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Muhammad cartoon in (Philadelphia) Inquirer draws protest by Muslims
2006-02-10
Feb. 06, 2006. Muslims offended by the Inquirer's decision to reprint a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad that has inflamed the sensibilities of their co-religionists across the world picketed the newspaper this morning. The cartoon, originally published in a Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September, depicts Islam's chief prophet with a lit bomb inscribed with Arabic letters stuck in his turban. It ran in Saturday's editions of The Inquirer with a story about the dilemma faced by the media over reprinting a cartoon that has led to wounded feelings, burnt flags and torched embassies worldwide.

According to Islamic tradition, any pictures or images of Muhammad are considered sacrilegious. Bullshit. But the Danish cartoon is particularly insensitive, the two dozen local protestors contend, because it perpetuates a stereotype of Islam as a militant religion. "It's disrespectful to us as a people," said Asim Abdur-Rashid, an imam with the Majlis Ash'Shura, an umbrella group for mosques in the Delaware Valley. "It's disrespectful to our prophet to imply that he's a prophet of violence."

Amanda Bennett, the Inquirer's executive editor, and deputy managing editor Carl Lavin talked with the protestors outside the building. "Neither I nor the newspaper meant any disrespect to their religion or their prophet," Bennett said in an interview. "I told them I was actually really proud of them for exercising their right to freedom of speech."

But Bennett stood by the decision to publish the cartoon, saying it "is one of the things newspapers do to communicate directly with people" about issues important to all communities.
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Posted by:ed

#2  Piss on them if they can't take a joke. Religion of peace my a$$.
Posted by: anymouse   2006-02-10 14:10  

#1  Heh. As someone pointed out yesterday (?), these cartoons are like a asshat magnet. Surveil the "protests" and take LOTS of pictures. Just announce that anyone wearing a mask will be stopped, questioned, and ID'd.

If they're willing to come out of the closet and prove they're not ready or willing to be Americans, y'know - the Mythical Moderates some keep blabbering about, but insist on being bona-fide Muzzy First™ assholes, hey - I think we should memorialize the event, at the very least.
Posted by: .com   2006-02-10 07:38  

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