Sneak Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 Perhaps you have noticed these days that millions and millions of arabs have completely lost their minds due to a cartoon in a danish paper. Im not sure about who of you have actually seen it but one of the 12 drawings imagined two muslim dudes in the heaven where one said "Sorry we are out of virgins". Apparantly that was too much for the proud arab people who got no quarrals showing hostages getting their throat cut. Now two danish embassies have been torched down and whole middle east are boycutting the danish products. Now the fun things is that Bush has just pissed on Denmark big time. Denmark has been the strongest political ally for the us the past years together with England but this situation is, according to the foreign ministry of US and the one of UK too, our own fault. Makes you wonder. So buy danish beer to the super bowl to help the poor danish companies! Weeee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister E Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 I like to eat danish....does that help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H&R Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 Poor neighbours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneak Posted February 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 hehe - to put things in perspective. Only two times in modern history a torching of an embassy has happened before was with US' embassy in Iran in 1980 and in Somalia in 1998. Both times led to an actualy use of military Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myrek Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 I just read an interesting article that brought up a good point: Where do you find a Danish flag in some small time, micro-village in Palestine? Screw it all: Napalm sticks to everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chayesh Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 In the yellow pages under Fuels, Other cross-referenced with Barbecue Supplies: Flags of the Western World Protest Emporium "All the Nations You Love to Hate!" 10% Hamas membership discount offered Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iyorvin Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 I think that's BS man. I hope Canada sticks with your back. Before everyone crit's how bad Canada military is, well we still have some political sway. Either way, as a Canadian I wish to give my support. I find it hilarious that US and UK want everyone to support them, but just turn their heads when others need them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pali Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 Before everyone crit's how bad Canada military is The fact that you're a country that can afford to have a bad military shows that everyone loves you. Not necessarily a bad thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myrek Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 Not necessarily a good thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister E Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 Just wait till our vast supply of natural resources become needed. We have the most fresh water, a HUGE suppy of oil. And as the wather gets warmer, the candian shield will be very mineable. It is rumored that it holds incredible mineral wealth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myrek Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 Don't worry, Canada. We love you. Well, we love all of you except Quebec. but most Canadians don't like Quebec either. And one day, one of you Canadians will exercise free speech and you will be a target like everybody else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pali Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 Not necessarily a good thing. Didn't say it was. ^_~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfeman Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 If it makes you feel better, what was reported as the administration's response isn't actually what they said. Apparently, the people quoted by the media were low level press officers. Here is the official word, given by Sean McCormack: Our response is to say that while we certainly don’t agree with, support, or in some cases, we condemn the views that are aired in public that are published in media organizations around the world, we, at the same time, defend the right of those individuals to express their views. For us, freedom of expression is at the core of our democracy and it is something that we have shed blood and treasure around the world to defend and we will continue to do so. That said, there are other aspects to democracy, our democracy—democracies around the world—and that is to promote understanding, to promote respect for minority rights, to try to appreciate the differences that may exist among us. We believe, for example in our country, that people from different religious backgrounds, ethnic backgrounds, national backgrounds add to our strength as a country. And it is important to recognize and appreciate those differences. And it is also important to protect the rights of individuals and the media to express a point of view concerning various subjects. So while we share the offense that Muslims have taken at these images, we at the same time vigorously defend the right of individuals to express points of view. We may—like I said, we may not agree with those points of view, we may condemn those points of view but we respect and emphasize the importance that those individuals have the right to express those points of view. For example—and on the particular cartoon that was published—I know the Prime Minister of Denmark has talked about his, I know that the newspaper that originally printed it has apologized, so they have addressed this particular issue. So we would urge all parties to exercise the maximum degree of understanding, the maximum degree of tolerance when they talk about this issue. And we would urge dialog, not violence. And that also those that might take offense at these images that have been published, when they see similar views or images that could be perceived as anti-Semitic or anti-Catholic, that they speak out with equal vigor against those images. Personally, I think the cartoons are great, if only because they highlight the hypocrisy of the Middle East. I don't know if any of you realize this, but the Middle East has a habbit (you might call it a passtime) of making the same sort of cartoons, except more virulent, and about the jews, and yet this is how they reply when the shoe is on the other foot? How these rejects from the thirteenth century managed to survive all this time is beyond me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myrek Posted February 5, 2006 Report Share Posted February 5, 2006 How these rejects from the thirteenth century managed to survive all this time is beyond me. Oil, manipulation of the UN, the kindness of Anglo nations, and oil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chayesh Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 Oil' date=' manipulation of the UN, the kindness of Anglo nations, and oil.[/quote'] Did you mention oil already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister E Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 I was disgusted and yet not surprised to hear of the embassy burnings. Like these fanatics even need a reason to do that crap, but give them one and boy will they make headlines with it. Hopefully they will piss off enough countries that the world as a whole will finally do something about it. ps. I bet China could run all the jokes it wanted about the muslims and they wouldnt do a damn thing. Why? Because human rights are a privelage in China and they know it. The irony is that the wests own democracy is what enables the fanatics to take advantage of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warpnow Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 What country is this in? I am a bit pissed, not about the cartoons or about the politics...but Embassies are sacred, and torching them should be an internation crime/declaration of war. A protest is a protest. Torching an embassy is a declaration of war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfeman Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 If you don't care about those cartoons, then what do you think of these? How about this one? Yes folks, that's a muslim being put through a press as jews drink his blood. Or how about this one of Ariel Sharon? Here's another to fan the flames. Note: All three of those are extremely anti-semetic, so if you don't want to see it, this is your warning. Am I the only one that thinks that people that routinely put out political cartoons like those have any right to be offended by stuff like this, this, or this? Also, embassies have burned in Lebanon (Denmark), and Syria (Denmark and Norway), The Syrians also did some uspecified damage to the Swedish embassy and also tried to attack the French embassy but were fought off. Also, a particularly stupid group of human trash tore up a Swiss flag in front of the Danish embassy in Beruit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brsingr Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 big words!!!!! im confused!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dead Voodoo Doll Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 three cheers for the wolfeman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Behrens Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 As a Jew, I must say I am fairly amused by the entirety of this episode. And I think that the Muslims that are protesting are being fairly ... stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneak Posted February 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 That was put very kind. I myself is furious to see analfabeths in the middle east trying to dictate how people in Denmark should behave legitimizing it in a religious dogma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorCleric Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Well, I think this is all pretty silly, and really is saddening, to be happening over a few cartoons. I just hope the majority realize that their is a difference between fanatics and traditional muslims, just as there is between fanatic and traditional christians, or any religion. Right now muslim extremists are burning down embassies, while christian extremists blow up abortion clinics and burn down churches. A few bad apples always seem to spoil the bunch. I'm not pointing fingers at anyone here, I just wanna toss my two cents in with; Hate religious extremist, not muslims. WC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-D&Der Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 The cartoons were the spark but there's a lot of smoldering resentment over other things--Iraq, Israel, anti-Muslim sentiment in Western countries, etc. It's sort of the like the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny--it was touched off by the use of animal fat on cartridges but it was really about long-term resentment over conditions under British rule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PirateNinja Posted February 8, 2006 Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 The fact that no one is putting out there is that these cartoons came out in the summer. There has been a person going from country to country arousing the populace over this. This isn't a spark that set the house on fire, this is someone going around the house with a container of kerosene and dousing the walls with it, than lighting a Zippo and putting it in a puddle of gas. P.S. I’m a Muslim and I think the one about the virgins is hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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