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Mohammed Cartoon Watch: Osama bin Laden Issues Warning
One of the Mohammed cartoons that sparked riots last year throughout the Muslim world
Al Qaeda’s Osama bin Laden issued a new video today (actually a graphic and audio recording). In the recording Osama bin Laden addressed the “wise men” of the European Union, slamming the publication of drawings insulting to the Prophet Muhammad and vowing a strong reaction.The message, which appeared on a militant Web site that has carried al-Qaida statements in the past and bore the logo of the extremist group’s media wing al-Sahab, showed a still image of bin Laden aiming with an AK-47.
A voice believed to be bin Laden’s described the attacks of the Europeans on women and children but said these “paled (in comparison) when you went overboard in your unbelief and freed yourselves of the etiquettes of dispute and fighting and went to the extent of publishing these insulting drawings, this is the greatest misfortune and the most dangerous.”
Today is the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War and bin Laden talks about the Mohammed Cartoons? Remember the cartoon flap originally began when?
How come no video from bin Laden? And, where is Adam Gadahn?
The leader of al Qaeda has become a cheerleader from afar for riots in the Muslim world over cartoons.
Go figure.
Update:Here is the recording:
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Mohammed Cartoon Watch: American Professor Fired in Bahrain
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Mohammed Cartoon Watch: The Price of Notariety
Mohammed Cartoon Watch: Sudan Urges Boycott of Denmark
Mohammed Cartoon Watch: Solidarity with Denmark
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Mohammed Cartoon Watch: American Professor Fired in Bahrain
A summary display of the Mohammed cartoons that sparked riots last year throughout the Muslim world
An American Professor teaching in Manama, Bahrain was fired over the display of the Mohammed cartoons on his personal website.
His students ratted him out to the university officials who initially suspended the professor but later fired him due to ongoing student protests.
“The university eventually backtracked on its decision to reinstate the professor and sacked him despite a formal apology and the removal of the cartoons from his website,” the sources said.
Gulf News did not give the name or location of the university, but marked the report from Manama in Bahrain.
A word to the wise for ANY Americans going overseas to teach or conduct business in the Islamic world. Freedom of speech is NOT a protected right in many of these countries, including Bahrain.
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Mohammed Cartoon Watch: The Price of Notariety
Mohammed Cartoon Watch: Sudan Urges Boycott of Denmark
Mohammed Cartoon Watch: Solidarity with Denmark
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Mohammed Cartoon Watch: Morocco – Cartoons Are “A Short Step from Terrorism”
One of the Mohammed cartoons that sparked riots last year throughout the Muslim world
Now, Morocco’s clerics are getting into the act in condemning Danish newpapers for reprinting the cartoons of Mohammed which previously had created riots throughout the Muslim world.
Morocco’s highest religious authority has said a decision by Danish newspapers to reprint a controversial caricature of the Prophet Mohammad was “a short step from terrorism”.
Last month Danish newspapers reprinted the cartoon, which had prompted violent protests and riots in many Muslim countries in 2006, in solidarity with the artist after three men were arrested on suspicion of planning to kill him.
Morocco’s Higher Council of Ulema said in a statement issued on Sunday that the reprinting “reflects like a mirror a surprising ethical deficiency that is a short step from terrorism, with destructive effects for all humanity”.
The MONEY QUOTE:
- It said the cartoons represented “aggression against the sacred values of Muslims” and urged authorities in countries where the cartoons have also been reprinted to “act with all haste to bring the aggressors to cease their aggression”.
In other words, governments should step in to prevent criticism of radical Islam.
Please…….
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Mohammed Cartoon Watch: The Price of Notariety
Mohammed Cartoon Watch: Sudan Urges Boycott of Denmark
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Mohammed Cartoon Watch: The Price of Notariety
One of the Mohammed cartoons that sparked riots last year throughout the Muslim world
The Wall Street Journal has a piece today (via Michelle Malkin) about the PRICE OF NOTARIETY experienced by Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.
Kurt Westergaard is in hiding from Islamic militants who want him dead. Now, the Danish cartoonist says he’s ready to part with the source of his travails, a small ink sketch of the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban.But first there is the ticklish question of price.”I would like to think that it has some value,” says Mr. Westergaard, the 72-year-old creator of one of the world’s most famous cartoons and one that inflamed Muslims world-wide. “It is a symbol of democracy and freedom of expression. I think I should have a little money for this,” he says.
But how do you fix the value of something that auction houses won’t touch, that museums won’t hang on their walls and that still inspires murderous passions?
What a price to pay! Hiding from Islamic militants for the rest of your life.
In the meantime, Denmark is retailiating against Sudan who earlier in the week initiated yet another boycott over the reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
Denmark said Thursday it will oppose any debt relief deal for Sudan in response to the Sudanese president’s comments urging the Muslim world to boycott Danish goods over the publication of a Prophet Muhammad cartoon.Interior Minister Ulla Toernaes said she summoned Sudan’s ambassador to Denmark to demand an explanation of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s comments a day earlier.Al-Bashir said Wednesday that he would bar Danes from Sudan and told tens of thousands of people at a government-backed rally in Khartoum that the Muslim world should boycott Denmark because of a cartoon reprinted recently in Danish newspapers.
So, is freedom of expression worth the price? And, who will pay?
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Mohammed Cartoon Watch: Sudan Urges Boycott of Denmark
President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan today called upon the Muslim World to boycott Denmark because of the Mohammed cartoons.President Omar al-Bashir said Wednesday that he would bar Danes from Sudan and told tens of thousands of people at a government-backed rally that the Muslim world should boycott Denmark because of a reprinted cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad.
“We urge all Muslims around the world to boycott Danish commodities, goods, companies, institutions, organizations and personalities,” al- Bashir told the crowd outside the Republic Palace in downtown Khartoum.
“Down, down, Denmark!” shouted the crowd. Al-Bashir vowed that “not a single Danish foot will from now on desecrate the land of Sudan.”
It was not clear whether al-Bashir planned to act on his rhetoric and force out the hundreds of Danes who work in Sudan, most in aid organizations, with a dozen in the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Sudan. Danish diplomats in Khartoum said they had not been notified of a new trade boycott and that Sudanese authorities had not notified them about expelling Danes.
Seventeen Danish newspapers reprinted the cartoon showing Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban this month in a gesture of solidarity after police said they uncovered a plot to kill the cartoon’s artist.
Sudan was one of the nations where large protests were held against Denmark in 2006 when the cartoon and 11 others depicting Muhammad and Islam were first published. In riots that followed around the Muslim world, dozens of people were killed and several Danish embassies were attacked, while Danish goods were boycotted.
Flap says SUPPORT Denmark for allowing freedom of speech. Do NOT let these Islamic extremists crush freedom of expression.
MM asks why aren’t ANY American diplomats saying ANYTHING about this outrage?
In the meantime, how about SUPPORTING DENMARK.
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Mohammed Cartoon Watch: Solidarity with Denmark
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Mohammed Cartoon Watch: Solidarity with Denmark
Michelle Malkin asked today that we show solidarity or “Sammenhold” with Denmark over the Mohammed Cartoons or Muhammed Caricatures that Flap has written about extensively here.
This is especially noteworthy since Denmark arrested five jihadists planning the murder of one of the cartoonists, Kurt Westergaard. Here is one of his Mohammed cartoons:
So, Flap calls on all in the blogosphere to show “SAMMENHOLD” with Denmark and for FREEDOM OF SPEECH and republish their favorite Mohammed Cartoon today – two years since the Flap.
And, shame on the American MSM for refusing to publish these caricatures.
Update:
Captain Ed says show solidarity as well.
Flap will be happy to link any bloggers reprinting a or many Mohammed Cartoons today. Either leave a comment or a trackback.
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Muhammad Danish Cartoon Watch: Danish Court Rejects Suit
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Muhammad Caricature Watch: Teguh Santosa On Trial for Publishing Muhammad Cartoons.
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Muhammad Caricature Watch: Tens of Thousands Protest Muhammad Caricatures in Pakistan and Turkey
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Cox & Forkum: Opus Akbar
New item: Washington Post, Other Newspapers Won’t Run ‘Opus’ Cartoon Mocking Radical Islam.
A popular comic strip that poked fun at the Rev. Jerry Falwell without incident one week ago was deemed too controversial to run over the weekend because this time it took a humorous swipe at Muslim fundamentalists.
The Washington Post and several other newspapers around the country did not run Sunday’s installment of Berkeley Breathed’s “Opus,” in which the spiritual fad-seeking character Lola Granola appears in a headscarf and explains to her boyfriend, Steve, why she wants to become a radical Islamist.
The installment did not appear in the Post’s print version, but it ran on WashingtonPost.com and Salon.com. The same will hold true for the upcoming Sept. 2 strip, which is a continuation of the plotline.
The Jerry Falwell comic strip is here.
The Wahington Post and other American newspapers have NO problems with political satire on the comic pages if it involves the Christian RIGHT but are afraid when it involves Islam.
Remember the FLAP over the Muhammed Caricatures from Denmark last year?
The August 26th Opus strip about fundamental Islam is here.
The Washington Post Writers Group syndicates “Opus,” and the Post is the cartoon’s home newspaper. The syndicate sent out an alert about the two strips in question, according to Writers Group comics editor Amy Lago.
There was also considerable alarm over the strip at the highest echelons of The Washington Post Co., according to the sources.
Lago said she flagged some of the syndicate’s newspaper clients for two reasons: because of the possibility that the jokes about Islam would be misconstrued and because of the sexual innuendo in the punchline.
“The strip came in and I knew we would have to send out an alert to all the newspapers,” Lago said. “I do that fairly regularly with materials that might pose issues for local areas. … We knew that because it was a sex joke, it could raise issues. And there is another client that has issues with any Muslim depiction whatsoever.”
Sounds like a DOUBLE STANDARD to Flap.
Is the Washington Post afraid of offending the Muslims? Or afraid of a backhanded sex joke?
Oh PLEASE………
The Wapo will publish America’s national security secrets without hesitation and have done so on numerous occasions.
Maybe Wapo editors are afraid the Islamic fundamentalists might burn their building down? Or kidnap and behead their reporters?
Is there any WONDER why the American newspaper industry is dying a “SLOW DEATH?”
Freedom of speech – NOT found at the Washington Post.
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Muhammad Danish Cartoon Watch: Danish Court Rejects Suit
Protesters denounce the satirical images of the Prophet Mohammed in Montpellier, France in February, 2006. A Norwegian commercial television channel was set to broadcast pictures of caricatures in a documentary on the row surrounding last year’s publication of the cartoons, Norwegian media reported.
AP: Court rejects suit over prophet Cartoons
A Danish court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by Muslim organizations against the newspaper that first published the Prophet Muhammad cartoons that touched off protests in the Islamic world.
The City Court in Aarhus said it could not be ruled out that some Muslims had been offended by the 12 drawings printed in Jyllands-Posten, but said there was no reason to assume that the cartoons were meant to “belittle Muslims.”
The newspaper published the cartoons on Sept. 30, 2005 with a text saying it was challenging a perceived self-censorship among artists afraid to offend Islam.
The Quote:
“It cannot be ruled out that the drawings have offended some Muslims’ honor, but there is no basis to assume that the drawings are, or were conceived as, insulting or that the purpose of the drawings was to present opinions that can belittle Muslims,” the court said.
No United States Constitution or First Amendment Freedom of Speech Rights in Denmark. But, why is the New York Times and other MSM media in the United States afraid to publish the cartoons?
How do you spell HYPOCRITE PRESS?
The New York Times has no hesitation to publish America’s secrets on its War on Terror but doesn’t want to offend Muslims?
The plaintiffs, who claimed to have the backing of 20 more Islamic organizations in the Scandinavian country, had sought $16,860 in damages from Jyllands-Posten Editor in Chief Carsten Juste and Culture Editor Flemming Rose, who supervised the cartoon project.
The lawsuit said the cartoons depict Muhammad “as belligerent, oppressing women, criminal, crazy and unintelligent, and a connection is made between the Prophet and war and terror.”
Well, there is a connection. Notice the court did not rule on this specific pleading.
If Muslims wish to live in Western society, they had better get used to critique of their religion and way of life. But, do they wish to assimilate and live in peace?
NOPE……..
Stay tuned for more protests……..
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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
Denmark’s national TV2 channel broadcast Friday excerpts from a video made by members of an extreme-right party showing the Prophet Mohammed as a beer-drinking camel and a drunken terrorist attacking Copenhagen.
Middle East Times: Danish TV airs video of Prophet as beer-drinking camel
Filmed in August, the video shows young adherents of the Danish People’s Party (DPP) mocking the Islamic Prophet during a summer party, with some portraying Mohammed dressed in a turban and wearing a belt with explosives as others look on in laughter.
The images were shown on TV2 only fleetingly, with a youth playing the part of Mohammed visible only from the back, as well as a drawing.
The editor in chief of the television station, Lars Bennike, emphasized that the purpose of “showing the short video sequence was not at all to show the drawings or the antics of the youths” in the DPP.
“Our decision to broadcast this sequence was only due to the fact that the president of the youth branch of the party has distanced himself from this gathering,” he said. “We thought it was interesting politically and that this justified showing the video,” he added.
The participants in the August gathering were holding an informal competition to see who could draw the Prophet in the most humiliating and laughable manner. A song playing in the background contains the lyrics, “The camel Mohammed has four beers …”
The video was filmed by a member of the party’s youth wing, Martin Rosengaard Knudsen, also a member of the artists’ group called “Defending Denmark.”
Here we go again……
The president of the DPP Youth, Kenneth Kristensen, who did not participate in the party, criticized their behavior as “inconvenient.”
“It is not my kind of humor, and things would not have happened like that had I been present,” he told the Nyhedsavisen newspaper, a daily free sheet. “This kind of gathering should not occur again,” he added.
The publication in September last year of 12 caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, followed by the reprinting of the cartoons in dozens of other mostly European newspapers, sparked outrage and weeks of violent protests throughout the Muslim world, leading to several deaths.
Allah is on the story of Cartoon Jihad 2.
Stay tuned for tomorrow’s burnings and protests…….AP has the story here: Danish party regrets mocking by youth
Video showing young members of a populist political party mocking the Prophet Muhammad has surfaced on Web sites, prompting the head of the Danish party’s youth wing to express regret Friday.
But Kenneth Kristensen, chairman of the Danish People’s Party Youth, known for its anti-immigration stance, refused to apologize for the actions of its members at a summer camp in August, although he acknowledged they were problematic.
“It is bad style because it overshadows our political line,” Kristensen told The Associated Press.
He added that he believed it “is OK to poke fun at Muhammad, Jesus or Bill Clinton. We must not put limits on ourselves.”
Flap thinks the Muslim others will not feel likewise……
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