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  • Culture,  Muhammad Caricatures,  Politics,  Religion

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Manifesto Against ISLAMISM

    February 28, 2006 /

    The Muhammad Caricatures. The individual caricatures are here.

    Published in today’s Indland Jyllands-Posten (Denmark):

    MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism

    After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism.

    We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.

    The recent events, which occurred after the publication of drawings of Muhammed in European newspapers, have revealed the necessity of the struggle for these universal values. This struggle will not be won by arms, but in the ideological field. It is not a clash of civilisations nor an antagonism of West and East that we are witnessing, but a global struggle that confronts democrats and theocrats.

    Like all totalitarianisms, Islamism is nurtured by fears and frustrations. The hate preachers bet on these feelings in order to form battalions destined to impose a liberticidal and unegalitarian world. But we clearly and firmly state: nothing, not even despair, justifies the choice of obscurantism, totalitarianism and hatred. Islamism is a reactionary ideology which kills equality, freedom and secularism wherever it is present. Its success can only lead to a world of domination: man’s domination of woman, the Islamists’ domination of all the others. To counter this, we must assure universal rights to oppressed or discriminated people.

    We reject « cultural relativism », which consists in accepting that men and women of Muslim culture should be deprived of the right to equality, freedom and secular values in the name of respect for cultures and traditions. We refuse to renounce our critical spirit out of fear of being accused of “Islamophobia”, an unfortunate concept which confuses criticism of Islam as a religion with stigmatisation of its believers.

    We plead for the universality of freedom of expression, so that a critical spirit may be exercised on all continents, against all abuses and all dogmas.

    We appeal to democrats and free spirits of all countries that our century should be one of Enlightenment, not of obscurantism.

    12 signatures

    Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    Chahla Chafiq
    Caroline Fourest
    Bernard-Henri Lévy
    Irshad Manji
    Mehdi Mozaffari
    Maryam Namazie
    Taslima Nasreen
    Salman Rushdie
    Antoine Sfeir
    Philippe Val
    Ibn Warraq

    Thanks to Michelle Malkin who has A MANIFESTO AGAINST ISLAMISM

    Danish blogger Agora reports: The manifesto “will be brought in the French weekly Charlie Hebdo tomorrow, Wednesday. Charlie Hebdo has urged other papers to print it, as a show of solidarity.”

    Show Sammenhold! Spread the word far and wide.

    Early blog reax:


    Rusty Shackleford
    : “Add my name.”
    Atlas Shrugged: “Heads are gonna roll…no pun intended.”
    No Pasaran!: File under freedom
    Stockholm Spectator: Riots to follow, no doubt
    Vince Aut Morire: I’ll Take Your Fatwa And Raise You A Manifesto
    Johan Norberg: Against the New Totalitarians

    Ok, Michelle, Flap is in!

    SOLIDARITY

    The twelve brave individuals who signed the MANIFESTO:

    Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali, from somilian origin, is member of Dutch parliement, member of the liberal party VVD. Writter of the film Submission which caused the assasination of Theo Van Gogh by an islamist in november 2004, she lives under police protection.

    Chahla Chafiq
    Chahla Chafiq, writer from iranian origin, exiled in France is a novelist and an essayist. She’s the author of “Le nouvel homme islamiste , la prison politique en Iran ” (2002). She also wrote novels such as “Chemins et brouillard” (2005).

    Caroline Fourest
    Essayist, editor in chief of Prochoix (a review who defend liberties against dogmatic and integrist ideologies), author of several reference books on « laicité » and fanatism : Tirs Croisés : la laïcité à l’épreuve des intégrismes juif, chrétien et musulman (with Fiammetta Venner), Frère Tariq : discours, stratégie et méthode de Tariq Ramadan, et la Tentation obscurantiste (Grasset, 2005). She receieved the National prize of laicité in 2005.

    Bernard-Henri Lévy
    French philosoph, born in Algeria, engaged against all the XXth century « ism » (Fascism, antisemitism, totalitarism, terrorism), he is the author of La Barbarie à visage humain, L’Idéologie française, La Pureté dangereuse, and more recently American Vertigo.

    Irshad Manji
    Irshad Manji is a Fellow at Yale University and the internationally best-selling author of “The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith” (en francais: “Musulmane Mais Libre”). She speaks out for free expression based on the Koran itself. Née en Ouganda, elle a fui ce pays avec sa famille musulmane d’origine indienne à l’âge de quatre ans et vit maintenant au Canada, où ses émissions et ses livres connaissent un énorme succès.

    Mehdi Mozaffari
    Mehdi Mozaffari, professor from iranian origin and exiled in Denmark, is the author of several articles and books on islam and islamism such as : Authority in Islam: From Muhammad to Khomeini, Fatwa: Violence and Discourtesy and Glaobalization and Civilizations.

    Maryam Namazie
    Writer, TV International English producer; Director of the Worker-communist Party of Iran’s International Relations; and 2005 winner of the National Secular Society’s Secularist of the Year award.

    Taslima Nasreen
    Taslima Nasreen is born in Bangladesh. Doctor, her positions defending women and minorities brought her in trouble with a comittee of integrist called « Destroy Taslima » and to be persecuted as « apostate »

    Salman Rushdie
    Salman Rushdie is the author of nine novels, including Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses and, most recently, Shalimar the Clown. He has received many literary awards, including the Booker Prize, the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, Germany’s Author of the Year Award, the European Union’s Aristeion Prize, the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature, the Premio Mantova, and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature. He is a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et Lettres, an Honorary Professor in the Humanities at M.I.T., and the president of PEN American Center. His books have been translated into over 40 languages.

    Philippe Val
    Director of publication of Charlie Hebdo (Leftwing french newspaper who have republished the cartoons on the prophet Muhammad by solidarity with the danish citizens targeted by islamists).

    Ibn Warraq

    Ibn Warraq , author notably of Why I am Not a Muslim ; Leaving Islam : Apostates Speak Out ; and The Origins of the Koran , is at present Research Fellow at a New York Institute conducting philological and historical research into the Origins of Islam and its Holy Book.

    Antoine Sfeir :
    Born in Lebanon, christian, Antoine Sfeir choosed french nationality to live in an universalist and « laïc » (real secular) country. He is the director of Les cahiers de l’Orient and has published several reference books on islamism such as Les réseaux d’Allah (2001) et Liberté, égalité, Islam : la République face au communautarisme (2005).

    Spread the Word……

    Write and ask these newspapers to print and sign the Manifesto:

    New York Times


    Washington Post

    Los Angeles Times

    Oh, and don’t bet the farm on a favorable reply………

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    Muhammad Caricature Watch: President Bush and King Abdullah of Jordan Urge an End to Violence over Muhammad Caricatures

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  • Culture,  Muhammad Caricatures,  Politics,  Religion

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Pakistani Children – “Hang Those Who Insulted the Prophet”

    February 28, 2006 /

    Pakistani boy, covering his face with headband thatsays ”There is no God but God.,Muhammad is the Prophet of God’,’ takes part in a rally against the publication of cartoons depicting Islamic Prophet Muhammad printed by some Western newspapers, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2006 in Karachi, Pakistan.

    And Michelle Malkin leads with SCHOOL’S OUT: RAISE YOUR DAGGERS!

    And this photo:

    ASSociated Press: Pakistani Kids Rally Over Prophet Cartoons

    About 5,000 children chanting “Hang those who insulted the prophet” rallied in Pakistan’s largest city on Tuesday in the latest protest in the Islamic nation against the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

    The children, ages 8 to 12, burned a coffin draped in U.S., Israeli and Danish flags at a traffic intersection in the port city of Karachi as police in riot gear looked on.

    The rally was organized by Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan’s largest Islamic group. The children, some wearing school uniforms and headbands emblazoned with “God is great,” were released from schools to take part.

    Wonderful……

    Do the islamic radical fundamentalists have NO shame?

    Nope…..involve their children in this HATE campaign. Either do as WE say or put the kids in the street…….

    And these are REALLY protests over insulting caricatures? NO WAY!

    President Bush will be travelling to Pakistan shortly………

    Stay tuned……….

    Pakistani children chant slogans during a rally in Karachi February 28, 2006. Opposition Jamat-e-Islami party organised the rally to protest against the publication of cartoons and caricatures depicting the Prophet Mohammad in European newspapers.

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    Muhammad Caricature Watch: The Vatican URGES Islamic Countries to Reciprocate by Showing More Tolerance toward Their Christian Minorities

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    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Christian Anti-Muslim Riot in Nigeria Turns Deadly

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    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Weekend Protests in Pakistan “Spinning Out of Control”


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Muslims Protesting Muhammad Caricatures Storm United States Embassy in Indonesia

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: London Protest of Muhammad Caricatures Draws 15,000

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  • Culture,  Muhammad Caricatures,  Politics,  Religion

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Protests Continue in Pakistan

    February 27, 2006 /

    Yahoo News:

    A supporter of Pakistan’s opposition Islamic alliance holds a placard during a rally in Multan February 27, 2006. The rally was held to protest against the publication of cartoons and caricatures depicting the Prophet Mohammad in European newspapers and to protest the detention of dozens of oppositon supporters held for defying ban on rallies. The placard reads ‘We are guardians of the sanctity of prophethood’.

    Supporters of Pakistan’s opposition Islamic alliance burn a Danish flag during a rally in Multan February 27, 2006

    Supporters of Pakistan’s opposition Islamic alliance stand on a Danish flag during a rally in Multan February 27, 2006. The placards read ‘Hang the cartoonist involved in blasphemy’ and ‘Boycott western items’.

    Pakistani protester, front, chants slogans, wearing a headband which reads ‘There is no God but God: Muhammad is the Prophet of God’, with others to condemn the publication of cartoons depicting Islamic Prophet Muhammad printed by some Western newspapers, Monday, Feb. 27, 2006 in Karachi, Pakistan.

    Supporters of Pakistan’s religious party Jamat-e-Islami or Party of Islam rally in Multan, Pakistan to condemn the publication of cartoons depicting Islamic Prophet Muhammad printed by some Western newspapers, Monday, Feb. 27, 2006.

    And the fire of protest over the Muhammad Caricatures continues……..

    Does this look like an anti-American protest EXCUSE to anyone?

    Stay tuned…….

    Michelle Malkin has Still Burning

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    Muhammad Caricature Watch: The Vatican URGES Islamic Countries to Reciprocate by Showing More Tolerance toward Their Christian Minorities

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    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Christian Anti-Muslim Riot in Nigeria Turns Deadly

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    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Map of Cartoon Riots After the Publication of Caricatures of Muhammad

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Saudi Papers Print Danish Editor’s Apology

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Weekend Protests in Pakistan “Spinning Out of Control”


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Muslims Protesting Muhammad Caricatures Storm United States Embassy in Indonesia

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: London Protest of Muhammad Caricatures Draws 15,000

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Nigerian Muslims Protesting Muhammad Caricatures Attack Christians and Burn Churches


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli Wears Muhammad Caricature T-Shirt – Italian Embassy Burned

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: A Demonstration in Libya Has Left Nine Dead and the Italian Consulate Ablaze

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Pakistani Cleric Offers Money and Car for Anyone who kills the Danish Cartoonist Who Drew Prophet Muhammad – Now $ 1 Million

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    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Editor of University of Illinois Student Newspaper Suspended for Printing Cartoons Depicting the Prophet Muhammad

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    Cox & Forkum on the Muhammad Caricatures: Overboard


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    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Condolezza Rice – Muslim Outrage Could “Spin Out of Control”

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    Muhammad Caricature Watch: President Bush and King Abdullah of Jordan Urge an End to Violence over Muhammad Caricatures

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    Muhammad Caricature Watch: French Weekly Charlie Hebdo Reprints Muhammad Caricatures

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Muslim Threatened Norwegian Pressman Continues to Defend the Right to Publish Offensive Material


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Demonstrators Attack Norwegian Embassy in Tehran, Iran

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: 4 Killed In Afghanistan in Caricature Bloodshed

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    Muhammad Caricature Watch: New Protests Erupt Around the World


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    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Angry Demonstrators Set Danish Consulate in Beirut Ablaze

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Syrian Protesters Set Danish Embassy Ablaze Over Cartoon


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    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Anger Over Cartoons of Muhammad Escalates

    Day by Day by Chris Muir on CNN

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    Muhammad Caricature Watch: “Death to America”

    February 26, 2006 /

    Pakistani Shiite Muslim women hold anti U.S. placards during a rally to condemn the bombing on the Golden Mosque, one of Shiite Islam’s holiest sites in the Iraqi city of Samarra, in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Feb 26, 2006.

    ASSociated Press: Thousands Protest Drawings in Karachi

    About 25,000 people — some chanting “Death to America!” — rallied against the Prophet Muhammad caricatures in Pakistan’s largest city Sunday, but police prevented a rally in the eastern city of Lahore by arresting the religious ringleader and detaining scores of supporters.

    And really what does America have to do with the Muhammad Caricatures and their publication? There were only three newspapers in the entire country that published them and the authors (all twelve of them) were from Denmark.

    Now, this blog and others, well, we have published them. And many of us are based in America.

    Pakistani Shiite Muslim women take part in a rally to condemn the bombing on the Golden Mosque, one of Shiite Islam’s holiest sites in the Iraqi city of Samarra, in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Feb 26, 2006.

    In Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city and economic hub, where the provincial government has not banned such rallies, protesters also chanted “Down with the blasphemer!” and “End diplomatic ties with European countries!” No violence was reported.

    About 25,000 people joined the downtown rally organized by Tahafuz-e-Khatm-e-Nabuwat, a Sunni Muslim religious group, said Shaukat Shah, a Karachi police officer.

    The protest was the biggest in the port city since 40,000 rallied there Feb. 16 against the cartoons, which first appeared in a Danish newspaper in September but have been reprinted across Europe since.

    Now, why protest America when it was Iraqi Muslim terrorists who destroyed the Golden Mosque in Samarra?

    These rallies across Pakistan were organized by the Mullahs and friends of the Taliban who wish “Death to America.”

    But, if these Islamo-fascists and Mullahs want a war then……….BRING IT ON!

    Chief of Pakistan’s opposition Islamic alliance Qazi Hussain Ahmed (C) addresses supporters in Lahore February 26, 2006. Police fired tear gas to disperse around 100 young Islamists who tried to stage a protest over cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammad on Sunday in defiance of a government ban on such rallies in central Pakistan.

    In Lahore, clerics, opposition lawmakers and religious school administrators were among 150 people arrested or detained without charge Saturday and Sunday in a bid to thwart the illegal protest, police official Amir Zulfiqar said.

    Pakistan banned such rallies in Lahore after several demonstrations turned deadly.

    Police blocked all streets leading to a central Lahore mall where the protest was to be held. Some 15,000 policemen and 3,000 paramilitary troops were deployed in the city, guarding major traffic intersections, government buildings, mosques and foreign consulates, Lahore police chief Khawaja Khalid Farooq said.

    Qazi Hussain Ahmed, a leader of a coalition of six radical Islamic parties, attempted to lead the rally but was taken away in a police vehicle after trying to break through a barricade, Zulfiqar said.

    A Pakistani police officer detains a injured protestor, who along with others were trying to hold a rally to condemn the publication of cartoons depict Islamic Prophet Muhammad, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2006 in Lahore, Pakistan.

    Meanwhile back in Karachi………

    Supporters of a Pakistani religious party take part in a rally to condemn the publication of cartoons depicting the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2006 in Karachi, Pakistan.

    Supporters of a Pakistani religious party burn the Danish flag and effigy of the Prime Minister during a rally to condemn the publication of cartoons depicting the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, Sunday, Feb 26, 2006 in Multan, Pakistan.

    Protests targeting President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, the United States and the caricatures are scheduled for March 3 — a day before President Bush visits Islamabad.

    Why, of course, the Mullahs view President Bush and the United States as impediments to them regaining a religious Muslim fundamentalist theocracy in Pakistan.

    Stay tuned……..

    Mulana Fazal-ur-Rehman, Secretary-General of the main Islamist alliance Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), speaks during a news conference in Islamabad February 26, 2006. Thousands of Islamists rallied in southern Pakistan on Sunday against cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad, but police quickly snuffed out a protest in Lahore, where two people died in earlier unrest.



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    Muhammad Caricature Watch: German Court Convicts Man for Insulting Islam

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: The Vatican URGES Islamic Countries to Reciprocate by Showing More Tolerance toward Their Christian Minorities

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Malaysia Reprimands Newspaper for Lampoon Muhammad Caricature Cartoon

    Cox & Forkum: Toonophobia

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Protesters Rally in Pakistan and Iraq

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Christian Anti-Muslim Riot in Nigeria Turns Deadly

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Afghan Students – “If They Abuse the Prophet of Islam Again We Will All Become Al Qaeda”

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Islamic Radicals Call for More Protests


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Map of Cartoon Riots After the Publication of Caricatures of Muhammad

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Saudi Papers Print Danish Editor’s Apology

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Weekend Protests in Pakistan “Spinning Out of Control”


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Muslims Protesting Muhammad Caricatures Storm United States Embassy in Indonesia

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: London Protest of Muhammad Caricatures Draws 15,000

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Nigerian Muslims Protesting Muhammad Caricatures Attack Christians and Burn Churches


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli Wears Muhammad Caricature T-Shirt – Italian Embassy Burned

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: A Demonstration in Libya Has Left Nine Dead and the Italian Consulate Ablaze

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Pakistani Cleric Offers Money and Car for Anyone who kills the Danish Cartoonist Who Drew Prophet Muhammad – Now $ 1 Million

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Pakistani Cleric Offers Money and Car for Anyone who kills the Danish Cartoonist Who Drew Prophet Muhammad


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: “Roses of the Prophet Muhammad.”

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: For the MORONS Who Defaced My Site

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Abu Ghraib Image Hypocrisy FLAP

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: The FLAP Over Publication of Muhammad Caricatures on the Internet

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Editor of University of Illinois Student Newspaper Suspended for Printing Cartoons Depicting the Prophet Muhammad

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Thousands of Protesters Rampage in 2 Pakistani Cities

    Cox & Forkum on the Muhammad Caricatures: Overboard


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Pakistan Police Gas Students Protesting Caricatures

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Condolezza Rice – Muslim Outrage Could “Spin Out of Control”

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Denmark Withdraws Diplomats from Iran and Indonesia

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Thousands Protest Against Prophet Drawings

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Internet T-Shirt Vendor, MetroSpy, Profits from Muhammad Caricature Conflict

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Muslim Leaders Urge Calm


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Are Extemists Fanning Caricature Outrage?

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Egypt and the Muhammad Caricatures


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Condoleezza Rice – Iran and Syria Stoking Anger – The Response


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Condoleezza Rice – Iran and Syria Stoking Anger

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: President Bush and King Abdullah of Jordan Urge an End to Violence over Muhammad Caricatures

    Cox & Forkum: Western Dhimmitude

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: French Weekly Charlie Hebdo Reprints Muhammad Caricatures

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Muslim Threatened Norwegian Pressman Continues to Defend the Right to Publish Offensive Material


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Demonstrators Attack Norwegian Embassy in Tehran, Iran

    Muhammad 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 Ablaze

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Syrian Protesters Set Danish Embassy Ablaze Over Cartoon


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Protests Over Muhammad Drawings Intensify

    Muhammad 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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  • Culture,  Muhammad Caricatures,  Politics,  Religion

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: German Court Convicts Man for Insulting Islam

    February 23, 2006 /

    Reuters: German court convicts man for insulting Islam

    A German court on Thursday convicted a businessman of insulting Islam by printing the word “Koran” on toilet paper and offering it to mosques.

    The 61-year-old man, identified only as Manfred van H., was given a one-year jail sentence, suspended for five years, and ordered to complete 300 hours of community service, a district court in the western German town of Luedinghausen ruled.


    As Flap said earlier today……….

    Was this prosecution to soften Muslim unhappiness in Germany with the publication of the Muhammad Caricatures?

    Manfred van H. printed out sheets of toilet paper bearing the word “Koran” shortly after a group of Muslims carried out a series of bomb attacks in London in July 2005. He sent the paper to German television stations, magazines and some 15 mosques.

    Prosecutors said that in an accompanying letter Manfred van H. called Islam’s holy book a “cookbook for terrorists.”

    He also offered his toilet paper for sale on the Internet at a price of 4 euros ($4.76) per roll, saying the proceeds would go toward a “memorial to all the victims of Islamic terrorism.”

    The maximum sentence for insulting religious beliefs under the German criminal code is three years in prison.

    A Hate Crime?

    BS……..

    How about an image from Dr. Rusty Shackleford of a Koran in a toilet?

    Previous:

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: The Vatican URGES Islamic Countries to Reciprocate by Showing More Tolerance toward Their Christian Minorities

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Malaysia Reprimands Newspaper for Lampoon Muhammad Caricature Cartoon

    Cox & Forkum: Toonophobia

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Protesters Rally in Pakistan and Iraq

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Christian Anti-Muslim Riot in Nigeria Turns Deadly

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Afghan Students – “If They Abuse the Prophet of Islam Again We Will All Become Al Qaeda”

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Islamic Radicals Call for More Protests


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Map of Cartoon Riots After the Publication of Caricatures of Muhammad

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Saudi Papers Print Danish Editor’s Apology

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Weekend Protests in Pakistan “Spinning Out of Control”


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Muslims Protesting Muhammad Caricatures Storm United States Embassy in Indonesia

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: London Protest of Muhammad Caricatures Draws 15,000

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Nigerian Muslims Protesting Muhammad Caricatures Attack Christians and Burn Churches


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli Wears Muhammad Caricature T-Shirt – Italian Embassy Burned

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: A Demonstration in Libya Has Left Nine Dead and the Italian Consulate Ablaze

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Pakistani Cleric Offers Money and Car for Anyone who kills the Danish Cartoonist Who Drew Prophet Muhammad – Now $ 1 Million

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Pakistani Cleric Offers Money and Car for Anyone who kills the Danish Cartoonist Who Drew Prophet Muhammad


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: “Roses of the Prophet Muhammad.”

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: For the MORONS Who Defaced My Site

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Abu Ghraib Image Hypocrisy FLAP

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: The FLAP Over Publication of Muhammad Caricatures on the Internet

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Editor of University of Illinois Student Newspaper Suspended for Printing Cartoons Depicting the Prophet Muhammad

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Thousands of Protesters Rampage in 2 Pakistani Cities

    Cox & Forkum on the Muhammad Caricatures: Overboard


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Pakistan Police Gas Students Protesting Caricatures

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Condolezza Rice – Muslim Outrage Could “Spin Out of Control”

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Denmark Withdraws Diplomats from Iran and Indonesia

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Thousands Protest Against Prophet Drawings

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Internet T-Shirt Vendor, MetroSpy, Profits from Muhammad Caricature Conflict

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Muslim Leaders Urge Calm


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Are Extemists Fanning Caricature Outrage?

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Egypt and the Muhammad Caricatures


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Condoleezza Rice – Iran and Syria Stoking Anger – The Response


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Condoleezza Rice – Iran and Syria Stoking Anger

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: President Bush and King Abdullah of Jordan Urge an End to Violence over Muhammad Caricatures

    Cox & Forkum: Western Dhimmitude

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: French Weekly Charlie Hebdo Reprints Muhammad Caricatures

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Muslim Threatened Norwegian Pressman Continues to Defend the Right to Publish Offensive Material


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Demonstrators Attack Norwegian Embassy in Tehran, Iran

    Muhammad 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 Ablaze

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Syrian Protesters Set Danish Embassy Ablaze Over Cartoon


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Protests Over Muhammad Drawings Intensify

    Muhammad 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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  • Culture,  Muhammad Caricatures,  Politics,  Religion

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: The Vatican URGES Islamic Countries to Reciprocate by Showing More Tolerance toward Their Christian Minorities

    February 23, 2006 /

    Pope Benedict XVI during his weekly Wednesday general audience at the Vatican, February 22, 2006.

    Reuters: Vatican to Muslims: practice what you preach

    After backing calls by Muslims for respect for their religion in the Mohammad cartoons row, the
    Vatican is now urging Islamic countries to reciprocate by showing more tolerance toward their Christian minorities.

    Roman Catholic leaders at first said Muslims were right to be outraged when Western newspapers reprinted Danish caricatures of the Prophet, including one with a bomb in his turban. Most Muslims consider any images of Mohammad to be blasphemous.

    Well, the Roman Catholic leaders were wrong with their views on freedom of expression and the Muhammad Caricatures but are RIGHT with regards to religious TOLERANCE in many Islamic countries.

    The FACTS:

    Saudi Arabia bans all public expression of any non-Muslim religion and sometimes arrests Christians even for worshipping privately.

    Pakistan allows churches to operate but its Islamic laws effectively deprive Christians of many rights.

    Morocco is tolerant of other religions, but like all Muslim countries frowns on conversion from Islam to another faith.

    Iraqi Christians say they were well treated under Saddam Hussein’s secular policies, but believers have been killed, churches burned and women forced to wear Muslim garb since Islamic groups gained sway after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

    And what the Roman Catholic Church desires is reciprocity……..

    Reciprocity — allowing Christian minorities the same rights as Muslims generally have in Western countries, such as building houses of worship or practicing religion freely — is at the heart of Vatican diplomacy toward Muslim states.

    Pope Benedict signaled his concern on Monday when he told the new Moroccan ambassador to the Vatican that peace can only be assured by “respect for the religious convictions and practices of others, in a reciprocal way in all societies.”

    The Quotes:

    “If we tell our people they have no right to offend, we have to tell the others they have no right to destroy us,” Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican’s Secretary of State (prime minister), told journalists in Rome.

    “We must always stress our demand for reciprocity in political contacts with authorities in Islamic countries and, even more, in cultural contacts,” Foreign Minister Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo told the daily Corriere della Sera.

    “Enough now with this turning the other cheek! It’s our duty to protect ourselves,” Monsignor Velasio De Paolis, secretary of the Vatican’s supreme court, thundered in the daily La Stampa. “The West has had relations with the Arab countries for half a century, mostly for oil, and has not been able to get the slightest concession on human rights,” he said.

    Bishop Rino Fisichella, head of one of the Roman universities that train young priests from around the world, told Corriere della Sera the Vatican should speak out more.

    “Let’s drop this diplomatic silence,” said the rector of the Pontifical Lateran University. “We should put pressure on international organizations to make the societies and states in majority Muslim countries face up to their responsibilities.”

    And did the Islamic community REALLY think that Christians would take the murder of priests lightly – especially over Muhammad Caricatures?

    Previous:

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Malaysia Reprimands Newspaper for Lampoon Muhammad Caricature Cartoon

    Cox & Forkum: Toonophobia

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Protesters Rally in Pakistan and Iraq

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Christian Anti-Muslim Riot in Nigeria Turns Deadly

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Afghan Students – “If They Abuse the Prophet of Islam Again We Will All Become Al Qaeda”

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Islamic Radicals Call for More Protests


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Map of Cartoon Riots After the Publication of Caricatures of Muhammad

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Saudi Papers Print Danish Editor’s Apology

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Weekend Protests in Pakistan “Spinning Out of Control”


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Muslims Protesting Muhammad Caricatures Storm United States Embassy in Indonesia

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: London Protest of Muhammad Caricatures Draws 15,000

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Nigerian Muslims Protesting Muhammad Caricatures Attack Christians and Burn Churches


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli Wears Muhammad Caricature T-Shirt – Italian Embassy Burned

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: A Demonstration in Libya Has Left Nine Dead and the Italian Consulate Ablaze

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Pakistani Cleric Offers Money and Car for Anyone who kills the Danish Cartoonist Who Drew Prophet Muhammad – Now $ 1 Million

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Pakistani Cleric Offers Money and Car for Anyone who kills the Danish Cartoonist Who Drew Prophet Muhammad


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: “Roses of the Prophet Muhammad.”

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: For the MORONS Who Defaced My Site

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Abu Ghraib Image Hypocrisy FLAP

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: The FLAP Over Publication of Muhammad Caricatures on the Internet

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Editor of University of Illinois Student Newspaper Suspended for Printing Cartoons Depicting the Prophet Muhammad

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Thousands of Protesters Rampage in 2 Pakistani Cities

    Cox & Forkum on the Muhammad Caricatures: Overboard


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Pakistan Police Gas Students Protesting Caricatures

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Condolezza Rice – Muslim Outrage Could “Spin Out of Control”

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Denmark Withdraws Diplomats from Iran and Indonesia

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Thousands Protest Against Prophet Drawings

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Internet T-Shirt Vendor, MetroSpy, Profits from Muhammad Caricature Conflict

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Muslim Leaders Urge Calm


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Are Extemists Fanning Caricature Outrage?

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Egypt and the Muhammad Caricatures


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Condoleezza Rice – Iran and Syria Stoking Anger – The Response


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Condoleezza Rice – Iran and Syria Stoking Anger

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: President Bush and King Abdullah of Jordan Urge an End to Violence over Muhammad Caricatures

    Cox & Forkum: Western Dhimmitude

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: French Weekly Charlie Hebdo Reprints Muhammad Caricatures

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Muslim Threatened Norwegian Pressman Continues to Defend the Right to Publish Offensive Material


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Demonstrators Attack Norwegian Embassy in Tehran, Iran

    Muhammad 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 Ablaze

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Syrian Protesters Set Danish Embassy Ablaze Over Cartoon


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Protests Over Muhammad Drawings Intensify

    Muhammad 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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  • Culture,  Muhammad Caricatures,  Politics,  Religion

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Malaysia Reprimands Newspaper for Lampoon Muhammad Caricature Cartoon

    February 23, 2006 /

    Reuters: Malaysia slaps newspaper in twist to cartoon row

    Malaysia has reprimanded one of its biggest daily newspapers for printing a cartoon lampooning the global controversy over caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad.

    The government’s move has fanned a hot debate in this mainly Muslim country about where to draw the line between press freedom and respect of religion, because this time it involves a newspaper closely aligned with mainstream Muslim opinion.

    The English-language New Straits Times had defended its right this week to publish the cartoon, which featured a street artist offering “caricatures of Muhammad while you wait.”

    But the government, a prominent voice in the Islamic world, felt it crossed the line and its internal security ministry had given the daily three days to explain itself, the New Straits Times said on its front page on Thursday.

    “The ministry said the cartoon had breached the conditions of the newspaper’s publishing permit,” the paper said.

    “It added that the sketch was inappropriate and could invite negative reactions in the country, especially among Muslims.”

    Malaysia, led by Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, an Islamic scholar, has banned the Danish newspaper cartoons at the heart of the row and has suspended the publishing licences of two newspapers for publishing some of them.

    Everyday Flap is happy he lives in America with the United States Constitution with its Bill of Rights.

    Can you imagine an America where newspapers, blogs or websites would be required to have a government “PERMIT?” And if you wrote something said government did not “LIKE” then the government could censure, intimidate, jail or otherwise force you to stop your inappropriate speech.

    The offending cartoon published by the New Straits Times on Monday was one of the globally syndicated Non Sequitur series by Wiley Miller. In an editorial on Wednesday, the newspaper responded to complaints about the cartoon, saying the Prophet had not been depicted.

    In the editorial, it asked rhetorically whether the complaints were politically motivated to cow the newspaper’s editors. “When the truth gets reported, some get hurt. The powerful ones will seek to protect themselves with whatever means at their disposal,” the editorial said without elaborating.

    The controversy is the latest episode in a public spat between the newspaper and elements of the ruling party, which has objected to the New Straits Times’ reporting on sensitive issues of race and religion and its criticism of government policy.

    No “FREE” press in Malaysia.

    Now……..why has the American MSM for the large part refused to print the Muhammad Caricatures?

    The Washington Post has A Failure of the Press

    The American MSM has failed. But, the American blogopshere has NOT……..

    Stay tuned……

    H/T: Captain Ed

    Previous:

    Cox & Forkum: Toonophobia

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Protesters Rally in Pakistan and Iraq

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Christian Anti-Muslim Riot in Nigeria Turns Deadly

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Afghan Students – “If They Abuse the Prophet of Islam Again We Will All Become Al Qaeda”

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Islamic Radicals Call for More Protests


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Map of Cartoon Riots After the Publication of Caricatures of Muhammad

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Saudi Papers Print Danish Editor’s Apology

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Weekend Protests in Pakistan “Spinning Out of Control”


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Muslims Protesting Muhammad Caricatures Storm United States Embassy in Indonesia

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: London Protest of Muhammad Caricatures Draws 15,000

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Nigerian Muslims Protesting Muhammad Caricatures Attack Christians and Burn Churches


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli Wears Muhammad Caricature T-Shirt – Italian Embassy Burned

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: A Demonstration in Libya Has Left Nine Dead and the Italian Consulate Ablaze

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Pakistani Cleric Offers Money and Car for Anyone who kills the Danish Cartoonist Who Drew Prophet Muhammad – Now $ 1 Million

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Pakistani Cleric Offers Money and Car for Anyone who kills the Danish Cartoonist Who Drew Prophet Muhammad


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: “Roses of the Prophet Muhammad.”

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: For the MORONS Who Defaced My Site

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Abu Ghraib Image Hypocrisy FLAP

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: The FLAP Over Publication of Muhammad Caricatures on the Internet

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Editor of University of Illinois Student Newspaper Suspended for Printing Cartoons Depicting the Prophet Muhammad

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Thousands of Protesters Rampage in 2 Pakistani Cities

    Cox & Forkum on the Muhammad Caricatures: Overboard


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Pakistan Police Gas Students Protesting Caricatures

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Condolezza Rice – Muslim Outrage Could “Spin Out of Control”

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Denmark Withdraws Diplomats from Iran and Indonesia

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Thousands Protest Against Prophet Drawings

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Internet T-Shirt Vendor, MetroSpy, Profits from Muhammad Caricature Conflict

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Muslim Leaders Urge Calm


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Are Extemists Fanning Caricature Outrage?

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Egypt and the Muhammad Caricatures


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Condoleezza Rice – Iran and Syria Stoking Anger – The Response


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Condoleezza Rice – Iran and Syria Stoking Anger

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: President Bush and King Abdullah of Jordan Urge an End to Violence over Muhammad Caricatures

    Cox & Forkum: Western Dhimmitude

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: French Weekly Charlie Hebdo Reprints Muhammad Caricatures

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Muslim Threatened Norwegian Pressman Continues to Defend the Right to Publish Offensive Material


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Demonstrators Attack Norwegian Embassy in Tehran, Iran

    Muhammad 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 Ablaze

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Syrian Protesters Set Danish Embassy Ablaze Over Cartoon


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Protests Over Muhammad Drawings Intensify

    Muhammad 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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  • Cox & Forkum,  Culture,  Muhammad Caricatures,  Politics,  Religion

    Cox & Forkum: Toonophobia

    February 22, 2006 /

    Cox & Forkum: Toonophobia

    Christopher Hitchens: Cartoon Debate: The case for mocking religion – [T]here is a strong case for saying that the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, and those who have reprinted its efforts out of solidarity, are affirming the right to criticize not merely Islam but religion in general. And the Bush administration has no business at all expressing an opinion on that. If it is to say anything, it is constitutionally obliged to uphold the right and no more. …

    Christopher Hitchens: Stand up for Denmark! Why are we not defending our ally? (via Michelle Malkin)

    In the name of parody, we’ve taken quite a few liberties with other people’s cartoons. To give credit where credit is due … The cartoon above features four of the original Danish Mohammed cartoons published in Jyllands-Posten. The artists are (left to right): Claus Seidel, Rasmus Sand Høyer, Peder Bundgaard, and KW. For all the Danish Mohammed cartoons, see Mohammed Cartoons.com.

    The cartoon pigs are (left to right): Olivia by Ian Falconer, Miss Piggy by Jim Henson, Porky Pig by Warner Bros., and

    Freedom of Expression is too important for anyone to intimidate or bluster it away. And the United States has an obligation to guarantee this freedom to its people at home and abroad.

    If Flap wants to criticise religion or be criticised for his religious beliefs then so be it. Our freedoms are what the American Founders promised and we will hold our government responsible to protect these freedoms.


    Technorati Tags: Cox&Forkum, MuhammadCaricatures, ChristopherHitchens

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    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Protesters Rally in Pakistan and Iraq

    February 21, 2006 /

    Iraqis carry placards professing their faith to the Prophet Mohammad during a protest in Kerbala, 110 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad February 21, 2006, against the cartoons and caricatures depicting the Prophet Mohammad published in several European newspapers.

    ASSociated Press: Protesters Rally in Pakistan, Iraq

    About 2,000 people chanted “Death to America” and “Death to Denmark” as they rallied in a small town near the Afghan border to protest the Prophet Muhammad cartoons that have sparked violent demonstrations in Muslim countries.

    The protesters in Barwand also burned flags of Denmark _ where the caricatures were first printed _ and torched effigies of the Danish prime minister and President Bush.

    In Iraq:

    About 10,000 people also protested against the cartoons in the southern Iraqi city of Karbala, burning Danish flags and demanding Iraq sever ties with Denmark.

    An Iraqi policeman holds a weapon on a police vehicle near residents protesting against cartoons and caricatures depicting the Prophet Mohammad, published in several European newspapers, in Kerbala, 110 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad February 21, 2006.

    Taliban, pro-Al Qaeda demonstrations and Iraqi insurgent inspired demonstrators how original. The intensity of the demonstrations appear to be less today. A different type of protest in Pakistan….

    Pakistani police officers sit at a market closed due to strike called by traders unions to protest the publication of cartoons depicting Islamic Prophet Muhammad Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2006 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Shopkeepers shut their doors in a bustling city near Pakistan’s capital to protest the cartoons that have sparked a string of violent demonstrations across the country in the past week.

    Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said Tuesday the cartoons were an attempt to cause a “clash of civilization” by people who are ignorant about Islam and want to demonize the religion.

    “We cannot condone such insensitivities toward our beliefs and condemn it in the strongest way,” he said at an Islamic conference. “Islam does not believe in the clash of civilization, rather it advocates harmony, coexistence, peace and compassion.”

    Just outside Pakistan’s capital in Rawalpindi, about five major markets were closed Tuesday as shopkeepers protested the cartoons.

    Mushtaq Ali Shah, senior vice president of Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which helped organize the strike, said a rally wasn’t being held because the businesses didn’t want the protest to turn into a riot that damages property.

    Probably a smart move about the rally……but why destroy your own people’s property?

    MORONIC……but DEADLY SERIOUS…….

    A Pakistani labor walks in a market which closed due to a strike called by traders unions to protest the publication of cartoons depicting Islamic Prophet Muhammad Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2006 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Shopkeepers shut their doors in a bustling city near Pakistan’s capital to protest the cartoons that have sparked a string of violent demonstrations across the country in the past week. The placard at left reads: ‘Complete strike against the publishing the cartoon of Prophet Muhammad.’

    Stay tuned……

    Previous:

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Christian Anti-Muslim Riot in Nigeria Turns Deadly

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Afghan Students – “If They Abuse the Prophet of Islam Again We Will All Become Al Qaeda”

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Islamic Radicals Call for More Protests


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Map of Cartoon Riots After the Publication of Caricatures of Muhammad

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Saudi Papers Print Danish Editor’s Apology

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Weekend Protests in Pakistan “Spinning Out of Control”


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Muslims Protesting Muhammad Caricatures Storm United States Embassy in Indonesia

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: London Protest of Muhammad Caricatures Draws 15,000

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Nigerian Muslims Protesting Muhammad Caricatures Attack Christians and Burn Churches


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli Wears Muhammad Caricature T-Shirt – Italian Embassy Burned

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: A Demonstration in Libya Has Left Nine Dead and the Italian Consulate Ablaze

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Pakistani Cleric Offers Money and Car for Anyone who kills the Danish Cartoonist Who Drew Prophet Muhammad – Now $ 1 Million

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Pakistani Cleric Offers Money and Car for Anyone who kills the Danish Cartoonist Who Drew Prophet Muhammad


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: “Roses of the Prophet Muhammad.”

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: For the MORONS Who Defaced My Site

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Abu Ghraib Image Hypocrisy FLAP

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: The FLAP Over Publication of Muhammad Caricatures on the Internet

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Editor of University of Illinois Student Newspaper Suspended for Printing Cartoons Depicting the Prophet Muhammad

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Thousands of Protesters Rampage in 2 Pakistani Cities

    Cox & Forkum on the Muhammad Caricatures: Overboard


    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Pakistan Police Gas Students Protesting Caricatures

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Condolezza Rice – Muslim Outrage Could “Spin Out of Control”

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Denmark Withdraws Diplomats from Iran and Indonesia

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Thousands Protest Against Prophet Drawings

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Internet T-Shirt Vendor, MetroSpy, Profits from Muhammad Caricature Conflict

    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Muslim Leaders Urge Calm


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    Muhammad Caricature Watch: Christian Anti-Muslim Riot in Nigeria Turns Deadly

    February 21, 2006 /

    People stand around the Kingdom Heritage School Sunday, Feb. 19, 2006, at the city of Maiduguri, Nigeria, after it was damaged during protests on Saturday. Thousands of Nigerian Muslims protesting caricatures depicting the Prophet Muhammad attacked Christians and burned churches in northeastern Nigeria, killing at least 15 people, police and residents said.

    ASSociated Press: Anti-Muslim Riot in Nigeria Turns Deadly

    Christian mobs rampaged through a southern Nigerian city Tuesday, burning mosques and killing several people in an outbreak of anti-Muslim violence that followed deadly protests against caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad over the weekend.

    Residents and witnesses in the southern, predominantly Christian city of Onitsha said several Muslims with origins in the north were beaten to death by mobs which also burned two mosques there.

    “The mosque at the main market has been burnt and I’ve counted at least six dead bodies on the streets,” Izzy Uzor, an Onitsha resident and businessman, told The Associated Press by telephone. “The whole town is in a frenzy and people are running in all directions.”

    The violence appeared to be in reprisal for anti-Christian violence Saturday in the mostly Muslim northern city of Maiduguri in which thousands of Muslims protesting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad attacked Christians and burned churches, killing at least 18 people.

    An unidentified man walks near to a church that was burnt during violent protests yesterday at the city of Maiduguri, Nigeria, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2006.

    The violence has to STOP.

    But, did the fanatical Muslim organizers of the Muhammad Caricature protests really think that the WEST was ONLY going to take it ?

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