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The guideline is up for debate.......many images of Muhamed exist already. The original cartoons were embellished with other, far more insulting ones as well.

Of course they were....and the demonstrators last week were supporting those acts in the name of Islam. That's the purpose of this thread......I feel that it is wrong of 'mainstream' Muslims to get so violently uptight over cartoons (which are after all merely poking fun at the fanatical element in their midst) whilst getting not nearly as worked up over many atrocities perpetrated by their own on us. I am trying to work out if I am wrong here or not.......




lol......I'm in the wrong thread as well :D

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There is a certain amount of convergence between the two :)

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I am surprised noone has reacted to the messages on some of their banners in london.

"massacre all that publish the pictures"
"say no to freedom of speach"

if they dont like it they free to move back to the middle east.

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What annoys me about all this, is that I have never seen in the news of any muslims condeming the the suicide bombers in Iraq who deliberateley target innocent men, women and children, even bombing funeral processions and in some cases hospitals. What I do here from muslim organisations is that the people in Iraq have the right to defend against foreign military occupations. Only the demands that we pull our troops out.

My answer to that firstly that the majority of leaders of these bombers are not from Iraq, and secondly, we are not targetting the innocent. The times we here that muslims look after their brothers, well, they are not looking after the innocent in Iraq, maybe they could have a march in support of them, which I very much doubt.

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To say that 9/11 was done in the name of Islam is one thing but to imply that it was done in the name of Islam and the majority of mainstream muslims agree with that (because you later say its mainstream muslims that are getting violently uptight over the pictures) is totally wrong.
All mainstraim muslim groups after 9/11 took adverts in the national press to condemn 9/11 as they did on the news and other programmes. 200 people waving hate filled placards on the streets of london is not representative of mainstream Islam in the UK

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Holy s**t

But look how many Arabic/Muslim names are at the bottom...

Also, interesting to see Rushdie getting in on the act. But thinking about it, there was a similar outcry over The Satanic Verses wern't there? Quite violent protests, but it soon died down... Speaking of which, haven't heard a lot about cartoon protests lately... Have Muslims just given up and accepted it then?

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Looks like the 'Church in Wales is in trouble (BBC):
Will this lead to further mad protests?

After all, this was the cartoon that France Soir used for it's front page when they re-published the Danish cartoons:

As I see it, this cartoon is satirising the reaction to the original cartoons.

Although in other reports the comment is being addressed to 'Muhammad' - it's not as if that's an uncommon name among Muslims. (Similarly the use of Jesus in South America - I have always thought it rather presumptuous to use the name of a 'deity' like that.) The point being, that it only becomes the 'Prophet Muhammad' if someone chooses to see it as such. i.e. whether the cartoon is a 'depiction' of the Prophet is arguable.

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mmm mm mmm.... I predict a riot... mmm mm mm

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I'll keep you guys posted on any news of churches around here getting torched....

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You mean about this of course ;) :rolleyes: :D

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Oh really?



And I don't see the show's producers cowering or withdrawing performances for fear of inflaming Christian opinion either ....

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It was more a poke at the stupidity over what is only a sodding cartoon really...

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And so many years later some fanatic finally tries to make good on the threats

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8437433.stm

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Such a shame the attacker didn't get his 72 raisins....

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Interesting, If I remember correctly?

The author of the book Londonistan, claimed that muslims re-circulated the newspaper cartoons to stir up trouble. To spice things up a bit they also included extra cartoons that were more offensive than the original ones printed by the newspapers.