Denmark -- a Great Satan
GAZA (Reuters) - Thousands of Palestinians protested against Denmark on Tuesday for allowing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad to be published, and Arab ministers called on the Copenhagen government to punish the newspaper that printed them.
Demonstrators burned Danish flags, chanted "War on Denmark, Death to Denmark" and called for an Arab boycott of products from the small north European country until it showed contrition for the satirical caricatures deemed blasphemous by Islam.
Anger has spread across much of the Muslim world.
"We feel great rage at the continued attacks on Islam and the Prophet of Islam and we demand that the Danish government make a clear and public apology for the wrongful crime," Nafez Azzam, a leader of Islamic Jihad, told the crowd of supporters of his militant group outside U.N. headquarters.
The protesters fired bullets in the air and burned Danish and U.S. flags as well as portraits of Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and U.S. President George W. Bush.
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What did Boosh and the US have to do with this? Because the US supports freedon of speech (so long as you do not touch our own sacred cows)? As a freedom of speech issue, this is pretty serious: you cannot, even in a country that is not a theocracy, express your views without threat of retribution. Now I ask you, whose culture is invading someone else's culture with an attempt at influencing, modifying or changing it? It is not as though the US (or Denmark) is holding rallies at the [fill in the blank] consulate demanding that they eat Big Macs or cease calling Bush Satan (is he?). To say nothing of a more direct analogy that might be apt with respect to Israel.
Now CAIR did mention something about using inflamatory words, etc. in the State of the Union Speech. But isn't the name of the group "Islamic Jihad" sort of a direct contradiction to this request? Why is it that no-one may impunge Islam anywhere in the world without threat of direct retribution, but the President of Iran can call for the extermination of Israel?
Demonstrators burned Danish flags, chanted "War on Denmark, Death to Denmark" and called for an Arab boycott of products from the small north European country until it showed contrition for the satirical caricatures deemed blasphemous by Islam.
Anger has spread across much of the Muslim world.
"We feel great rage at the continued attacks on Islam and the Prophet of Islam and we demand that the Danish government make a clear and public apology for the wrongful crime," Nafez Azzam, a leader of Islamic Jihad, told the crowd of supporters of his militant group outside U.N. headquarters.
The protesters fired bullets in the air and burned Danish and U.S. flags as well as portraits of Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and U.S. President George W. Bush.
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What did Boosh and the US have to do with this? Because the US supports freedon of speech (so long as you do not touch our own sacred cows)? As a freedom of speech issue, this is pretty serious: you cannot, even in a country that is not a theocracy, express your views without threat of retribution. Now I ask you, whose culture is invading someone else's culture with an attempt at influencing, modifying or changing it? It is not as though the US (or Denmark) is holding rallies at the [fill in the blank] consulate demanding that they eat Big Macs or cease calling Bush Satan (is he?). To say nothing of a more direct analogy that might be apt with respect to Israel.
Now CAIR did mention something about using inflamatory words, etc. in the State of the Union Speech. But isn't the name of the group "Islamic Jihad" sort of a direct contradiction to this request? Why is it that no-one may impunge Islam anywhere in the world without threat of direct retribution, but the President of Iran can call for the extermination of Israel?
posted by Zaphod at Tuesday, January 31, 2006
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