Mohammed Cartoons controversey

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

actually, the Fatwa against Rushdie can't be held against the current Iran. It was Khomeni who instituted it, and the current govt has tried to distance themselves from it. They're just religiously unable to repeal the Fatwa. The issuer dying while it's in force makes it permanent or something

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

still I find it ironic that Iran would rather just print holocaust cartoons rather than advocate the death of all Danes.

on that note, I think Im gonna have a Danish.

[Skar]

Absolutely.  I second that motion.  

Edit:  Originally, I was seconding the free speech for everyone idea.  But I'll have a Danish too.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

http://www.boxjamsdoodle.com/d/20060208.html

[Archon]

Hahaha. Good comic, even though, without captions, it is a little hard to tell when the person speaking changes.

[Nessa]

The cartoons were first printed in September and it's, what, four months after they're printed that the mass riots start. Incidentally, the riots start after the January elections in Muslim countries (Palestine, etc.), because that's when they first were distributed among the middle eastern population.

And, somehow, it coincides with the Danish representative about to take leadership in the UN security council in June.

Coincidence?

[Archon]

Absolutely. To argue that people within the Muslim community (or out of it, for that matter) would be deliberately trying to incite anger and resentment within the community for their own personal gain would be irrational. After all, what do they have to gain except power and a great deal of money?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I don't see the money angle.

But I don't think you can argue against the power/control thing.

[Entsuropi]

   * On the February 15, the European Parliament accepts a resolution in which in condemns all cartoon violence. It states that the EU stands in solidarity with Denmark and all other countries that have been affected by the violence. Furthermore it states that Muslims may be offended by the cartoons and that they have the right to protest peacefully. However the freedom of speech is absolute and may not be affected by any form of censorship.[32]