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Associated Press takes on the Danish Muslim delegation over its use of a photograph depicting French pig impersonator Jacques Barrot:
Jack Stokes, an AP spokesman, said the picture was used “completely out of context and without permission.
“AP is attempting to contact the distributors of this unrelated photo to protest its misrepresentation and demand that they stop immediately,” he said.
Ahmed Akkari, a spokesman for the delegation, has no comments:
When told about the background of the original AP photo, Akkari said: “I have no comments.”
UPDATE. Rami G. Khouri, editor-at-large of the Beirut-based Daily Star, reveals to readers of Melbourne’s Age the real truth behind the cartoons fury:
This is no mere clash of cultures. It is a new form of the colonial struggle that defined European-Arab/Asian relations in the 19th century. The difference this time is that the natives in the south are not helpless and quiescent in the face of the West’s large guns, disdainful rhetoric, or insulting cartoons.
You’d recall, of course, all those insulting 19th century cartoons. Good news: no need to remain quiescent!
Muslims, Arabs, Asians and others today are much more aware of the policies of Western states, concerned about their goals, angry about Western double standards, able to resist through the use of mass media, political, and other channels ...
Here’s an example of this new awareness:
Around 3,000 demonstrators shouting “Allahu Akhbar” (God is great) in Dara Adamkhel, near the Afghan border, accused Bush of backing the caricatures.
“Bush is behind this, he heads the gang which is against Islam,” Said Wazir, the leader of a local Islamic group called Quami Tehreek, told the crowd.
Bush controls the Danish media. Yay for the aware. We now return to Rami G. Khouri:
The message from the Arab-Islamic heartland is that the 19th century has officially ended.
But which century has begun? The 14th?
- When told about the background of the original AP photo, Akkari said: “Fake but accurate. Good enough for CBS.”
Posted by perfectsense on 2006 02 09 at 01:33 PM • permalink“AP is attempting to contact the distributors of this unrelated photo to protest its misrepresentation and demand that they stop immediately,” he said.
Contact your embedded reporters, Jacques. That’ll speed things up.
But which century has begun? The 14th?
More like the 8th. Except for the AK47s, of course.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 02 09 at 01:43 PM • permalinkHmmm.
Well with all this as an example of how to fight back against an unrestrained media and goofy “artists” I know the next time some schmuck decides to create another “Piss Christ” I’ll be there with a bag of spray cans of paint.
Posted by memomachine on 2006 02 09 at 02:28 PM • permalinkJack Stokes, an AP spokesman, said the picture was used “completely out of context and without permission.
Stick it to ‘em, Jack baby… and cross your balls that this isn’t decided by sharia law, elsewise you are in deep shit.
The message from the Arab-Islamic heartland is that the 19th century has officially ended.
Ooooooooo, so sorry Rami, that should have been in the form of a question.
Thanks for playing…maybe next time.
Actually, I’m amazed that the bastard was closer to the real answer than he was, say….by guessing the 7th Century.
6. Room 237, it’s the movie that comes to mind. Wouldn’t mind watching a dramatization of the Baldwin Family Compound part.
Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 02 09 at 03:03 PM • permalinkI guess all that was standing between the Arab-Islamic heartland and the 20th century was the Danish embassy in Damascus.
Thank god it’s now gone.
Posted by SoCalJustice on 2006 02 09 at 03:16 PM • permalinkTim,
Yeah, fine. The pig impersonation controversy looked very important two days ago. But something much bigger has come up.
Why aren’t you publishing Egyptian Sand Monkey’s revelation that the cartoons were published in Egypt in October?
http://egyptiansandmonkey.blogspot.com/2006/02/boycott-egypt.html
Do you realise that the paper in question has just today pulled the cover of that edition from its web site ? (althogh a screenshot exists at Der Standard)
http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=2336429#
Where there’s smoke…
Heck, if you are not sure as to the veracity, you could put a “reportedly” or “allegedly” in front of it. The point is, this story needs to go accross the world like wildfire. Please do your bit.Latino,
You speak the truth! It’s a Bush/Jew conspiracy!!! Bush is a JOOOOOOOOO!!!!
We now return you to Prophet Motif, the new Evil Capitalist program.
-@o
>:o(>Posted by Monroe Doctrine on 2006 02 09 at 03:27 PM • permalinkWhy aren’t you publishing Egyptian Sand Monkey’s revelation that the cartoons were published in Egypt in October?
You know, your constant “why don’t you post this, Tim, why don’t you post that, Tim, why didn’t you get the Bulletin to write about it, Tim” posts are beginning to border on the obsessive. There’s already tons of stuff posted here about the topic, including the comment threads, so please calm the fuck down if the newest factoid isn’t going up as an update or a separate post the very minute you expect it to. Tim isn’t a public utility.
#19,
Perhaps. And perhaps it is important to lobby the most prominent blogger/journalist in Australia when given the opportunity to do so. If Tim finds my posts annoying or offensive I am sure that he will tell me, or ban me, as he is free to do. If he prints this story, increasing the likelihood of it reaching the MSM and embarrasing the outraged ROP hordes worldwide. Would you agree that this would be a good thing ?
Perhaps it is important to be a tad obsessive when you are at 1938 all over again, and the media is as important in this war as tanks and blitzkrieg were in the last one. Perhaps every factoid helps, when displayed prominently. The value of a fact is only partly corelated with its truth, but entirely with its impact on the final outcome of the conflict. There is decreasing reason to treat the Egyptian story as a “factoid” btw.
In the meantime: no there is not tons of material on this, and comments certainly do not count. Prominence is vital.
Finally, I would assume that we are both on the same side, and that my relatively few and bried comments out of the many hundreds on the site do not really justify your comment which bordered on the offensive, and unnecessarily so. Perhaps you are the one that needs to calm the fuck down.
sixdays, the way to get Tim to post on something is to simply put it in the comments, with a polite “heads up” note or simply the link. Without the hectoring “why aren’t you posting about” preface. You seem to be implying that he is deliberately ignoring the links you are pointing to just to piss you off. And now if he posted about these items it would look like he’d let you bully him into turning his blog into the Sixdays Obsession Service.
Oh, and it won’t be your links that get you banned, it will be your rudeness. Put your ego away, or get your own blog.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 02 09 at 04:42 PM • permalinkHey sixdays, it’s linked four posts back, last paragraph. HTH!
Posted by Old Grouch on 2006 02 09 at 05:10 PM • permalinkSomething smells in
Denmark, Kuwait (psssstttt only kidding about Denmark, just an old saying)...but I digress…The smell comes from this;Kidnapped U.S. Reporter Seen in New Video
KUWAIT CITY - Kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll appeared in a video aired Thursday on a private Kuwaiti TV channel appealing for her supporters to do whatever it takes to win her release “as quickly as possible.”
In the video, Carroll said the date was Feb. 2, nearly a month after she was abducted by armed men in Baghdad, who killed her Iraqi translator.The 28-year-old freelancer said she had sent one letter and now was sending another to “prove I am with the mujahadeen.”
“I sent you a letter written by my hand, but you wanted more evidence,” she said. “I am here. I am fine. Please just do whatever they want, give them whatever they want as quickly as possible. There is a very short time. Please do it fast. That’s all.”
Kidnapped U.S. Reporter Seen in New Video
AP - 15 minutes ago
KUWAIT CITY - Kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll appeared in a video aired Thursday on a private Kuwaiti TV channel appealing for her supporters to do whatever it takes to win her release “as quickly as possible.” In the video, Carroll said the date was Feb. 2, nearly a month after she was abducted by armed men in Baghdad, who killed her Iraqi translator. The 28-year-old freelancer said she had sent one letter and now was sending another to “prove I am with the mujahadeen.”Yahoo aptly named, I might add….Yahoo, that is.
This from fran devine in today’s AUS
Some self-righteously claim that Christians can take jokes about Jesus. But only some Christians are amused, up to a point, by some Jesus jokes. Few laughed at Andre Serrano’s photograph Piss Christ when it was exhibited here.
I thought “the Age” had praised it almost as much as they condemned the cartoons.Two peace loving leftist newspaper men go to Iraq to show the militants the “good side” of western civilisation. They are kidnapped and held for ransom. No ransom is forthcoming and the “militants” turn on the TV to make the usual snuff Movie for distribution to worlwide mosques.
As they are about to have the knife of Allah pass over their throats , one holds up a cartoon of Sharon eating palestinian children and yells “look we’re on your side”. The other journo calls out “stop that Andrew you are only making things worse!”I thought I heard a faint, dim cry for help...
Watch those formatting tags, kids. The pMcode Reference Guide link is your friend. Don’t let what happened to El Cid happen to you!
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 02 09 at 06:39 PM • permalinkHo hum, it appears that Indonesia has boycotted the Bad-min-ton game with Demark. Is someone going to draw the turban as a badminton?
Idolatry is the worship of an image, idea or object, as opposed to the worship of a supreme being. How could a cartoon lead to idolatry?
Kafir: a person who refuses to submit himself to Allah (God), a disbeliever in God.
Kuffar: plural form of kafir.
Kufr (verb): to show ungratefulness to Allah and not to believe in Him and His religion.These words are used by most Muslims, as loose synonyms or translations for idolators and idolatry, although some have used them to define all non-Muslims.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idolatry
More terms on idolatry: An obsessive desire to earn money could be classified as idolatry.
A very strong desire to gain fame or recognition that a religion considers inappropriate. In this case egocentrism could be considered a form of idolatry. (All K’eye da ?)
A very strong attachment to one’s country that a religion considers inappropriate. In this case nationalism could be considered a form of idolatry.
So no nationalism in Western Countries please it’s only religion and no economies.
We need to get Andrea a magic lasso and invisible jet.
/not looking up… honest
Posted by Tatterdemalian on 2006 02 09 at 06:47 PM • permalinkHere’s one for Media Watch.
I saw some very curious behaviour on the ABC last Wednesday. On both the Midday Report and the main evening news bulletin they cited the recently jailed Abu Hamza al-Masri’s stated targets, naming the Satue of Liberty and Big Ben. On Lateline they re-ran the piece but this time the report oddly included the Eiffel Tower.
I guess the earlier versions were doctored for the majority of the ABC’s audience to corruptly reinforce the view that Islamic extremism is merely a response to Iraq!We need to get Andrea a magic lasso and invisible jet.
I’m not wearing that spangly bathing suit and ridiculous tiara, though.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 02 09 at 09:30 PM • permalinkThanks for the laughs folks.
Confess to considerable disappointment when clicked on the link from Tim for cartoons, hopes of titillation quickly dashed, though must confess did get a laugh from some of those very mild cartoons.
This whole uproar is surely a joke. If I believed in God I would think he was having a lighthearted break from the boredom of being omnipotent and omniscient for a mob of dipsticks.
Couldn’t find the cow ratio, but found this item interesting
The Taleban said yesterday that at least 100 people had enlisted to become suicide bombers in Afghanistan since the appearance of the blasphemous cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) as the European Union called for the media to adopt a voluntary code of conduct to avoid a repeat of the furor.
Mullah Dadullah, one of the Taleban’s most senior military commanders, said his group had also offered a reward of 100 kilograms of gold to anyone who killed people responsible for the drawings. Five kilograms of gold would go to anyone who killed a soldier from Denmark, Germany or Norway — among the countries where the cartoons have appeared, he said.What, they really have run out of virgins.
It would seem cowtowing (EU) doesn’t help.
“Rami honey, if America wanted you dead you would be dead.”
Hell, the CIA couldn’t even supply the troops with maps of Grenada!
“Perhaps the most serious handicap, aside from the conspicuous lack of good intelligence on all
aspects of the operation, was that nobody had a map.” (click)But they can be anti-Bush!
Posted by nofixedabode on 2006 02 09 at 09:58 PM • permalinkOh, my. We’ve really shot the “bold tags” budget for this month!
Posted by nofixedabode on 2006 02 09 at 10:00 PM • permalinkMohammed Cartoons - Islamic apologist demeans Christianity
Writing for On Line Opinion, Syed Atiq ul Hassan commenting on the cartoon controversy, applauds the UN and the proposal to institute a new ‘Human Right’ protecting religion from criticism.“It is good to see that the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution calling on the international community to combat defamation against all religions and to curb the tendency against Islam. However, the international community should also establish new laws where insulting of any prophet - it doesn’t matter which one: Mohammed, Jesus, Moses, Buddha, or any other god or spiritual leader of any faith - must be criminalised.”
Perhaps a good place to start, if the Directive is to ever be implemented and policed, is in Darfur, Sudan where the Islamic Sudanese government has systematically resourced and encouraged the ethnic-genocide of the predominantly non-Arab people of Darfur.
However, the problem with Syed Atiq ul Hassan’s comment concerns relegating Jesus to the Islamic interpretation of a prophet. The view that Christ is a prophet holds true in Islam; however, Christ is viewed as the Son of God in Christianity.
Will Syed Atiq ul Hassan apologize for his demeaning of Christianity?
Posted by WeekByWeek on 2006 02 09 at 10:06 PM • permalinkWell I subscribed to The Australian to get some relief from The Age. Nice editorial today bashing Cate Blanchette for political leftie pretentiousness. But disappointed in the p16 opinion piece by one Michael Costello, who seems to have been a Labor politicians’ groupie (Crikey job dossier—Michael Costello: Hayden, DFAT, Australian Stock Exchange, Kim Beazley, The Australian).
THE cartoons of Mohammed were first published in Denmark in September last year. They excited some adverse reaction but that was all. Five months later the issue suddenly took off, with riots, embassy burnings, diplomatic threats and sanctions. Why the delay? What’s going on here?
In part it’s because a Muslim cleric in Denmark, Ahmed Abu-Laban, was so incensed, he pursued the matter with visits to Lebanon and Egypt. But there is no evidence that he urged violence.
This is mighty charitable and he seems unaware of the pig’s head photos—rather negligent in his homework.
Then later he writes:
It’s a great pity that in this country only two newspapers - both in Queensland - have had the courage to publish the cartoons so we can know what all the fuss is about.
wtf??!! Hasn’t Michael heard of the Internet? Aren’t 80% of some such of the Austtralian households wired for it so far? His comment really shows how blinkered and un-21st century the MSM commentariat is.costellocate gets a serveThese guys really know how to maintain a perpetual state of being offended:
Emma, Ann and a sex doll that upsets Muslims
Muslim leaders discovered that the range includes a new blow-up doll, called “Mustafa Shag”.Unfortunately, Mustafa was one of the names given to the Prophet Mohamed. Bestowing it upon, in the words of its catalogue, “an inflatable escort for your hen-night adventures” is considered highly offensive.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 02 09 at 11:11 PM • permalinkWow, looks like the Danes are going to stick ‘em in the eye, once again.
There’s an interesting debate brewing in Denmark over food served in the country’s public schools. Since 2001, the government has approved only halal meat (food acceptable to Muslims) for children’s hot lunches.
Looks like that’s going to change now.
Denmark to the Islamofascists: “Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time.”
Rumors that the British are reviving Punch, with Arab caricatures in place of the traditional Irish, are being met with “No comment” from Downing Street.
The Americans are said to be readying a specially-designed episode of the Simpsons, featuring Mo the prophet vs. Moe the saloonkeeper in a celebrity deathmatch on the sawdust floor of the bar. Trey Parker and Matt Stone have not been seen in public for the past two weeks, drunk or sober, leading to speculation that a South Park offensive – <ital>really offensive</ital> – is in its final stages.
This is cruel. If this goes on, no one will be able to look at a hook-handed holy man without giggling.
btw, in today’s column, Andrew Bolt covers the faked cartoons angle and the fact that some were published in Egypt last year:
A pig in a poke!
WHEN Frenchman Jacques Barrot strapped on a fake pig snout at his town’s annual pig-squealing competition last August, he little knew he was about to make the Middle East explode.Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 02 09 at 11:42 PM • permalinksaid the picture was used “completely out of context and without permission.
Who do these major newspapers think they are… bloggers?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 02 10 at 12:09 AM • permalinkFrom one of the earlier threads we learnt that Momar married a six year old, and consummated the marriage when his wife was nine. Combine that with the aggressive militarism, and I’m getting a strong feeling of a ‘small “man” syndrome’ in operation. (wiggles little finger).
Surely some scope for further productive button pushing…
I think you will find karl rove controls the dansih media not dubya
Posted by Astonished on 2006 02 10 at 02:03 AM • permalinkMitch
Trey Parker and Matt Stone have not been seen in public for the past two weeks, drunk or sober, leading to speculation that a South Park offensive – <ital>really offensive</ital> – is in its final stages.You just know that they are going to do something. How about a special “Jesus and Freinds” with Mohamed as a special guest. They can bleep put his name everytime it is spoken, in deference to an Ismaic group that is OK with Mohamed’s picture, just not his name.
You guys are using <> instead of []
Standard HTML tags do work (most of the time*) just as PMcode does, and I think it comes more naturally to those of us who’ve handwritten HTML code before, but it won’t reverse spillover formatting from a previous comment. I think the PMcode is exclusively responsible for creating those spillovers, too, though, since standard HTML formatting isn’t supposed to last beyond paragraph breaks. Bit tricky, all that…
* I’ve had weird occurrences where the presence of apostrophes (I think) in quoted text screwed up < I > tags for whatever reason. Oh well.
From one of the earlier threads we learnt that Momar married a six year old, and consummated the marriage when his wife was nine. Combine that with the aggressive militarism, and I’m getting a strong feeling of a ‘small “man” syndrome’ in operation. (wiggles little finger).
That would be child molestation in the eyes of the law.
Militarism would be murder here.
small penis: erectile problems
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- When told about the background of the original AP photo, Akkari said: “I have no comments.” -
Well, the old blackguard had plenty of comments up until the time he got found out in a lie. Reticence is a wonderfully convenient thing.