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February 15, 2006
Muslim Cartoon Rage Update
Topics: Understanding Islam
As we move into another day of the "Comic Jihad" (movie) over images of Islam's founder, Muhammad, incredibly, their appears to be no shortage of Muslims willing to behave like animals over silly cartoons. The fact that radical Muslims are willing to go berserk over a cartoon says more about their mindset and culture than it does about a cartoon. Here's a quick summary of news that help to make that point clear.
OIC Wants Religious Tolerance Bedrock of UN Rights Body: Muslim countries are pressing for a ban on religious intolerance to be part of the bedrock of a planned new United Nations human rights body ... certain governments have expressed a wish to include a reference to the protection of particular values in the resolution" that would create the UN Human Rights Council. ... the new UN body should strive to "prevent instances of intolerance, discrimination, incitement of hatred and violence arising from any actions against religions, prophets and beliefs which threaten the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms." - (This is the MOST DANGEROUS result of the cartoon jihad, and gives Islam and Muhammad special status over all other faiths. Why, because Christian and Jewish symbols and images have always been fair game for ridicule, satire, and criticsim, but ONLY when Muslims are offended is the Western world suppose to SUBMIT to crushing long tolerated and well established democratic values. This is a serious step toward Islamization of the West, and long part of the Islamic agenda. The Danish imams that initiated the cartoon jihad had exactly this in mind. Where was the UN body while Christ has been ridiculed all these years? Why now for Muhammad, who founded a movement that has been the wellspring of terrorism in the world today?)
Cartoon Protests in Pakistan Leave 3 Dead: Gunfire and rioting erupted Wednesday as tens of thousands of people took to the streets in several Pakistani cities during the country's third consecutive day of violent protests over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons. Three people were killed, including an 8-year-old boy, ... More than 70,000 people flooded the streets of the northwestern city of Peshawar, ... A bus terminal operated by South Korea's Sammi Corp. was torched, ... Protesters burned a KFC restaurant, three movie theaters and the offices of the main mobile phone company in the country. (All over cartoons, folks, we're talking about cartoons. Being sensitive over your prophet is one thing, behaving like mindless fools is quite another. Accepting that these people are being encouraged by their clerics and fueled by the bedouin mentality inherent in their culture, do they have no sense of proportionality? Or is such a concept foreign to other than civilized societies?)
Muslim outfits protest against 'outrageous' Prophet cartoons: About a thousand Muslims took out a procession, through the main streets of the town, holding placards denouncing the 'outrageous' act of the paper. They shouted slogans against Denmark and other Western countries and also burnt an effigy of the Danish Press. ... In a memorandum addressed to the President of India ... they said that the Prophet was the embodiment of peace, mutual love and non-violence ... No follower of Islam could ever tolerate sacrilege against the Prophet, the memorandum said. The agitation led by Haji Liaqat Ali Dalal, chief of the Iqbal Education Society, was peaceful. (To these people, their prophet may well be "the embodiment of peace, mutual love and non-violence, since that's how they protested, except for the little matter of burning of the Danish press in effigy. But on the other hand, the statement that "No follower of Islam could ever tolerate sacrilege against the Prophet", does sound a bit like "intolerance".)
Muhammad Cartoon Protests Move Into Christian Town in Turkey: All over the Muslim world people have demonstrated and even burnt down and attacked Danish and other European embassies. The first victims due to the paintings were the Assyrians/Syriacs of Iraq. Six churches belonging to this group have been attacked and three Christian Assyrians/Syriacs have been killed. The massive pressure and the persecutions have extremely frightened the Christians who live among Muslims. (And rightly so, Muslims seem to have a habit out of persecuting Christians)
Indonesian importers launch boycott of Danish products: The Association of Indonesian Importers Wednesday launched a trade boycott of products from Denmark over the controversial publishing of caricatures depicting the Prophet Mohammed. (Although the action speaks volumes toward Muslim's intolerance of criticism, owing to the fact that Indonesia has the world's largest population of Muslims, it's what one could consider an appropriate response, and one that is at least non-violent)
Muslim leaders cynically fanned the flames of cartoon chaos: Too many in the Western world are of the belief that the Muslim outrage ignited by the cartoons of Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper is a spontaneous, heartfelt reaction to a perceived insult to their religion ... The unfortunate truth is that a group of Muslim leaders from Denmark, ... decided to travel through parts of the Muslim world and inform Muslims about the latest offense against their religion ... It appears that some Muslims need to be told that they're offended. (But the real story isn't how the rage was instigated, but that Muslims all over the world could react as they did to cartoons. This speaks more of the divide that exists between the Muslim culture and that of the rest of the world. Piss Christ didn't result in Christians "anywhere" rampaging, burning, and killing, but lighting the fires of Muslim rage and hate doesn't seem to require much fuel.)
Sailor beaten to death in oil tanker over 'cartoons': A sailor was allegedly beaten to death by his colleagues on board a Norwegian oil tanker in the international waters off the coast of Fujairah, following an argument over the blasphemous cartoon published on Prophet Mohammed in a Danish daily recently. According to reliable sources, the fight among the seamen, which caused the death of one sailor, emerged after an argument between them over their differences of opinions over the slanderous and blasphemous cartoon on Prophet Mohammed. (More violence and murder over cartoons and Muslim sensibilities over Muhammad.)
Iran renames Danish pastries after prophet: Not content with pelting European embassies with Molotov cocktails to protest against cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, Iranians have decided to rename the "Danish pastries" relished by this nation of cake lovers. - (Not very original, renaming Danish pastries as "Muhammad pastries," after all, Americans had the idea first with "Freedom fries". However, this is indeed a much preferred reaction than killing people)
Thousands flock to see 'divine' calf: THOUSANDS of people flocked to southern Egypt today to seek blessing from a calf they believe was born as God's reply to the publication in Europe of cartoons depicting the prophet... Some 20,000 thousand people had gathered in front of Mohammed Abu Dif's house in the village of Tunis to see the holy mammal, whose skin folds when he was born reportedly formed the words "There is no God but Allah" ... (There's not much to say here, the story itself is a cartoon.)
More to come....
Posted by Richard at February 15, 2006 9:19 AM
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