oh look. im starting a thread that has a news story that bashes muslim rioters. and rightfully so. this is disgusting. idiots. personally this is far more offensive to islam and muslims than the cartoons ever were. this essentially validates the incredibly false and degrading statements/assumptions the cartoons attempted to make. good job idiots. your on the same side as the cartoonists in defaming islam/the prophet. except you are way more effective. Feb. 18, 2006, 3:31PM Cartoon Protests Leave 15 Dead in Nigeria By NJADVARA MUSA Associated Press Writer © 2006 The Associated Press MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Nigerian Muslims protesting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad attacked Christians and burned churches on Saturday in violence that left at least 15 people dead, police and a resident said. Troops and police reinforcements have been deployed to restore order in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, where 15 Christian churches were burned, said Nigerian police spokesman Haz Iwendi. Chima Ezeoke, a Maiduguri resident, said the protesters attacked and looted shops in the city owned by minority Christians, most of them with origins in the country's south. "Most of the dead were Christians beaten to death on the streets by the rioters," Ezeoke said. Nigeria, Africa's most populous country of more than 130 million people, is roughly divided between a predominantly Muslim north and a mainly Christian south. The cartoons, which first appeared in a Danish newspaper in September, have set off sometimes violent protests around the world. One caricature shows Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban with an ignited detonator string. Islam widely holds that representations of Muhammad are banned for fear they could lead to idolatry. The Danish newspaper that first printed the caricatures in September, the Jyllands-Posten, has since apologized to Muslims for the cartoons. Other Western newspapers, mostly in Europe, have reprinted the pictures, asserting their news value and the right to freedom of expression. chron
My favorite part about all of this so far are all the interviews with muslim people that go something like this: Reporter: "What about free speech?" Muslim person: "I'm all for free speech, except for blasphemy." This happens all over the world. Idiots.
Since murder isn't blasphemy, how many virgins will these rioters receive when they enter their heaven?
Wow, It looks more and more like another war over religion is on it's way. Maybe one side can completely wipe out the other so we can have some stability.
That's terrible. I understand that people were greatly offended, but come on. It's just a picture. Retaliating by killing people is just a tad bit overboard.
but then we get protestants vs. catholics or hindus vs muslims or mormons vs. buddists or atheists vs. agnostics or etc. vs. etc.
yeah and have you seen any of the new cartoons of mohammed people are drawing now? talk about opening the floodgates to some perverse stuff.
The difference is that Islam is still firmly rooted in medieval thinking as witnessed by these types of reactions.
you just have to look at northern ireland to realize many people are still mired in this type of \'medieval\' thinking.
Someone else made this point, but I will repeat it here. Drawing a picture of the prophet in a cartoon, might be a little bad for the dignity of Islam. The effect of that will go away in under a year. Torching places, killing people, rioting, and using violence because of cartoons, makes Islam's dignity look much worse, and the effect will in general last several years, and for some people who were directly affected, it will never go away at all. The rioters, and those who used violence, have done far more damage to their religion than any cartoonist could.
not really. if you want a corresponding timeline you can say they are in the 1800s. but certainly not the 1300s.
Andrew Sullivan's take below: The world has been terrorized for decades now by murderers who specifically cite Muhammad as their inspiration. It is completely legitimate speech to point that out. Not to point it out - to remain silent in the face of it - is an act of denial.The reason that so many Muslims are offended is not just because any depiction of Muhammad is taboo; but because the conflation of Islam and murder is now firmly fixed in the global consciousness. I can understand why the repetition of that fact should upset many peace-loving Muslims. But that is not the fault of cartoonists. It's the fault of the Muslim terrorists, and the failure of mainstream Muslims to condemn them sufficiently, ostracize them completely, and prevent them effectively from further mayhem. At this point, in my judgment, further appeasement of these religious terrorists is counter-productive - and actually enables the extremists in their simultaneous intimidation of moderate Muslims. http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/
you also have to look no farther than northern ireland to realize there might be hope to end this sort of violence someday.
