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| Islamic Defense Front attacks Danish embassy in Jakarta |
| 2006-02-03 |
| About 300 militant Indonesian Muslims went on a rampage inside the lobby of a Jakarta building housing the Danish embassy on Friday in protest over cartoons that Muslims say insult Islam and the Prophet Mohammad. Shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest), the white-clad protesters from the hardline Islamic Defender's Front (FPI) smashed lamps with bamboo sticks and threw chairs around in anger at cartoons originally published by a Danish daily. They also threw rotten eggs and tomatoes at the Danish embassy symbol inside the lobby. The embassy is on the 25th floor of the building and protesters were unable to get past security in the lobby, a Reuters photographer said. Outrage has erupted in the Middle East after more European newspapers published the cartoons, which were originally published by Danish daily Jyllands-Posten last September. Muslims consider any images of Mohammad to be blasphemous. About 100 Indonesian policemen watched the FPI protesters as they made fiery speeches calling on the government of the world's most populous Muslim nation to sever diplomatic ties with Denmark and evict its ambassador. The protesters dispersed after an hour. There were no arrests. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #38 I knew this would happen. Bush administration sides with the faith-based cartoon protesters. If you climb in a toilet, you float with crap. Pig Crap Be Upon Muhammed and anyone who thinks he created a "noble faith": http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2006-02-03T171307Z_01_N03197247_RTRUKOC_0_US-RELIGION-CARTOONS-USA.xml |
| Posted by: CaziFarkus 2006-02-03 12:58 |
| #37 Proof that religion is the crack-cocaine of the stupid class. Bush sided with the carpet-humpers in the French hijab case. Now Bush backs the jihad chimps who shout "DEATH TO BLASPHEMERS." And cars are offensive to the Amish, so we shut down Detroit and buy donkeys: State Department, 3 February 2006 The United States blasted the publication by European newspapers of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed as unacceptable incitement to religious or ethnic hatred. "These cartoons are indeed offensive to the beliefs of Muslims," State Department spokesman Justin Higgins said when queried about the furore sparked by the cartoons which first appeared in a Danish newspaper. "We all fully recognize and respect freedom of the press and expression but it must be coupled with press responsibility," Higgins told AFP. "Inciting religious or ethnic hatreds in this manner is not acceptable. We call for tolerance and respect for all communities and for their religious beliefs and practices." The cartoons have caused an international furore, with protests in many Muslim nations and from Muslim political leaders. While many European newspapers have turned the publication into a free speech debate no major US newspaper has published the cartoons. Editors at several US news organizations told AFP they were covering the escalating row but had decided not to reprint them or air them on television out of respect for their readers or viewers. |
| Posted by: CaziFarkus 2006-02-03 13:09 |
| #36 ex-lib, send me an email to jas9146 at yahoo .com and I will email you a zip file of that page from my cache. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-02-03 21:39 |
| #35 I wish we had a troll cemetary, we could rate 'em amd laugh and sigh about their weirdness. It would be fun. But damned if I'm paying for the Milk Duds. |
| Posted by: 6 2006-02-03 19:18 |
| #34 good analogy - BTW the french tickler dispenser in the men's room is STILL empty |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-02-03 17:59 |
| #33 I don't think of this place as a blog, either. More a neighborhood tavern where it's OK to smoke but almost no one does. And the food is good. But not as good as the conversation. And the bartenders take guys like cazi Farkus by the collar and belt and throw them out into the street when necessary. There's more, but I wouldn't want to offend your sensitive nature with my fantisies. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-02-03 17:51 |
| #32 Phil, your knowledge of these technical matters is greater than mine. An aggregator site, by all means. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-02-03 17:48 |
| #31 Trailing wife: Technically, I don't think of this place as a blog, but more of an aggregator site. Or depending on the person, an aggravator site. |
| Posted by: Phil 2006-02-03 17:34 |
| #30 Mr. Farkus demonstrates his trollery by refusing -- repeatedly -- to understand. The good people at LGF are venting their spleens --Charles is doing all the work there. Rantburg is a group blog, and we're trying to figure out what is going on, and how best to fight it; the clever snarking is merely (for me highly educational) frosting on the cake. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-02-03 16:34 |
| #29 CraziF is one of those "Bush is a faith-based extremist Moslem cartoon protester supporter" types. Agenda: attempt to turn Bush supporters against the President. Yawn. Zenster's already tried and failed on that one, CraziF. Not only is it boring, it's disingenuous. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2006-02-03 15:31 |
| #28 May I suggest somebody repost Cartoons from the Arab World here (which are "offensive" to the West), for all to see, once they're available--I keep getting a message that the link bandwidth has been exceeded. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2006-02-03 15:27 |
| #27 The Power of the Muslim and Arab Worlds --Ray Hanania, Arab News This week, we witnessed the power of the Islamic and Arab worlds to bring a Western nation virtually to its knees. I was amazed at that power. This is over an issue that the nationÂ’s government had nothing to do with. All I can wonder is why the Islamic and Arab world doesnÂ’t harness that power more effectively and change policies that directly impact our causes and our beliefs? A newspaper in Denmark, Jyllands-Posten, published a series of cartoons . . . This is the mindset. This is why, as fruit-cake as they are, better to be armed than stupid. |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2006-02-03 15:21 |
| #26 I was away for a while -- good to see you were on duty, Sea. |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-02-03 15:14 |
| #25 We're flushing the rats out. Nothing like a little recon by fire. |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2006-02-03 15:07 |
| #24 Er, no, no thin skin here. It's been nice not knowing you. Buh-bye. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-02-03 14:22 |
| #23 then go there |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-02-03 14:21 |
| #22 Seafarious: Thin skin! LGF is posting the same - uh, blasphemous (?) - story, with ample heated comments from posters, or dare I say: taxpayers. |
| Posted by: CaziFarkus 2006-02-03 14:15 |
| #21 Wonderin how long it would take for the explosion. Once you see faith-based it's all over. |
| Posted by: 6 2006-02-03 14:15 |
| #20 Just wondering Howard - what possible justification are you hearing from the bats? Even here in CA lefty land I am having trouble finding someone to justify the reaction from the muslim world. I'll keep looking though. I think they should re-publish the cartoons every day. |
| Posted by: Unique Battle 2006-02-03 13:37 |
| #19 Note to CaziFarkus: Your comments are inappropriate for Rantburg. Rein in the spittle or your commenting privileges will be revoked. This is your second warning; there will not be another. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-02-03 13:29 |
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| Posted by: CaziFarkus 2006-02-03 13:09 |
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| Posted by: CaziFarkus 2006-02-03 12:58 |
| #16 There were no arrests. So, malicious mischief and vandalism is permissible in Indonesia. Allllrighty then. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2006-02-03 10:18 |
| #15 tx, .com. RBees let keep our powder dry! |
| Posted by: RD 2006-02-03 07:56 |
| #14 Thanks Ed, I now consider myself fully armed with the evidence. A rantburg edjumacation is a fine thing. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2006-02-03 07:30 |
| #13 Howard, look at yesterday's thread: Cartoons from the Arab World |
| Posted by: ed 2006-02-03 07:02 |
| #12 Ten-four, TW. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2006-02-03 06:47 |
| #11 Howard, try also www.MEMRI.org. They've got articles, speeches and even TV shows, too. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-02-03 06:39 |
| #10 RD - Hey, you're right - they've taken the navigation off the window. Wankers. But, of course, where there's a will, there's a way, heh. If you right-click on the cow cartoon and select Properties, you see the URL for the cartoon. To wit: http://www.arabnews.com/cartoon/2006/02/03.jpg Now just put that into the address bar and edit the date desired. You can roll back through time and see all that they have online... I looked all the way back to 2002/01/01 before I got a 404. Note that month abd day must be 2 chars each... |
| Posted by: .com 2006-02-03 06:34 |
| #9 dern, i could only gettum the cow cartoon. :( |
| Posted by: RD 2006-02-03 06:17 |
| #8 trash people. |
| Posted by: RD 2006-02-03 05:49 |
| #7 Spittle flinging TRANZI moonbats, too bad they are not an endangered species. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2006-02-03 05:35 |
| #6 Heh, The Umma has declared today Angry Day or sumptin... Grrr.. Grrr.. Seethe.. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2006-02-03 05:34 |
| #5 Thanks, .com - may pigs be upon you - The Green Truth - like it! Yup, 5 mins of searching produced some rather rabid examples of caricature. May have to subdue the moonbat with thorazine darts, however. Getting spittle flecks from 20 yards. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2006-02-03 05:32 |
| #4 Howard - Try the Green Truth, lol. Cartoons are on the right and you can browse a cornucopia of hateful BS in one place. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-02-03 05:23 |
| #3 The Iranians sent an assassin to London but he was totally shit. He's buried in East London somewhere. Think MI5 must have got there first. Anyone got any eg's of anti-semitic / anti-christian cartoonery from the Arab press? Sure I read the ol' descendants of apes and pigs stuff all the time but does anyone have a dedicated site detailing it? Just having a bitchfight with the office moonbat s'all. |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2006-02-03 05:17 |
| #2 Muslim assassination teams coming to your neighborhood. According to Hizbollah - which the West could eliminate in the blink of an eye, if we weren't blind to the jihad peril - the kaffir wouldn't dare blaspheme the murder cult, if Muslims had murdered Salman Rushdie. Link |
| Posted by: CaziFarkus 2006-02-03 04:09 |
| #1 "There were no arrests" Speaks tons! Reason for their tsunami. |
| Posted by: Duh! 2006-02-03 01:30 |