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| Indian sailor beaten to death in UAE over cartoons |
| 2006-02-15 |
| An Indian sailor was allegedly beaten to death by his colleagues on board a Norwegian oil tanker in the international waters off the coast of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates following an argument over the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in some European newspapers. A fight ensued among the seamen after an argument over the issue, causing the death of one sailor, a media report said. Official sources confirmed the death of 31-year-old Sudhir Jagannathan, a native of Mumbai. 'We have been informed about the death. Our officials visited the Fujairah hospital and collected the details. The investigation is going on and once it is over, the consulate will render all the help to repatriate the body,' an Indian official told the Khaleej Times newspaper. The entire crew on the ship hails from India. The ship was traveling from Mangalore in Karnataka to Fujairah with a chemical cargo. Jagannathan worked as a fitter on the ship. The captain of the oil tanker has denied any foul play. He and his crew were remanded to the custody of the Fujairah police, the report added. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #9 Parts of our government are stuck on stupid. The ports include Norfolk, one of only two remaining fleet naval bases on the east coast. |
| Posted by: SR-71 2006-02-15 19:57 |
| #8 OT, but I see the UAE will manage some of the busiest ports on the East Coast. Bought the right to control for something like 8.7 billion. Someone please explain why this is a good thing? |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2006-02-15 17:23 |
| #7 The victim's name is, I believe, of Tamil origin. Notice the politically correct omission to identify the race or religion of the killers. |
| Posted by: Spaviting Glavise6090 2006-02-15 16:39 |
| #6 Rcvd this today. Don't know who wrote it. ******************************* OUTRAGED MUSLIMS! OH MY! We wake up this morning to see video on CNN showing rampaging Muslims around the world. In Europe, the Middle East, the Pacific Rim ... Muslim Mobs spreading mayhem. It seems that these mighty mad Muslims are rioting and firing their ever-present AK-47s into the air because of cartoons. Yup ... this latest epidemic of Muslim outrage comes to us because some newspapers in Norway and Denmark published some cartoons depicting Mohammed. In fact ... here is one of my favorites! "Muhammed in bomb-turban" Admit it, this turban/bomb thing could be the next big fashion hit on the Muslim street! Muslim outrage huh. OK ... let's do a little historical review. Just some lowlights: Muslims fly commercial airliners into buildings in New York City. No Muslim outrage. Muslim officials block the exit where school girls are trying to escape a burning building, because their faces were exposed. No Muslim outrage. Muslims cut off the heads of three teenaged Christian girls on their way to school in Indonesia. A Christian school. No Muslim outrage. Muslims murder teachers trying to teach Muslim children in Iraq & Afganistan. No Muslim outrage. Muslims murder over 80 tourists with car bombs outside cafes and hotels in Egypt. No Muslim outrage. A Muslim attacks a missionary children's school in India. Kills six. No Muslim outrage. Muslims slaughter hundreds of children and teachers in Beslan, Russia. Muslims shoot children in the back. No Muslim outrage. Let's go way back. Muslims kidnap and kill athletes at the Munich Summer Olympics. No Muslim outrage. Muslims fire rocket-propelled grenades into schools full of children in Israel. No Muslim outrage. Muslims murder more than 50 commuters in attacks on London subways and busses. Over 700 are injured. No Muslim outrage. Muslims massacre dozens of innocents at a Passover Seder. No Muslim outrage. Muslims murder innocent vacationers in Bali. No Muslim outrage. Muslim newspapers publish anti-Semitic cartoons. No Muslim outrage Muslims are involved, on one side or the other, in almost every one of the 125+ shooting wars around the world. No Muslim outrage. Muslims beat the charred bodies of Western civilians with their shoes, then hang them from a bridge. No Muslim outrage. Newspapers in Denmark and Norway publish cartoons depicting Mohammed. Muslims are outraged. Dead children. Dead tourists. Dead teachers. Dead doctors and nurses. Death, destruction and mayhem around the world at the hands of Muslims .. no Muslim outrage ... but publish a cartoon depicting Mohammed with a bomb in his turban and all hell breaks loose. Come on, is this really about cartoons? They're rampaging and burning flags. They're looking for Europeans to kidnap. They're threatening innkeepers and generally raising holy Muslim hell not because of any outrage over a cartoon. They're outraged because it is part of the Islamic jihadist culture to be outraged. You don't really need a reason. You just need an excuse. Wandering around, destroying property, murdering children, firing guns into the air and feigning outrage over the slightest perceived insult is to a jihadist what tailgating is to a Steeler's fan. I know and understand that these bloodthirsty murderers do not represent the majority of the world's Muslims. When, though, do they become outraged? When do they take to the streets to express their outrage at the radicals who are making their religion the object of worldwide hatred and ridicule? Islamic writer Salman Rushdie wrote of these silent Muslims in a New York Times article three years ago. Â… "As their ancient, deeply civilized culture of love, art and philosophical reflection is hijacked by paranoiacs, racists, liars, male supremacists, tyrants, fanatics and violence junkies, why are they not screaming?" Indeed. Why not? |
| Posted by: Glereper Craviter7929 2006-02-15 16:16 |
| #5 The moral: if you're going to have a dissenting opinion in jihadi-land, it's a good idea to be REAL handy with weapons. |
| Posted by: mojo 2006-02-15 12:24 |
| #4 twobyfour: Yes and no. As a cult, the Thughees are basically still around, just not calling themselves that anymore. They still have several temples, are very carefully watched by police, and have modified their rituals to "simulate" murder rather than do it. For example, instead of burying children alive, they just briefly cover them with dirt, then pull them out of the hole before they suffocate. As you might imagine, the more orthodox are not very satisfied with this, and occasionally are taken up by the authorities for offing some other citizen in a ritual. But the Hindu religions overlap a heck of a lot, officially having 220 Million gods (literally), and so it is pretty easy to blend in with the crowd. They don't distinguish by religion, they distinguish by caste. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-02-15 11:39 |
| #3 Borgboy, thugees are no more. Anyway, history will repeat itself, give it time. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2006-02-15 10:49 |
| #2 High time for the "Thugees" of Kali to rise and smaite the heathen Islamofascists! |
| Posted by: borgboy 2006-02-15 10:31 |
| #1 The word Muslim is not printed in this article. Since we know that the entire crew on the ship hails from India and that he was beaten to death by his colleagues on board a Norwegian oil tanker, off the UAE, it is as clear as oil what happened here. |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-02-15 09:56 |