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India-Pakistan
Cartoons a plot to divide East and West: Ghinwa
2006-02-27
PESHAWAR: Speakers at a conference said that the publication of caricatures of Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was an international plot designed by imperialist America to weaken the strong Muslim states by driving a wedge between the West and the East. They urged workers, peasants and labourers across the world to unite and stand up to imperialist forces led by the US and prevent them from achieving their ‘nefarious designs’.
"Workers and peasants"?
The speakers expressed these views at an Anti-Imperialist Conference organised by Pakistan Mazdoor Kissan Party at Nishtar Hall, Peshawar. Speaking to peasants and workers who had come from far-flung areas of the province, Ghinwa Bhutto, chairman Pakistan Peoples Party–Shaheed Bhutto, said that the publication of cartoons was America’s plot aimed at isolating the people of the East from the West to achieve its objectives. “Our real foes are the Americans and the Jewish lobby that controls the US and the western media particularly in Scandinavian countries,” said Ms Bhutto, widow of Mir Murtaza Bhutto. She said that the people from the west always sided with the people from the east, particularly on the Iraq war, which the western people opposed, and if both the East and the West united, imperialist America would have no place in the world. “The imperialists (Americans) and the Jewish lobby plotted the cartoon drama to isolate us,” he said.
Posted by:Fred

#4  "...an international plot designed by imperialist America to weaken the strong Muslim states by driving a wedge between the West and the East."

Strong Muslim states, eh? Which states are these?

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Posted by: Chinter Flarong9283   2006-02-27 13:42  

#3  Â“The imperialists (Americans) and the Jewish lobby plotted the cartoon drama to isolate us,” he said.

So, in other words, we knew that the cartoons would make them run around like a bunch of lunatics, so we published them to make Islam look bad.

Islamic logic gives me a headache.
Posted by: Dreadnought   2006-02-27 13:00  

#2  Howcum when I think of imperialists. The Danes and their cartoonists are not the first thing that jumps into my mind?

Also, explain how a caliph is different than an emperor (needed to have imperialism) in his treatment of lessor nations?

If I ask the Balkans I know they will say the caliph was several million times worse... Janasaries for one come to mind.
Posted by: 3dc   2006-02-27 10:56  

#1  Speakers at a conference said that the publication of caricatures of Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was an international plot designed by imperialist America to weaken the strong Muslim states by driving a wedge between the West and the East.

How come no mention of the Elders of Zion?
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-02-27 02:00  

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