The Iranians are ratcheting up their Holocaust denial and Jew-hatred, and also thoroughly missing the point of freedom of speech while they’re at it.
So let’s see if we can get this thinking process straight.
- A Danish newspaper publishes twelve cartoons of Mohammed as an exercise against the self-censorship that Europe has been practicing when it comes to criticizing Islam
- Muslims take offense, protest to Denmark. The Danish government tells them that the press is free to publish what it wants. Muslims go away unhappy.
- Five months later, Muslims all over the world “suddenly” discover the cartoons and launch protests.
- Western governments and media outlets refuse to kowtow to the Islamist demands
- Iran decides to hold a contest and publish the “best” of Holocaust cartoons to prove that the West has a double standard, presumably because Holocaust denial is against the law in some Western nations.
Or, if you like, we can boil it down more simply: It’s all the Jews’ fault.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran’s supreme leader on Tuesday accused Western newspapers of an Israeli conspiracy for publishing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.
[…] The caricatures amounted to a “conspiracy by Zionists who were angry because of the victory of Hamas,” he said, referring to the Palestinian militant group that won a surprise landslide victory in last month’s elections.
This is the person, by the way, who gives Gorilla Boy his marching orders.
Yep, those sneaky Zionist conspirators were angry in September because Hamas was going to win by a landslide in January. Impressive.
There were 10 cartoons published in Denmark this past September. Two more have been mullah-made to whip up hatred. These protests have similarly been manufactured. Let’s not lose sight of that.
chsw
It is interesting that the idiots post insane ranting cartoons that should never be published in order to protest childish ridiculous insulting cartoons that should not be published. There are those who say that the newspapers should not have published the original cartoons because they were childishly insulting, just as they should not publish the same type of cartoons about us, or the president, or anyone else, because they are childishly insulting. Some of them are like the cartoon that WaPo published about the quadruple amputee.
1. Denmark publishes twelve cartoons of Mohammed with the sole reason to incite hatred and to offend. This hapens after a political party there calls Islam a terrorist organization and compares Immigrants to a cancer.
2. Muslims take offense, protest to Denmark. The Danish government first doesn’t react and refuses to met with officials from about a dozen countries from the middle-east. Muslims go away unhappy.
3. Five months later, other Newspapers find the cartoons and start publishing them all over the place.
4. Western governments and media outlets refuse to discuss the racial and discriminating nature of the cartoons. Instead they cite freedom of press and ignore local legislature against hate-speech against religions in most european countries. The media – driven by extremists on both sides – escalates the whole thing into a “war of civilizations” in their headlines, further fueling the “fear of Islam”.
5. An Iran newspaper decides to hold a contest and publish the “best†of Holocaust cartoons to prove that the West has a double standard, presumably because Holocaust denial is against the law in some Western nations.
Its a good job ‘Islam means peace’ or there could have been a whole lot of trouble over these cartoons!
I still don’t get the part where governments have to apologize because a newspaper did something. Could it be, oh perhaps, because in Arab countries the government controls the papers and they can’t conceive of any other system?
Unlike here where the government only controls the Washington Times and Fox “News”…
Anonymous:
1. Not true.
4. Islam is not a race.
4a. Thousands of protesters all over the world, attacking and burning embassies and foreigners, is what caused the escalation–not the media’s reporting these events.