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Muhammad Caricature Watch: 4 Killed In Afghanistan in Caricature Bloodshed
Jordanian Islamists burn Danish and U.S. flags during a protest against Prophet Muhammad’s offensive cartoons, published in Danish and several other European newspapers, in Amman, Jordan February 7, 2006.
Reuters: Afghan police kill four in cartoon bloodshed
Afghan police killed four protesters on Tuesday in some of the worst violence to erupt over satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad which have provoked a deepening crisis between Europe and the Muslim World.
British troops were ordered to the Afghan town of Maymana to restore order after crowds attacked a NATO base of Norwegian troops with guns and grenades and police opened fire bringing the protest death toll in the Middle East and Asia to nine.
Afghan protesters burn a Danish flag in the western city of Herat, Afghanistan February 7, 2006. Norwegian soldiers in the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan were attacked on Tuesday by a crowd throwing stones and which smashed their way into the force’s camp, Norway’s defence ministry said. The attack occurred three days after Norway’s embassy in Syria was torched by Muslim demonstrators angry at the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in Danish and Norwegian newspapers.
Where are the moderate Islamic clerics asking for the cessation of violence? Their silence is deafening.
“The situation is still out of control, but we have established some kind of a show of force with F-16s,” Norway’s defense ministry said. Norway was the second country after Denmark to publish the cartoons, one of which depicts Mohammad wearing a turban resembling a bomb with a fizzing fuse.
A wave of Muslim fury spread across the Middle East and Asia on Tuesday over the cartoons as leaders urged restraint and struggled to contain the protests which in recent days turned from peaceful to volatile and bloody.
Afghan protesters burn a Danish flag in the western city of Herat, Afghanistan February 7, 2006. Norwegian soldiers in the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan were attacked on Tuesday by a crowd throwing stones and which smashed their way into the force’s camp, Norway’s defence ministry said. The attack occurred three days after Norway’s embassy in Syria was torched by Muslim demonstrators angry at the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in Danish and Norwegian newspapers.
This entire display is reminding Flap of the inanity of the French riots by Islamic immigrant youths. The countries so affected with Muhammad caricature demonstrations must show force, quell the violence and protect the foreign embassies.
Indonesian students burn a tire on a Danish flag during a protest outside their university in Makassar, South Sulawesi province February 7, 2006.In Iran, which is locked in a nuclear stand-off with the West and which has cut trade ties with Denmark where the images were first published, a crowd pelted the Danish embassy in Tehran with petrol bombs and stones for a second day.
After rioters set Danish missions ablaze in Syria and Lebanon at the weekend, the European Union presidency issued a strongly worded warning to 19 countries across the Middle East that they are obliged to protect EU missions.
Denmark’s Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller called his Iranian counterpart “and demanded in clear terms that Iran does all it can to protect the embassy and Danish lives,” a spokesman said, as the Tehran mission was once again attacked.
So, who is “snow-balling” these demonstrations? It is likely that this is an organized attempt to stir unrest and violence.
Who will benefit?
The fundamentatist Islamic regimes……..
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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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Iran Watch: Iran Paper Plans Holocaust Cartoons
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures as he speaks at a women’s conference in Tehran, Iran February 6, 2006. Ahmadinejad says the slaughter of Europe’s Jews is ‘a myth’
AlJazerra: Iran paper plans Holocaust cartoons
Iran’s largest selling newspaper has announced it is holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.“It will be an international cartoon contest about the Holocaust,” Farid Mortazavi, the graphics editor for Hamshahri newspaper, which is published by Tehran’s conservative-run municipality, said on Monday.
He said the plan was to turn the tables on the assertion that newspapers can print offensive material in the name of freedom of expression.
“The Western papers printed these sacrilegious cartoons on the pretext of freedom of expression, so let’s see if they mean what they say and also print these Holocaust cartoons,” he asserted.
Send them over Farid, Flap will print them.
But, Flap will also comment.
Mortazavi said Tuesday’s edition of the paper will invite cartoonists to enter the competition, with “private individuals” offering gold coins to the best 12 artists – the same number of cartoons that appeared in the conservative Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
Flap will be waiting.
The E-mail address is fullosseousflap – at – gmail dot com.
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Muhammad Caricature Watch: A Right to Blasphemy
The Cox & Forkum cartoon says it all……..
The Muhammad Cartoons:
Other sites that have the cartoons are:
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Muhammad Caricature Watch: New Protests Erupt Around the World
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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: New Protests Erupt Around the World
Pakistani protesters burn a Danish flag to condemn the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in European papers , Monday, Feb. 6, 2006 in Lahore, Pakistan. Pakistan opposed violent protests against newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad on Monday as local journalists demonstrated against the drawings that have inflamed the Muslim world.
Reuters: New protests erupt in cartoon row
Fresh protests erupted across Asia and the Middle East over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad on Monday, despite calls by world leaders for calm after Danish diplomatic missions were set ablaze in Lebanon and Syria.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed alarm and urged restraint but oil giant Iran, which is reviewing trade ties with countries that published the cartoons, vowed to respond to “an anti-Islamic and Islamophobic current.”
In Iran:
Iranian woman shouts slogans, as she holds photos of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, during a rally to protest against the publication of cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad in European newspapers, in Tehran.
In India:
Protesting students of Jamia Milia Islamia University burn a symbolic flag of Denmark in New Delhi, India, Monday, Feb. 6, 2006. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannons Monday at hundreds of protesting students in the Indian capital, while a strike called by Islamic groups shut down the main city of Indian-controlled Kashmir. Both groups were protesting the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in European newspapers.
In Afghanistan:
Afghan policeman guards as Afghan protesters march during a demonstration against the cartoons depicting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, in Kandahar , Afghanistan, Monday, Feb. 6, 2006. Clashes in Afghanistan left one person dead and four others injured, and police fired warning shots to protect a U.S. consulate in Indonesia as protests against the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad roiled across Asia on Monday.
Afghan Police Fire On Stone-Throwing Cartoon Protesters
Afghan protesters shout slogans as they burn a Danish flag outside their embassy during a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Feb. 6, 2006.
In Indonesia:
ndonesian Muslim protesters burn a Danish flag during a demonstration in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, Monday, Feb. 6, 2006. Muslims rallied in several cities in the world’s most populous Muslim country Monday to show anger over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in Western newspapers. Writings on the posters say ‘Put Danish Prime Minister on international tribunal.’
Indonesian men try to pry the U.S. seal from the gate of the U.S. consulate in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second largest city, Monday, Feb. 6, 2006. Police fired warning shots to protect the consulate as protests against the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad roiled across Asia on Monday.
CNN: Asian Muslims protest cartoons
In New Zealand:
Muslims protest in Auckland against the publication of cartoons that mock the Prophet Muhammad.
The Age: Cartoon rage spreads to New Zealand
Michelle Malkin has “WITH OUR BLOOD WE WILL REDEEM OUR PROPHET”
Moderate Moslem groups and Western leaders condemned the weekend violence and calls to arms and called for calm. (Barcepundit parses the plea from Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.)
Jim Hoft has more on the casualty count. BBC reports 4 dead.
Muslim dissident Ibn Warraq has a must-read manifesto published in Der Spiegel over the weekend.
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross at The Counterterrorism Blog has similar thoughts and puts the Danish cartoon controversy in context.
Victor Davis Hanson has an exclusive piece over at the indispensable Real Clear Politics: “A European Awakening Against Islamic Fascism?”
This is a wake-up call for the Western World on the fanaticism of fundamental Islam.
Christians and Jews have been blasphemed on a daily, weekly, monthly basis for centuries and more vilification than these ianane and childish cartoons.
As Flap has said before ……these folks need to get over it.
By the way, don’t these protesters have jobs or better things to do than burning Danish flags?
The cartoons:
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Muhammad Caricature Watch: The False Cartoons and Danish Imams
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Muhammad Caricature Watch: Protests Over Muhammad Drawings IntensifyMuhammad Caricature Watch: Anger Over Cartoons of Muhammad Escalates
Day by Day by Chris Muir on CNN
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Cox & Forkum: Publication of Caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad by a Danish Newspaper
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Muhammad Caricature Watch: The False Cartoons and Danish Imams
Fake anti-Muslim cartoons attributed to Jyllands-Posten.
Michelle Malkin has THE LIES OF THE DANISH IMAMS
Lorenzo Vidino at The Counterterrorism Blog follows up on his report about how a delegation of Danish imams led by Ahmed Abdel Rahman Abu Laban disseminated fake anti-Muslim cartoons and attributed them to the Jyllands-Posten to stir up Islamist rage.
The Counterterrorism Blog: More lies from Danish Imams (Updated 2/5)
Last Friday the CT Blog revealed how a delegation of Danish Muslims, led by Copenhagen imam Abu Laban, toured the Middle East in December and showed fabricated cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in a very offensive fashion, even though the pictures had never appeared on Jyllands Posten.
The controversy has now exploded in Denmark. Friday night Danish public television, DR, ran two interesting stories about Abu Laban, the man who organized the delegation’s trip to the Middle East. While the first profiled him, showing his extensive links to the Egyptian group Gamaa Islamiya, the second showed his double-talk. Abu Laban, in fact, was first shown speaking on Danish television condemning the boycott of Danish goods (in English), then shown interviewed on al Jazeera, cheerfully commenting on the effectiveness of the boycott (in Arabic). To see the stories go to DR’s website, click on “Se TV AVISEN” on the right and select the news broadcast from Friday, Feb. 3, at 9 PM (the stories start on the 23rd minute).
Moreover, Andy Cochran has just made available to me the English translation of the Arabic letter that the Danish Muslim delegation presented during their tour of the Middle East. To see the document, irrefutable proof of the delegation’s intent to create animosity, click here: Download danish_letter.pdf
UPDATE 2/5: The original files in Arabic and Danish, first published in the Danish daily Ekstra Bladet, can be found here.
Jim Hoft has much more on Abu Laban, including a video link to Fox News Channel reporter Jonathan Hunt’s interview with the terror-sympathizing Laban.
Michelle Malkin has this link from the American Thinker.
So, a concerted effort by the Danish Imams to disseminate FALSELY ATTRIBUTED and MORE PROFANE cartoons to the Arab World.
Disinformation and inflammatory/violent demonstrations reminds Flap of the old Soviet Union/Communist playbook.
Do you think the Danes are learning about their Islofascist problem?
Perhaps……..
Flap will have more links and sample fake cartoons as they become available. Some links are not working – probably due to traffic.
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Muhammad Caricature Watch: Angry Demonstrators Set Danish Consulate in Beirut Ablaze
A Lebanese Islamist stands outside the burning Danish consulate in Beirut February 5, 2006. Angry demonstrators set the Danish consulate in Beirut ablaze on Sunday and the violent turn in protests over publication of cartoons of Prophet Mohammad drew condemnation from European capitals and moderate Muslims.
Reuters: Danish consulate in Beirut ablaze
Angry demonstrators set the Danish consulate in Beirut ablaze on Sunday and the violent turn in protests over publication of cartoons of Prophet Mohammad drew condemnation from European capitals and moderate Muslims.
Syrians set fire to the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus on Saturday. They damaged the Swedish embassy and tried to storm the French mission but were held off by riot police.
The Danish Foreign Ministry urged Danes on Sunday to leave Lebanon and advised its citizens not to travel there. Police fired tear gas to disperse the protest of about 20,000 people.
As peaceful demonstrations turned to ransacking Danish diplomatic offices and burning them in Syria and Lebanon, world leaders as well as prominent moderate Muslims appealed for calm and said such violence damaged the image of Islam worldwide.
“This has nothing to do with Islam at all,” Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora told Future television. “Destabilizing security and vandalism give a wrong image of Islam. Prophet Mohammad cannot be defended this way.”
Violence over the publication of these cartoons is BS and as it continues the image of Islam continues to suffer in the world community.
Michelle Malkin has ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER EMBASSY TORCHED
Jeff Jacoby: “We are all Danes now“
Mark Steyn: “‘Sensitivity’ can have brutal consequences“
David Warren: “The Rage“
Austin Bay: It’s not a row. It’s a war.
Instapundit’s Glenn and Helen podcast is up: Timely and excellent as usual. Guests are Austin Bay, Jim Dunnigan of StrategyPage and milblogger Michael Yon. Must-listen.
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Muhammad Caricature Watch: Syrian Protesters Set Danish Embassy Ablaze Over Cartoon
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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: Syrian Protesters Set Danish Embassy Ablaze Over Cartoon
Syrian demonstrators protest outside the burning Danish embassy in Damascus February 4, 2006. Hundreds of Syrian demonstrators set the Danish embassy on fire on Saturday to protest the printing by a Danish newspaper of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, a Reuters witness said.
Reuters: Syrian protesters set Danish embassy ablaze over cartoon
Thousands of outraged Syrians protesting offensive caricatures of Islam’s prophet torch the Danish Embassy in Damascus on Saturday Feb. 4, 2006. Police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse demonstrators who crowded outside the Norwegian Embassy after earlier setting fire to the Danish Embassy, about six kilometers (four miles) away
Furious Syrians set fire to the Danish embassy on Saturday as protests over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad spread and oil giant Iran said it was reviewing trade ties with countries that have published such caricatures.
Chanting “God is Great,” thousands of protesters stormed the embassy, burned the Danish flag and replaced it with a flag reading “No God but Allah, Mohammad is His Prophet.” They set fires which badly damaged the building before being put out.
No one was hurt as the embassy was closed at the time.
Denmark is at the eye of the storm as the cartoons that Muslims demonstrators find offensive, one of the Prophet with a turban resembling a bomb, first appeared in a Danish daily.
In another twist, Iran said it had formed a committee to review trade ties with countries that published cartoons that are deemed to insult the Prophet.
“A committee has been formed to review trade ties,” a spokesman for the presidential office said.
From Gaza to Lahore, demonstrators rallied on Saturday to condemn the cartoons in what has developed into a face-off between press freedom and religious respect.
For many Muslims depicting the Prophet Mohammad is forbidden and European leaders have called for calm, expressing deep concern about the furor that has erupted over the last days.
Newspapers have insisted on their right to print the cartoons, citing freedom of speech.
With the French riots a few months ago and now these violent demonstrations do you think our European friends particularly the LEFT will get the message regarding Islamic extremist fundamentalism?
How about the American LEFT and allowing domestic oil drilling to relieve some of our dependence on foreign oil?
Doubtful.
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Muhammad Caricature Watch: Protests Over Muhammad Drawings Intensify
Human Events Online Click to ENLARGE each cartoon
AP: Protests Over Muhammad Drawings Intensify
Outrage over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad erupted in a swell of protests across the Muslim world Friday, with demonstrators demanding revenge against Denmark and death for those they accuse of defaming Islam’s holiest figure.
In Iraq, the leading Shiite cleric denounced the drawings first published in a Danish newspaper in September, one of which depicted the prophet wearing a turban shaped as a bomb. But the cleric also suggested militant Muslims were partly to blame for distorting the image of Islam.
Some European newspapers reprinted the caricatures this week, prompting protests Friday in Britain, Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Palestinian areas. In Sudan, some even urged al-Qaida terrorists to target Denmark.
“Strike, strike, Bin Laden,” shouted some in a crowd of about 50,000 who filled a Khartoum square.
The U.S. and British governments criticized publication of the caricatures as offensive to Muslims, raising questions about whether the line between free speech and incitement had been crossed.
The Danish government tried to contain the damage. Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller called Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and said the Danish government “cannot accept an assault against Islam,” according to Abbas’ office.
On Monday, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said his government could not apologize on behalf of a newspaper, but that he personally “never would have depicted Muhammad, Jesus or any other religious character in a way that could offend other people.”
Many Muslims consider the Danish government’s reaction inadequate.
Flap disagrees with the United States government.
This is a free speech issue and the Islamic world better get over it. They do NOT control the Western World or the Western Press. If they wish to protest or boycott so be it.
By the way, BUY DANISH!
Hundreds of Morrocan Muslims protest against the Danish and Swedish publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, in front of the Parliament in Rabat, Morroco, Friday, Feb. 3, 2006. Incensed Muslims filled squares and streets across the Middle East on Friday to condemn Europe’s publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, trampling and burning Danish flags, and even calling on al-Qaida to carry out revenge attacks.
More photos of the IDIOTAS at Michelle Malkin: IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Oh Yes……American Newspapers WIMP OUT and will not publish the cartoons…….Disgracefully politically correct……..
Stay Tuned………
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Muhammad Caricature Watch: Anger Over Cartoons of Muhammad Escalates
OUTRAGE: Palestinians burn a homemade Danish flag Monday in front of a European Union building in Gaza City, Gaza Strip.
Los Angeles Times: Anger Over Cartoons of Muhammad Escalates
Protests erupted in the Muslim world and militants issued threats against Europeans on Thursday in response to the publication in Western media of controversial caricatures of the prophet Muhammad.
Debate over the drawings, which were first published in September by a Danish newspaper, is being seen as a collision between freedom of expression and religious sensitivities in European nations, where Muslim populations have struggled to fit in.
The caricatures have appeared recently in newspapers in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and even Jordan.
Muslims, who consider any depiction of God and the prophets blasphemy, are outraged by the caricatures, one of which shows Muhammad with a bomb as a turban. Another shows the prophet standing on a cloud as he tells a group of suicide bombers that paradise has run out of the virgins said to await martyrs upon their death.
The conflict heated up on multiple fronts Thursday. In the Gaza Strip, masked Palestinians fired weapons into the air as they surrounded an office of the European Union and a French cultural center. Two Palestinian militant groups threatened to retaliate against the newspapers by kidnapping European citizens and targeting churches and European offices.
Thes folks need to learn some sensitivity and TOLERANCE of others. The world does NOT revolve around Muhammad as much as they may WISH it.
A Jordanian weekly that ran the cartoons with a plea to Muslims to “be reasonable” fired its editor, withdrew the edition and faced possible sanction from the government, Associated Press reported.
In Paris, the tabloid France Soir abruptly fired its managing editor for reprinting the caricatures in Wednesday’s edition, the cover of which carried the paper’s own cartoon of Muhammad alongside Christian, Jewish and Buddhist holy figures. “Don’t complain, Muhammad, we’re all being caricatured here,” the Christian God says.
Tunisia and Morocco banned the sale of copies of France Soir.
In Jakarta this morning, Muslims protested in the lobby of a high-rise that houses the Danish Embassy, pelted the building with eggs and burned the Danish flag outside.
Editorialists, political leaders and advocates of press freedom said the Muslim backlash, which has included boycotts, death threats and flag burnings, jeopardized democratic rights.
Certainly the Muslims have the right to protest but to carry it to the extremes of violence is over the top.
And the American/European press cowering to religious extremist demands is disheartening and saddening. A free press is a free press.
Book burning is book burning.
Michelle Malkin has a good piece, THE COWARDLY AMERICAN MEDIA (VIDEO ADDED)
“The reaction in Muslim countries shocks me because it confirms the weight that radical Islam has acquired,” said Patrick Chappatte, a cartoonist quoted in the Swiss newspaper Le Temps. “A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.”
But Muslim leaders accused European media of provoking strife by humiliating Islam. “Freedom of expression cannot be the freedom to lie,” said Dalil Boubakeur, imam of the Mosque of Paris and president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith. “The prophet did not found a terrorist religion, but on the contrary, a religion of peace.”
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said the furor had exacerbated religious tensions.
“Any insult to the holy prophet — peace be upon him — is an insult to more than a billion Muslims,” Karzai said in a statement.
Western leaders responded gingerly. They were mindful that the issue could unleash violence reminiscent of the assassination of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who was killed in 2004 by a Dutch Muslim extremist angered by the filmmaker’s depictions of Islam.
Stay tuned as the Europeans walk the tight rope between freedom of expression and their radical Islamic immigrant communities’ protests this weekend.
Michelle Malkin: THE MUHAMMAD CARTOONS BLOGBURST
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Dentistry Today: Toothbrush Piercing
This is taking oral hygiene to a new level……..
Prototype designed by Hadji Mouloudi, while studying at the Ecole Cantonnale des Arts de Lausanne.
H/T Medgadget
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