Next, they came for KFC ?

Much of the American mainstream media has grown bored with the story, but the cartoon jihad continues to boil over. The AP reports on the worst violence in the islamofascist pretextual protests against the Mohammed cartoons today in Pakistan:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060214/...kxBHNlYwN0bQ--

Reuters coverage here. A Pizza Hut was also attacked and protesters also hurled stones at a Holiday Inn hotel and western owned filling stations:
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsar...ONS.xml&rpc=22

In Iran, islamofascists attacked the British Embassy with molotov cocktails and also targeted the German embassy:
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/news...TOONS-IRAN.xml

Death threats have been leveled at a Der Speigel cartoonist over his satiracle drawing of Iranian soccer players as suicide bombers; the cartoon , aimed at unprepared German security forces, contained no depiction of Mohammed:
http://medienkritik.typepad.com/blog...at_the_fr.html

Iranian President Ali Khamenei continues to rile up the masses. Watch via MemriTV.
http://memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S6#

What a joke.LOL.:thumbsup:

I mean i understand a depiction of mohammed is considered bad, but i mean geez. Its a fucking cartoon. Muslims try to say all of them arent violent. And not all of them are. But then they fucking have extreme riots over a cartoon. I mean would the prophet mohammed justify the destruction of buildings because someone sullied his name? I think not! Islam is supposed to be a peaceful religion.

Perhaps it is bad but that dosen't matter at all!!! It's called freedom of speech and expression. Million and millions of brave men and women have died to give us, and people around the free world that wonderful right.

As far as I can tell, those restrictions on images of mohammed apply only to practitioners of the muslim faith. Being a heathen, I am free to create images of pretty much anything I want to. Once again, it's the tyranny of absolutism that is the problem, not the muslim religion in general. Anyone remember the Piss Jesus blowup? The tyrannical holy rollers like Fallwell and Robertson were beside themselves because of this "horrible blasphemy" committed against their god and their religion. The tyranny of absolutism that makes some believe they are more right than anyone else and everyone should respect that...or die.
(admittedly, I don't recall any embassies or art museums being burned down over that issue but that's only because they know they would never have gotten away with it in this country...the civil suits alone would have been phenomenal, but I truly believe that some of the Fred Phelps types are in no way above that kind of behavior...as evidenced by some of the abortion clinic bombings and at least one murdered abortion doctor)

I agree that the religon of Islam is not the problem. It is the people who support the islamofascist break off group of Wahabbism and their finatical beliefs. They must be watched very close.

The abortion clinic bombings are far and few between. Comparing that to the 10's of thousands, maybe millions of innocent people who have been slaughtered by the finatical islamofascist folks is like comparing water to fire. They are in a different ballpark.

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I agree that the religon of Islam is not the problem. It is the people who support the islamofascist break off group of Wahabbism and their finatical beliefs. They must be watched very close.

The abortion clinic bombings are far and few between. Comparing that to the 10's of thousands, maybe millions of innocent people who have been slaughtered by the finatical islamofascist folks is like comparing water to fire. They are in a different ballpark.

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And I agree that there is a big difference in the degree of these incidents...but looking at the "big picture", it is still ultimately the "tyranny of absolutism" that is at the heart of the problem...humanity's apparently never ending desire to make others think like they do...or else. Whether it's Wahabbiism or Christianity or Democracy...or the so called missionaries of Spain attempting to "save" the native savages by turning them on to god and curing them of their heathen ways...it's all the same...assholes trying to impose their ways on others because they think they are more advanced, enlightened, spiritual, close to god, wiser, or whatever than the next guy or group whose ways they didn't take the time to understand clearly or were just too arrogant and greedy to leave alone.

Note: I admittedly pick on christianity more often than I should because I spent a lot of years in catholic schools and therefore, that's where the bulk of my knowledge lies. Christianity is no more or less guilty of this "tyrannical absolutism" than any other culture or religion.