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Michael Ramirez on Nuclear North Korea
Austin Bay has some great thoughts on North Korea and their nuclear test(s) with this post:
More thoughts on NoKo: Time to hermetically seal the Hermit Kingdom
China needs to propose a land and maritime embargo of North Korea, one that hermetically seals the Hermit Kingdom’s borders. And then help enforce it.
Indeed……
Technorati Tags: MichaelRamirez, NorthKorea
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Muhammad Danish Cartoon Watch: Iran Protesters Fire Bomb Danish Embassy in Tehran
An Iranian police commander appeals for an end to a demonstration in front of the Danish Embassy in Tehran, October 10, 2006.
Reuters: Protesters hurl petrol bombs at Danish mission in Iran
Dozens of protesters pelted the Danish embassy in Tehran with stones and petrol bombs on Tuesday after Danish television broadcast footage deemed insulting to the Muslim Prophet Mohammad, witnesses said.
Denmark’s state TV aired footage on Friday of a number of members of the youth wing of the anti-immigrant Danish People’s Party (DPP) drawing cartoons in August mocking the Prophet.
Iran condemned the broadcast.Reuters witnesses said protesters hurled stones and petrol bombs into the embassy compound. The crowd chanted “Down with Zionists” and “God praise the party of God.”
Riot police guarded the embassy and two fire trucks stood nearby. Firefighters extinguished a tire which was set alight next to the embassy compound wall, the witnesses said.
Denmark’s ambassador to Tehran was summoned to the Foreign Ministry on Monday to complain about the video clips, which follow cartoons published in the Danish press last year that sparked outrage in the Islamic world.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has condemned those who made such insults as “low life.”
Danish Cartoon Jihad Number Two has started.
Iranian riot police stand guard in front of the Danish embassy in Tehran as demonstrators shout slogans October 10, 2006. Dozens of protesters pelted the Danish embassy in Tehran with stones and petrol bombs on Tuesday after Danish television broadcast footage deemed insulting to the Muslim Prophet Mohammad, witnesses said.
So, will Iran protect the Danish Embassy?
Probably
But, the Danish government is already recommending to Danes that they not travel to certain Muslim countries.
This is probably WISE.
In September last year Danish daily Jyllands-Posten printed cartoons, including one showing the Prophet with a bomb in his turban.
Those cartoons sparked protests across the Middle East, including Iran where protesters also pelted the embassy with stones and petrol bombs.
Some 232 lawmakers from Iran’s 290-seat parliament urged Ahmadinejad on Tuesday to cut Iran’s trade ties with Denmark over the latest footage, the semi-official Mehr News Agency reported.
“The past attempts of the Danish government regarding this insult (to the Prophet) have been repeated, this time, by the visual media,” Mehr reported.
“Since this is not tolerable, we call for cutting the economic ties to Denmark and if continued, cutting the political ties,” the lawmakers said.
Criticize who you wish – except Mohammed. Holocaust cartoons are OK.
A double standard and hypocritical.
You bet.
Stay tuned…….there is for sure more to follow.
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Muhammad Danish Cartoon Watch: Danish TV Airs Video of Prophet As Beer-drinking Camel
Muhammad Caricature Watch: One Year Later – Danish Exports Prosper
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Teguh Santosa On Trial for Publishing Muhammad Cartoons.
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Caricature Publishers Could Get Death Penalty in Pakistan
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Tens of Thousands Protest Muhammad Caricatures in Pakistan and Turkey
Muhammad Caricature Watch: al-Zawahri – “Prophet Muhammad and Jesus Are Not Sacred Anymore.â€
Muhammad Caricature Watch: North Carolina Terrorist Related to Publication of Muhammad Caricatures?
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Pakistani Protest Muhammad Caricatures AND President Bush
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Manifesto Against ISLAMISM – Updated
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Pakistani Children – “Hang Those Who Insulted the Prophetâ€
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Protests Continue in Pakistan
Muhammad Caricature Watch: “Death to Americaâ€
The Muhammad Caricature Watch Files
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – Iran to Proceed With Uranium Enrichment
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, seen here in June 2006, vowed Iran would press ahead with its nuclear programme and not back down in the face of international pressure to suspend uranium enrichment.
AFP: Khamenei vows Iran will press ahead with nuclear programme
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed Iran would press ahead with its nuclear programme and not back down in the face of international pressure to suspend uranium enrichment, state television said.
“Our policy is clear progress proposing transparent logic and insisting on the nation’s rights without backing down,” a news anchor on state television quoted Khamenei as telling a meeting with top officials.
He said that Iran had been right to temporarily suspend uranium enrichment as part of a previous agreement with European countries even though it has now resumed the sensitive nuclear work.
“If we had not experienced that (a suspension), we might have blamed ourselves and said ‘why did we not try that’?”
“But now with steady heart and full confidence we press ahead and nobody can give a good reason that the nuclear path is wrong for the country.”
Of course.
But, why do the enrichment yourself when Iran can buy the real deal from North Korea?
Right?
Or at least purchase enough already enriched uranium and AQ Khan technology to accelerate the enrichment process.
Or develop nuclear weapons grade Plutonium.
Iran and Khamenei are NOT fooling the world – THEY COVET NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
Iran President Ahmadinejad weighs in: Â “The Iranian nation will continue its path of dignity based on resistance, wisdom and without fear,” Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.
Stay tuned for United Nations Security Council action by Friday.
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iranian Scientists Present at North Korea Nuclear Test
Iran Nuclear Watch: P-5-Plus-1 To Pursue Sanctions Against Iran
Iran Nuclear Watch: U.K. Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett – Iran-EU Nuclear Talks Have FAILED
Iran Nuclear Watch: Russia Continues to Oppose Iran Sanctions
Iran Nuclear Watch: EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana – No Progress with Iran
The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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Airport Security Watch: The Political Correctness
Indeed!
The video link is here.
Now, where are those manicure scissors Flap lost?
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North Korea Nuclear Watch: McCain vs. Clinton
UPDATECaptain Ed has a post from Senator McCain
Captains Quarters: Guest Post: Senator John McCain On North KoreaThis isn’t just about North Korea. Iran is watching this test of the Council’s will, and our decisions will surely influence their response to demands that they cease their nuclear program. Now, we must, at long last, stop reinforcing failure with failure.
READ IT ALL
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. speaks during a campaign stop for Republican senate candidate Mike Bouchard in Southfield, Mich., Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2006. McCain voiced support for tough U.N. sanctions against North Korea in response to North Korea’s reported test of a nuclear device.
AP: McCain criticizes Clinton on N. Korea
Republican Sen. John McCain on Tuesday accused former President Clinton, the husband of his potential 2008 White House rival, of failing to act in the 1990s to stop North Korea from developing nuclear weapons.
“I would remind Senator (Hillary) Clinton and other Democrats critical of the Bush administration’s policies that the framework agreement her husband’s administration negotiated was a failure,” McCain said at a news conference after a campaign appearance for Republican Senate candidate Mike Bouchard.
“The Koreans received millions and millions in energy assistance. They’ve diverted millions of dollars of food assistance to their military,” he said.
Flap wonders if Slick will attempt to get McCain slimed with the Clintonesq politics of personal destruction now that Clinton has been duly ass-whipped because of his pathetic North Korean foreign policy. McCain is NO Chris Wallace.
Democrats have argued President Clinton presented his successor with a framework for dealing with North Korea and the Republican fumbled the opportunity. In October 2000, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright made a groundbreaking visit to Pyongyang to explore a missile deal with Chairman Kim Jong Il. There was even talk of a visit by President Clinton.
The initial breakthrough occurred in October 1994 when U.S. negotiators persuaded North Korea to freeze its nuclear program, with onsite monitoring by U.N. inspectors. In exchange, the United States, with input from South Korea and Japan, promised major steps to ease North Korea’s acute energy shortage.
These commitments were inherited by the Bush administration, which made clear almost from the outset that it believed the Clinton policy ignored key elements of North Korea’s activities, especially the threat posed by the hundreds of thousands of troops on permanent duty along the Demilitarized Zone with South Korea.
McCain vs Clinton and an interesting prospective race between Hillary and McCain in 2008. Will Hillary run away from husband bill’s North Korean legacy?
Doubtful – Even if the policy is WRONG.
The Democrats will love to criticize Bush for this rogue nuclear test but who was it that appeased Kim Jong -Il and delayed the Missile Defense Agency?
Well, it was Bill Clinton.
Said McCain: “Prior to the agreement, every single time the Clinton Administration warned the Koreans not to do something — not to kick out the IAEA inspectors, not to remove the fuel rods from their reactor — they did it. And they were rewarded every single time by the Clinton Administration with further talks. We had a carrots and no sticks policy that only encouraged bad behavior. When one carrot didn’t work, we offered another.”
Stay tuned for Slick Willy’s response……..
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North Korea Nuclear Watch: Kick North Korea Out of the United Nations?
North Korea Nuclear Watch: United States Proposes United Nations Sanctions Against North Korea
Technorati Tags: NorthKorea, UnitedNations
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North Korea Nuclear Watch: Kick North Korea Out of the United Nations?
The P’unggye-yok nuclear test site. See more photos at Global Crisis Watch.
The Rosett Report (Via Austin Bay): Expel North Korea
Well, here we are. North Korea says it has conducted a nuclear test. The moment is nigh for the United Nations to follow through on its threat to retaliate with “unspecified action.â€
In the UN arsenal of inanities, that could of course mean anything from the Security Council expressing “deep concern†to the World Food Progam doubling its 2006 allocation of $102 million worth of aid — on Kim Jong Il’s terms — for “transitional assistance.â€
But seriously, if the UN has any interest whatsoever in addressing the clear and present danger of a nuclear-bomb-brandishing North Korea, there is something the UN could do, pronto. It could expel North Korea.
Kim Jong-Il doesn’t give a DAMN about the United Nations and neither should the United States in ultimately dealing with North Korea’s nuclear threat.
Kick them out?
NOPE
DIALOGUE in the United Nations as constrained/meaningless as it may be is better than UNINTENDED DEATH and DESTRUCTION.
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Jack Straw MP Watch: Rushdie – “Veils – A Way to Take Power From Women”
Muslim women are pictured at the Whitechapel market in east London. Former foreign minister Jack Straw has defended his call for Muslim women to remove their veils despite a storm of protests — and went further, saying he would like veils not to be worn at all.
AP: Rushdie: Veils take power from women
Prime Minister Tony Blair and author Salman Rushdie praised a British official on Tuesday for raising the difficult issue of whether Muslim women visiting his office should remove their veils.
The comment by Jack Straw, a former foreign secretary who now is leader of the House of Commons, has plunged Britain into a debate over Islamic integration.
“It’s important these issues are raised and discussed, and I think it’s perfectly sensible if you raise it in a measured and considered way, which he did,” Blair said of Straw during an interview with British Broadcasting Corp. television outside his office. “I think we can have these discussions without people becoming hysterical either way about it.”
So Tony Blair and most folks in Europe would think – a discussion. But, the English-living Muslims think otherwise.
Rushdie, whose book “The Satanic Verses,” once led to death threats against him by Islamic clerics, told BBC radio that Straw “was expressing an important opinion, which is that veils suck, which they do. I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.”
Straw said in a newspaper column published Thursday that he believes the veils favored by some Muslim women inhibit communication and are a sign of division in society. At his constituency office, Straw said he asks that veiled women reveal their faces, adding that the women have always complied, and a female assistant is always present.
On Friday, British media quoted Straw as going further, saying that he would prefer that Muslim women not wear veils at all. “I just find it uncomfortable if I’m trying to have a conversation with someone whose face I can’t see,” Straw told the BBC.
Many Muslims in Straw’s parliamentary district of Blackburn, in northwestern England, reacted with outrage.
Islamophobe is what Jack Straw is now being called. And Straw is being challenged by the RIGHT for the absurdity of the Labour Party’s immigration policies.
This is a discussion/argument about assimilation of cultures. But, do the Muslims living in England and who immigrated from the British colonies wish to assimilate into English life?
NOPE
Muslim women wearing veils out doing their shopping in Blackburn, England Friday Oct. 6, 2006. Britain’s former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw’s preference that devout Muslim women visiting his office remove their veils ignited a heated debate Friday about cultural isolation and tolerance in Britain. Straw is the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Blackburn.
The political correctness here is ridiculous and absurd.Rushdie, who was forced into hiding for 10 years after Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini served a fatwa on him over his book’s alleged criticism of the Prophet Muhammad, said the veil can be used to suppress women.
“Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there’s not a single woman I know in my family or in my friends who would have accepted wearing a veil,” he said.
“I think the battle against the veil has been a long and continuing battle against the limitation of women, so in that sense I’m completely on (Straw’s) side.”
Indeed.
Flap is amazed that modern day women would tolerate the BS of the Veil. Whatever happened to the Feminist Movement and Womens’ RIGHTS? Where is the LEFT?
Dhimmitude
Flap guesses for Allah an exception is made to be treated not as an individual but as chattel.
Sort of RETRO.
Robert Spencer has The Straw that Broke the Burqa.
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Jack Straw MP Watch: Veiled Threat?
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Day By Day by Chris Muir October 10, 2006