Defend free speech against Islam! Freedom to blaspheme for all!

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  1. Orson

    Orson New Member

    The Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten published "blasphemous" cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammid. Now, other papers in Europe have published these, too, and Muslims in Pakistan, Palestine, and elsewhere are postesting, boycotting and threatening the EU and their embassies!
    (Example news stories excerpted here: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=19051)

    Here is an online petition in support of the Danish newspaper's publication of blasphemous cartoon depictions of The Prophet Mohammid.

    http://www.petitiononline.com/danmark/petition.html

    The cartoons in question can be viewed at these links:

    http://www.geertwilders.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=381&Itemid=74
    AND
    http://www.gregoriusnekschot.nl/images/de_profeet.gif

    Lastly, a story explains why this news from late September should arise now in the media only months later: Islamic agitator allegedly fabricated cartoons made even more insulting than those published!
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    February 02, 2006
    Fabricated cartoons worsened Danish controversy

    The controversy over the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed is expanding, as more Muslims join the boycott and protests against Denmark and various European newspapers decide to publish the cartoons, mostly out of solidarity with Jyllands Posten and to make a strong political stand. One issue that puzzles many Danes is the timing of this outburst. The cartoons were published in September: Why have the protests erupted from Muslims worldwide only now? The person who knows the answer to this question is Ahmed Abdel Rahman Abu Laban, a man that the Washington Post has recently profiled as “one of Denmark's most prominent imams.”

    Last November, Abu Laban, a 60-year-old Palestinian who had served as translator and assistant to top Gamaa Islamiya leader Talaal Fouad Qassimy during the mid-1990s and has been connected by Danish intelligence to other Islamists operating in the country, put together a delegation that traveled to the Middle East to discuss the issue of the cartoons with senior officials and prominent Islamic scholars. The delegation met with Arab League Secretary Amr Moussa, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Mohammad Sayyed Tantawi, and Sunni Islam’s most influential scholar, Yusuf al Qaradawi. ***"We want to internationalize this issue so that the Danish government will realize that the cartoons were insulting, not only to Muslims in Denmark, but also to Muslims worldwide," said Abu Laban.***

    On its face, it would appear as if nothing were wrong. However, the Danish Muslim delegation showed much more than the 12 cartoons published by Jyllands Posten. ***In the booklet it presented during its tour of the Middle East, the delegation included other cartoons of Mohammed that were highly offensive, including one where the Prophet has a pig face. But these additional pictures were NOT published by the newspaper, but were completely fabricated by the delegation....***
    [***emphasis added***]
    http://counterterror.typepad.com/the_counterterrorism_blog/2006/02/fabricated_cart.html

    -Orson
     

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