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Charlie Hebdo: cartoon violence continues
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curious2
2018 Aug 29, 6:58pm
curious2
2018 Aug 29, 6:58pm
"Threats Mount Over Dutch Cartoon Contest With Bounty Placed on Wilders
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A Pakistani cricketer has offered a reward for the murder of firebrand anti-Muslim Dutch politician Geert Wilders for organizing a cartoon contest depicting Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
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Between 2,000 and 3,000 protesters in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, were prevented earlier this month from pelting the Dutch embassy with stones. Protesters say the contest is sacrilegious.
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Because the judge is an American, Pakistani Islamists say the United States should also be blamed for holding the contest. The Islamist party, Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), which has demanded Islamabad break diplomatic ties with the Netherlands, says “strict measures should also be taken against the U.S.”
Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Imran Khan, a former international cricketer, has acknowledged the growing furor, promising in his maiden speech this week in the Pakistani Senate that he will raise the issue of blasphemous caricatures in the U.N. General Assembly. “Very few in the West understand the pain caused to Muslims by such blasphemous activities,” said Khan."
"Thousands of protesters from Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), an extremist religious-turned-political party, started a march from Lahore to Islamabad on Wednesday, demanding that the newly elected government cut diplomatic ties with the Netherlands and expel its ambassador.
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"The government has just two options. Either cut the diplomatic ties with Holland, close its embassy in Pakistan and expel the Dutch ambassador, or kill us and send our dead bodies back to Lahore," Ejaz Ashrafi, TLP's spokesperson, told VOA.
"If the government will fulfill our demands, we can consider stopping this long march. Otherwise, we are ready to die in Islamabad for this cause and have already written our wills," Ashrafi added."
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A Pakistani cricketer has offered a reward for the murder of firebrand anti-Muslim Dutch politician Geert Wilders for organizing a cartoon contest depicting Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
***
Between 2,000 and 3,000 protesters in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, were prevented earlier this month from pelting the Dutch embassy with stones. Protesters say the contest is sacrilegious.
***
Because the judge is an American, Pakistani Islamists say the United States should also be blamed for holding the contest. The Islamist party, Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), which has demanded Islamabad break diplomatic ties with the Netherlands, says “strict measures should also be taken against the U.S.”
Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Imran Khan, a former international cricketer, has acknowledged the growing furor, promising in his maiden speech this week in the Pakistani Senate that he will raise the issue of blasphemous caricatures in the U.N. General Assembly. “Very few in the West understand the pain caused to Muslims by such blasphemous activities,” said Khan."
"Thousands of protesters from Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), an extremist religious-turned-political party, started a march from Lahore to Islamabad on Wednesday, demanding that the newly elected government cut diplomatic ties with the Netherlands and expel its ambassador.
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"The government has just two options. Either cut the diplomatic ties with Holland, close its embassy in Pakistan and expel the Dutch ambassador, or kill us and send our dead bodies back to Lahore," Ejaz Ashrafi, TLP's spokesperson, told VOA.
"If the government will fulfill our demands, we can consider stopping this long march. Otherwise, we are ready to die in Islamabad for this cause and have already written our wills," Ashrafi added."
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Patrick
2018 Aug 29, 7:05pm
Patrick
2018 Aug 29, 7:05pm
The first and most important value of the West is freedom of speech, especially freedom to offend. Inoffensive speech needs no protection.
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curious2
2018 Aug 29, 9:18pm
curious2
2018 Aug 29, 9:18pm
curious2 says
The pain is caused by Islam. Around the world, Muslims blame disbelievers for problems that are actually caused by Islam. Since Muslims are never allowed to criticize or even question Islam, they can never address the cause of their pain.
Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Imran Khan, a former international cricketer, has acknowledged the growing furor, promising in his maiden speech this week in the Pakistani Senate that he will raise the issue of blasphemous caricatures in the U.N. General Assembly. “Very few in the West understand the pain caused to Muslims by such blasphemous activities,” said Khan."
The pain is caused by Islam. Around the world, Muslims blame disbelievers for problems that are actually caused by Islam. Since Muslims are never allowed to criticize or even question Islam, they can never address the cause of their pain.
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Strategist
2018 Aug 29, 9:38pm
Strategist
2018 Aug 29, 9:38pm
curious2 says
I hope there is enough intolerable pain to make them kill themselves.
Since Muslims are never allowed to criticize or even question Islam, they can never address the cause of their pain.
I hope there is enough intolerable pain to make them kill themselves.
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FortWayne
2018 Aug 29, 9:59pm
FortWayne
2018 Aug 29, 9:59pm
Strategist says
When Christianity is filtered out from society, something else is bound to take it's place. It's like a void that needs to be filled in. Will be either Islam or Communism, or some perversion of both.
curious2 saysSince Muslims are never allowed to criticize or even question Islam, they can never address the cause of their pain.
I hope there is enough intolerable pain to make them kill themselves.
When Christianity is filtered out from society, something else is bound to take it's place. It's like a void that needs to be filled in. Will be either Islam or Communism, or some perversion of both.
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"At least five people were killed on Saturday during a second day of unrest in Niger, as French citizens were warned to stay indoors amid anger in several Muslim countries over a Prophet Mohammed cartoon published by Charlie Hebdo this week."
[Update: at least 10 killed so far.]
The murderers in Paris were not exceptions to the rule of a supposedly peaceful religion. They were the tip of an iceberg. I have never heard of Christians rioting and killing people over a cartoon, but Muslims do so repeatedly. I am not endorsing any particular religion, but clearly one of the three Abrahamic faiths is more violently aggressive than the others: Islam combines Old Testament violence with New Testament proseletyzing. All three have been used at various times to advocate violence, but Judaism doesn't try to convert non-Jews and Christianity gave up converting people by the sword centuries ago. Even saying that Islam is no worse than Christianity prior to the reformation implies that Islam may take 300 years to tamp down to the level of Christianity today (where abortion clinic bombings are the exception not the rule).
#islam