Cartoons don't give Muslims the right to burn embassies Jim, their governments encourage them to think they have those rights. It's bullshit. We didn't even publish anything in the US and they still attacked us, so what's it gonna be?
Cartoon Protesters Direct Anger at U.S.
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What's it gonna be ?
Yes ?
Or
No ??
Let me sleep on this baby baby
Let me sleep on this
And I'll give you an answer in the morning...
Yes ?
Or
No ??
Let me sleep on this baby baby
Let me sleep on this
And I'll give you an answer in the morning...
I think not said:
I remember reading about that. It was proclaimed to be more of a Western Plot rather than a US plot...But then again the associations are pretty similar.
Yep, and because of the vaccination refusals, Polio has now effected three adjacent countries to...Nigeria? I can't remember the name of the initial country that opposed the vaccinations now. Time to go dig up old articles i guess.
BTW does anyone know where to invest in stocks regarding the sales of flags?
Re: RE: Cartoon Protesters Direct Anger at U.S.
They don't get it, their rules don't apply outside the circle of believers. Islam also forbids, for example, the consumption of pork and alcohol, but that wouldn't justify anger at people who do it. I don't think the Muslim world has any justification at all for being angry about those silly cartoons. They're justified in being offended I think, which entitles them to say "I find those images offensive," to which the obvious reply is, "Then don't look at them."
I've seen the English-language press in the Arab world. I don't read Arabic, so that's all that was available to me. It was routinely just as offensive to me as those cartoons are to Muslims. If the Arabic press is anything like the English-language press in the Arab world, it'll be full of anti-Christian and anti-Semitic sentiments, believers in the discredited Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Holocaust deniers, and nasty, ill-founded conspiracy theories about the West versus Islam. This is the height of hypocrisy. Ethically, morally, religiously, legally, or any other way, they haven't got a leg to stand on.
But I don't really think the cartoons have much to do with the protests, riots, bombings, flag burnings, etc. anyway. They're just something to use to whip up a crowd enough so it'll do damnfool things like marching on a U.S. military base.
Mogz said:
They don't get it, their rules don't apply outside the circle of believers. Islam also forbids, for example, the consumption of pork and alcohol, but that wouldn't justify anger at people who do it. I don't think the Muslim world has any justification at all for being angry about those silly cartoons. They're justified in being offended I think, which entitles them to say "I find those images offensive," to which the obvious reply is, "Then don't look at them."
I've seen the English-language press in the Arab world. I don't read Arabic, so that's all that was available to me. It was routinely just as offensive to me as those cartoons are to Muslims. If the Arabic press is anything like the English-language press in the Arab world, it'll be full of anti-Christian and anti-Semitic sentiments, believers in the discredited Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Holocaust deniers, and nasty, ill-founded conspiracy theories about the West versus Islam. This is the height of hypocrisy. Ethically, morally, religiously, legally, or any other way, they haven't got a leg to stand on.
But I don't really think the cartoons have much to do with the protests, riots, bombings, flag burnings, etc. anyway. They're just something to use to whip up a crowd enough so it'll do damnfool things like marching on a U.S. military base.
Jo Canadian said:
That's the worst part of all.
You could always ship crates of American flags to the Middle East, they always come in handy over there.
You are absolutely right Dexter
It is not like these trouble making Danes went over to Saudi and plastered the cartoons on their doors. The cartoons were drawn and published in their own country and whether the Muslims want to believe it or not, there is a whole world out there that is very much different from their world. A world that has it's own peculiarities, customs and laws. Some parts of Africa practice extreme cruelties on children like female circumcision. I thought it was disgusting but I never thought of running home and burning an embassy.
It is not like these trouble making Danes went over to Saudi and plastered the cartoons on their doors. The cartoons were drawn and published in their own country and whether the Muslims want to believe it or not, there is a whole world out there that is very much different from their world. A world that has it's own peculiarities, customs and laws. Some parts of Africa practice extreme cruelties on children like female circumcision. I thought it was disgusting but I never thought of running home and burning an embassy.
That's it go get those evil Americans and evil Europeans.
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Once you engage in direct conflict, no one will be able to stop me. :lol:
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Once you engage in direct conflict, no one will be able to stop me. :lol:
Sassylassie said:
I think you're exactly right:
http://www.neandernews.com/?p=54
Also, the pictures were printed in Egypt months ago. It took that long to rile up the "sensitivities".
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/web...ons_in_Egyptian_Paper_-_October_2005#comments
I think not said:
Well, now, I'm quite sure Europe is thrilled to hear that we are their leader. Since we have been so appointed, I'd like to tell France to quit being such a wussy country, get some guts, and start learning English.
I'm just joking, but that is an absurd statement. What country in Europe considers the US to be their leader? :roll:
Uncle
I don't know if America is the leader of Europe, but the farmer has one thing right, it is the largest infidel.
Actually, infidel is a term that can be applied to Christianity also, not be Christian. So they're wrong there also. Funny innit? Fundamentalists Islamists call us infidels and the fringe left calls us fundamentalists. Lordy Lordy. :roll:
Yada yada yada.
Let it go. Let go of your gonzo idea. Let it float.
Float away, into the ethereal starry night sky.
Let it go. Let go of your gonzo idea. Let it float.
Float away, into the ethereal starry night sky.
Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land
Chorus:
Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen they did not how
Perhaps they'll listen now
Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
Chorus:
For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left inside
On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you Vincent
This world was never meant for one as
beautiful as you
Starry, starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They did not listen they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land
Chorus:
Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen they did not how
Perhaps they'll listen now
Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
Chorus:
For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left inside
On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you Vincent
This world was never meant for one as
beautiful as you
Starry, starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They did not listen they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will