Muhammad owned?
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4670370.stm

[quote:34248]Newspapers across Europe have reprinted caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to show support for a Danish paper whose cartoons have sparked Muslim outrage.

Seven publications in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain all carried some of the drawings.

Their release in Denmark has led to protests in Arab nations, diplomatic sanctions and death threats.

Islamic tradition bans depictions of the Prophet, but media watchdogs defend press freedom to publish the images.

Reporters Without Borders said the reaction in the Arab world "betrays a lack of understanding" of press freedom as "an essential accomplishment of democracy."

'Spiting Muslims'

France Soir and Germany's Die Welt are among the leading papers to reprint the cartoons, which first appeared in Denmark last September.

The caricatures include drawings of Muhammad wearing a headdress shaped like a bomb, while another shows him saying that paradise was running short of virgins for suicide bombers.

In Berlin, Die Welt argued there was a right to blaspheme in the West, and asked whether Islam was capable of coping with satire.

"The protests from Muslims would be taken more seriously if they were less hypocritical," it wrote in an editorial.

La Stampa in Italy, El Periodico in Spain and Dutch paper Volkskrank also carried some of the drawings, while France Soir reprinted the full set.

It did so to show "religious dogma" had no place in a secular society, the paper said.

European Muslims spoke out against the pictures.

The president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), Dalil Boubakeur, described France Soir's move as an act of "real provocation towards the millions of Muslims living in France".

In Germany, the vice-chairman of the central council of Muslims said Muslims would be deeply offended.

"It was done not to defend freedom of the press, but to spite the Muslims," Mohammad Aman Hobohm said.

Sanctions

Correspondents say the European papers' actions have widened a dispute which has grown very serious for Denmark.

The publication last September in Jyllands-Posten has provoked diplomatic sanctions and threats from Islamic militants across the Muslim world.

Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller has postponed a trip to Africa because of the dispute.

Thousands of Palestinians protested against Denmark this week, and Arab ministers called on it to punish Jyllands-Posten.

Syria and Saudi Arabia have recalled their ambassadors to Denmark, while Libya said it was closing its embassy in Copenhagen and Iraq summoned the Danish envoy to condemn the cartoons.

The Danish-Swedish dairy giant Arla Foods says its sales in the Middle East have plummeted to zero as a result of the row, which sparked a boycott of Danish products across the region.

The offices of Jyllands-Posten, had to be evacuated on Tuesday because of a bomb threat.

The paper had apologised a day earlier for causing offence to Muslims, although it maintained it was legal under Danish law to print them.

Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen welcomed the paper's apology, but defended the freedom of the press[/quote:34248]

stupid:

Danish people are cool.

Where the cartoons at?

[img]http://religion.info/artman/uploads/0222_jyllands-posten.jpg[/img]

Man they need to seriously calm down ... Oh is okay to screw around with jews and catholics ... But no one can touch them. Is like the ACLU

....There is a post 'EDIT' button. oOo:

[quote="mR.cLeAn":1488b]Man they need to seriously calm down ... Oh is okay to screw around with jews and catholics ... But no one can touch them. Is like the ACLU[/quote:1488b]

dude it is one of their core beliefs, just like one of yours (i assume you are jewish) is that you cannot eat pork.

still, freedom of speech is more important than respecting other peoples religious feelings. they should make a cartoon depicting jesus, moses and muhammad in a 3 way anal gangbang getting handjobs from sheeva

[quote=Acideyez]dude it is one of their core beliefs, just like one of yours (i assume you are jewish) is that you cannot eat pork.[/quote:989ac]
seems to me Jews are always making fun of their core beliefs, Jewish humour is some of the best shit,
they might not eat pork but they don't go completely berserk when someone else makes a joke about the fact.

on the other hand I didn't hear many muslims complaining when the media was used to show bound men
having their heads sliced off, but a couple of cartoons/drawings and naturally it's "DEATH TO EVERYONE!!1!" time again... oOo:

..Theo Van Gogh anyone? Salman Rushdie perhaps..?

Re: Muhammad owned?
 

[quote:7429c]"The protests from Muslims would be taken more seriously if they were less hypocritical," it wrote in an editorial.[/quote:7429c]

Exactly.

FUCK YOU OBIWAN.

Dude could you at least try to stay close to the subject.

[quote:7f16b]"Islam considers any artistic renditions of the prophet Muhammad blasphemous.
In many Muslim nations English-language newspapers are so reverential that any
mention of his name is followed by "PBUH", standing for for peace be upon him".[/quote:7f16b]

omfg, well here's some "forbidden images" the muslims must have missed over the years... eek:


[url=http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/:7f16b]Link[/url:7f16b]



Iranian woman artist Oranous created this iconic painting of a young Mohammed and is selling it online, even though she is a devout Muslim and lives in Tehran. rolleyes:
[img]http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/Prophet%20Mohammad.jpg[/img]

In the Inferno chapter of Dante's trilogy The Divine Comedy, Mohammed is described as being one of the "Sowers of Discord"...
The 1911 Italian silent film L'Inferno contained a dramatization of the scene in the eight circle of hell; Mohammed is here on the right with his entrails hanging out.
[img]http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/Mohammed-inferno.jpg[/img]


[img]http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/muhammaddevareaux.jpg[/img][img]http://www.zombietime.com/mohammed_image_archive/sp_mohammed.gif[/img]


[quote:7f16b]"The protests from Muslims would be taken more seriously if they were less hypocritical"[/quote:7f16b]

[img]http://img.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/0601/30/nablusdk.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/0601/30/saudidk.jpg[/img]

[quote="Jyllands-Posten":81a00]Honourable Fellow Citizens of the Muslim World
Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten is a strong proponent of democracy and freedom of religion. The newspaper respects the right of any human being to practise his or her religion. Serious misunderstandings in respect of some drawings of the Prophet Mohammed have led to much anger and, lately, also boycott of Danish goods in Muslim countries.

Please allow me to correct these misunderstandings.

On 30 September last year, Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten published 12 different cartoonists' idea of what the Prophet Mohammed might have looked like. The initiative was taken as part of an ongoing public debate on freedom of expression, a freedom much cherished in Denmark.

In our opinion, the 12 drawings were sober. They were not intended to be offensive, nor were they at variance with Danish law, but they have indisputably offended many Muslims for which we apologize.

Since then a number of offensive drawings have circulated in The Middle East which have never been published in Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten and which we would never have published, had they been offered to us. We would have refused to publish them on the grounds that they violated our ethical code.

Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten attaches importance to upholding the highest ethical standards based upon the respect of our fundamental values. It is so much more deplorable, therefore, that these drawings were presented as if they had anything to do with Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten.

Maybe because of culturally based misunderstandings, the initiative to publish the 12 drawings has been interpreted as a campaign against Muslims in Denmark and the rest of the world.

I must categorically dismiss such an interpretation. Because of the very fact that we are strong proponents of the freedom of religion and because we respect the right of any human being to practise his or her religion, offending anybody on the grounds of their religious beliefs is unthinkable to us.

That this happened was, consequently, unintentional.

As a result of the debate that has been going on about the drawings, we have met with representatives of Danish Muslims, and these meetings were held in a positive and constructive spirit. We have also sought in other ways to initiate a fruitful dialogue with Danish Muslims.

It is the wish of Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten that various ethnic groups should live in peace and harmony with each other and that the debates and disagreements which will always exist in a dynamic society should do so in an atmosphere of mutual respect.

For that reason, Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten has published many articles describing the positive aspects of integration, for example in a special supplement entitled The Contributors. It portrayed a number of Muslims who have had success in Denmark. The supplement was rewarded by the EU Commission.

Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten takes exception to symbolic acts suited to demonise specific nationalities, religions and ethnic groups.

Sincerely yours

Carsten Juste
Editor-in-Chief [/quote:81a00]

Thats the formal apology made by the newspaper who printed the caricatures.

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