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Protests Over Muhammad Cartoon Grow

Submitted by The Fire Inside on Mon, 01/30/2006 - 1:17pm.

Seriously, this is why certain sections of the world aren't going to modernize.

What!? Hamas won the election!? Seize the government building!

BEIRUT, Lebanon - The controversy over Danish caricatures of Prophet Muhammad escalated Monday as gunmen seized an EU office in Gaza and Muslims appealed for a trade boycott of Danish products. Denmark called for its citizens in the Middle East to exercise vigilance.

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The boycotting, whatever. Feel free to spend your money as you please. In fact, it's probably better the money go toward local ownership. But storming a government building because someone drew up a caricature of Muhammad?

This would be like the Christian Coalition storming a State Department building because Kanye West is appearing on Rolling Stone as Jesus.

Some people need to get a clue.

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Just as an aside, I firmly be

Submitted by Sarah on Mon, 01/30/2006 - 9:45pm.

Just as an aside, I firmly believe that you could use that statement "This would be like the Christian Coalition storming a State Department building because Kanye West is appearing on Rolling Stone as Jesus." as like a.....thought weapon or something, that would flat out make the listener's mind simply turn off, like a light switch. I'm half being humorous here, but I also mean it. I'm not at all criticizing your metaphor.

Editor fired after publicatio

Submitted by The Fire Inside on Thu, 02/02/2006 - 2:13pm.

Editor fired after publication of Islam cartoons

PARIS - The Paris newspaper France Soir has fired its managing editor after the daily printed caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that have sparked rising protests and boycotts in the Muslim world.
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the issue had gone beyond a row between Copenhagen and the Muslim world and now centered on Western free speech versus taboos in Islam, which is now the second religion in many European countries.
In Beirut, the leader of Lebanon’s Shiite Hizbollah said the dispute would never had occurred if a 17-year-old death edict against British writer Salman Rushdie been carried out.
“Had a Muslim carried out Imam Khomeini’s fatwa against the apostate Salman Rushdie, then those low-lifers would not have dared discredit the Prophet, not in Denmark, Norway or France,

Aaaaaand it just keeps gettin

Submitted by The Fire Inside on Thu, 02/02/2006 - 8:39pm.

Aaaaaand it just keeps getting worse.

Gunmen make kidnap threats over Mohammad cartoon

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Palestinian gunmen Thursday shut down the European Union's office in Gaza City, demanding an apology for German, French and Norwegian newspapers reprinting cartoons featuring the prophet Mohammad, Palestinian security sources said.
On Wednesday, two other European newspapers -- Die Welt in Berlin, Germany, and France Soir in Paris -- published the cartoons. Both papers said they were printing the drawings in solidarity with Jyllands-Posten, citing the right to publish them in a free society with a free press.

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All that this does is give credibility to the notion that we, western nations, have to go into certain segments of the world and give an attitude adjustment.

These Arabic countries have to get a handle on an ever increasing problem, something both they and the west should have done a long time ago.

Of course, after the recent victory of Hamas, maybe this is the type of Islam the majority is in support of.

Iran has now suspended tradin

Submitted by The Fire Inside on Mon, 02/06/2006 - 1:35pm.

Iran has now suspended trading with Denmark over the caricature.

Iran new focus of caricature protests

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran cut off trade ties with Denmark and Iranians pelted the Austrian Embassy with Molotov cocktails and stones on Monday in the latest protest over the publication of satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in European newspapers.

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