signs of "spine" sighted in germany....italy,spain...and france?

[gardenweasel]

German Papers Print Mohammed Cartoons

shockingly enough... backbones seem to be springing up all over europe....

:wtf:

""Two German newspapers on Wednesday reproduced controversial drawings depicting the Prophet Muhammad, with one of them arguing that a “right to blasphemy” was anchored in democratic freedoms.

The drawings were among several published in a Danish paper in September that sparked outrage and boycotts in Islamic countries. The pictures were also shown in a Norwegian magazine last week. ...

But the German Welt daily put one of the drawings showing the prophet’s turban transformed into a bomb on its front page on Wednesday. It said the picture was “harmless” and expressed regret that the Danish Jyllands-Posten daily had apologized for causing offense.

“Democracy is the institutionalized form of freedom of expression,” the paper said in a front-page commentary. “There is no right to protection from satire in the West; there is a right to blasphemy.”

The Berliner Zeitung daily also printed two of the caricatures as part of its coverage of the controversy.""

italy and spain too:

"Newspapers across Europe have reprinted caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to show support for a Danish paper whose cartoons have sparked Muslim outrage.

France Soir, Germany’s Die Welt, La Stampa in Italy and El Periodico in Spain all carried some of the drawings.""


and france???


""A French newspaper has reproduced a set of Danish caricatures depicting the Prophet Muhammad that have caused outrage in the Muslim world.

France Soir said it had published the cartoons to show that “religious dogma” had no place in a secular society. Their publication in Denmark has led to protests in several Arab nations.""



an example of what all the shouting is about...


http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/382


i think somebody called must`ve called this stuff "art" instead of just "editorial cartoons"....can`t allow freedom of expression to be trampled....even by an oppressed minority...

but,what i really think happened is that the danish were hammered by islamist groups for publishing the cartoons....and the media closed ranks around their danish brethren...

dream(fantasy) scenario..... the n.y. times publishes these cartoons..... and the a.c.l.u. defends their right to free speech...... :clap: :nooo:


if i were a frenchman i'd be calling my insurance broker to make sure my car insurance policy covers fire bombings.....

 

[bjfinste]

I thought you might like this, Weasel. These people really are insane...

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Palestinian gunmen Thursday shut down the European Union's office in Gaza City, demanding an apology for German, French and Norwegian newspapers reprinting cartoons featuring the prophet Mohammad, Palestinian security sources said.

The gunmen left a notice on the EU office's door that the building would remain closed until Europeans apologize to Muslims, many of whom consider the cartoons offensive.

Muslims consider it sacrilegious to produce a likeness of the Prophet Mohammad. CNN has chosen to not show the cartoons out of respect for Islam.

Masked members of the militant groups Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinians' former ruling party, Fatah, fired bullets into the air, and a man read the group's demands.

Palestinian officials said the gunmen were threatening to kidnap European workers if the European Union did not apologize.

A similar demonstration was held Monday in front of the same EU building to protest the first publication of the 12 drawings in September by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

One of the images shows Mohammad wearing a turban shaped like a bomb with a lit fuse.

The caricatures have sparked protests in other parts of the Muslim world. Iraqis urged their government Wednesday to cut diplomatic ties with Denmark and Norway, where a publication reprinted the drawings last month.

Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the issue had gone beyond a feud between Copenhagen and the Muslim world and now centered on Western free speech versus taboos in Islam, which is the second religion in many European countries.

On Wednesday, two other European newspapers -- Die Welt in Berlin, Germany, and France Soir in Paris -- published the cartoons. Both papers said they were printing the drawings in solidarity with Jyllands-Posten, citing the right to publish them in a free society with a free press.

France Soir ran the cartoons under the headline, "Yes, One has the Right to Caricature God."

The paper's publisher fired the editorial director, Jacques Lefranc, according to the daily Le Monde, which publishes France Soir.

Le Monde reported that the publisher, Raymond Lakah, who is described as Franco-Egyptian, issued a statement saying he fired Lefranc as president and director of the newspaper in "a strong sign of respect to the intimate convictions and beliefs of each individual."

The statement continued, "We present our regrets to the Muslim community and to all people who have been shocked or made indignant by this publication."

Distribution of that edition of France Soir was blocked in Morocco and Tunisia because of the cartoons, Le Monde said.

The papers reprinting the cartoon were not limited to those published in Europe. The Jordanian tabloid Shihan also published them and urged Muslims to "be reasonable" in an accompanying editorial.

The editorial, written by Editor Jihad Momeni -- a former Jordanian senator -- asked: "Who offends Islam more? A foreigner who endeavors to draw the prophet as described by his followers in the world, or a Muslim with an explosive belt who commits suicide in a wedding party in Amman or elsewhere."

A spokesman for Shihan said Momeni had been fired.

Jordan, which has numerous laws against defiling religion and disturbing civil order, was the site of a November suicide attack that killed 57 people attending a wedding party in Amman.

The Arabic-language news channel Al-Jazeera has broadcast a report with the cartoons heavily distorted.

 

[moe777]

freedom is great ,and every country should be lucky to have it,but you need to use common sense.major publications should be cautious of what they show and write and try not to offend people when using opinoins.if facts hurt well your to sensitive ,the other stuff should not be offensive.you dont draw cartoons of jesus blowing young boys in a newspaper or muhammed blowing up people.you dont let things like that get published in a citys or national paper its not right,freedom is one thing being ignorant,prejudice and unsensitive to your others is another.

 

[gardenweasel]

moe...you know that has been done already....the guy that did the "christ piss" show was defended by the whole artsy-fartsy crew(maplethorpe or something)....

and the jews are depicted pretty harshly in islam...among other places....

the stuff about using arab blood for baking matzos....depicted as monkeys and pigs......it`s all silly...

we live in a western society...and many believe that without freedom of expression democracy cannot exist.... without democracy, western civilization cannot exist and we`ll all live under tyrants.

yeah,i agree with you..it`s tasteless.... unnecessary....stupid...

but...
if muslims are offended at a cartoon that depicts mohammed with a turban that doubles as a bomb, and another depicting mohammed as a sword wielding savage. ...

what do they do about it?

A)threaten to blow up the newsapaper ?
B)threaten to slaughter the illustrators of these cartoons?

these actions only serve to reinforce these caricatures......

 

[smurphy]

muslims are f#*ked in the head. i said it before and i'll say it again - go away and don't come back until you get your sh&t together.

step 1) get a sense of humor

i don't think publications that have editorials should be worried about anything. i've seen plenty of "controversial" depictions of jesus, buddha, joe smith, the pope, vishnu, freddy laker, etc etc. muslims appear to be the only ones who are unable to laugh these things off.

 

[gardenweasel]

here`s a stumper...the palestinians are closing the e.u. representation office and threatening to kill their citizens.....

all the while the euros are debating whether to keep subzidizing the new hamas goverment (to the tune of 500 mill u.s. dollars..at least)....

well,maybe not...might be a ploy...they figure the euros will try and appease them...

or...damn!!...it could be chimpy`s fault!!!!!...YES!!!


bush(chimpy) was angry about all the european papers running cartoons of him as a chimp, so karl rove paid the danes to draw these blasphemous cartoons and then forced the newpapers to print them....

now the muslims will be forced to defend their honor and bomb the newspapers....

voila...no more chimpy cartoons. ..

rove again manipulating "the puppet"...

 

[smurphy]

That is actually a pretty brilliant plan if Chimpy and Rove actually conjured it up.

Chimpy and Rove .....I think I found the name of the next great stage duo, ala Smothers Brothersesque style.

CNN blurred out the part of the cartoon with Muhommed on it when they were talking about the story. F**k that! Let's just get it all out our system and do an 'Aristocrats' display showing an orgy with Muhommed as the main bitch, bent over against the Wailing Wall. Jesus will be nailing himfrom behind (and getting blood all over his hips from the gaping wounds in his palms), L-Ron Hubbard will be pleasured orally, and Moses will be fighting both of them to get his share. In the distance you can see the Dali Llama running up, robes flapping in the wind, with 10 inch King Kong dildo ....up to the viewers imagination what he's gonna do with it.

Is nothing sacred?

 

[gardenweasel]

reminds me of an old yakov smirnoff joke....about the soviet union...you could just as easily apply it to islam....

"people think there are no comedians in the soviet union(islam)....

there ARE comedians in the soviet union(islam)....

they`re dead....but they`re there"....