The Danish cartoonists’ depiction of Mohammed is turning out to be a wonderful thing. It is opening Europe’s eyes to the cancer within: Radical Islamism. The “religion of peace” (and “tolerance”) has shown itself to be, well, not so peaceful and tolerant.
Exhibit One: The Palestinian campaign against Europe in the “Cartoon Affair” is escalating.
On Thursday, scores of armed Palestinians closed down EU headquarters in Gaza.
Anti-European feeling among the Palestinian public rose as rumors spread throughout the territories warning of an intention to burn the Koran at a demonstration in Denmark this Saturday.
Palestinian terror organizations warned that if the Koran was burned, they would attack Europeans in the territories, destroy their consulates and offices, and murder their diplomatic staff.
Exhibit Two: A German national, apparently a human rights activist, was kidnapped Thursday evening by unidentified gunmen in Nablus in protest of the Prophet Muhammad cartoons published in newspapers all over the world. He was released shortly afterwards.
Exhibit Three: JAKARTA (Reuters) – About 300 militant Indonesian Muslims went on a rampage inside the lobby of a Jakarta building housing the Danish embassy on Friday in protest over cartoons that Muslims say insult Islam and the Prophet Mohammad.
Shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest), the white-clad protesters from the hardline Islamic Defender’s Front (FPI) smashed lamps with bamboo sticks and threw chairs around in anger at cartoons originally published by a Danish daily.
Exhibit Four: Fundamentalist Muslims protested outside the Danish Embassy in Malaysia, chanting “Long live Islam, destroy our enemies” and accusing the Jyllands-Posten of seeking to incite hatred.
“It’s an uncivilized act. It’s heinous,” said Hanifah Maidin, youth wing spokesman of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, demanding the Danish government apologize to the Muslim world.
About 800 people protested in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, chanting “Death to Denmark” and “Death to France.” Another rally in the southern city of Karachi drew 1,200 people.
Pakistan’s parliament unanimously voted to condemn the drawings as a “vicious, outrageous and provocative campaign” that has “hurt the faith and feelings of Muslims all over the world.”
And that’s only four examples. But it gives the lie to the claims that Islam is a religion of tolerance. I don’t recall worldwide rioting by Christians and Jews over Monty Python’s Life of Brian, though that was considered extremely offensive and insulting to both religions. (There were protests, nothing more.)
The masks are coming off, and it may be enough to awaken Europe to the disastrous policies they’ve been following under the guise of mulitculturalism.
The clash of civilizations continues.
Cancer within… thank you for reminding me of the Mahmoud Kahlil cartoon.
I am going to demand an International Day Of Kreplach.
Actually, it’s four examples, but who’s counting?
Your right! We in Europe start to awake.
Mayhaps one of the imams will lead a protest with Crayolas jammed in all his orifices and demand that his followers allow him to write his name on their burning homes.
And I will join the International Day of Kreplach only if we can follow it with an international day of Gehockteh leber mit schmaltz (to keep the werewolves away).
Even though I’ve got sympathy for Palestinians the response to the Muhammad cartoons has shown that Islam is out of synch with the 21st century. How do you explain this storm that should’ve run it’s course months ago…no rightwing racists have jumped onto the bandwagon and the situation seems out of control.
Right on the money, Meryl!
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Fixed the count, Jim. My un-fever and all that. It makes me stupid.
I wonder if there is any truth to the rumour that this cartoon thingy was all planned by the US CIA as a way to bring all the potential terroists (read the most angry muslims here) out into the streets so the terror police could find out who they were? Even the ones wearing a mask could be followed home. If so it was a good plan because it really worked. In any event I’m sure that the US would not have missed this opportunity to add all their names to the “watch list”.
Cartoons at: http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004440.htm
Quinton,
The Muslim activists in the West are stoking the fire and keeping the issue alive, of course. Look how they added three pictures to the twelve Jyllands-Posten published, all three more offensive than anything from the original 12. Why do you think the issue has not run its course? Don’t forget that the right wing racists (like the Nazis; here in the US there are very few right wing racists, but lots of left wing ones) mostly agree with the Muslims about most things, especially the Muslim desire to kill the Jews (that’s the goal of those Palis you sympathize with).
The only mite of reassurance I find is the small numbers of demonstrators in the examples Meryl posted above. Any respectable Third-World country ought to be able to turn out thousands of demonstrators at the drop of a secret policeman’s hat. I wonder how many ordinary Muslims actually are aware of this or actually care?
Muslims in the West cannot be allowed to turn the Western countries they live in into replicas of the sewers thay left behind because they were sick of the dictators and economic stagnation of those Muslim lands. If they cannot endure freedom for others than themselves then they should go back where they came from, and be happy there in political, cultural, and economic squalor.
Anon, now THAT’s funny. You don’t need the CIA to stoke anger in the Muslim world. All you need is, well, Muslims, it seems.
I just love the whole fact that Muslims (and I don’t mean ALL Muslims) go bannanas and kill (yes, one person has now died from all this) people becuase a cartoon came out implying that Muslims are terrorists- or just implying that Muhammads turban has a fuse to it, which could mean a lot of things-.
It’s tantamout to this.. I publish something saying that Bob Smith is a murderer.. Bob Smith is so offended by the idea that he’s a murderer, that he seeks me out and kills me, THEREFORE PROVING MY POINT!!!!!!! See the irony here?? Am I the only one to see that the furor over the Danish cartoon is the same?
-Tara
Well so much for the so called democracy & the freedom of speech out here, is democracy what u call ‘humiliating’ others, or are there any laws to it? to what extent this freedom of speech is allowed? if im free doesn’t mean im allowed to kill, or steal, or do what ever i feel like, i am forbidden to bring harm to others & that’s my limit of freedom. there are certain limits & boundries to everything,& so is in this case.
In countriues where people can sue others for humiliating them, how can anyone think of humiliating a person regarded as a prophet to a religion?
& what if the person who drew this cartoon draws the next caricature of jesus, in the same humiliating way, how would the christians feel, or if its let’s suppose moses’s the next time then how would the jews feel? i guess they’ll feel the same anger, no sane person can enjoy any such stuff degrading anyone’s religious figures as all people around he world beleive their prophets as their perfect role models.
So please stop this non sense stuff & atleast try to respect others limits & beleifs as is the rule of ‘democracy’ because this is what freedom is all about. you give respect & you will get respect, give disrespect & you will get the same in return, so no offense, its only a matter of ‘tit for tat’ so please live & let live u see.
Say, honey–“freedom of speech” is exactly that–allowing people to insult Islam if they so desire. Religious law is not the law in a democracy.
America and Denmark happen to be governed by secular laws, and consist of secular democracies. Look up the difference between that and theocracy, and you will begin to understand why we don’t care about the cartoons being published.
And, uh, “live and let live” does not include “tit for tat” as a punishment if you do not. The Danes aren’t getting disrespect. They are getting death threats.
They are making noise just to make noise. Images of the Prophet have been around for hundreds of years without comment from these groups. Check out: http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/ to see lots more images … not all complementary!
Muslims should ask themselves why the rest of the world continues to move forward in technology, and why western scientists spend more than half there life time searching for cures against life threating diseases facing man kind. On the other hand in the Islamic world we have people living in terror, war, famine, and under fear.
After all it’s the west that feeds many Islamic countries. For example the EU gives palestine 600 million a year, the US 70 million and Australia 13 million. After all this terrorists continue to target Westeners and Islamic countries continue to hate the west and western societies. Lets not forget the christians that are beheaded in Iraq and the bombing of churches in Iraq. After all Islam was spread by the sword and enforced in many countries.
It is rediculous for people kill each other over cartoons. regardless of if we are believers in Christ, Mohamad, Budda or study the Bible, the Koran, or Torah, or any of the other numerous ideologies, we are people. Greed provokes wars,the powerful reach out to the multitude of have nots, to provoke their ambitions.Regardless of what we study and what our beliefs, the books we treasure as our own share the same basic fundamental beliefs, Be honest, love one another,empathize when needed ,be charitable when proven. Getting to sound like the Chritian 10 commandments, look at all your doctrin you will fine they are more than similarities. They are real. Live in peace, grow in peace,love in harmony. Where does it start, here, big job you bet, impossible almost, because of the greed of some leaders, clerics who dispize peace and warriers who are too blinded by their inability to comprehend the costs of their missions on life, on their nations and on society as a whole.
Lets stop the bullshit here, it starts with you, people who are reading and listening,
Monamis
seems someone ( Monamis ) forgot the 10 comandments are Jewish, not Christian. Also it should now be clear to all that the RADICAL elements of Islam will not use debate OF ideas to win the day, but violence, and fear. If this is because they do not have the mental training to debate, that is sad, if it is because they do not want to be troubled with other ideas, lest they have to admit that they already know that their beliefs can not win, then we all will live in fear, wondering who they will harm next, for having the courage to offer another point of view.
I’m a Christian living in Sydney. I find it particularly interesting the fact that so many people, governments and media are taking such drastic measures in regard to condemning the cartoons. Where were these great voices when the current ‘victims’ were desecrating the Budhist statues? did the Muslims denounce these actions by their fellow believers in Afghanistan? I don’t want to even start contemplating the reasons for condemning the cartoons and not even small outcry in regard to the desecration of the centuries old statues? What I’m wondering is why the sudden active reaction (by non-muslims) and the much more passive reaction to a far worse act of destroying a historical sacred monument. Is it because anything to do with islam is considered a much more political sensitive subject?…
PS: very good point honey and Meryl Yourish (posts 13 & 14)