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An email from Manny C.:
Was watching SBS News ... the lady reporting on the Jyllands-Posten “affair” attributed a cartoon depicting Mohammed with a pig’s head to Jyllands-Posten.
This is untrue.
Over to you, Media Watch, whenever you decide to return from holidays (they’ve been on a break since November 7; those 15 minutes of television per week really take it out of you). Michelle Malkin presents the tame cartoons, which have whipped the Muslim world into its usual frenzy:
Four months after the fact, Muslim anger over the publication in Scandinavia of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad has snowballed into a full-fledged crisis threatening Nordic trade and security.
Cartoons including a portrayal of the Prophet wearing a time-bomb shaped turban were published in a Danish newspaper last September and reprinted in a Norwegian magazine in January, sparking uproar in the Muslim world.
The row has taken a new dimension over the past days, with Danish flags being burned, products being boycotted and an Internet call by purported Iraqi militants calling for attacks on any Danish or Norwegian target ...
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton described the cartoons as “appalling” during an economic conference in the Qatari capital, Doha.
These people, as Jill Singer wrote following an earlier religious insult, “need to understand the value of artistic freedom”. Let’s see her defend these cartoons as she did urine-dunked crucifixes. For that matter, where is Michael Leunig—here reviewed by Sharon Lapkin—when his fellow toonsters are in trouble?
Like a good dhimmi, Leunig (and every other left-leaning political cartoonist) is stone silent.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 02 01 at 12:30 PM • permalinkGood thing for Monica she carried a magnifying glass.
Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 02 01 at 12:49 PM • permalinkLapkin’s article refers to Leunatig blaming Sharon for Sabra and Shatilla. Most articles in the MSM refer to S&S as though Sharon was personally responsible for it. This is despite the Kahane Commission finding that Sharon had no prior knowledge and Sharon successfully winning a libel suit regarding that very issue.
The person who actually committed the massacre was Elie Hobeika. To give you an idea as to how much the arabs really care about the Palestinians, he was granted amnesty in Lebanon and became a gov’t minister there. Later, Syria became buddy-buddy with him.
Frankly, I find it disgusting how the MSM can call Sharon “the butcher of Sabra and Shatilla” for not forseeing Hobeika’s massacre, yet the Lebanese and Syrians who actually befriended Hobeika post-facto are completely excused.
An interesting follow up is that in 1999, Robert Hatem (aka Cobra), Hobeika’s bodyguard, wrote that the massacre was actually instigated by Assad Snr to embarrass Sharon. See From Israel to Damascus : The Painful Road of Blood, Betrayal and Deception
Posted by lewisinnyc on 2006 02 01 at 12:54 PM • permalinkFormer U.S. president Bill Clinton should shut the hell up. He’s acting as the equivalent of the joker who yells “fire” in a crowded theater, which may be free speech but is not acceptable under current U.S. law. Shame on him.
If the Muslims succeed in ruining Denmark for the offense of exercising real free speech (and innocuous free speech it was), then we all might as well get down on our knees now.
So, the cartoon of a pig-headed Mohammed was planted by Muslim provocateurs? That would suggest that even certain Muslims are willing to take “artistic” liberties depending on the circumstances - though at what cost to their ultimate reward in paradise, it is awful to imagine. Perhaps, instead of the 72 virgins, they’ll receive a bag of pork rinds and a 15-minute waiver of the normal dietary prohibition.
I’m still calling for a boycott of Arab countries after all those Anti-Semetic cartoons (see, Here. No more importing suicide bombers for me.
Posted by KenWheaton on 2006 02 01 at 03:34 PM • permalinkThere’s an interesting op-ed piece in the Asia Times today. The writer wants Muslims to stop beating up on the Danes (even though the ‘toons are “offensive filth” and the “excuse” of freedom of the press is not a “reasonable” defense) and get back to the real business at hand: beating up on the Great Satan and its Zionist lackeys. I sent them a nice letter when I finished reading.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 02 01 at 03:39 PM • permalinkSome links:
‘France-Soir’, a Parisian paper (it is distributed nationally, but let’s face it, it’s Parisian) has published the Danish cartoons. I’ve written letters to my local paper (The Australian, as if I would bother writing to fairfax) to suggest they publish them for weeks now – why don’t we all do this?
Here’s a BBC report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4669360.stm ; the France-Soir website doesn’t have anything much: http://francesoir.quotidiano.net/
Maybe, once there are no more Muslim ambassadors in the west, things will be better?
meh, it’s let about muslims being offended by the images and more about muslims manipulating the PC usefull idiots in the west.
btw, here is an archive of mohammad images as he is been protrayed by various groups thoughout the ages.
The newspaper involved had apologised on Monday; but then on Tuesday they recieved a bomb threat which required the police to evacuate one office building housing 300 staff.
Posted by WeekByWeek on 2006 02 01 at 06:04 PM • permalinkOf course, Arabic media cartoons about the west, Israel, Jews and America would never be offensive, would they?
Mr. Clinton thought that the cartoons were “appalling” but that the chicks standing next to Mohammed were kind of hot.
Posted by Pat Patterson on 2006 02 01 at 06:37 PM • permalinkBlogstrop
Tomgrossmedia has a fine selection of arab “art” and i’m sure that Leunig who gets his inspiration “trawling the net” won’t miss to use them for “inspiration”.
The fact that these pubs are as obscure as the danish newspaper, says much for islamist propaganda.
and Al Ahram is described as a serious moderate pub by the Guardian!Former U.S. president Bill Clinton described the cartoons as “appalling” during an economic conference in the Qatari capital, Doha.
No doubt ol’ Bubba had a good cigar after the conference.
Frankly, he’s getting as bad as Jimmuh Cahtuh. Without the attack rabbit.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 02 01 at 11:21 PM • permalinkMedia Watch should be starting back this Monday.
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Posted by drscroogemcduck on 2006 02 02 at 04:41 AM • permalink
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Hmmm, they are as silent as Hollywood was about Theo Van Gogh….