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Mohammed Cartoons, Part II?         


Author: sdr
Date: Feb 27, 2008 21:12

In "Mohammed Cartoons, Part II?"
Lauren Keane wrote in the Washington Post:
> Every Friday for the past few weeks, embassies
> in Kabul have told foreign nationals to prepare
> for a rerun of the 2005 Mohammed cartoon riots.
> Back then, mobs attacked Western businesses
> and embassies across the Islamic world to protest
> images in a Danish newspaper that depicted the
> Prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban.
> This time the potential affront is a film made by
> right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders, in which
> he denounces Islam's Koran as a "fascist" book
> that "incites people to murder." Rumors put out
> by the Wilders camp suggest he burns a copy of
> the Koran in the film.
> Both cartoon and film (due to be released next
> month) are clearly crass and self-serving exercises
> that pay lip service to the idea of freedom of speech
> while being little more than vehicles for xenophobia.
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Re: Mohammed Cartoons, Part II?         


Author: Billy
Date: Feb 27, 2008 23:17

In article
<9bf105ed-a1fd-4935-8822-537047a37f4f@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
sdr@sdrodrian.com wrote:
>
> Is it possible to libel Mohammed? Could anything
> bad enough or objectionable enough ever be said
> of this incomprehensibly reprehensible creep which
> he himself did not surpass many, many, many
> times over with his own vile criminal behavior and
> unimaginable personal degradation... as recorded
> by his own proud Islamic biographers?

And you think Christianity is best exemplified by Pat Robertson, Jerry
Falwell, Jim Baker, Jimmy Swaggart, or Ted Haggard?

Speaking of death, have you ever heard of the Crusades? How about the
Inquisition or the "witch trials"? How about the KKK? How about the
butchering of indigenous people in the colonies of Christian nations,
not to mention native Americans?
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Re: Mohammed Cartoons, Part II?         


Author: Doug
Date: Feb 27, 2008 23:48

"Billy" getthe.net> wrote in message
news:wildbilly-2D5794.23172327022008@c-61-68-245-199.per.connect.net.au...
> In article
> <9bf105ed-a1fd-4935-8822-537047a37f4f@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
> sdr@sdrodrian.com wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible to libel Mohammed? Could anything
>> bad enough or objectionable enough ever be said
>> of this incomprehensibly reprehensible creep which
>> he himself did not surpass many, many, many
>> times over with his own vile criminal behavior and
>> unimaginable personal degradation... as recorded
>> by his own proud Islamic biographers?
>
> And you think Christianity is best exemplified by Pat Robertson, Jerry
> Falwell, Jim Baker, Jimmy Swaggart, or Ted Haggard?
>
> Speaking of death, have you ever heard of the Crusades? How about the
> Inquisition or the "witch trials"? How about the KKK? How about the
> butchering of indigenous people in the colonies of Christian nations, ...
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Re: Mohammed Cartoons, Part II?         


Author: Billy
Date: Feb 28, 2008 10:19

In article nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com>,
"Doug" nowhere.com> wrote:
> "Billy" getthe.net> wrote in message
> news:wildbilly-2D5794.23172327022008@c-61-68-245-199.per.connect.net.au...
>> In article
>> <9bf105ed-a1fd-4935-8822-537047a37f4f@e23g2000prf.googlegroups...
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Re: Mohammed Cartoons, Part II?         


Author: Doug
Date: Feb 28, 2008 12:46

"Billy" getthe.net> wrote in message
news:wildbilly-B7A6BA.10190828022008@c-61-68-245-199.per.connect.net.au...
> In article nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com>,
> "Doug" nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>> "Billy" getthe.net> wrote in message
>> news:wildbilly-2D5794.23172327022008@c-61-68-245-199.per.connect.net.au...
>>> In article
>>> <9bf105ed-a1fd-4935-8822-537047a37f4f@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
>>> sdr@sdrodrian.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to libel Mohammed? Could anything
>>>> bad enough or objectionable enough ever be said
>>>> of this incomprehensibly reprehensible creep which
>>>> he himself did not surpass many, many, many
>>>> times over with his own vile criminal behavior and
>>>> unimaginable personal degradation... as recorded
>>>> by his own proud Islamic biographers?
>>>
>>> And you think Christianity is best exemplified by Pat Robertson, Jerry ...
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Re: Mohammed Cartoons, Part II?         


Author: Billy
Date: Feb 28, 2008 15:49

In article newssvr14.news.prodigy.net>,
"Doug" nowhere.com> wrote:
> "Billy" getthe.net> wrote in message
> news:wildbilly-B7A6BA.10190828022008@c-61-68-245-199.per.connect.net.au...
>> In article nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com>,
>> "Doug"
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