More cartoon protests

[evangelion]

Protest update...

There were several other small protests across Afghanistan on Wednesday, including one in Kabul. Hundreds of university students, including women, marched peacefully through the capital, chanting "Death to the Danish! Death to Americans!"
More than 1,000 people also rallied Wednesday in Muslim-majority Bangladesh's capital, burning Danish and Italian flags. There were no immediate reports of violence.

Now here's a possibly very stupid question, but I'll just go ahead and ask it anyway...

WHAT THE FUCK DOES AMERICA HAVE TO DO WITH ANY OF THIS?!???!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Another excuse to blame America for the world's problems. This shit is getting pretty tired.

[runningman]

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exactly.. its time to turn that whole area into a big piece of glass..

[thesightless]

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exactly.. its time to turn that whole area into a big piece of glass..

[evangelion]

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Seriously though, I'm over it. We have absolutely nothing to do with this current situation and still dumbasses are flooding the streets chanting "Death to America!!!"

You know what?? Death to blind religous fanatics who get so bent out of shape for being labeled as "violent," then respond to a FUCKING CARTOON by rioting and shit for days on end. Way to make yourselves look really stupid.

[tiddles]

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and now they are running a cartoon showing hitler and anne frank in bed..."write this in your diary.." and having a contest to see who can come up with the best holocaust cartoon...
a man killed because he "mocked" islam in a movie...and now the country is bringing back its nuclear program. fuck.

this whole thing is so sad. wtf kind of world is this? these people are stuck in 8th grade or something.

[evangelion]

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and now they are running a cartoon showing hitler and anne frank in bed..."write this in your diary.." and having a contest to see who can come up with the best holocaust cartoon...

And how many riots and demonstrations are you going to see about it.....NONE. We do not look for any reason to take to the streets in protest, setting fires, burning flags and stupid shit like that.

So they feel the need to "come back" now with cartoons depciting something that is sensitive to the West?? Cool, you children. Are you going to run and tell mommy when some Western "martyrs" suicide bomb your stupid asses??

It's funny...but didn't the president of Iran say that the Holocaust never happened?? What IDIOTS!!!!!

[Yao]

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lol

it's all turning into one big childish fight now. I'm gonna sit back and watch everyone rant and get crazy about, in a few weeks, maybe 2 months, everyone will be back to their everyday business. At first i was a bit afraid this might turn things for the worse, but instead it's getting more ridiculous by the day, and I have more and more trouble taking this shit serious.

[evangelion]

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The only thing I have a problem taking serious is a religion that says it's OK to act like a moron because something "offends" you. I get offended by shit everyday, do you see me in the streets chanting "Death to my job"??

[runningman]

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ya but your talking about people who still don't have plumbing.. they are jealous of our way of life.. the thing is they HATE us and we don't hate them (some of us do) and they act like a bunch of children and burn flags in the street.. Good Job flag burners you keep burning flags and i'll keep flushing my toilet and using my computer to download porn and whatever else we made here in the west that they are jealous of..

[thesightless]

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runningman. come to NYC so i can buy you a drink.

[Yao]

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It doesn't matter what goes wrong, America will be blamed for it anyway now...

[evangelion]

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Exactly...whether it's really our fault or not. You learn to live with it after a while.

[Balanc3]

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^ seriously. And I would hope by now that we have enough geiger sensors in place to detect radiation from any size device in all major US cities. Thus allowing us to detect a dirty bomb before it detonates.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1566843/posts

[evangelion]

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They're still going...





After Friday Prayers Muslims Again Protest Muhammad Cartoons Friday, February 10, 2006




ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Tens of thousands of Muslims demonstrated against the drawings of the Prophet Muhammed after Friday prayers, some shouting anti-American slogans and burning Danish flags to vent their rage.


Rallies in Asia were the largest on the continent since demonstrations throughout the Muslim world erupted over the drawings first published in a Danish newspaper in September and recently reprinted in other European publications. One depicted the prophet with a turban shaped like a bomb with a burning fuse.


In Kenya, police shot and wounded one person as they sought to keep hundreds of demonstrators from marching to the residence of Denmark's ambassador.

In Pakistan, rallies erupted around the country after prayers with some protesters burning foreign-made cheese and breaking windows while others clashed with police. The largest gathering was in the capital Islamabad, where 5,000 supporters of radical Islamic groups demonstrated peacefully in the center of the capital.


Thousands also demonstrated in Malaysia, Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka, while smaller rallies were held in Indonesia and the Philippines. Some protested outside mosques while others marched on the diplomatic missions of Denmark.


In Egypt, thousands protested across the country and some clashed with police who tried to disperse them with water canons and tear gas. Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza protested, some firing rifles in the air while others burned Danish flags. About 2,000 Muslim worshippers marched in Jordan under tight security.


Many Muslims considered the caricatures offensive to Islam, which is interpreted to bar images of the revered prophet. The Danish newspaper that first published the drawings has apologized for causing Muslims any offense but the Danish government has said it cannot apologized for something done by its free press.


In Pakistan, Mian Aslam, a leader of a coalition of Islamic groups, delivered a fiery speech urging Pakistan to sever ties with any country where the drawings were published. The turnout in Islamabad was the biggest in Pakistan since protests against the cartoons began about a week ago.

About 2,000 protesters briefly clashed with police in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, where they burned foreign-made dairy products. The crowd attacked shops before they were charged by police. At least half a dozen small protests were held around the southern city of Karachi.

In Kenya, thousands of demonstrators, shouting "Down with Denmark!" marched from the largest mosque in downtown Nairobi to Kenya's foreign ministry, where they were expected to deliver a protest note. At least 200 demonstrators tried to go the home of the Danish envoy, triggering clashes with anti-riot police near a major highway, when one person was injured.

Israeli police in Jerusalem unsuccessfully tried to prevent protests by barring all men under the age of 45 from attending Friday prayers at the Al Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City, Islam's third-holiest site. Despite the efforts, about 2,000 women, young boys and older men marched around the Dome of the Rock shrine on the compound, chanting "Bin Laden, strike again."

In India, thousands of angry Muslims kicked, spat on and tore Danish flags and burned effigies in the capital, New Delhi, and in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.

In Bangladesh, more than 5,000 Muslims watched by hundreds of riot police marched on Denmark's embassy in the capital, Dhaka, burning the country's flag and shouting, "Death to those who degrade our beloved prophet!"

In Malaysia's largest city, Kuala Lumpur, about 3,000 protesters marched from a mosque to the high rise building housing the Danish Embassy shouting: "Long live Islam. Destroy Denmark. Destroy Israel. Destroy George Bush. Destroy America!"

Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi talked of a "huge chasm that has emerged between the West and Islam," particularly because of Muslim frustrations at Western policies toward Iraq, Afghanistan and the Palestinians.

Meanwhile, a U.S. official praised Indonesia and Malaysia for their handling of the controversy, saying the two countries proved that Islam and democracy were compatible.

"The protests dissipated fairly quickly and there was a public discussion of it," said Eric John, deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs.

Small demonstrations were also held in Indonesia, where protesters burned tires in one town.

Denmark earlier this week advised its citizens to leave Indonesia after its embassy was stormed by a mob and pelted with eggs.

Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Friday he considered the violent reactions to the cartoons "are completely disproportionate to the offense that could possibly have been given."




Again with "Death to America" and "Death to Isreal"....when neither party are involved. I think this gives the world a perfectly clear picture of just what level of idiots we are dealing with here.

[malayday]

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ya but your talking about people who still don't have plumbing.. they are jealous of our way of life.. the thing is they HATE us and we don't hate them (some of us do) and they act like a bunch of children and burn flags in the street.. Good Job flag burners you keep burning flags and i'll keep flushing my toilet and using my computer to download porn and whatever else we made here in the west that they are jealous of..

thats iggnorant man...that is the kind of emperialistic thinking that the "big bad west" is being targeted for...what makes you so sure that its jealousy thats driving these people...sometimes a vision further than your nose is rrequired to understand..not justify... what you are judging...
Its alright though i dont want to offend anyone or whatever its just sometimes whole concepts are different...there is no way someone like you will ever know what its like for these people..so please dont entertain these naive self centered thoughts..read a little pick up a foriegn newspaper... do something before you say something like that...its so easy to dismiss what you cant grasp..and its alright its a human response just try to condition your self to see things from other perspectives, there is nothing wrong with that...