dont poke fun at Islam! (3 Viewers)

[classic seanc]

Why does Be The Hokey have Lefty Frizzell's avatar? Can we all use it?

My opinion is: So what? What difference does it make? So the thick shower of shites that wanted to kill Westeners 3 weeks ago still want to kill Westeners now, they just have a cartoon to talk about this week. If it wasn't that it'd be some other thing. There's plenty of shit in the world that fundamentalists can use to get the ordinary muslim Joe Soap riled up.


That said, though I'd hate to be a Danish cartoonist in general, I really wouldn't like to be one right now.

 

[Vinnie]

Koran The Destroyer was made as a Muslim response to Koran The Barbarian. This shit is way old.

 

[Jerry Twig]

Why does Be The Hokey have Lefty Frizzell's avatar? Can we all use it?

go ahead. its a bit crap but lefty loves you all so i'm sure he'd approve

 

[aoboa]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,1703181,00.html

Surely the protesters involved could just claim that their placard slogans were satirical.

 

[quasiquasi]

From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4684652.stm:

"They want to test our feelings," protester Mawli Abdul Qahar Abu Israra told the BBC.
"They want to know whether Muslims are extremists or not. Death to them and to their newspapers," he said.

Yep...

 

[snakybus]

I think the british press was dead right not to publish the pictures. Freedom of the press is all very well but with the power of the press comes responsibility. Of course it goes without saying that the reaction by the extremists is over the top as expected, and marginal to mainstream Islam. But I'd say there have been a few recruits to extremism in the last few days.

 

[Latex lizzie]

let's kill our own kids in the name of allah!

Lebanese minister resigns after riots in Beirut

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2006/0206/2765789396HM1CARTOON.html



Lebanon's interior minister has resigned after thousands of angry Muslim protesters yesterday torched the Danish consulate in Beirut and damaged property in a Christian area in riots over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.

The protesters, waving green Islamic flags and chanting "God is greatest", fuelled sectarian tension when they stoned a church, provoking an angry Christian outcry in a country that has not fully recovered from its 1975-1990 civil war.

Interior minister Hassan al- Sabaa, a Sunni Muslim retired officer loyal to the country's anti-Syrian majority coalition, submitted his resignation at an emergency cabinet meeting. "We had two solutions: either to try to keep people away [ from the consulate] as we did, or to use weapons against them," he told reporters. "I am a person who would never order the use of arms against the Lebanese."

About 20,000 protesters marched on the consulate, some carrying banners which read: "Whoever insults the Prophet Mohammad is to be killed", and throwing stones at security forces, who fired tear-gas and used water cannon to disperse the crowd.

One demonstrator, among those who set the consulate building on fire, was encircled by flames and died after jumping from the third floor, a senior security official said.

The protesters attacked three fire engines to stop them from extinguishing the blaze and hung up a banner at the building's entrance reading: "We are ready to sacrifice our children for you, O Prophet Mohammad." Protesters also burned two civil defence vehicles, a police car and an army jeep.

Security forces arrested 174 protesters - 76 Syrians, 38 Lebanese, 35 Palestinians and 25 stateless Bedouins.

The Danish mission's staff left Lebanon on Saturday because they were expecting the protest, a senior security official said. The building also houses the Austrian consulate. Denmark's foreign ministry yesterday urged all Danes to leave Lebanon and warned its citizens not to travel there.

Several Sunni Muslim clerics were on the streets urging restraint and asking protesters, who came from across the country, to leave.

Some protesters stoned a Christian Maronite church nearby and a group of Muslim clerics went to the church to apologise, witnesses said.

President Emile Lahoud joined scores of Christian officials in deploring the attack on the church. Scores of Christians also burned tyres and briefly blocked the highway linking Beirut to the Muslim-dominated Bekaa Valley.

Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora told a private television station: "This has nothing to do with Islam at all. Destabilising security and vandalism gives a wrong image of Islam. The Prophet Mohammad cannot be defended this way."

Meanwhile in Turkey yesterday, an Italian Catholic priest was shot dead in his church in the Black Sea city of Trabzon, triggering condemnation from Turkey's government and pledges to track down the killer.

"The priest was shot dead at his church this afternoon but we have no more details at present. An investigation has begun," a police spokesman said.

The state Anatolian news agency identified the dead man as Fr Andrea Santaro (60).

On Saturday, Syrians set fire to the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus, damaged the Swedish embassy and tried to storm the French mission, but were held off by riot police. The Nordic countries and the United States have condemned Syria for failing to protect the embassies.

Security at France's embassies in Syria and Lebanon was strengthened; a French newspaper was among those to print the cartoons.

 

[Dr Winston Umbogo]

I'm loving it. Its put the fun back into fundamentalism.

 

[broken arm]

it's a pity sinead o connor didn't draw the cartoons

 

[c0De_n1NjA]

i heard she coloured them in... went outside the lines too, the mongospadope.

 

[aoboa]

Haha, check this:
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1703500,00.html

 

[Latex lizzie]

now Iran are running a competition to see who can draw the funniest holocaust cartoon.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoonprotests/story/0,,1703925,00.html

you couldn't make it up really.

 

[spiritualtramp]

now Iran are running a competition to see who can draw the funniest holocaust cartoon.
you couldn't make it up really.

Arab newpapers printing anti-semetic cartoons? Like thats never happened before.

 

[aoboa]

Arab newpapers printing anti-semetic cartoons? Like thats never happened before.

Yeah - there is a 2 faced attitude to this alright.
Thing is that if a Danish newspaper had printed an anti-semetic cartoon what would have happened?
It would have never got past the editor for a start but a cartoon of Muhammad depicted as a bomb weilding terrorist did.

 

[spiritualtramp]

Yeah - there is a 2 faced attitude to this alright.
Thing is that if a Danish newspaper had printed an anti-semetic cartoon what would have happened?
It would have never got past the editor for a start but a cartoon of Muhammad depicted as a bomb weilding terrorist did.

If you mean a Danish paper published a nazi style anti-semetic cartoon there is a crucial difference.

There was no point to those evil jew cartoons except to stir up hatred. The Muhammed with the bomb in his turban was making a valid point - that Islam is associated with violence due to extremists.

 

[aoboa]

If you mean a Danish paper published a nazi style anti-semetic cartoon there is a crucial difference.

There was no point to those evil jew cartoons except to stir up hatred. The Muhammed with the bomb in his turban was making a valid point - that Islam is associated with violence due to extremists.

No - I mean any cartoon that could be interpreted as anti-semetic, not a holocaust-denial or anything that extreme.
They would never publish a cartoon with any content that could be interpreted as anti-semetic regardless of whether it made a valid point or not.

 

[hugh]

now Iran are running a competition to see who can draw the funniest holocaust cartoon.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoonprotests/story/0,,1703925,00.html

you couldn't make it up really.

Yeah but it clearly says it's satirical and apparently that's okay. Have people in the West never heard of satire or something? Lighten up for fucks sake! They're just trying to start a debate ....

 

[Latex lizzie]

Arab newpapers printing anti-semetic cartoons? Like thats never happened before.

context baby context.this is a direct result of current events.

 

[billygannon]

The Muslims are having a "paddy"

 

[aoboa]

The Muslims are having a "paddy"

Haha - lets not forget Eastenders portrayal of Ireland too.