Originally Posted By mele Oh, I get it now, you saw the title of this thread and thought "Well, I'd fit right in!"
Originally Posted By TomSawyer Woody, you should change your name to Grumpy. He said, "She's a female. And all females is poison. They're full of wicked wiles."
Originally Posted By woody Mele said ...Oh, I get it now, you saw the title of this thread and thought "Well, I'd fit right in!" I can't believe you attribute that to me. LOL!!!
Originally Posted By Beaumandy Back on topic.. More from the religion of peace. Here's the very latest on what's happening in the Muslim world this morning, via AP: Early Friday, Palestinian militants threw a bomb at a French cultural center in Gaza City, and many Palestinians began boycotting European goods, especially those from Denmark. "Whoever defames our prophet should be executed," said Ismail Hassan, 37, a tailor who marched through the pouring rain along with hundreds of others in the West Bank city of Ramallah. "Bin Laden our beloved, Denmark must be blown up," protesters in Ramallah chanted. In mosques throughout Palestinian cities, clerics condemned the cartoons. An imam at the Omari Mosque in Gaza City told 9,000 worshippers that those behind the drawings should have their heads cut off. "If they want a war of religions, we are ready," Hassan Sharaf, an imam in Nablus, said in his sermon. About 10,000 demonstrators, including gunmen from the Islamic militant group Hamas firing in the air, marched through Gaza City to the Palestinian legislature, where they climbed on the roof, waving green Hamas banners. "We are ready to redeem you with our souls and our blood our beloved prophet," they chanted. "Down, Down Denmark."
Originally Posted By Beaumandy After watching these people talk so tough in the streets, burning flags, shooting guns and then treating their women like cattle, you wonder why I love it when Bush puts the smackdown on these idiots with our whoop ass military?
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Originally Posted By sherrytodd OK, so I took a look at the cartoons causing this uprising, and the only conclusion I can come to is... Danish cartoonists... Not very funny. (Except maybe slightly the one about the virgins running out in heaven)
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Danish cartoonists... Not very funny.<< Yeah, they looked a little more like some spot illustrations that would accompany an article in a newspaper, rather than stand-alone cartoons.
Originally Posted By mele <<Danish cartoonists... Not very funny. (Except maybe slightly the one about the virgins running out in heaven)>> I had the exact same thought, sherry!
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Originally Posted By Inspector 57 From what I gathered, their goal was not to create funny cartoons. The goal was to force the issue of the conflict between freedom of the press versus religion-based pressure to restrict what the press publishes. It is against the Islaamic religion to depict Mohammed. So the Danish cartoonists made it their point to depict Mohammed. It was an organized effort, not some spontaneous case of a single cartoonist who happened to include a drawing of Mohammed in a panel. The group effort was designed to make a statement, to be "in their faces," not to be funny. I certainly don't approve of Muslims reacting to the cartoons by taking hostages, destroying property, or encouraging or commiting acts of violence. At the same time, I find it very interesting that those who would belittle and demonize Muslims for being offended are the very same posters here who complain about liberals attacking Christian values in the United States. What if your local newspaper ran an editorial stating that Christians have for too long prevented freedom of expression via their demands that they must never be offended -- and, to force his point, the editor printed a cartoon of the Virgin Mary enjoying herself in a crack house? What if your hometown newspaper ran a cartoon in which the artist illustrated his belief that Christianity contritutes to the marginalization of gays in the US by depicting Matthew Sheppard tied to a fence with Jesus Christ swinging a baseball bat into his head? If people were offended by these cartoons, would you sneeringly suggest that they just get over it?
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< At the same time, I find it very interesting that those who would belittle and demonize Muslims for being offended are the very same posters here who complain about liberals attacking Christian values in the United States. >>> You're missing an important distinction: one is the one, true religion and the other is not. (BTW, that's why you keep losing elections ).
Originally Posted By sherrytodd I wasn't trying to offend Militant Muslins. I was trying to offend Danish Cartoonists. If the Danish Cartoonists mount a Jihad against me I think I can take them. Oh Wait... They might Satirize me... OOOOHHHHH NOOOOOO!!! ; )
Originally Posted By Beaumandy Bottom Line... When Christians get smeared and attacked ( usually by liberals ) , Christians don't riot in the streets and threaten to murder the people who offended them. Muslims seem to think that any comments they don't like regarding Allah and Islam should be met with deadly force, riots, beheadings, and other nice things from the religion of peace. But the funniest part of all of this is how the libs will defend Islam when reality has it that Islam has NO tolerance for Gays, women rights,freedom of speech and other so called important liberal issues. Just another example of why liberals are so out of touch with reality.
Originally Posted By ecdc "When Christians get smeared and attacked ( usually by liberals ) , Christians don't riot in the streets and threaten to murder the people who offended them." Beau's right this time. I think Christians in America are hyper-sensitive and whine about the "liberal media" and everything else. But at the end of the day, they're preaching to the choir over right-wing radio or the 700 Club. Big difference. Muslims in this case are wrong, wrong, wrong, and it's nice to see the world speaking out against the reaction for a change, instead of trying to be tolerant of intolerance.
Originally Posted By mele I wonder if religious extremists laugh about anything? Muslim extremists, in particular. They seem to have no ability to laugh at themselves or reason.
