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Why Now?
Felis over at
Democracy Frontline recently posted the following information:
"Drawing cartoons with the controversial Musulman 'prophet' Muhammad is not a new activity. Have no illusions about the sudden religious Muslim sensitivity. The Muslim powerbrokers are proceeding just one step further to gain full protection of the European law. If they win now nobody will be able to criticize Islam as a religious or political doctrine. Nothing happens in the Muslim world spontaneously. There is always some sinister group of people who plan, pay expenses press buttons and unleash their hounds when the time is ripe.
"Well before the Danish cartoonists, who probably by now wished to be somewhere safe in Israel, various artists depicted Muhammad probably thousands of times. Initially it was the Persian and Turkish Muslim artists. Muhammand was depicted also by Western artists before....
"Why wasn’t the Muslim fury released then (apart from some mild whining from Islam on Line)?..."
Good question.
Read the rest of my article, "About Freedom of Expression,"
here.
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More About The Dhimmitude Of Yale University Press
Previous postings about this topic are HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE. After the information as to Yale Press's self-censorship came out in the Washington Post, letters printed in the hard copy of the newspaper were overwhelmingly in support of Yale's...
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Motoons An Issue At The Oic
The letters "OIC" stand for the Organization of the Islamic Conference, which just wrapped up a two-day summit in Dakar Senegal. From the AP article "Muslims Nations: Defame Islam, Get Sued?": The Muslim world has created a battle plan to defend its religion...
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Egypt's Grand Mufti Issues Fatwa: No Sculpture
CAIRO – More than 1,300 years after the Muslim conquest swept through Iran Dokht News CAIRO – More than 1,300 years after the Muslim conquest swept through Egypt, one of the country's highest religious authorities has declared that its ancient...
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Nyc Cartoon Protest Yesterday (17 Feb. 06)
Here is a brief story on the "peaceful" protest in NYC yesterday at the Danish Consulate. This protest was also hyped on CAIR's website (www.cair-net.org) as well as other muslim activist sites, including the ITS. I will include more reports as I...
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Keep Up The Good Fight!
Our friends down under at Democracy Frontline have been at the fore front of this Danish cartoon issue. Recently they have had 150,000 hits in one day and 4,000 unique visitors. Seems to have struck a nerve, much like here at IBA. The traffic to my own...
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