides useful cover for the exercise of politics, control, and greed, it is not clear to me that it is not about Islam. There would be no world-wide jihad if there were no Islam to provide the script for religious violence. It is clear that many middle class kids from the Middle East would not be strapping on suicide belts or planting bombs if their religion did not persuade them that such violence was the way to find paradise.
Steve
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[quote]That’s all my friend.. let’s just ban all religions. Once we do that, there is a better chance of living harmoniously!
[/quote]
The Soviet Union tried that, and harmonious living was hardly the consequence.
Most wars are fought over territory.
Aliandra
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Here are some signs from the religion of peace and tolerance:
“Behead those who slander Islam!”
“Slay those who slander Islam!”
“Exterminate those who slander Islam!”
“Annihilate those who slander Islam!”
What a violent reaction from a religion that casually calls the worshippers of other religions pigs and monkeys. It looks like respect is a one way street in Islam: Muslims are free to vituperate every non-Muslim in the vilest of terms but those same non-Muslims must scrupulously respect Islam.
You know, all of the West would be supporting the Muslims in this cartoon flap were it not for the venomous hatred coming from the Muslim world. If Muslims had made themselves welcome everywhere they go instead of despised, the whole of Europe would be rising to the Muslim’s defense right now. If Muslims built schools and hospitals everywhere they went instead of terror cells and bombs, these cartoons would be considered beyond the pale by every right-thinking Westerner. If Muslims integrated into the societies where they moved and acculturated themselves rather than isolated themselves and demand their hosts change their societies to suit them, you’d have Westerners marching on the newspaper offices rather than Muslims.
Voltaire would say he disagreed with what you said, but he’d fight to the death for your right to say it. The Muslim Voltaire would say he disagreed with what you said, and he’d kill you for it. That is an essential difference in values between our cultures which is propelling this current clash of civilizations. Quite frankly, the orthodox Muslim intolerant view should lose for the sake of the world. Free speech should reign supreme, not Islam.
Steve
Re: Time to boycott France!
How typical. Other people have things like an International Day of Trees or an International Day of Music. But the Fundies have an International Day of Anger. And then they wonder why Westerners laugh at them.
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I pity you, Steve, as you are a man constantly living in fear. I know this sounds like a cliche, but unfortunately Bin Laden’s gotten the best of you because he hasn’t allowed you to live your life the way you want it through the idea that he may strike again at any second. I know your anger at him because he made Bush look like a coward on that fateful day, especially now, where your president’s approval ratings aren’t that hot. I really would hate to be you.
Re(1): Time to boycott France!
[quote]And then they wonder why Westerners laugh at them.[/quote]
And us “Westerners” wonder why the “moderate” Muslims keep allowing this shit to go on and on and on and on. Instead we are greated with the same BS lines over and over again. Islam is peacefull, this is not the real Islam yadda yadda yadda.
Even today with the tragic happenings in the Red Sea some well intentioned Muslim(s) in Egypt REFUSED an offer from Israel to aid in the rescue effort as well as turning down the US 5th Fleets offer too. Seems some would rather see people die than be helped by the JOOOOOOOOS.
If Islam is so peacfull than it shouldn’t fucking matter that Israel is helping in a time of crisis.
I do understand the US Navy is helping anyway.
Re(2): Time to boycott France!
Eurabia was just a bullshit concept by those Americans who don’t want to acknowledge that the US hascritics outside Arabia regarding its craven policies towards Israel or the double talk behind the Iraq invasion.
Re(3): Time to boycott France!
That’s a fairly incoherent comment. What does the concept of Eurabia have to do with Israel or Iraq. Why don’t you spell out that connection for us?
Steve
Re: Get A Grip
Unfortunately, Keefieboy, that is exactly the war the Islamists want, to control what people can say or do the world over.
Steve
Time to boycott France!
A leading Islamic cleric has declared today an “international day of anger” over the Danish cartoons because, after all, anger is what Islam is all about. What would radical Muslims do if they weren’t hating somebody?
I predict the Muslim thugs will kill somebody over these cartoons. Maybe today. Maybe they already have as I type these words. I predict that Muslims are building bombs as you read this to take revenge for these cartoons.
This is a test for the West, a test of whether we really believe in freedom of speech and whether we are willing to defend it against assault from violent barbarians who demand we kowtow to their backward and hateful creed.
Steve
Re(1): Time to boycott France!
I love the delicious irony.
Islam by and large portrays itself as a violent, hateful and controlling repressive religion due to the repeated calls for Jihad against unbelievers.
Mohammed is depicted as a terrorist in a couple of images.
Huge numbers of Muslims react with terror threats.
Sometimes the stereotype is scarily true.
And thank God that Europe has found something worth defending. Europe may finally wake up. Eurabia may just be not a foregone conclusion.
–Ethan
Re(2): Time to boycott France!
May I point out that when hundreds of Egyptians drowned in this tragedy, Americans did not dance in the streets nor pass out sweets to celebrate their deaths like a bunch of bloodthirsty savages. We sent ships to help.
Steve
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Spoken like a true Muslim asshole.
Steve
Re(4): Time to boycott France!
typical response from someone who’s shitting bricks! Apparently Steve’s been scared all this time and we mistook his racist views for arrogance, but apparently its just a response to cowardice.
Just an ignorant question…
about the cartoons. The 3 ones that really looked offensive to me (and which are not funny, and poorly drawn — the one with the pig snout, the dog, and that graffity-type thing) were NOT published by the Jyllandsposten. In fact, the Danish paper knows nothing about them.
Apparently they were drawn up by the Danish immams to jazz up their presentation.
Now let me see… surely those imams must be muslim, so should THEY not follow islamic law?
Is there a special excemption for imams to draw crude Prophet pictures if it serves a good purpose?
Or what?
Maybe somebody can enlighten me…
Yeah ahmed Fords and jeeps suck…better go back to using a camel.