Trackbacked at MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Michelle Malkin:
Technorati: “jyllands-posten mohammed” “muhammad cartoon”
(1) In a cartoon from Arab News (April 10, 2002), we see Ariel Sharon wielding a swastika-shaped axe to chop up Palestinian children. Arab News is a Saudi-based English language daily which is supposedly one of the Arab world’s more moderate papers.
(2) Some time ago a Dutch artist showed the backs of naked women with verses from the Quran written on them. This was considered blasphemy. A Muslim extremist ritually slaughtered the artist, Theo van Gogh, in broad daylight.
(3) Then in Brussels a young Muslim immigrant published a poster depicting the Virgin Mary with naked breasts. Though the picture has drawn some protest from Catholics (though not from Western embassies, nor from the bishops), this artist need not fear being murdered in the street. On the contrary, he is being subsidised by the Ministry for Culture.
(4) Now a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, is being protected by security guards and several cartoonists have gone into hiding after the newspaper published a series of twelve cartoons (caution: 1100kb file) about the prophet Muhammad.
Jyllands-Posten was also included on an al-Qaeda website listing possible terrorist targets. An organisation which calls itself “The Glorious Brigades in Northern Europe” is circulating pictures on the internet which show bombs exploding over pictures of the newspaper and blood flowing over the national flag of Denmark. “The Mujahedeen have numerous targets in Denmark – very soon you all will regret this,” the website said.
According to the Islam it is blasphemous to make images of the prophet. Muslim fundamentalists have threatened to bomb the paper’s offices and kill the cartoonists. Things came to a head over the past week. In Gaza City, Palestinian gunmen took over an EU office to protest the cartoons
Today Muslim leaders are still having an issue over the Jyllands-Posten cartoons. An international organization of Muslim intellectuals has threatened to mobilize “millions of Muslims all over the World” to boycott Danish and Norwegian products unless the Danish and Norwegian government condemn the publication of the cartoons, which is called an “attack on the Muslims of the World and on the Prophet.”
There is also a group that has formed to support Denmark against any boycott. There is also a “buy Danish” campaign going on, and a petition in support of Jyllands-Posten.
So what can we glean from these facts?
- If you are being critical of Christians or Jews then you are protected by free speech.
- If you are being critical of Islam then you are in danger of death by the jihadis.
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