Binomate wrote: You mean the way the Simpsons and Family Guy have done so? Or Father Ted?
robinph wrote: They are mostly annoyed with the fact that someone dared to draw a picture that is suposedly of Mohammed aren't they?
BBC News wrote: On 17 October, a curious thing happened. Six of the cartoons were prominently reprinted in an Egyptian newspaper, al-Fagr. The paper said they were racist and would insult Muslims everywhere and predicted an outcry. However, at this stage, nothing happened on the streets. There was no public outcry.
An Indian state minister has offered a reward of more than $10 million and a prospective killer's weight in gold
robinph wrote: This page seems to give a run down of what happened when:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4708216.stm But then someone added a photo of the winner of a pig-squealing contest from France to the collection of cartoons and it all started to kick off properly then.
The 'non-cartoons' The three extra drawings were said to have been sent to Muslims in Denmark as insults. However one of them, apparently showing the prophet with the face of a pig, has been traced to a photo of the winner of a pig-squealing contest in the French Pyrenees last summer. It remains unclear as to how this last picture, a grey photocopy, came to such prominence but it does seem to have played a role in the raising of the temperature. The crisis has exposed the fragility of relations between the West and Muslim countries The delegation spokesman, Ahmed Akkari, said they pointed out the status of the different pictures on their travels but the "pigface" photocopy was later filmed in Gaza at the end of January when gunmen took over EU offices, and s
Sauron wrote: Family Guy, (Seth MacFarlane) = Irish catholic
Indian minister said offering $10m for beheading cartoonist
julep wrote: haven't seen much on the tv news, mostly pictures in the papers. didn't see any women in the pictures i saw. i'm not saying there were not women present, just asking if they were there.
Kojak wrote: Jesus, that would go down well. :rolleyes:
HelterSkelter wrote: Well I happen to know two women who were at the protest. I also saw the coverage on BBC News 24 and they interviewed two women and a couple of men. What is your point anyway?
HelterSkelter wrote: Cop on would ya. Going by your logic all Christians are terrorists because George Bush killed so many people in Iraq, and he's a Christian.
ravenhead wrote: ???? How do you make that out? I said that they weren't doing themselves any favours by offering rewards to kill people?????
they can't understand why most of the world conciders them terrorists,they're not doing anything to help change peoples view of them
A Lyons priest today offered half a million euros and a top-of-the-line Toyota as a reward to anyone who killed Dan Brown or any executive of the Da Vinci Code publishers, Jonathan Cape. Speaking to a 1,000-strong crowd gathered after Mass outside the church of St Marie-la-Vierge, Fr Jules Monbiot announced that the offer was “a unanimous decision by all bishops that whoever insults the one true Church deserves to be killed, and whoever will take this insulting man to his end will get this prize”.
HelterSkelter wrote: You said My point is just because one person of a particular religion does something wrong/crazy it doesn't mean every one in that religion is the same. From the times article robinph linked to above This doesn't mean all Christians are murderers no more than all muslims are murderers (or terrorists) just because a couple of crazy clerics call for the killing of the cartoonist.
ravenhead wrote: Very good point, I have to completely agree with you, What I can't understand is that some Islamic people can't see why the world has this view of them. As you know Islamic people are protrayed a certain way in the media. What 'm saying is that they have done very little to change the way that they are being protrayed. I mean if the protests had been peaceful it would have shown them in a different light & maybe people would listen to them but speaking for myself I know that when I see scenes like that I the news I turn over because it's just another voilent Islamic thing
julep wrote: i can't be 100% sure, but i have a sneaking suspicion that the article was a bit satirical. just a bit.
JohnCleary wrote: Whats the big deal?
julep wrote: i think most people, not only here, but on the entire face of the planet, would agree that the u.s. led invasion of iraq was wrong. nobody here (that i've seen anyway) is saying that all muslims are evil. we are, for the most part, saying that muslims are not doing themselves any favours by saying that islam promotes peace and then burning down embassies and sending suicide bombers (anyone remember "homicide bombers". i thought that name was hilariously paradoxical onb the part of americans) in to kill innocent people. i would suggest mass demonstrations outside of middle eastern embassies to protest against the lax stance taken by certain countries on the subject of muslim related terrorist attacks and the treatment of women in these countries. any muslim community would instantly garner respect for this.
Gunshot wrote: Da big deal is tht in da Muslim religion Prophet Muhammad is not allowed 2 be viewed under any circumstances.Tht is said in the Quran(Muslim holy book)
julep wrote: completely racist because they make the Irish people out to be complete idiots. they have been airing for well over a year now and if enough people complained, they wouldn't be shown again. i couldn't give a damn about them though. for one, they are crap jokes and secondly, they really make those telling them look stupid. i don't see Irish people going to ballsbridge and burning down the british embassey over them though.
Originally posted by ravenhead: I mean if the protests had been peaceful it would have shown them in a different light & maybe people would listen to them
Originally posted by Binomate: Where are the Muslim protests against the riots and the boycotting of Denmark?
does this mean so that Muslim who put up a shrine are actully disobeying their religion??
