[datek23]

If anyone is interested and never seen the cartoons, here is the link and you can judge for yourself if it is worth riots and deaths all over the world.

http://blog.newspaperindex.com/2005/...posten-racism/

A lot of these riots hit poor people which have nothing better to do.

[isetcap]

Nothing is worths riots and death. Religious extremism is the cancer of the world.

[diamond]

Being a Scandinavian living abroad I had a taste of this shit..but ok, they mind is so narrow minded I couldnt care less. Thank God there is good muslims as well (notice how I manage to put two religions in one sentence)

[BuddyBear]

Nothing is worths riots and death. Religious extremism is the cancer of the world.

Exactly.....i wish they would drop the subject. It was in bad taste but look what has happened.

Also the Muslim world makes fun of Jews and other ethnicities regularly in their media and they assume no responsibility that they are offending so many people but then when someone does this it is like the end of the world.

[isetcap]

Exactly.....i wish they would drop the subject. It was in bad taste but look what has happened.

There is a significant evil taking place when bad taste is equated with murderous activity.

[Ira Wilton]

Exactly.....i wish they would drop the subject. It was in bad taste but look what has happened.

Also the Muslim world makes fun of Jews and other ethnicities regularly in their media and they assume no responsibility that they are offending so many people but then when someone does this it is like the end of the world.

In response to these cartoons the most circulated Iranian newspaper invited its readers to submit cartoons negatively depicting Jews (like they didn't do that already anyway).

Obviously this rioting and mayhem IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE of the Muslim Community (at least in the U.S.)but these are the situations where Jews (especially Israelis) whisper "we told you so" into the ear of the rest of the world.

p.s. Why is this post not in the private forum?

[isetcap]

p.s. Why is this post not in the private forum?

Yeah, I don't think we need posts of this nature on the Main forum.

[biggs]

Cleric Announces $1M Bounty on Cartoonist
Feb 17 4:37 PM US/Eastern


By RIAZ KHAN
Associated Press Writer


PESHAWAR, Pakistan


A Pakistani cleric announced a $1 million bounty for killing a cartoonist who drew the Prophet Muhammad as thousands joined street protests after Friday prayers.

Denmark, which first published the cartoons, temporarily closed its embassy and advised its citizens to leave Pakistan.



Prayer leader Mohammed Yousaf Qureshi announced the bounty for killing a cartoonist to about 1,000 people outside the historic Mohabat Khan mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar.

He said the mosque and the Jamia Ashrafia religious school he leads would give a $25,000 reward and a car for killing the cartoonist who drew the prophet caricatures _ considered blasphemous by Muslims. He said a local jewelers' association would also give $1 million, but no representative of the association was available to confirm the offer.

"Whoever has done this despicable and shameful act, he has challenged the honor of Muslims. Whoever will kill this cursed man, he will get $1 million dollars from the association of the jewelers bazaar, one million rupees ($16,700) from Masjid Mohabat Khan and 500,000 rupees ($8,350) and a car from Jamia Ashrafia as a reward," Qureshi said.

"This is a unanimous decision of by all imams of Islam that whoever insults the prophets deserves to be killed and whoever will take this insulting man to his end, will get this prize," he said.

Qureshi did not name any cartoonist in his announcement and he did not appear aware that 12 different people had drawn the pictures.

A Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, first printed the prophet pictures in September. The newspaper has since apologized to Muslims for the cartoons, one of which shows Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban. Other Western newspapers, mostly in Europe, have reprinted the pictures, asserting their news value and the right to freedom of expression.

In Denmark, a spokesman for the Jyllands-Posten said the newspaper did not want to comment on the bounty offer. But Mogens Blicher Bjerregaard, president of the Danish Journalist Union and spokesman for the cartoonists, condemned it.

"It is totally absurd what is happening. The cartoonists just did their job and they did nothing illegal," he said.

He said the cartoonists _ who have been living under police protection since last year _ are aware of the reward and are "feeling bad about the whole situation." He did not say whether their security had been stepped up.

Security forces were out in strength throughout Pakistan Friday, particularly around government offices and Western businesses, as Muslims streamed onto the streets after prayers. More than 200 people were detained, but most gatherings were peaceful.

Unrest over the cartoons has spiraled in Pakistan. Riots in Lahore and Peshawar this week caused millions of dollars in damage. Hundreds of vehicles were burned and protesters targeted U.S. and other foreign businesses, including KFC, McDonald's, Citibank, Holiday Inn and Norwegian cell phone company Telenor. Five people were killed.

Intelligence officials have said scores of members of radical and militant Islamic groups, such as Jamaat al-Dawat, joined the protests in Lahore on Tuesday and incited violence in a bid to undermine President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's government, a close ally of the United States.

On Friday, police confined Jamaat al-Dawat's leader, Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, to his home in Lahore to stop him from addressing supporters in the city of Faisalabad, about 75 miles away, his spokesman Yahya Mujahid said.

Saeed used to lead Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a banned militant group.

A senior police official in Lahore who confirmed Saeed's detention said the government had ordered police to restrict the movement of all religious leaders who might address rallies and to round up religious activists "who could be any threat to law and order."

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.

In Islamabad, visiting former President Bill Clinton criticized the cartoons but said Muslims wasted an opportunity to build better ties with the West by holding violent protests.

"I can tell you, most people in the United States deeply respect Islam ... and most people in Europe do," he said.

Denmark, meanwhile, said it had temporarily closed its embassy in Pakistan and urged Danes to leave the country. Last week, Denmark temporarily shut its embassies in Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Indonesia.

Pakistan recalled its ambassador to Denmark for "consultations" about the cartoons, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said.

Friday's protests were mostly free of violence though police used tear gas and batons in isolated incidents. About 7,000 protested in Rawalpindi, 5,000 in the southwestern city of Quetta and 5,000 in Karachi.

In neighboring India, police used batons and tear gas to disperse thousands of angry worshippers who rioted in the southern city of Hyderabad. They burned Danish flags, pelted police with stones, and looted shops. Hundreds more protested in Bangladesh.

[isetcap]

I think diplomacy is the best way to handle these situations. I'd love to be the person the gets to sit down with a cleric who uses his religious power to call for the death of another human being. I'm sure we would be able to come up with some kind of understanding. I'd just want to make sure I was well outside of his perimiter when a drone comes in and blows off his head.

People who blindly support a policy of peace at all costs will eventually be forced to realize they are ignorantly fostering an environment of hatred. The longer the secular world puts up with religious rhetoric that devalues life, the more devastating the ultimate showdown will be.

[spanky]

middle eastern people are very thin skinned as a whole.they were the biggest sore losers in card games in atlantic city i ever saw playing there for over 30 yrs.

[datek23]

I believe there were 12 people involved in the cartoon drawings, what are they going to do 1 million per head, or million split 12 ways.

[isetcap]

Maybe they should pay someone a mil to split that cleric's head 12 ways.

[datek23]

The main picture that cause the riots is the cartoon picture with Mohammad with a turban that looks like a bomb, is what causing the most riots. People really do need to get a life.

[tacomax]

Personally I'm most offended by the fact that the cartoons just aren't funny. If you're going to create a world-wide religious and political storm then at least make them amusing.

[datek23]

I guess there is no end to unamusing cartoons.

Can a moderator put this topic in private, I know this is not the right place for this. I do not access to move this to private.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060221/...jE-Anti-Muslim

Riot in Nigeria Turns Deadly

By DULUE MBACHU, Associated Press Writer 19 minutes ago

LAGOS, Nigeria - Christian mobs rampaged through a southern Nigerian city Tuesday, burning mosques and killing several people in an outbreak of anti-Muslim violence that followed deadly protests against caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad over the weekend.
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Residents and witnesses in the southern, predominantly Christian city of Onitsha said several Muslims with origins in the north were beaten to death by mobs which also burned two mosques there.

"The mosque at the main market has been burnt and I've counted at least six dead bodies on the streets," Izzy Uzor, an Onitsha resident and businessman, told The Associated Press by telephone. "The whole town is in a frenzy and people are running in all directions."

The violence appeared to be in reprisal for anti-Christian violence Saturday in the mostly Muslim northern city of Maiduguri in which thousands of Muslims protesting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad attacked Christians and burned churches, killing at least 18 people.

Another Onitsha resident, Isotonu Achor, said one badly beaten Muslim man ran into his office from the streets to escape the violence.

"There is blood all over him and I'm scared they'll come for him here. If he doesn't get urgent treatment he will die," Achor said.

Police and government officials were not immediately available for comment.

Nigeria, Africa's most populous country of more than 130 million people, is roughly divided between a predominantly Muslim north and a mainly Christian south. Thousands of people have died in religious violence in Nigeria since 2000.

Saturday's protest over the cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in Maiduguri marked the first violent demonstrations over the issue in Nigeria. Police say at least 18 people, most of them Christians, died, and 30 churches were burned down. The Christian Association of Nigeria said at least 50 people were killed in the violence.

The cartoons, which first appeared in a Danish newspaper in September, have set off sometimes violent protests around the world. One caricature shows Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban with an ignited fuse.

Islam widely holds that representations of Muhammad are banned for fear they could lead to idolatry.

A Danish newspaper first printed the caricatures in September. Other newspapers, mostly in Europe, have reprinted the pictures, asserting their news value and the right to freedom of expression.

[spanky]

an old marine saying,kill'em all and let god sought them out.