It's an anti-dhimmi freedom of speech fiesta in Europe today. Maybe Old Europe ain't dead yet. "Muhammad cartoon row intensifies" from the BBC, with thanks to Pilgrim:
Newspapers across Europe have reprinted caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to show support for a Danish paper whose cartoons have sparked Muslim outrage.France Soir, Germany's Die Welt, La Stampa in Italy and El Periodico in Spain all carried some of the drawings.
Their publication in Denmark has led to protests in Arab nations, diplomatic sanctions and death threats.
YES!!!!
Come on US, let's publish the cartoons too!
Enjoy
http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/
About time!
What took them so long? Cowardice?
Come on UK and US papers, now is the time to strand firm with little Denmark. Publish the Mohamed cartoons like Spain, Germany, Holland, France have done.
OMG. Don't tell me the pendulum is finally swinging back on the insane rush "not to offend the..."
I think the Religious Policeman has the right take on things in his latest thread on "Condition Orange" over at muttawa.blogspot.com:
Still "Condition Orange"
Yes folks, we're still at Muslim Offense Level "Condition Orange", "Highly Offended". Nothing has really changed in the last two or three days. Our newspapers continue to churn out "news" reports, but it's the same old same old, you can read the increasing fatigue in their prose, it's the journalistic equivalent of one of those Dance Marathons.
Arab Interior Ministers Blast Danish Newspaper
The Masters of Torture take a little time out from their conference, to talk about cartoons from a country that is itself too wimpy to use torture.
Editorial: Outlaw Hatred
"Arab News" editor who has publicized the cartoons perhaps more than anybody, now with faux-innocence pretends concern for "Danish troops in Iraq at unique risk from Al-Qaeda".
Bomb threat: Danish paper evacuated
A peace-loving Muslim demonstrates why one should not offend a peaceful religion, by phoning in a bomb threat
Boycott Not by Government, Says Saud
Saudi Foreign Minister, concerned by possible EU and WTO reactions to boycott, tries to explain how simultaneous Saudi Government statements, Saudi newspaper articles, and sermons in all Saudi mosques, suddenly appearing four months after the original cartoons were published, were all spontaneous and coincidental events.
Meanwhile, reported sightings of a Danish apology remain unconfirmed. The editor of the Jyllands-Posten did issue this statement
On 30 September last year, Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten published 12 different cartoonists' idea of what the Prophet Mohammed might have looked like. The initiative was taken as part of an ongoing public debate on freedom of expression, a freedom much cherished in Denmark.
In our opinion, the 12 drawings were sober. They were not intended to be offensive, nor were they at variance with Danish law, but they have indisputably offended many Muslims for which we apologize.
However, this simply won't do for our government and its yes-men, for the following reasons:
It is insufficiently grovelling
It mentions the concept "freedom of expression", which is alien
It invokes Danish Law, which is of course subordinate to Shariah Law as outlined in the Quran
It denies any intention to offend. It merely apologizes because offense was taken. Like apologizing to a guest who spills food all over themselves (Meaning "I am sorry that you have brought misfortune on yourself"), it merely apologizes because many Muslims are so thin-skinned.
So it simply won't do. As our "Arab News" Editor points out
Juste makes it clear he thinks there was nothing intrinsically wrong with the cartoons; he is apologizing purely because Muslims took offense. “That’s what we’re apologizing for.’’ A very backhanded apology.
We don't like backhanded apologies. They must be full-frontal, in-our-face apologies. And until we get one, we're staying at "Condition Orange".
Let the Freedom ring from Italy to Spain to the British Isle, all the way to the American shores.
just what I like to see, Islamofeces on the run!!!
The truth about Islam is going forward and there is nothing the jihadist nor the Islamofeces can do about it.
IN YOUR FACE ISLAM!!! IN YOUR FACE!!!!
YOU GO, OLD GIRL!
This is awsome. I'm calling up my local newspaper and requesting that they publish these. The only problem is, Christian fanatics in this country are gaging the media
Protestant Fundies get show about gays and straights living together pulled:
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/1/31/142956/491
Catholic Fundie Org Opus Dei calls for Da Vinci code to get an adult rating:
http://www.christianaggression.org/item_display.php?type=NEWS&id=1138636555
I somehow doubt that otherwise our Dhimmi watch infidels would have known about these shananigans.
This is awesome. I'm calling up my local newspaper and requesting that they publish these. The only problem is, Christian fanatics in this country are gaging the media
Protestant Fundies get show about gays and straights living together pulled:
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/1/31/142956/491
Catholic Fundie Org Opus Dei calls for Da Vinci code to get an adult rating:
http://www.christianaggression.org/item_display.php?type=NEWS&id=1138636555
I somehow doubt that otherwise our Dhimmi watch infidels would have known about these shananigans.
This is a dangerous trend; if it continues, Muslims could start leaving Europe!
Even the pessimists among us (myself included) have to be feeling pretty damn good about this.
Let's see if boycott all of Europe. They will not have anything to eat, they can eat their sand and flush down with camel urine!!
Bohemond posted : This is a dangerous trend; if it continues, Muslims could start leaving Europe!
Now that would be something.
Sadly I dont see them leaving of their volition. Somalia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran or Saudi Arabia, and the rest of the islamic paradise are not something they look forward to going back to.
I'm not aware that any Australian newspapers plan to publish the toons, it's not such a 'red-hot'issue here, but I hope so
Were not quite as dhimmified as say, Norway or the UK, but we do have our share of creepy Islamic lobby groups and their deceitful leaders, with their flickering forked tongues. They don't want the truth to be out there either, so the cartoons should be published.
We only make a stand on these issues of Islamofascism when the Muslims start harassing and degrading woman on our beaches, as happened a while back. THEN WE RIOT!!
Unfortunately the BBC story has evolved since it was first posted, and now includes later news:
"The owner of one of the papers to reprint - France Soir - has now sacked its managing editor over the matter."
-- Pilgrim
There are several positive consequences of the publication of the pictures throughout Europe (one of these days you will probably read them in North and South American publications also).
The first positive aspect has to do with a willingness to fight for freedom of expression. Is there any surprise why France was amongst the first to reprint the cartoons? The French are deeply proud of the historic role their country had in the establishment of the freedom of the press. It is therefore only natural that a French paper decided to be part of the "Danish" battle. I wouldn't be surprised if many French were intimately somewhat offended for France not having been the first to stand up for secularism and freedom of expression.
The second positive aspect, is the image we are giving of ourselves and of our society. We are willing to defend ourselves, and our freedom is not for sale. Bush already said that he will fund research in alternative energy sources. Schwarzenegger started doing the same thing in California over one year ago. What will the Arabs do when they find out that their boycotts are worthless, and that their priceless oil is unnecessary? They might as well go back to raising cammels, because that is what most of them will be able to afford.
The third thing, is that this issue is waking many to the threat Islam represents. In their inner self, most Europeans know that Islam is backward, intolerant and foreign - even if their elected politicians like to pretend that Islam is like Christianity with an exotic eastern spin. How can a democratic leader like Bill Clinton be against freedom of the press to criticize or make fun of a religion? Apparently, Bush - despite his obvious lack of eloquence - does not have the monopoly of embarassing himself over what he says. Truth be said, this administration - unlike previous administrations - has actually been tackling the Islamic beast. Even if it isn't time yet to ridiculously discriminate a "radical Islam" from a "peaceful Islam", deep down Bush knows that "there can be only one".
The fourth positive aspect, is that this whole episode shows that something stinks, but the stench doesn't come form the kingdom of Denmark, it comes from the Muslim world. Take a good look at the site of the Palestinian Media Watch organization.
http://www.pmw.org.il/
Take a good look at their cartoon section.
http://www.pmw.org.il/cartoon_De-humanization.html
How can they be offended about the Danish publication, when what they routinely publish is ten times worse? What Jyllands Posten should be reprinting were these anti-semitic and anti-American cartoons that are viewed by millions on a daily basis.
We haven't won the war, but today the field was ours.
errata
"Even if it isn't time yet to ridiculously discriminate a "radical Islam" from a "peaceful Islam", deep down Bush knows that "there can be only one"."
should be
even if he still has to discriminate (...)