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Arab FMs Slam Denmark Over Prophet Muhammad Cartoon
2005-12-30
The tempest continues...
Arab foreign ministers yesterday lashed out at the Danish government over a growing controversy aroused by the publication in a Copenhagen daily of caricatures representing the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI). Gathered at the Arab League, they issued a statement expressing their “surprise and indignation at the reaction of the Danish government, which was disappointing despite its political, economic and cultural ties with the Muslim world.”
Good on the Danes. What part of "free press" don't you understand?
Twelve cartoons, which were published in the Jyllands-Posten daily late last September, have sparked an uproar among Muslims in Denmark and abroad. The paper and the cartoonist have even received death threats. Liberal Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has refused to meet 11 Copenhagen-based ambassadors from Muslim countries who wanted to complain about the cartoons and demand an official apology. The foreign ministers also said they were unhappy that European organizations dealing with human rights have not taken a clear position on the issue.
Yes, I'd like to see them take a clear position. I'd like to see them tell the Moose limbs to piss off, that while they're welcome to their peculiar culture, they're not free to foist it on the civilized world.
They decided that the Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa and his counterpart from the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, would pursue the matter with the Danish authorities.
Posted by:Fred

#13  make it so!
Posted by: Mahou Sensei Negi-bozu   2005-12-30 18:17  

#12  That's why the cartoons have to be anonymous. Posted to the internet not to a particular web page or a server that could be threatened, but distributed virally, say in batches of 100, put together in a torrent RAR file for P2P swapping, titled, say, "Britney Spears Lesbian Sex Paris Hilton.rar"

Then all that has to be done is to give out the name of the torrent files to all those individuals who would spread it faster than gonorrhea in a gay bath house.

Even for those non-artistically inclined out there, they could take existing comics and modify them, say, "Doonesbury", for example. Just scratch on a beard, do some cut and paste, and there is Zonker Harris proclaiming he is Mohammed "the prophet of God', and that Allah has just told him to smoke hashish and sodomize a pig before killing three people at random and drinking their blood.

It really wouldn't take a very long time to do a crude cut-and-paste, then just fill and re-fill the dialogue balloons again, sort of like the way that lazy bastard Trudeau does it himself. People do it to Jack T. Chick comics all the time.

The only one the mullahs could get pissed off at would be Gary Trudeau, I guess. Or Ted Rall, say.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2005-12-30 16:52  

#11  Why the heck haven't hundreds of cartoonists in the world started cranking out "Mohammed Bibles", on the order of the "Tijuana Bibles"?

Thousands and thousands of cartoons of Mocmud, each vying for grosser and stupider.


Because they're deathly afraid of Muslims. I know of two cases where American "artists" backed down from Muslim pressure.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2005-12-30 16:10  

#10  Buy Denmark Products...

They get it...

PM Rasmussen supported GWB's Iraq invasion...

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This one is classic...
Posted by: BigEd   2005-12-30 16:04  

#9  Here is a link to the photos, I didn't think they were that bad. Actually they were a bit disappointing, I was expecting some real raw stuff, heh.
Any creative folks out there?

http://www.newspaperindex.com/blog/2005/12/10/un-to-investigate-jyllands-posten-racism/
Posted by: Jan   2005-12-30 14:57  

#8  But with a growing muslim population in the West, we're likely to see less mockery of islam, rather than more. And there's precious little already; the proverbial "climate of fear" has existed since at least the time of the Rushdie fatwah.
Posted by: Pholumble Ominter1093   2005-12-30 13:05  

#7  Just wait till they get online to RateMyKoranDesecration.com
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2005-12-30 12:23  

#6  "I blow my nose at your silly prophette! I fart in his general direction! His mother was a hampster, and his father smelled of elderberries!"
Posted by: mojo   2005-12-30 11:16  

#5  Whoops. Wrong thread. If the muslims are offended by Mo cartoons, they are more than welcome to leave Denmark.
Posted by: ed   2005-12-30 10:49  

#4  He blew up near a mosque. I'll give 10:1 odds that immmediately after there was frantic flushing of explosives korans.
Posted by: ed   2005-12-30 10:42  

#3  Arab foreign ministers yesterday lashed out at the Danish government over a growing controversy aroused by the publication in a Copenhagen daily of caricatures representing the Prophet Muhammad..

Run more.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-12-30 10:19  

#2  Why the heck haven't hundreds of cartoonists in the world started cranking out "Mohammed Bibles", on the order of the "Tijuana Bibles"?

Thousands and thousands of cartoons of Mocmud, each vying for grosser and stupider.

The point is that pictures of Mohammed are only blasphemous because everybody is afraid or too "sensitive" to Moslem feelings to make them. But
though they can "jump" all over a single cartoon, if there were thousands of them it would be damn near impossible.

If everywhere you looked, Mukmad was being *laughed* at and scorned, it would at first drive the mullahs nuts, and second, it would start to give the rank-and-file ideas.

*Nobody* has the right not to be made fun of. Especially in a free country. But that right is useless *unless* we make fun of assholes like Mohammed. And LOUDLY.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2005-12-30 09:29  

#1  Jeez, aside from oil about the only thing Arab countries export is seething.
Posted by: Grineting Gliper7504   2005-12-30 07:52  

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