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Posted: 1/27/2006 3:51:12 AM EDT
Good old Saudia Arabia... (in)tolerant as ever.
Saudis recall envoy in Danish row The cartoons prompted protests in Copenhagen Saudi Arabia has recalled its ambassador to Denmark in a row about cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published by a best-selling newspaper. A Saudi government spokesman said the ambassador had been recalled for talks following Denmark's failure to deal with the insults to the Prophet. Some of the cartoons in Jyllands-Posten last September depicted him as a stereotype of an Islamic terrorist. The paper said it was testing the boundaries of expression about Islam. It said at the time that both the paper and the cartoonist had received threats. Ambassadors from several Muslim countries complained to Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who had earlier said he could not tell papers what to print, or not to. Islam bans any depiction of Muhammad or Allah. Boycott On Thursday, the Saudi government said it had recalled its ambassador "for consultations in light of the Danish government's lack of attention to insulting the Prophet Muhammad by its newspapers". Danish food producers Arla Foods said the anger sparked by the cartoons had prompted a boycott of its dairy products in Saudi Arabia. Arla director Finn Hansen said there had been calls for boycotting Danish products in Friday prayers and on Saudi television and in newspapers. "We are certainly afraid this will spread across Saudi Arabia and affect our business," he told Reuters news agency. There were street protests both in Denmark and in Muslim countries following the publication of the cartoons http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4651714.stm The 'Offending' Cartoon.... http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/images/muhammedwesterga_1.jpg |
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One of my favorite things about the Brits is their use of the word "row".
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Yeah - this story has been going on for a while now in Denmark (a few months, I believe). The newspaper has received numerous death threats against their employees, lots of muslim countries have complained to the Danish government - and don't seem to comprehend the concept of "freedom of the press", despite repeated attempts by the Danish prime minister to explain it to them The whole concept of holding the Danish government accountable for the actions of a newspaper is completely retarded. Generally, the Danes don't give a shit if someone is "offended" by something as trivial as cartoons in a privately owned newspaper - but there is concern on the side of the government that Saudi Arabia and other arab countries are starting to boycott Danish goods, which could really hurt the economy (thank god those idiots don't eat pork, because we export a lot of that ). |
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Truth hurts...Fook the Saudi's |
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It's not like someone wiped their butt with Muhammad's towel or something.
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Not going to happen any time soon. |
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I guess we could just bomb them then. |
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Only blow jobs on TV before midnight I hear, after that anything goes... Also, considering Denmark has more Pigs than people, how do so many of the RoP® bring themselves to live in such a 'defiled' country? ANdy |
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Good Fuckin' Riddance.
How can we get them to recall their envoy to the US? |
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'Light fuze, retire immidiately to a safe distance, always wear eye protection' |
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It's the secret ingredient in Halal Meat. |
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The story includes Norway and Sweden as well. The Norwegian christian weekly newspaper Magazinet published the images a while ago, and for some reason Sweden is also a part of the RoP hate list although the über-PC Swedes have done nothing to insult the RoPers. |
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tag - hoping that someone will post all of the images in question.
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It's funny...
These useless fucktards have no problems committing the most heinous acts of atrocity on each other and the rest of mankind but yet when someone does something that offends them, they get all kinds of spittie-lipped and pissed off... |
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The huge irony and hipocracy is that while the Danish newspaper perhaps exercised slightly poor judgment in publishing the pictures - the offense they caused was largely unintentional. It was an unintentional insult to SOME muslims (not all muslims are fanatical about the whole issue about depicticions of the prophet). Plus, the newspaper has apologized several times.
In contrast, muslims all over the world are burning Danish flags. Unlike many other flags, the danish flag is very simple - in design and in meaning (in addition to being the oldest national flag in the world). It is a CHRISTIAN CROSS on a plain red field. After all, Denmark is a christian country, with a state church, headed by the monarch. So while the newspaper might accidentally have offended some muslims by violating a rule that many Christians are not even aware of, these muslims are defacing and burning the most obvious and explicit symbol of Christianity. Nice going, idiots. ETA: And the response of Christian Bishops in Denmark to muslims burning and defacing the most holy of all Christian images? Tolerance and acceptance - not death threats, violence, and demands for government action against individual freedom of expression. |
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I used to live next to, and sometimes attend, Den Danske Sømandskirk when I was in the Navy, and based in London. ANdy |
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I WISH there was one closer to me than freakin' New York !! (or D.C.) |
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I wish I could get some of that Danish pork. |
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It says "لا اله الا الله و محمد الرسول الله" "There is no god but God and mohomad is his messenger." The basic saying of their religion. |
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Yup, although I perfer the "There is no god but Allah and Mohammad is his prophet." for a better understanding of the religion. |
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Sure does! |
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Looks like a few Euro's might be growing a small semblance of some testicles...
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4670370.stm
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Having spent some time in the Middle East, I feel that I am perfectly justified in saying FUCK the "prophet" Mo- Hammy, or whatever his fuckin' name is, fuck all his AK-47 totin', suicide bombin' followers, wherever they may be. I'm so fuckin' sick of pandering to these murderers disguised as special interest groups.
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I learned everything I needed to "understand" about ISLAM on 9-11-2001 personally... Nuke them from orbit |
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When the muslims defecated on the altar of a Christian church in the West Bank (2003 - Church of the Holy Sepulcure), how did the world's Christian leadership react?
Nod... No wonder Westerners are such wimps in their eyes! |
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Danish paper receives bomb threat www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=14642 ISN SECURITY WATCH (Wednesday, 1 February: 20.40 CET) – Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten has received a bomb threat a day after issuing an apology for publishing a series of derogatory cartoons depicting the Muslim Prophet Muhammed that have led to protests and a boycott of Danish products in a dozen countries. Danish police told reporters that no bomb was found at the newspaper’s offices in Copenhagen and Arhus, after both were evacuated for a search. The Danish daily has faced harsh criticism over the September publication of a 12 satirical cartoons considered by Muslims as blasphemous. One of the cartoons portrayed the Prophet Muhammed wearing a turban in the shape of a bomb. Several Arab countries either have recalled their ambassadors and closed down their Danish embassies or announced plans to do so. Saudi Arabia recalled its ambassador last week, while Libya closed down its embassy in Denmark earlier this week. Denmark has warned its citizens against traveling to Saudi Arabia under the circumstances. The Danish government has repeatedly defended the right to free speech. On Monday, the editors of the Danish daily issued a statement, also published in Arabic, saying the cartoons 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”. Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh welcomed the apology, and news agencies reported that Muslim groups in Denmark said they were satisfied with the apology. But outside of Denmark, the apology has not been accepted, with the Arab world continuing to boycott Danish goods, forcing Europe’s largest dairy company, Danish Arla Foods, to shut down its plant Saudi Arabia on Monday. In the meantime, religious leaders are using the internet and other media outlets to continue to campaign for the boycott. On Wednesday, France joined in the controversy when French newspaper France-Soir republished all 12 of the Danish cartoons, saying it had the “right to make fun of God”, United Press International reported. The French newspaper denounced what it called “religious intolerance that refuses to support any mockery, any satire, any gibes”. |
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All of the cartoons in question can now be viewed here: www.humaneventsonline.com/sarticle.php?id=12146
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Fucking ignorant savages. |
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Or a photoshop thread.... Taffy |
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Jordanian tabloid invites fire-bombing or worse....
www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1889584,00.html Jordan makes the leap Meanwhile, a Jordanian gossip tabloid on defiantly published three of the cartoons that have triggered outrage in the Arab and Muslim world. "Muslims of the world, be reasonable," said the editor-in-chief of the weekly independent newspaper Al-Shihan in an editorial alongside the cartoons, including the one showing the Muslim religion's founder wearing a bomb-shaped turban. "What brings more prejudice against Islam, these caricatures or pictures of a hostage-taker slashing the throat of his victim in front of the cameras or a suicide bomber who blows himself up during a wedding ceremony in Amman?" wrote Jihad Momani. He told the AFP news service he decided to publish the offending cartoons "so people know what they are protesting about... People are attacking drawings that they have not even seen." |
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Technically, the name of the country is DANMARK - but which for some reason has turned into Denmark in english. "mark" means field in Danish, and old danish mythology (at least as explained by the historian Saxo Grammaticus in his 1186 book) holds that two brothers, Dan and Angel, were the original people there. Dan decided to stay, and his brother Angel travelled west, to settle in what is England today. Thus Danmark is "the field of Dan" |
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leave it to the French to wuss out on this issue
capitulating to these Islamists pisses me off HOT NEWS 02.02.2006 Thursday - ISTANBUL 21:36 France Soir Fires Editor over Insulting Cartoons By Cihan News Agency (aa), Paris Published: Thursday, February 02, 2006 zaman.com The French newspaper France Soir, which lent the front page of its Wednesday edition to insulting cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, has since fired its editor. The owners of the paper removed Editor Jacques Lefranc from office less than 24 hours after the cartoons publication. Besides the French daily, German Die Welt, Italian Della Serra and La Stampa, and Spanish Catalan El Periodico had published the same cartoons in support of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, from which the “cartoon crisis” emerged when they published 12 drawings featuring Prophet Mohammed in early January. The owner of France Soir Raymond Lakah told AFP that firing the editor should be read as “a strong sign of our respect of beliefs”. “Because of these publications, we apologize to Muslims and all who were hurt,” Lakas said. |
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Considering that France Soir is owned by EGYPTIANS, I don't think it is particularly surprising. |
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Not to worry - On pastry purchases alone, we could keep your nation's economy in the black... |
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Oh man! |
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A Phrench national newspaper owned by the RoP®.... ... explains a lot about Phrench attitudes. ANdy |
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DK-Prof: I support Denmark 100%! What sort of products does Denmark export to the US? I'll make an extra effort to buy those products! |
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Well, they can sell some of it here..........
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