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Muhammad Caricature Watch: Egypt and the Muhammad Caricatures
Michelle Malkin: EGYPT AND THE CARTOONS
Freedom for Egyptians notes that the Forbidden Cartoons were published in Al Fagr, an Egyptian newspaper last October. Cairo-based blog, Rantings of an Egyptian Sandmonkey, has scans of the paper with the cartoons and asks:
“Guess we will have to Boycott Egypt now as well, huh?”
Good question and why with an Iranian nuclear crisis and Syrian trouble-making in Palestine do we suddenly have violent riots on “OLD NEWS?”
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is onto something……
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Muhammad Caricature Watch: Condoleezza Rice – Iran and Syria Stoking Anger – The Response
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Condoleezza Rice – Iran and Syria Stoking AngerCox & Forkum: Western Dhimmitude
Muhammad Caricature Watch: French Weekly Charlie Hebdo Reprints Muhammad Caricatures
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Demonstrators Attack Norwegian Embassy in Tehran, IranMuhammad Caricature Watch: 4 Killed In Afghanistan in Caricature Bloodshed
Muhammad Caricature Watch: A Right to Blasphemy
Muhammad Caricature Watch: New Protests Erupt Around the World
Muhammad Caricature Watch: The False Cartoons and Danish Imams
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Angry Demonstrators Set Danish Consulate in Beirut AblazeMuhammad Caricature Watch: Syrian Protesters Set Danish Embassy Ablaze Over Cartoon
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Protests Over Muhammad Drawings IntensifyMuhammad Caricature Watch: Anger Over Cartoons of Muhammad Escalates
Day by Day by Chris Muir on CNN
Day by Day by Chris Muir on Muhammad Caricatures
Cox & Forkum: Publication of Caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad by a Danish Newspaper
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Muhammad Caricature Watch: Condoleezza Rice – Iran and Syria Stoking Anger – The Response
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (R) shakes hands with Israel Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni after their meeting at the State Department in Washington, February 8, 2006.
Previously on Flap: Muhammad Caricature Watch: Condoleezza Rice – Iran and Syria Stoking Anger
ASSociated Press: Rice Accuses Iran, Syria in Muslim Violence
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Iran and Syria on Wednesday of instigating Muslim protests triggered by drawings of the Prophet Muhammad, and President Bush pleaded for an end to violence.
“I have no doubt that Iran and Syria have gone out of their way to inflame sentiments and have used this for their own purposes,” Rice said. “The world ought to call them on it.”
She did not offer specifics during a brief State Department news conference with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. The United States accuses Iran and Syria of funding terrorism and has tried to unite world opinion against both Middle Eastern nations.
The Iranian Response:
ASSociated Press: Cartoon Protesters Direct Anger at U.S.
In Washington, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Iran and Syria of instigating protests in their countries, and
President Bush called upon governments to stop the violence and protect the lives of diplomats overseas.The United States and other countries were looking into whether extremist groups may be inciting protesters to riot, said Yonts, the U.S. spokesman in Afghanistan.
Iranian vice president Isfandiar Rahim Mashaee rejected Rice’s assertion that Iran was inflaming Muslim anger over the cartoons. “That is 100 percent a lie,” Mashaee said in Jakarta, Indonesia. “It is without attribution.”
A developing story……
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Muhammad Caricature Watch: Condoleezza Rice – Iran and Syria Stoking AngerCox & Forkum: Western Dhimmitude
Muhammad Caricature Watch: French Weekly Charlie Hebdo Reprints Muhammad Caricatures
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Demonstrators Attack Norwegian Embassy in Tehran, IranMuhammad Caricature Watch: 4 Killed In Afghanistan in Caricature Bloodshed
Muhammad Caricature Watch: A Right to Blasphemy
Muhammad Caricature Watch: New Protests Erupt Around the World
Muhammad Caricature Watch: The False Cartoons and Danish Imams
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Angry Demonstrators Set Danish Consulate in Beirut AblazeMuhammad Caricature Watch: Syrian Protesters Set Danish Embassy Ablaze Over Cartoon
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Protests Over Muhammad Drawings IntensifyMuhammad Caricature Watch: Anger Over Cartoons of Muhammad Escalates
Day by Day by Chris Muir on CNN
Day by Day by Chris Muir on Muhammad Caricatures
Cox & Forkum: Publication of Caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad by a Danish Newspaper
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Hillary Clinton Watch: Republicans ‘Playing the Fear Card”
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., tells the audience to think smart as she delivers the closing address to a convention of United Auto Workers, telling them the Bush administration is allowing U.S. manufacturing to wither away, and warning workers the way to protect their jobs is to elect more Democrats, at the Marriott Wardman Park Marriott Hotel in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2006.
ASSociated Press: Sen. Clinton Urges Democrats to Speak Up
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday accused Republicans of “playing the fear card” of terrorism to win elections and said Democrats cannot keep quiet if they want to win in November.
The New York Democrat, facing re-election this year and considered a potential White House candidate in 2008, said Republicans won the past two elections on the issue of national security and “they’re doing it to us again.”
She said a speech by presidential adviser Karl Rove two weeks ago showed the GOP election message is: “All we’ve got is fear and we’re going to keep playing the fear card.”
In that speech, Rove suggested Republicans can prevail in 2006 by showing Democrats had undermined terrorism-fighting efforts by questioning Bush’s authority to allow wiretapping without getting court approval first.
Clinton said a convention of United Auto Workers that Democrats should not be afraid to question Bush’s handling of the war.
“I take a back seat to nobody when it comes to fighting terrorism and standing up for national homeland security,” she said.
Referring to fugitive al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, Clinton said, “You cannot explain to me why we have not captured or killed the tallest man in Afghanistan.”
She added, “Since when has it been part of American patriotism to keep our mouths shut?”
The ONLY fear Flap would have would be the election of Hillary to the Presidency in 2008.
And Hillary…..it is NOT opening your mouth to BITCH but having constructive policies to protect America from terrorism – which you, your husband Bill and the Democrat Party do NOT have.
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Michael Ramirez on Hillary Clinton’s Plantation
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Muhammad Caricature Watch: Condoleezza Rice – Iran and Syria Stoking Anger
Some 500 ultranationalist Turks, two of them carrying a black wreath, shout anti-European slogans as they march to the Danish Embassy to denounce the publication of caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad in European newspapers, in Ankara, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2006. Banners read: ‘Hands that reach the Prophet must be broken’, ‘ Jesus Christ will not forgive you’, ‘Down with Denmark’.
Reuters: Rice: Iran, Syria stoking anger
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Iran and Syria on Wednesday of deliberately stoking Muslim anger in a dispute over cartoons satirizing the Prophet Mohammad that has sparked deadly protests.
“Iran and Syria have gone out of their way to inflame sentiments and to use this to their own purposes and the world ought to call them on it,” Rice said at a joint news conference with Israel’s foreign minister.
Developing…….
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Cox & Forkum: Western Dhimmitude
Muhammad Caricature Watch: French Weekly Charlie Hebdo Reprints Muhammad Caricatures
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Demonstrators Attack Norwegian Embassy in Tehran, IranMuhammad Caricature Watch: 4 Killed In Afghanistan in Caricature Bloodshed
Muhammad Caricature Watch: A Right to Blasphemy
Muhammad Caricature Watch: New Protests Erupt Around the World
Muhammad Caricature Watch: The False Cartoons and Danish Imams
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Angry Demonstrators Set Danish Consulate in Beirut AblazeMuhammad Caricature Watch: Syrian Protesters Set Danish Embassy Ablaze Over Cartoon
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Protests Over Muhammad Drawings IntensifyMuhammad Caricature Watch: Anger Over Cartoons of Muhammad Escalates
Day by Day by Chris Muir on CNN
Day by Day by Chris Muir on Muhammad Caricatures
Cox & Forkum: Publication of Caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad by a Danish Newspaper
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Cindy Sheehan Watch: California Senator Boxer Urges Sheehan NOT to Challenge Senator Dianne Feinstein
Cindy Sheehan says taking on Sen. Dianne Feinstein would energize anti-war candidates.
San Francisco Chronicle: Boxer doesn’t like the idea of Sheehan challenging Feinstein
California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer on Tuesday urged anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan not to challenge the state’s senior senator, Dianne Feinstein, in the June Democratic primary.
Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, has been actively considering a campaign after criticizing Feinstein for refusing to call for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
But Boxer, a liberal former Marin County supervisor who strongly opposed the war in Iraq, said Sheehan might actually hurt her anti-war cause by jumping into the race against Feinstein, who is entering her 14th year in the Senate.
“I don’t think having (Sheehan) in the Senate election helps her at all,” Boxer told a roundtable of California reporters on Tuesday. “I think it might have the opposite effect.”
Flap thinks Cindy should run. The issues espoused by the radical left of the California Democrat Party have been given patronizing treatment by both California Senators.
Where does the California Senator, Dianne Feinstein stand on the Iraq War?
Feinstein voted for the 2002 resolution authorizing the use of force in Iraq if the country refused to comply with United Nations’ weapons inspectors, while Boxer was one of 23 senators who voted against it.
But Boxer defended her Senate colleague on Tuesday, saying Feinstein has been a critic of the administration’s war policies and favors withdrawing troops as soon as possible.
“Sen. Feinstein and I are very involved in trying to figure out a way to get the troops back,” she said.
More Boxer BS.
Senator, when you find out how to bring the troops home with a peaceful, democratic Iraq would you let your constituents in California know.
Ridiculous……..
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Cindy Sheehan Watch: Flap Wants Cindy to Run
Cindy Sheehan Watch: New Protest in CrawfordCindy Sheehan Watch: Considering a Challenge to California Senator Feinstein
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Muhammad Caricature Watch: President Bush and King Abdullah of Jordan Urge an End to Violence over Muhammad Caricatures
President George W. Bush listens as King Abdullah of Jordan makes remarks Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2006, during a photo opportunity in the Oval Office. The two leaders took the opportunity to urge an end to recent violence over caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.
ASSociated Press: U.N., E.U., Bush Call for End to Riots
President Bush called upon governments Wednesday to stop the violence and protect the lives of diplomats overseas.
“We reject violence as a way to express discontent with what may be printed in a free press,” Bush said after meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan, who asked demonstrators to “express their views peacefully.”
Outside of the United States more pleas for the end of violence:
“Islam says it’s all right to demonstrate but not to resort to violence. This must stop,” said senior cleric Mohammed Usman, a member of the Ulama Council — Afghanistan’s top Islamic organization. “We condemn the cartoons but this does not justify violence. These rioters are defaming the name of Islam.”
Other members of the council went on radio and television Wednesday to appeal for calm. It followed a statement released Tuesday by the United Nations, European Union and the world’s largest Islamic group urging an end to violence.
“Aggression against life and property can only damage the image of a peaceful Islam,” said the statement released by Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the EU chief Javier Solana.
In the meantime:
A Palestinian militant sets on fire a US flag during a demonstrations against the publication in various European newspapers of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. US President George W. Bush condemned the violent response to newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, but warned that the media have “the responsibility to be thoughtful”
Meanwhile, a U.S. military spokesman said the United States and other countries were examining whether extremist groups may be inciting protesters to riot around the world over the cartoons that have been printed in numerous European papers.
“The United States and other countries are providing assistance in any manner that they can … to see if this is something larger than just a small demonstration,” Col. James Yonts told reporters when asked whether al-Qaida and the Taliban may have been involved in the violent Afghan demonstrations.
The Afghan protests have involved armed men and have been directed at foreign and Afghan government targets — fueling suspicions there is more behind the unrest than religious sensitivities. But Yonts stressed they had no evidence to support suggestions of al-Qaida or Taliban links.
Instapundit has a post of links that explores this thesis of “more behind the scenes:”
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (free link) reports on How Muslim Clerics Stirred the Arab World Against Denmark. Excerpt:
Keen to “globalize” the crisis to pressure the Danish government, Mr. Abu-Laban and his colleagues decided to send delegations to the Middle East. They prepared a dossier to distribute during the travels. The document, which exceeded 30 pages, featured copies of the published cartoons and Arabic media reports about the controversy. It also contained a group of highly offensive pictures that had never been published by the newspaper, including a photograph of a man dressed as a pig, with the caption: “this is the real picture of Muhammad.”
Read the whole thing. Also, Hugh Hewitt had Michael Medved, Dennis Prager, and Joe Carter on his show last night, talking about the Cartoon Wars. Transcript and audio are here.
UPDATE: Austin Bay’s latest column is on the Cartoon Wars. And on his blog he observes: “The Danish ‘Cartoon War’ is an information warfare operation conducted by Islamist terror groups and at least two Middle Eastern dictatorships (Syria and Iran).”
ANOTHER UPDATE: Power Line has much more on this rather contrived affair. And Harry Shearer wants to know why most American media are too chicken to run the cartoons.
MORE: Meryl Yourish notes a disturbing lack of context in media reports on the issue.
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Cox & Forkum: Western Dhimmitude
Muhammad Caricature Watch: French Weekly Charlie Hebdo Reprints Muhammad Caricatures
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Demonstrators Attack Norwegian Embassy in Tehran, IranMuhammad Caricature Watch: 4 Killed In Afghanistan in Caricature Bloodshed
Muhammad Caricature Watch: A Right to Blasphemy
Muhammad Caricature Watch: New Protests Erupt Around the World
Muhammad Caricature Watch: The False Cartoons and Danish Imams
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Angry Demonstrators Set Danish Consulate in Beirut AblazeMuhammad Caricature Watch: Syrian Protesters Set Danish Embassy Ablaze Over Cartoon
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Protests Over Muhammad Drawings IntensifyMuhammad Caricature Watch: Anger Over Cartoons of Muhammad Escalates
Day by Day by Chris Muir on CNN
Day by Day by Chris Muir on Muhammad Caricatures
Cox & Forkum: Publication of Caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad by a Danish Newspaper
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Cox & Forkum: Western Dhimmitude
Cox & Forkum: Western Dhimmitude
With a great set of links on the Dhimmitude of the Western press:
The Danish cartoons and caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed can be seen at MohammedCartoons.com. Our other related cartoon are: Image Problem and A Right to Blasphemy.
Some on the left appear to be taking a “blame the victims” approach best exemplified by Antonia Zerbisias in Hate behind right-wing blogburst.
As Glenn Reynolds noted: “You’d expect lefties like Zerbisias to side with people like [Instapundit commenter] McDowell, and [Iraqi Muslim blogger] Zeyad, over a bunch of sexist, homophobic theocrats — but that would require that they side with America, too. Which is right out.” (Michelle Malkin also responded.)
Daniel Pipes has a must-read editorial on the subject: Cartoons and Islamic Imperialism.
Meanwhile, AP reported yesterday that Danish Companies Hurt by Muslim Boycott.
You can still help to counter the boycott by buying Danish products. A list of products and information available at the Buy Danish Web site.
Also yesterday, Jeff Jacoby noted that We are all Danes now.
Malkin notes that a couple of additional U.S. newspapers have since reprinted some of the cartoons.
We added this to an update yesterday, but it deservse reposting. From Speigel magazine: ‘Everyone Is Afraid to Criticize Islam’, an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Dutch politician forced to go into hiding after the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh. (via Free Thoughts)
Some anti-dhimmitude in NYC: NY Press Kills Cartoons; Staff Walks Out. (via InstaPundit and Tom Pechinski) New York Press Editor-in-Chief Harry Siegel emails, on behalf of the editorial staff:
New York Press, like so many other publications, has suborned its own professed principles. For all the talk of freedom of speech, only the New York Sun locally and two other papers nationally have mustered the minimal courage needed to print simple and not especially offensive editorial cartoons that have been used as a pretext for great and greatly menacing violence directed against journalists, cartoonists, humanitarian aid workers, diplomats and others who represent the basic values and obligations of Western civilization. Having been ordered at the 11th hour to pull the now-infamous Danish cartoons from an issue dedicated to them, the editorial group—consisting of myself, managing editor Tim Marchman, arts editorJonathan Leaf and one-man city hall bureau Azi Paybarah, chose instead to resign our positions.
We have no desire to be free speech martyrs, but it would have been nakedly hypocritical to avoid the same cartoons we’d criticized others for not running, cartoons that however absurdly have inspired arson, kidnapping and murder and forced cartoonists in at least two continents to go into hiding.
Why is it important to publish the Danish cartoons? Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, a bureau chief of the German newsweekly Die Zeit, explains why in The Washington Post: Tolerance Toward Intolerance. (via TIA Daily)
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Muhammad Caricature Watch: French Weekly Charlie Hebdo Reprints Muhammad Caricatures
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Demonstrators Attack Norwegian Embassy in Tehran, IranMuhammad Caricature Watch: 4 Killed In Afghanistan in Caricature Bloodshed
Muhammad Caricature Watch: A Right to Blasphemy
Muhammad Caricature Watch: New Protests Erupt Around the World
Muhammad Caricature Watch: The False Cartoons and Danish Imams
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Angry Demonstrators Set Danish Consulate in Beirut AblazeMuhammad Caricature Watch: Syrian Protesters Set Danish Embassy Ablaze Over Cartoon
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Protests Over Muhammad Drawings IntensifyMuhammad Caricature Watch: Anger Over Cartoons of Muhammad Escalates
Day by Day by Chris Muir on CNN
Day by Day by Chris Muir on Muhammad Caricatures
Cox & Forkum: Publication of Caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad by a Danish Newspaper
Technorati Tags: Jyllands-Posten, ProphetMuhammad, Islam, Muhammadcaricatures
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Muhammad Caricature Watch: French Weekly Charlie Hebdo Reprints Muhammad Caricatures
Afghan protesters burn a Danish flag in Kabul, February 8, 2006.
Reuters: French weekly reprints cartoons
A French satirical weekly reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad on Wednesday and published one of its own on its front page, further angering Muslim groups which say the caricatures are blasphemous.
French Muslim organizations tried to prevent Charlie Hebdo reprinting the 12 cartoons, which were first published by the Danish paper Jyllands-Posten, but a court rejected their suit on Tuesday on a technicality.
Philippe Val, Executive Director of satirical French weekly ‘Charlie Hebdo’, gestures during an interview with The Associated Press Television News, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2006 at his office in Paris. The weekly reprinted Wednesday caricatures of the prophet Muhammad that have sparked violent protests worldwide, a day after a court ruling cleared the way for their publication. Charlie-Hebdo ran the drawings originally published by a Danish newspaper, as well as a new caricature of its own that took up its entire front page.
Charlie-Hebdo ran the drawings originally published by a Danish newspaper, as well as a new caricature of its own that took up its entire front page.Under the headline “Muhammad overwhelmed by the fundamentalists,” the cover depicted the prophet with his head in his hands, remarking, “It’s hard to be loved by idiots.”
Sales of the weekly were brisk in Paris. Inside pages showed the 12 cartoons that were first printed in Denmark and included an editorial explaining the decision to reprint them.
“When extremists extract concessions from democracies on points of principle, either by blackmail or terror, democracies do not have long left,” Charlie Hebdo editor Philippe Val wrote.
As well as publishing the Danish cartoons, Charlie Hebdo published other cartoons on its back page which caricatured other religions including Christianity and Judaism.
Sources at Charlie Hebdo said some staff had been placed under police protection. Two police officers guarded the weekly’s offices in the center of Paris on Wednesday morning.
The parking space in front of the offices was cordoned off and police checked people entering the building, where a sign said no more copies of the weekly were left for sale.
Watch out for more French riots tonight…….
Stay tuned……
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Muhammad Caricature Watch: New Protests Erupt Around the World
Muhammad Caricature Watch: The False Cartoons and Danish Imams
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Angry Demonstrators Set Danish Consulate in Beirut AblazeMuhammad Caricature Watch: Syrian Protesters Set Danish Embassy Ablaze Over Cartoon
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