Cartoon War Continues Unabaited — I have to give these people the benefit of the doubt and assume they have other grievances. I mean, really. None of these jokers read Danish newspapers. Few have seen these innocuous cartoons. They have other issues and this is their excuse for rioting. But is this the best excuse they can come up with? Offensive cartooning? It’s nothing less than ridiculous.
Two demonstrators were killed and five were injured, while eight police also were hurt, he said. No U.S. troops were involved in the clashes, Ahmed said.
Lebanon, meanwhile, apologized to Denmark a day after thousands of rampaging Muslim demonstrators set fire to the building housing the Danish mission in Beirut to protest the series of cartoons satirizing Islam’s holiest figure.
The European Union issued stern reminders to 18 Muslim countries that they are obliged under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations to protect foreign embassies, and Austria — which now holds the EU Council presidency, reported calling in a top representative of the Organization of the Islamic Conference to express concerns for the safety of diplomatic missions.
I never said violence was justified. And I am not defending the actions of religious wackos. I’m am trying to point out the STUPIDITY in deliberately ridiculing a person’s faith.
On what planet were you raised where everyone with an issue responds with a letter to the editor?
65 comments – what’s left to say
except
Eventually these savages will start a nuclear war
and we will be forced to finish it
Cro-Magnon did indeed replace Neanderthal
It’s time for history to repeat itself.
It all started with a shrewdly prepared script. Jyllands-Posten would publish deeply offensive cartoons of Islam’s holiest person, the Prophet Muhammad SAWS. If Muslims protested or tried to discuss it, they would be ignored. If the protests grew louder, that would be even better. They would gleefully present the images of the deeply hurt protesters from around the Muslim world, without ever explaining what made them feel so hurt, so the audiences could easily draw the conclusions about these “extremists and fanatics.” That would fit in nicely with the current narrative about Islam and terrorism. In either case they would be winning.
These people, and I use the term loosely because even animals don’t carry on like this, just need excuses to kill people. Whether or not it was offensive they will find other reasons as well. Also as one of the other comments were how the country shoulg change for them is crap. If you don’t like it go home.