By Juan Cole
Salon 9 Feb 06 Muslim touchiness about Western insults to the prophet Mohammed must be understood in historical context. Most Muslim societies have spent the past two centuries either under European rule or heavy European influence, and most colonial masters and their helpmeets among the missionaries were not shy about letting local people know exactly how barbaric they thought the Muslim faith was. The colonized still smart from the notorious signs outside European clubs in the colonial era, such as the one in Calcutta that said, "Dogs and Indians not allowed."
Comment: "How Barbaric they thought the Muslim Faith was." Hmmm, now let me get this straight. Judaism and Christianity are based on myths and, as far as anyone has been able to prove, there is no historical evidence for the existence of either Moses or Jesus. Islam, acknowledges Judaism and Christianity as its close kin, but relies on the interpretation and further revelation of a REAL historical figure. So, whose faith is really Barbaric?
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An American Indian's View of the Cartoons - Such Depictions Have Been Used as a Weapon Against Oppressed Peoples for Centuries
By ROBERT ROBIDEAU
counterpunch 9 Feb 06 ethnically hostile and abusive reporting by mainstream media was what helped to kill more than 60 American Indians and assault hundreds more during the federal governments reign of terror that occurred between 1973 and 1975 on the Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota reservation.
The old adage that was popularized in Hollywood westerns," White man speaks with forked tongue" had a special meaning. It denoted the deceit of European settlers who often lied to North American Indian people as they stole coveted lands and nearly decimated them as a people. The recent split tongue approach used in defending Danish racist cartoons as freedom of speech must be loudly condemned as just more attacks on the rights of Muslims to defend their lands, culture and self determination. Most European and North American newspapers support the editor of, Jyllands-Posten, the first paper to publish the offensively racist cartoons, expressed position, "we cannot apologize for freedom of expression." The word "but" is a favorite transition of hypocrites who would have us believe on one hand that freedom of speech is a democratic principle to be defended at all cost, while on the other hand are quick to condemn when it attacks and incites hatred toward them and those they wish to protect. Many "Democratic" European countries have laws against anti-Semitism, which are exclusive; they do not protect other cultures from racial attacks. You can insult the prophet of Islam with offensive cartoon messages that deface his image, to create an atmosphere of hatred for Muslims, but dare not tread on the special rights and protections they have formed laws around to protect anti-Semitism.... |
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com February 8 2006 As news breaks of four more demonstrators being shot dead in Kabul, fresh evidence has surfaced lending credibility to the assertion that the Muslim riots are a staged psyop or at the very least based on false pretenses.
Yesterday leading Russian MP Vladimir Zhirinovsky said that the riots were a manufactured psychological operation on the part of the US in an attempt to enlist hardened EU support for a military strike against Iran. As first highlighted by this website and others, more evidence has come to light that confirms fake and misleading caricatures were bundled in with the more tame cartoons that were printed in Danish newspapers. Muslims were misled into believing that all the images were printed in newspapers when they were not. World Net Daily reports, "One of three especially inflammatory but undocumented Muhammad images distributed by a Danish imam as an example of an "anti-Muslim environment" in the European country turns out to be a poorly reproduced copy of an Associated Press photo taken at a French pig-squealing contest." |
AFP
10 Feb 06 Muslims across Asia have vented their anger over satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, as a leading politician blamed Western nations for a "huge chasm" between the West and Islam.
The protests on Friday over the drawings first published in a Danish newspaper showed no sign of easing, but there was no repeat of the violence that has so far left 13 people dead worldwide in rallies against the cartoons. |
AFP
10 Feb 06 The Palestinian group Hamas has joined calls for calm amid international furore sparked by cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, as a Taliban commander in Afghanistan said 100 suicide bombers had volunteered.
Hamas "is prepared to play a role in calming the situation between the Islamic world and Western countries on condition that these countries commit themselves to putting an end to attacks against the feelings of Muslims," the organisation's leader Khaled Meshaal told a news conference Thursday. His conciliatory tone came a day after he warned the Western press was "playing with fire" by publishing the cartoons which have led to riots around the world. |
By Daniel Howden, David Hardaker in Cairo
and Stephen Castle in Brussels 10 February 2006 A summit of Muslim nations held in Mecca in December may have played a key role in stoking outraged protests across the Islamic world against a series of caricatures of the Prophet Mohamed.
A dossier of the cartoons, which was compiled by Danish Muslims, was handed around the sidelines of the meeting, attended by 57 Islamic nations including leaders such as Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the Saudi King, Abdullah. |
By ANN McFEATTERS
Block News Alliance 10 February 06 Wars have been started this way.
A group gets riled up over a perceived slight (often religious in nature). Violence breaks out. Alliances are called into play. Reason departs. People die. To us in America, used to seeing our president portrayed with huge ears, our flag burned, our religious leaders apologize on TV for their transgressions, freedom itself is more important than what some people choose to do with it. But not in some countries. Comment: This woman hasn't got a clue.
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