Oh Dear

[eternalnomad]

http://www.mcb.org.uk/media/presstext.php?ann_id=188

"Leading British Muslim organisations affiliated to the Muslim Council of Britain are to jointly hold a peaceful rally in Trafalgar Square, London, beginning at 1.00pm on Saturday 11th February 2006, to protest against the rising wave of xenophobia towards Muslims across Europe and the gratuitously offensive caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) which have been reprinted in many newspapers around the world."

[John Galt]

http://www.mcb.org.uk/media/presstext.php?ann_id=188

"Leading British Muslim organisations affiliated to the Muslim Council of Britain are to jointly hold a peaceful rally in Trafalgar Square, London, beginning at 1.00pm on Saturday 11th February 2006, to protest against the rising wave of xenophobia towards Muslims across Europe and the gratuitously offensive caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) which have been reprinted in many newspapers around the world."

A protest that will snarl up the centre of London on a Saturday - that will help the xenophobia no end that will

[Mordac]

http://www.mcb.org.uk/media/presstext.php?ann_id=188

"Leading British Muslim organisations affiliated to the Muslim Council of Britain are to jointly hold a peaceful rally in Trafalgar Square, London, beginning at 1.00pm on Saturday 11th February 2006, to protest against the rising wave of xenophobia towards Muslims across Europe and the gratuitously offensive caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) which have been reprinted in many newspapers around the world."

Is anyone running a book on how long it will stay peaceful, number of arrests etc?

[hyperD]

I reckon it won't be quite as peaceful as they think!

[shaunbhoy]

Why don't leading Muslim associations organise a rally to protest at their sacred religion being hijacked by the loony fringe brigade? That would do more good than what they are proposing to do, which will result in nothing more than further prejudice. Are pragmatism and common sense outlawed in Islam or something?

[Mordac]

>Are pragmatism and common sense outlawed in Islam or something?

Bearing in mind we're talking about the religion which brought us the suicide bomber, I rather think they must be.

On a lighter note, signed any more old crocks lately Shaun?

[darmstadt]

[AlfredJPruffock]

Perhaps everybody has their own criterion for humour.

I didnt find the Prophet cartoons funny, but thats just perhaps my taste, and my belief that certain things are sacred.

But to see Jews depcited like this makes me think we are back to the Days of Nazi Germany, they published such sickening images.

I think its a sad day for this site.

[darmstadt]

Perhaps everybody has their own criterion for humour.

I didnt find the Prophet cartoons funny, but thats just perhaps my taste, and my belief that certain things are sacred.

But to see Jews depcited like this makes me think we are back to the Days of Nazi Germany, they published such sickening images.

I think its a sad day for this site.

But very soon you'll be able to see such 'cartoons' in Iranian newspapers, although they have depicted much worse. Why aren't we protesting?

Muslim apostate writer Ibn Warraq defends the West: Democracy in a Cartoon.

The great British philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote in On Liberty, “Strange it is, that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free discussion, but object to their being ‘pushed to an extreme’; not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case.”

The cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten raise the most important question of our times: freedom of expression. Are we in the west going to cave into pressure from societies with a medieval mindset, or are we going to defend our most precious freedom — freedom of expression, a freedom for which thousands of people sacrificed their lives?

A democracy cannot survive long without freedom of expression, the freedom to argue, to dissent, even to insult and offend. It is a freedom sorely lacking in the Islamic world, and without it Islam will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. Without this fundamental freedom, Islam will continue to stifle thought, human rights, individuality; originality and truth.

Unless, we show some solidarity, unashamed, noisy, public solidarity with the Danish cartoonists, then the forces that are trying to impose on the Free West a totalitarian ideology will have won; the Islamization of Europe will have begun in earnest. Do not apologize.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Solidarity with what Lord Carey describes as a deliberate racist attack?




Lord Carey said on BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "The Danish (publication) was a quite deliberate racist attack and, with the religious overtones of the Prophet Mohammed, was bound to cause offence, and apparently they knew it, so there is a boundary that was crossed there."

And this extract below is utter tripe.

Remember this same journal would not publish cartoons of Christ for fear of upsetting its readers.

Unless, we show some solidarity, unashamed, noisy, public solidarity with the Danish cartoonists, then the forces that are trying to impose on the Free West a totalitarian ideology will have won; the Islamization of Europe will have begun in earnest. Do not apologize.


And here is the logical justification for the Nazi cartoons of the Jews.

Are you in SS uniform today Darmstadt ?

A democracy cannot survive long without freedom of expression, the freedom to argue, to dissent, even to insult and offend.