'Anti' Isalm cartoons....
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I better start drawing!!!!
Just kidding....
Actually i think we should just nuke Iran, solve a lot of problems. Might start WW3 but who cares?
Just kidding....
Actually i think we should just nuke Iran, solve a lot of problems. Might start WW3 but who cares?
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The world has gone mad. Its finally happened...
The BBC said:
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Are Iran expecting us to burn down their embassies or something, they dont seem to appreciate that we value wit over firebombs
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Petrol is far to expensive to go wasting it on their gaff!cleanbluesky said:
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If we do not excercise our free speech then how is our speech free?
Do the cartoons not make an important satirical point?
Do the cartoons not make an important satirical point?
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vonhelmet said:
I would rather there were violence than our behaviour is restricted for fear of violence.
As Orwell said, if thought can corrupt words then words can corrupt thought - I don't wish to be forced into accepting or placing importance on what anyone believes under the mere threat of violence...
Hmmm looks like the moderate muslim groups of the UK have finally spoken out, its what you guys been baying about...personally i think it was about time
['Suicide bomb' protestor denounced
Moderate Muslim groups on Tuesday evening distanced themselves from a student who was today sent back to prison after dressing as a suicide bomber during a demonstration against the Mohammed cartoons.
Omar Khayam, 22, was photographed outside the Danish embassy in London at the weekend wearing an imitation suicide bombing outfit to denounce the caricatures satirising the Prophet of Islam.
In 2002, the student was given six years in prison for possessing crack cocaine with intent to supply and had been on licence after being released last year halfway through his sentence.
But this morning, at the request of the Home Office, police arrested Khayam in Bedford for breaching the terms of his parole and he was taken back to jail.
Muslim groups were swift to condemn demonstrators in London at the weekend who threatened violence over the cartoons, first published in a Danish paper in September.
Some protesters waved placards threatening a repeat of the September 11 and July 7 atrocities.
Thousands of moderate Muslims are expected to attend a rally in Trafalgar Square in London on Saturday afternoon to protest at both the cartoons and the response of Islamic extremists.
Ihtisham Hibatullah, from rally co-organiser the Muslim Association of Britain, said: "[Last weekend] was very damaging for the Muslim community.
"We are sometimes held hostage by extremists on both sides. It is the duty of every British Muslim to show the British public and the rest of the world that we are totally different."
Sir Iqbal Sacranie, secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said that mainstream British Muslims were "deeply hurt" by both the cartoons and the "disgraceful actions of a tiny group of extremists".
He added: "This rally will aim to help British Muslims to express their feelings peacefully and will call upon the newspapers concerned to recognise and apologise for the enormous offence and needless distress they have caused to millions of Muslims across the world."
On Friday the chairman of Khayam's local mosque in Westbourne Road, Bedford, said the student was "a bit of an idiot" but would be welcomed back.
Asif Nadim, from the Jamia Masjid Gulshan-e-Bughdad mosque, added: "It's been blown out of all proportion. Some of the papers have come up with his drugs offence but he was 16 at the time.
"He was in that kind of environment at college and it was something he got caught up in.
"The media are trying to condemn a normal young guy. He realises what he has done and now he has to pay for it."
Mr Nadim said Khayam's protest had offended everyone, including fellow Muslims, but criticised the media coverage of the story.
He added: "There's no hiding that he chose the wrong form of expression. The whole sense of the protest has been lost. We have known his family for a long time, they are a good family."
Yesterday Khayam apologised "wholeheartedly" for his behaviour in London, saying it was "wrong, unjustified and insensitive" to protest dressed as a suicide bomber.
Officers from the Metropolitan Police travelled to Bedfordshire yesterday with the intention of speaking to Khayam about the incident but returned without interviewing him.
Inmates released on parole can be returned to prison for bad behaviour or if they reoffend, breach specific conditions of their licence or fail to attend appointments with their probation officer.
A Home Office spokeswoman refused to comment on Khayam's case, but said: "If an offender is in the community on licence and his behaviour gives cause for concern, he is liable to be recalled back to prison.
"Licence requirements include good behaviour. Intimidating or provocative behaviour, or failing to recognise the impact of your behaviour on others, could breach this."
Taken from here:
http://news.pipex.com/Pipex/News/Story_Page/0,13319,5337_1005105,00.html
Seems like they are planning a peaceful protest against the cartoons but also protest at what happened on friday.
['Suicide bomb' protestor denounced
Moderate Muslim groups on Tuesday evening distanced themselves from a student who was today sent back to prison after dressing as a suicide bomber during a demonstration against the Mohammed cartoons.
Omar Khayam, 22, was photographed outside the Danish embassy in London at the weekend wearing an imitation suicide bombing outfit to denounce the caricatures satirising the Prophet of Islam.
In 2002, the student was given six years in prison for possessing crack cocaine with intent to supply and had been on licence after being released last year halfway through his sentence.
But this morning, at the request of the Home Office, police arrested Khayam in Bedford for breaching the terms of his parole and he was taken back to jail.
Muslim groups were swift to condemn demonstrators in London at the weekend who threatened violence over the cartoons, first published in a Danish paper in September.
Some protesters waved placards threatening a repeat of the September 11 and July 7 atrocities.
Thousands of moderate Muslims are expected to attend a rally in Trafalgar Square in London on Saturday afternoon to protest at both the cartoons and the response of Islamic extremists.
Ihtisham Hibatullah, from rally co-organiser the Muslim Association of Britain, said: "[Last weekend] was very damaging for the Muslim community.
"We are sometimes held hostage by extremists on both sides. It is the duty of every British Muslim to show the British public and the rest of the world that we are totally different."
Sir Iqbal Sacranie, secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said that mainstream British Muslims were "deeply hurt" by both the cartoons and the "disgraceful actions of a tiny group of extremists".
He added: "This rally will aim to help British Muslims to express their feelings peacefully and will call upon the newspapers concerned to recognise and apologise for the enormous offence and needless distress they have caused to millions of Muslims across the world."
On Friday the chairman of Khayam's local mosque in Westbourne Road, Bedford, said the student was "a bit of an idiot" but would be welcomed back.
Asif Nadim, from the Jamia Masjid Gulshan-e-Bughdad mosque, added: "It's been blown out of all proportion. Some of the papers have come up with his drugs offence but he was 16 at the time.
"He was in that kind of environment at college and it was something he got caught up in.
"The media are trying to condemn a normal young guy. He realises what he has done and now he has to pay for it."
Mr Nadim said Khayam's protest had offended everyone, including fellow Muslims, but criticised the media coverage of the story.
He added: "There's no hiding that he chose the wrong form of expression. The whole sense of the protest has been lost. We have known his family for a long time, they are a good family."
Yesterday Khayam apologised "wholeheartedly" for his behaviour in London, saying it was "wrong, unjustified and insensitive" to protest dressed as a suicide bomber.
Officers from the Metropolitan Police travelled to Bedfordshire yesterday with the intention of speaking to Khayam about the incident but returned without interviewing him.
Inmates released on parole can be returned to prison for bad behaviour or if they reoffend, breach specific conditions of their licence or fail to attend appointments with their probation officer.
A Home Office spokeswoman refused to comment on Khayam's case, but said: "If an offender is in the community on licence and his behaviour gives cause for concern, he is liable to be recalled back to prison.
"Licence requirements include good behaviour. Intimidating or provocative behaviour, or failing to recognise the impact of your behaviour on others, could breach this."
Taken from here:
http://news.pipex.com/Pipex/News/Story_Page/0,13319,5337_1005105,00.html
Seems like they are planning a peaceful protest against the cartoons but also protest at what happened on friday.
cymatty said:
Hmmm interesting that is, would be interesting to see what the Jews and rest of the world think of this tbh. They do have a point though if u think about it, lets see how far we can push the boundaries of free speech.
I mean come on the Jews should have a sense of humour about it, so lets see what kinda uproar this causes.
But on a more serious note, i dont condone this sort of behaviour...its the last thing we need...inciting more religious tensions is not the way to resolve this whole scenario.
Well, I looked at the cartoons at work the other day to see what all the fuss was about as I hadn't really been keeping up with the news. I've just been told this morning that someone saw me looking at them and has complained to their manager about me.
wtf?
wtf?
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Spawn said:
Making a critical point about an ideology is different from villifying a race. No sympathy for the Jew? Having said that, their prophet has been portrayed time upon time upon time.
Methinks Borat would prefer to move to Iran. Its not like Jews have anything to do with this - Iran are jumping on the Muslim bandwagon, "well if Europeans can draw cartoons, perhaps it would be fitting for us to demonise the Jew" I wonder how long until "well if Europeans can make bombs, perhaps it would be fitting if we drop them on Jews"
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