[Droogie]

i think these are the cartoons that were banned (scroll down);
http://michellemalki...ives/004413.htm

i think its pretty funny that they react to a picture of an arab with a bomb on his head by causing more violence and throwing grenades.

also, an iranian paper launches a contest to draw cartoons about the holocaust;
http://www.timesonli...2027749,00.html

every religion has been caricatured and made fun of, why do these muslims have to be the only ones to react so violently?

[Dave. zzz....]

Weren't they printed *last September*?! Get over it. Media across the world hyping things up unnecessarily, Muslims over-reacting, Non-muslims hating them for it, Religion sucks etc.

[Droogie]

then again....

http://media.guardia...1703500,00.html

the paper had previously rejected jesus cartoons saying "it could offend a lot of people".

[The Phlegmy One!111]

To be fair, Christians get pissed of about taking the piss out of Jesus, and you'd think they would have got used to it after the centuries of piss-taking. Islam is a fairly new religion so it hasn't had time to adjust to people taking the piss, not to menton that it's not just an arab, it's their leader. ALSO makin any representation of their gods or prophets is a massive sin, they ahve to religious figuritive art or anything. But yeh, they are more extreme than other religions and may catch up with Christianity's death toll quicker.

[Gabriel Synthesis]

Droogie, on Feb 7 2006, 07:56 PM, said:

also, an iranian paper launches a contest to draw cartoons about the holocaust;

i think that's hilarious, one of the most outrageous reactions ever

isn't it against muslim religious doctrine to draw pictures of mohammed though? which is why they took such offence

[misterj]

It's against the Jewish religion to eat pigs, but when non Jews eat bacon sarnies they don't want to hack our heads off. We more than likely offend other religions every day with things that we do, but if your not in the club you don't have to follow the clubs rules.

[Echoes]

everyone has a right to protest, no matter how unjustified I may think those protests might be. But I cannot tolerate the demonstrations turning to violence. The extremeists that are whipping this up right out of proportion are complete scum.

In other news, did you guys see Abu Hamza got 7 years in jail today? good stuff.

[Forgone Conclusion]

Yeah, way too late in my opinion....

Personally I think the cartoon of mohammed was an outrageously offensive thing to do, and probably wrong - although i personally have no problem with it. Also, any violence in response to it just demonstrates stupidity as it proves the cartoonist's point (kinda)

[paddys wink]

its the same old shit,just fucking dickheads kicking off over nothing if its not islamofascists bleating over being wronged its white dirty blokes with dreadlocks with maingy dogs on bits of string rioting from everything from fox hunting to council tax.in other words its an excuse to just start shit.what i say is
"ROLL OUT THE FUCKING WATER CANNON"
as for that tub of lard hooky i cant wait till the yanks get hold of him and give him 99 years with no parole

[TheDissident]

The Aristocrat, on Feb 7 2006, 10:22 PM, said:

everyone has a right to protest, no matter how unjustified I may think those protests might be.

True, but it kind of ruins the whole logic when they are waving papers with stuff like "fuck freedom of speech" written during the protests, doesn't it?

I think this is absolutely ridiculous and it comes to remind Europe how much the Islamic world in general doesn't care about our diplomacy and democracy and that they are ready to attack us because of anything.

[The Phlegmy One!111]

More Muslim lunacy

I am genuinly seriously pissed off about this. More so then loads of African children dying or someone nicking your ribena when you turn around.

[Forgone Conclusion]

Damn, that was some good ribena

[Gabriel Synthesis]

i don't think it's muslim lunacy, it's iranian lunacy

[The Phlegmy One!111]

Their laws are no doubt set upon Islamic laws.

[Forgone Conclusion]

What the iranian president (or whatever he is) is saying is pure rhetoric. It's the equivelant of how George Bush is threatening the Iranians - it doesn't mean he's necessarily going to actually attack israel or whoever

[Droogie]

taliban offer reward for killing of cartoonist

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060209/wl_st...an_060209040304

[Gabriel Synthesis]

they won't pay up

[where_i'm_calling_from]

there's a pretty scary article in the telegraph tomorrow about how islam is planning take over the country (sounds dumb, but its actually real...).

islam refuses to integrate into other societies because they are wrong. islam always stands out.

the current government, in appeasement mode, is changing all kinds of legislation to accommodate muslims. e.g. the prison system. unlike other prisoners, all muslims must be let out of their cells 5 times a day to pray. they must also have halal food, which is much better quality than the normal stuff in prisons. (this has lead to a lot of hardened criminals converting to islam for an easier time in prison. of course, the muslim criminals they hang out with in prison won't let them drop the religion when they leave - all criminals are slowly becoming muslim). also, pension and investment laws have been altered recently to allow for muslims to invest in accordance with sharia law.

prominent muslims press for further reforms, with threats of suicide bombings, and the government complies - its all a bit hitleresque really.

all muslims live together in the concentrated areas, until virtually everyone in the area is muslim. this means there are halal shops, no partial nudity advertising boards etc. the local council is forced to consider everything from a muslim perspective if they want to be re-elected.

40% of muslims say they want sharia law in britain. in predominantly muslim areas, many say they are willing to fight to have it installed - with accusations of infringing religious freedom or islamophobia if they are not given sharia law in their area.


and that's basically it. i was pretty pissed off by the end of the article. page 15 - 16 sunday telegraph. tomorrow.

[Forgone Conclusion]

Hitleresque as in Chamberlain's appeasement?

This is really just another example of positive discrimination, and is kind of rediculous, but tbh, I'd imagine the article was exaggerated, etc to enforce mainly this point of view. The threat of islam taking over the country is, lets face it, nil, and laws aren't really going to be changed that much. The article, or at least what you say brings up interesting points, but it isn't going to keep me up at night

Most importantly, were there any spelling mistakes?

[where_i'm_calling_from]

no. and its not really talking about on a national scale. its talking about a different legal system being adopted on a local level. which is looking increasingly likely.

and yes, as in chamberlain's appeasement.