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Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker ends Mohammad cartoon contest within hours
2019-12-30
Well bummer. I was looking forward to seeing the submissions.
[Jpost] Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders said on Sunday he had ended a contest for cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Mohammad, only hours after announcing the contentious event.

In a tweet posted on Sunday morning, Wilders said international attention on the contest had enabled him to make a point about the importance of freedom of speech."Mission accomplished. End of contest," he wrote above a picture of what he said was the winning drawing, depicting an angry-looking man with a beard.

Images of the Prophet Mohammad are traditionally forbidden in Islam as idolatrous. Caricatures are regarded by most Moslems as highly offensive.

Wilders canceled a similar contest in August last year after police arrested a man who had threatened to kill him over his plan.

At the time, plans to hold the contest also prompted large demonstrations in Pakistain and Wilders said he felt the danger of violence against innocent people was too great.

Wilders' anti-Islam Freedom Party is the second largest in Dutch parliament, but is not part of the government.
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#6  Love your Rants, Dron!
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-12-30 11:23  

#5  Pathetic. Some boys were arrested in Rajasthan last year for putting up a cartoon of mohammed and peeing on it. They were let off with a warning when the muslims called on the police to release them. The muslims tore their own complaint and begged the cops to let things be. It seems, the citizens of that small, third world locality had more agency than all the first world's citizenry with their fancy litigators and legal theory.

Citizens of the west shall have to realize one basic truth. It is conquest being waged by a barbaric and devious enemy, bleeding out your resolve and wait out the years it takes for weaker generations to arrive. Do not depend on the jurisprudence of the Ol' Bailey to save your societies, or Mayors and commissioners to grow a spine. In the current humanist, guilt-ridden, ignorant and callous bureaucracy there exists no one to give a shit about the real exigencies of this war. Deterring the Dawah and Jihad from encroaching and entrenching in your countries is paramount. It is something we shall all have to descend to lesser versions of ourselves to fight against.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-12-30 10:40  

#4  Remember when some terrorists killed everyone at the Draw Muhammad contest in Garland, Texas? That's OK, the Texans don't remember that either. The terrorists were shot and killed outside the event.

They were wearing body armor, too. They were killed by head shots.

http://archive.is/wOzyn
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2019-12-30 09:46  

#3  ...or he was just busting (certain) people's balls, though you're likely more right than I am.
Posted by: Raj   2019-12-30 09:19  

#2  Sounds like something scared him off.....
Posted by: Mercutio   2019-12-30 08:27  

#1  Yeah, but put a crucifix in a bottle of urine and you are the darling of the Left and ACLU (although I just repeated myself).
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-12-30 07:34  

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