Syrians torch Danish and Norwegian embassies

[afleitch]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4681294.stm

Okay, Okay.

Pay attention protestors- here's a geography lesson for you.



Now was you can see from this childrens map, Denmark and Norway are countries see? Look at the pretty colours! Denmark is that nation in red (the colour of martyrs blood) at the bottom and that long nation above it is called Norway. N-O-R-W-A-Y. Okay. They are ruled by seperate rulers they are not the same okay?

Oh and that country next to Norway is called Sweden. Sweden also makes dairy products, but is NOT Denmark. You should all know what the Danish flag looks like now, so check the label on your groceries okay

Okay! Good!

Now for lesson 2.

This is the Danish flag.

I'm sure you've all seen one or stood on one.



Now that white thing is called a cross. And do you know what it stands for?



That's right. Jesus! So you have all been burning a Christian symbol. But I forgive you. I wouldn't want to be so hyper senstive about these things.

Okay. Lesson 3.



This is a cartoon from Egypt.

Funny isn't it! But wait, whats this?

Sharon wearing a swastika tie and devil horns. Don't you know thats very disrespectful? 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust..no no don't get all upset, it did actually happen. Now some might say that is an OFFENSIVE cartoon. And you know what? It is!

But do you want to know what else? You have a right to publish this if you want to. I don't like it, but I wouldn't say you cannot publish it.

Neither would I kidnap aid workers, boycott Egypt, set fire to their embassies or protest in the streets burning the Egyptian flag.

Its called freedom of expression. Come on now, Say it with me FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.

And it is a very, very good thing.

End sarchasm mode.

[afleitch]

Ex-editor of Jordanian newspaper who printed the pictures and urged restraint has been arrested.

[afleitch]

I thought this was rather interesting when I found it.

“I cobble together a verse comedy about the customs of the harem, assuming that, as a Spanish writer, I can say what I like about Mohammed without drawing hostile fire. Next thing, some envoy from God knows where turns up and complains that in my play I have offended the Ottoman empire, Persia, a large slice of the Indian peninsula, the whole of Egypt, and the kingdoms of Barca, Tripoli, Tunisi, Algeria, and Morocco. And so my play sinks without trace, all to placate a bunch of Muslim princes, not one of whom, as far as I know, can read but who beat the living daylights out of us and say we are ‘Christian dogs.’ Since they can’t stop a man thinking, they take it out on his hide instead.”

From Beaumarchais’ Marriage of Figaro, Act V, Scene 3

As posted on Andrew Sullivan's blog.

[afleitch]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/05/nflag05.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/02/05/ixportaltop.html



British Conservatives demand that the sort of protests with placards above, were an incitement to murder and they should have been arrested. (Arrest the parents obviously in the above case!)

'As fanatics - some dressed as suicide bombers - staged more protests yesterday, David Davis, the shadow home secretary, said the police should take action against what were clearly offences of incitement to murder.'

[afleitch]

Why aren't the bobbies beating the skulls of these terrorists in?

Because the group in question is just a bunch of fringe loonies hated by pretty much all other Muslims (even the extremist MPAC condemmend the protesters!). And because there's a right to protest peacefully here, o/c.

There is a right to protest, but such banners clearly incited murder, which is an offense in the UK. Secondly the police did make two arrests....two counter protestors who had in their posession copies of the cartoons were arrested (yet those dressed as suicide bombers were not)

Two words: double standards.

[afleitch]

besides to have actually done anything at the time of the protest (especially anything like *that*) might, just might, have resulted in normal Muslims feeling perhaps a little bit symphathetic to the lunatics who went-a-protesting.

'besides to have actually done anything at the time of the BNP protest (especially anything like *that*) might, just might, have resulted in normal whie people feeling perhaps a little bit symphathetic to the lunatics who went-a-protesting.'

Think about that. Not arresting Muslims in order not to upset other Muslims is NOT an excuse.

[afleitch]

But I'm sure you and your citizenry will roll over like dogs for the muslims just like you people rolled over like dogs for the Nazis.

They didn't role over. Germany was militarily superior, but the Danes under their king put up a good struggle throughout the war.

[afleitch]

Now apparentely they've ransacked a Christian neighborhood in Lebanon and burned down a church. Looks like they declared war on the religion as a whole, not just the source of the cartoons. Now mobs of Christian youths are grabbing iron bars and other makeshift weapons and are saying they'll defend their neighborhoods. Good for them!

In all honesty it's what these rioters want. But they fail to grasp how the West works, and how independent we are of religious bodies. A Saudi minister a few days ago called on the Pope to step in and ban the cartoon, failing to realise that he has no authority of that kind.

And considering that Christian and Muslim Lebanese are technically racially similar, it seems that in this case religion and not 'the west' is their motive.