http://www.di2.nu/files/Muhammed_Cartoons_Jyllands_Posten.html
Comment on a Dutch site:
"---Bloedige aanslagen op WTC, Madrid en Londen met duizenden doden. Geen enkele reactie uit Mosimlanden. Theo van Gogh vermoord om zijn mening. Christenmeisjes onthoofd door Moslims in Indonesie. Geen reactie. 12 cartoons over de profeet in een krant die niemand leest en moslimwereld ontploft. Haat en hysterische taferelen en schuim op de mond. Europa moet als een blok achter Denemarken en zich niet gaan verstoppen. "
[Bloody strikes on the WTC, Madrid, and London, with thousands of dead. No reaction from the Muslim countries. Theo van Gogh murdered because of his opinions. Christian girls beheaded by Muslims in Indonesia. No reaction.
12 cartoons about the prophet in a newspaper that no-one reads, and the Muslim world explodes. Hate, and scenes of hysteria, and foam at the mouth. Europe should stand as one with Denmark and not run and hide.]
He's right, you know, the Muslim world are being a bunch of slimy hypocrites.
Anybody remember Daniel Pearl and Nick Berg?
Those cartoons ain't sacrilege - the prophet was just a man. And a prophet only by the standards of a religion he created. Which the rest of us kinda disagree with.
[Yes, I know he was supposed to have been divinely inspired. Bla bla bla. If I swallow that nonsense, next you'll be asking me to believe that the carpenter was the son of Mithras or Zeus or some such crap. Ain't gonna happen, dearie.]
It just is NOT rational to burn down embassies. The Muslim world should collectively take a deep breath, swallow some valium or smoke some ganja, and learn to act like normal human beings.
[Perhaps if they did, their opinions would be taken seriously. And their currently rather repressive and backwards cultures might be respected. At the moment, however, they look kinda stupid. As they do with depressing frequency. ]
While we concede that all those screaming little countries with their frequent juvenile hissy-fits ARE. EACH. VALID. NATIONS. AND. SHOULD. BE. LISTENED. TO., we prefer to ignore them. It's hard to respect raving loonies. Really.
[And, to cock a snook at them, please note the following gratuitous and otherwise entirely pointless juxtapositioning:
MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam.- MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam. -MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam. -MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam. -MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam. -MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam. -MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam. -MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam. -MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam. -MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam. -MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam. -MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam. -MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam. -MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam.
There. I feel better now.]
I'm not trying to suggest that the prophet Mohammed was a pig sallallahu Aleihi wa Salam, heaven forfend, nor that he ever was blessed enough to enjoy some nice barbecue ribs - but he has been depicted in European art as variously a pig sallallahu Aleihi wa Salam, an ass sallallahu Aleihi wa Salam, a daemon sallallahu Aleihi wa Salam, a fallen angel sallallahu Aleihi wa Salam, a vampire sallallahu Aleihi wa Salam, a horned serpent sallallahu Aleihi wa Salam, and several unmentionable other things sallallahu Aleihi wa Salam.
There is in fact a long history of depicting him as any number of unpleasant or unclean things - sallallahu Aleihi wa Salam - so the Muslims might as well get used to it.
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And pursuant the matter of depictions, I note the following:
"An Iranian paper is holding a contest for cartoons about the Holocaust, to retaliate against the publication of images of the Prophet Muhammad."
"It also asks for cartoons covering "America and Israel's crimes and plundering"."
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4688466.stm]
Okay.
You know what this means, don't you?
Tons of really bad drawings circling the globe. First a few simple-minded scrawls from nameless hick-provincials in Kermanshah and Ferozabad, then obscene photo-shop miracles from Heinrich, Jean-Paul, and Bubba Sprocket, and then incredibly well done and incredibly disgusting masterpieces of insulting filth from every Tom, Dick, and Harry with perverse artistic sensitivities.
We're better at this than the Muslim world; we invented cartoons and vicious propaganda illustrations. So at least we'll have a good giggle occasionally.
I suppose we should be overjoyed that little Ahmed and Bugbug BenAli will now finally get art-classes, but the results won't be worth looking at. Far better to teach the little tykes to read instead. I've heard that they lag a bit on that score.
I suppose critical thinking would be too much to ask.....
Unless 'Humanism For Dummies' gets translated into Persian and Arabic.
[Here's that gratuitous and otherwise pointless juxtaposition-text again!
MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam.- MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam. -MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam. -MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam. -MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam. -MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam. -MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam. -MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam. -MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam. -MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam. -MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam. -MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam. - MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam. -MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam. - MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam.- MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam.- MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam.- MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam.- MOHAMMED. PIG. PROPHET. Sallallahu Aleihi Wa Salam.]
Ooooooh!!! .....
I need a cigarette now...., how about you?
I think I'll go smoke a Camel.
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By the way, Sallallahu Aleihi wa Salam is traditionally appended to mention of the prophet. It means 'peace be upon him and blessing'. Which is rendered into English as 'Peace Be Upon Him' - abbreviated as PBUH. Peebooh!
Oh, and here's another link for those cartoons:
http://www.hilwerda.com/groep.htm
Or also:
http://www.groepwilders.nl/
See article titled: 'Groep Wilders betuigt steun aan Deense cartoonisten en publiceert spotprenten' dated woensdag, 1 februari 2006, under which you will sees a clickable 'lees verder'. Click it.
Groep Wilders is the website of a Dutch politician, about whose ideology I will not comment.
Unless you read Dutch, skip the text and scroll down to the cartoons, which are presented as a public service on his site.
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