Cartoon Furor Exposes Double Standards

I think more than enough has been said about these cartoons. Yet I'm not surprised that a liberal publication like the Nation would be taking the politically correct slant on this issue. It is true that the invasion of Iraq has set up a situation which has parallels to German attitudes in the 20's and 30s. Nonetheless it is non-muslim civilians in Western Europe who are being killed or threatened with death by the clerics. NOT THE OTHER WAY ROUND. Most Europeans were opposed to the invasion so why should they have to put up with this? ( Look below this news item for the one on "Holocast Denial" and freedom of the press.)

The cartoons in the Danish papers numbered 12 but had become 15 by the time they got to the Middle East. Where did the three extras, the really vile ones, come from? It could only be a Muslim cleric who had to have made the most denigrating cartoons of all. Maybe he should have his hands chopped off for the pig Mohammed caricature alone, since that seems to be the price he seems to have set.
Fatwas, murder, bounties, burning embassies and stores, killing neighbours who had never heard of Denmark, because they were not Muslims, threats of 9/11s everywhere, mass insanity and self-destruction. Can't they tell cartoons from real life?
When will the terrible twos end and some people grow up? And not just them but those who are always apologizing for their grossest excesses.

I have seen the twelve cartoons, and there is in my mind not much "bad" with them; I do not know of the other three. The worst of the twelve is likely the one with the turban with a bomb. This is now available in Tilburg, the Netherlands, as a T-shirt with the slogan "I hate violence" for Euro 19.95. That is real freedom of speech.

I understand that in the Muslim world itself, pictures of the prophet existed until the 18th century, and that these pictures are in fact not forbidden in the Quran.

My feelings exactly. The whole thing is ridiculous. This is like the furor about "Satanic Verses". If the clerics had simply ignored this mediocre book it would have been "remaindered" back in the eighties and that would have been the end of this issue.

The site is <a href="http://www.mohammedcartoons.nl">http://www.mohammedcartoons.nl</a>

"But something else is at work — double standards and insidious attempts at delegitimizing the Muslim protests."

boo hoo wah wah cry cry cry

Do these pinheads ever get the clue that it's their rampaging disregard for the rights of others, their safety, and their property that delegitimizes their protests, and not the comments of others?

Take a grow up pill, and stfu.

The cartoons "kicked" muslims??? Get real.

I saw the cartoons. They were dumb, and bland. I see worse religious jokes on South Park every weekend. There's worse everywhere on the web. The cartoons were boring enough that they should have been forgotten 2 minutes after they were seen. The only people who would get truly offended by these cartoons are the thin-skinned, or the religious fanatics. Both of which seriously need to get a life.

The world should not pander to the antics of these kinds of people. I do not want our media's actions dictated by the sensitivities of fanatics.

One more thought about the cartoons. <br />
Muslims extremists have created a new international law called the "insult law. The penalty is as harsh as they wish and we have less rights than a Gitmo prisoner to complain. We have a de facto state religion now that is both idiosyncratic and 98% of us don't know the rules for. The penalty for such ignorance may be death and we have no right to do anything about it. And good leftists everywhere are crying that these religious customs from the 5th century are not properly respected. <br />
I am glad for the occasional reminder about where their religious convictions are coming from (since they profess to have none), and how much they would cost me if they got their way completely. And thanks for the state religion they are ramming down our throats. Why did the church/state separatists pick that one again?<br />
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For anyone interested the three faked cartoons can be linked at <a href="http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/02/islamic-society-of-denmark-used-fake.html">http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/02/islamic-society-of-denmark-used-fake.html</a> <br />
Warning these three cartoons, faked by the Mullahs, are truly offensive. But they are also as legal as the real, more respectful twelve. Lucky for them.

Interesting cartoons those faked three, oddly enough in one of my previous postings I said the following:

"I saw the cartoons and they were so tame it was pathetic.

If someone REALLY wanted to provoke Mulsims they would have simply portrayed Mohammed as a pig with a US flag as as his turban enjoying the sights of an all male stripper review while fondling a goat."

That was before I saw the three crazymakers.

Now could someone please tell me how a Muslim Imam can get away with spreading around pictures of Mohammed as a pig without getting bitchslapped all the way to Muslim hell?

Hell, how about any of the piks, real or not?

There is no hell, no heaven, no allah. Mohammed was a real guy, who liked total control over his followers. The imams know this, they just use people who believe for their own political purposes. Leaders created religion for this reason since before recorded history.

still doesn't answer my question tho', does it?

Well the followers should bitchslap their imams for sure. But I think the paramount thing they teach their followers is obedience to the imam, so I think it's a moot point.

Do any of you that have posted above have pubic hair yet? I appologize to Vive for posting this it seems to have drawn out the smallest membered members we have.

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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche