Gonz said:That's true but 9/11 has specific meaning. I doubt Ali Limbali would say 11/9 on his European talk show.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/02/04/do0402.xml
It's some time since I visited Palestine, so I may be out of date, but I don't remember seeing many Danish flags on sale there. Not much demand, I suppose. I raise the question because, as soon as the row about the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in Jyllands-Posten broke, angry Muslims popped up in Gaza City, and many other places, well supplied with Danish flags ready to burn. (In doing so, by the way, they offered a mortal insult to the most sacred symbol of my own religion, Christianity, since the Danish flag has a cross on it, but let that pass.)
Why were those Danish flags to hand? Who built up the stockpile so that they could be quickly dragged out right across the Muslim world and burnt where television cameras would come and look? The more you study this story of "spontaneous" Muslim rage, the odder it seems.
The complained-of cartoons first appeared in October; they have provoked such fury only now. As reported in this newspaper yesterday, it turns out that a group of Danish imams circulated the images to brethren in Muslim countries. When they did so, they included in their package three other, much more offensive cartoons which had not appeared in Jyllands-Posten but were lumped together so that many thought they had.
There is no reason to doubt that Muslims worry very much about depictions of Mohammed. Like many, chiefly Protestant, Christians, they fear idolatry. But, as I write, I have beside me a learned book about Islamic art and architecture which shows numerous Muslim paintings from Turkey, Persia, Arabia and so on. These depict the Prophet preaching, having visions, being fed by his wet nurse, going on his Night-Journey to heaven, etc. The truth is that in Islam, as in Christianity, not everyone agrees about what is permissible.
The Other One said:
http://www.debka.com/
Six killed as second week begins of worldwide Muslim protests over press cartoons satirizing Muhammed
February 2, 2006, 9:32 AM (GMT+02:00)
UK police are under pressure to take action against increasingly unruly rallies after 100 complaints were filed against enraged Muslims bearing aloft banners that read: Massacre the blasphemers; Behead those who insult Islam; Europe, take lessons from 9/11; You’ll come crawling when the mujahedeen fight. Some youths masked their faces with Arab head-cloths and one dressed as a suicide bomber "to make a point." No British paper reprinted the Danish caricatures which sparked the world Muslim demonstrations.
Palestinian rioters hurled stones at European offices in Gaza City for second attack in a week and pulled down the EU flag. In Tel Aviv, scores of Israel Muslims demonstrated outside the Danish embassy chanting “With blood we will redeem our Prophet.”
Sun Tzu said:If your opponent is tempermental, seek to irritate him.
France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain all carried some of the drawings
Iran's most popular daily newspaper, Hamshahri, is set to initiate a Holocaust cartoon contest in what it says is a response to cartoons disparaging Islam's prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper.
"This will be an international cartoon competition on the topic of the Holocaust," said Farid Mortazawi, the paper's graphic editor.
The Other One said:
Well, I haven't seen any mention yet of anyone getting killed. Remember they're in Europe so they are gonna have to step things up a bit if they don't want to be outdone by the soccer riots.Altron said:America isn't perfect, far from it, but we're a damn sight closer than people who feel justified in beheading others for making fucking cartoons...
flavio said:Well, I haven't seen any mention yet of anyone getting killed. Remember they're in Europe so they are gonna have to step things up a bit if they don't want to be outdone by the soccer riots.
My favorites: the Bob Ross one, the Andy Warhol one and mohammed+hp.The Other One said: