anti islam cartoons required

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Just stop it.

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[ukdane]

I watched the 10 o'clock news here in bed last night, so was unable to post.

15 minutes of a raport, instructing parents how to deal with the situation, with regards to your children. It really brought home to me how serious this situation has become.

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http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/49034#1204846">More on those fake cartoons.

It's now looking like the whole thing was an attempt by danish immans to drum up trouble with images like this one (purportedly an image of the prophet Mohammed, actually a contestant in a French pig-squeeling contest).

It's all very depressing and stupid.http://ekstrabladet.dk/grafik/nettet/tegninger38.jpg">

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And here's Frenchy. Oink Oink!

Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8959820" target="_blank">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8959820

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Oh, and heres my Prophet Mohammed Emoticon:

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[claytonhobbes]

Not actually a comic strip, but have you seen the South Park episode 'The Super Best Friends'? (based on DCs SuperFriends). Jesus Christ, The Prophet Mohammed and Moses team up to take down David Blaine. Very funny...and more offensive than the Danish cartoons - but Trey Parker and Matt Stone haven't been fatwahed.

[Adrian Bamforth]

Hey I was thinking about that, even looked it up with an image search but in the end assumed they avoided Muhammed since there wasn't any fuss. I guess depicting the deities as best friends isn't really much use to those trying to stir up friction. If I had to draw obne it would be Mohammed and Moses or Abraham looking down comforting each other. Noticably, the cartoon that was most focussed upon was the least funny, less clever and made less of a point. If it was a good cartoon it may at least have provoked some level of thought. That's the thing about satire, if there's some element of truth in it they can't really touch you for it.

Awful business, though bound to happen eventually - there's always some blasphemy happening somewhere for someone to blow up large, though on a national level I genuinely believe it's a good thing: Like the London bombings, British Muslims have to face the problematic side of their religion many were in denial of until recently, and moderate Muslims here finally have their chance to face down the extremists on the Saturday demo campaigning equally against defamation of their religion and the extremist reaction it provoked. Some things have to get worse before they get better.

ADE

[Roger Godpleton]

Apparently the newspaper/magazine that first published the cartoons is now looking to print cartoons on the Holocaust.

[johnnystress]

See the way Google has been found to be censoring itself? (Check out the Chinese version and type in Tianenemen Square.)

Well , in that spirit I propose a fatwah on Google, I was horrified to type "Mohammed" into their image search feature only to be met with dozens and dozens of blasphemous artists' renditons of the prophet.

Let us burn down the internet in solidarity with our muslim brothers.