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2008-03-21 Fifth Column

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Posted by ryuge 2008-03-21 10:47|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top
File under: Global Jihad

#1 Quagmire!

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-03-21 10:53|| 2008-03-21 10:53|| Front Page Top

#2 "...As a Western-educated Muslim woman... It is apparent at this point that Muslims expect at least an apology from the editors. Undoing the damage done across Muslim communities will require more -- further dialogue, broader respect, and deeper understanding."

Education must have taught her "free speech for me but not for thee."

Posted by mhw 2008-03-21 11:02|| 2008-03-21 11:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Moderate Muslims I know in the United States and Europe who did not participate in the street demonstrations

The problem is, they don't do ANYTHING (that is, if they really exist).

Some issued death threats, while non-violent protestors in London, for example, carried signs with violent messages such as "behead those who insult Islam."

so the non-violent ones only THREATEN violence, eh? How civilized.

What "insults Islam" is not the criticism of it, but those things done in its name that prompt the criticism. Death. Terror. Riots. Intolerance. Deal with those things publicly and definitively, missy, and the rest of us will respect you. Here's a tip: You don't demand respect. You earn it. Go mention that to your friends when they take a breather from beheading people.

Posted by PlanetDan 2008-03-21 11:38|| 2008-03-21 11:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Feelings of alienation and isolation, particularly among European Muslims, could make it difficult for Muslim communities to co-exist within mainstream Western societies.

Here lies the problem, no assimilation.

Posted by Jan 2008-03-21 11:43|| 2008-03-21 11:43|| Front Page Top

#5 We need more! More cartoons, videos, commedy routines. The mooselimbs must be bludgeoned with their own ignorance and intolerance.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2008-03-21 11:50|| 2008-03-21 11:50|| Front Page Top

#6 In a post-Sept.11 environment, where relations between Muslims and non-Muslims in the West are at best precarious, at worst distrustful, and above all central to everyone's security, the Danish editors might have known that reprinting the cartoons would provoke destructive behavior rather than encourage peaceful dialogue.

Ya got a point, honey. Shit, even I knew that. Although you don't need the psychic powers of Nostrodamus to figure out how these things are gonna go.
So what are we gonna be pissed off about next month? Headscarfs? No headscarfs? Farting near a Koran? The existence of ham? Let us know, will ya?

Posted by tu3031 2008-03-21 11:52|| 2008-03-21 11:52|| Front Page Top

#7 In Pakistan's largest riot, 70,000 people gathered in the northwestern city of Peshawar, where I traveled last week, burning cars and cinemas.

now why the hell didn't somebody stop her?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-03-21 16:31|| 2008-03-21 16:31|| Front Page Top

#8 note also, that this muslim ~~tool~~ apologist works at the RAND Institute, the next time someone quotes them as an unbiased source

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-03-21 16:33|| 2008-03-21 16:33|| Front Page Top

#9 If you don't like freedom of speech and the negative consequences that go with it, go back to the hell-hole you came from and express yourself there. We don't need to change to live here, but apparently you do.

Posted by Woodrow Slusorong7967 2008-03-21 17:44|| 2008-03-21 17:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Here ya' go, #5 Rex. :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-03-21 21:35|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-03-21 21:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Video....

Posted by 3dc 2008-03-21 23:03|| 2008-03-21 23:03|| Front Page Top

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