Islamic organization chief calls cartoons `new Sept.11'

National Post, Tuesday 14,2006. A article written by Souhail Karam. The headline reads "Islamic organization chief calls cartoons `new Sept.11'.

I don't recall any catholics flying planes into buildings. Comparing some political cartoons to killing innocents in the name of Islam is ludicris.

The article also mentioned that Iran has launched cartoons of the Holocaust in retribution of the publishing of the cartoons. The jewish people didn't print those cartoons, they have publicly denounced them. I guess the muslim community forgot the Danes printed the cartoons but hey, the jewish people have always been easy targets for radical Islam.

I've been told by muslims that I'm narrow-minded; that Islam includes all mankind. The Qur'an says that brothers should be good to one another. That those who do harm are non-believers. That those that practice hate against individuals are non-believers. I'm pretty sure that non-believers are supposed to be punished. Following this logic, when the Palestine population voted in Hamas(whose goal is to destroy Israel), did they just become a nation of non-believers and should be punished by their own religion? How about the people that voted in President Ahmadinejad in Iran. His views are contrary to the moderate views of the Qur'an and he should be labelled a non-believer. He should be punished.



Based on the info below, we should be surprised that they haven't brought back "Evil Bert" from Seasame Street. We know how they love to insert pictures that aren't part of the problem into their protests.

February 02, 2006
Fabricated cartoons worsened Danish controversy

The controversy over the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed is expanding, as more Muslims join the boycott and protests against Denmark and various European newspapers decide to publish the cartoons, mostly out of solidarity with Jyllands Posten and to make a strong political stand. One issue that puzzles many Danes is the timing of this outburst. The cartoons were published in September: Why have the protests erupted from Muslims worldwide only now? The person who knows the answer to this question is Ahmed Abdel Rahman Abu Laban, a man that the Washington Post has recently profiled as “one of Denmark's most prominent imams.”

Last November, Abu Laban, a 60-year-old Palestinian who had served as translator and assistant to top Gamaa Islamiya leader Talaal Fouad Qassimy during the mid-1990s and has been connected by Danish intelligence to other Islamists operating in the country, put together a delegation that traveled to the Middle East to discuss the issue of the cartoons with senior officials and prominent Islamic scholars. The delegation met with Arab League Secretary Amr Moussa, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Mohammad Sayyed Tantawi, and Sunni Islam’s most influential scholar, Yusuf al Qaradawi. "We want to internationalize this issue so that the Danish government will realize that the cartoons were insulting, not only to Muslims in Denmark, but also to Muslims worldwide," said Abu Laban.

On its face, it would appear as if nothing were wrong. However, the Danish Muslim delegation showed much more than the 12 cartoons published by Jyllands Posten. In the booklet it presented during its tour of the Middle East, the delegation included other cartoons of Mohammed that were highly offensive, including one where the Prophet has a pig face. But these additional pictures were NOT published by the newspaper, but were completely fabricated by the delegation and inserted in the booklet (which has been obtained and made available to me by Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet). The delegation has claimed that the differentiation was made to their interlocutors, even though the claim has not been independently verified. In any case, the action was a deliberate malicious and irresponsible deed carried out by a notorious Islamist who in another situation had said that “mockery against Mohamed deserves death penalty.” And in a quintessential exercise in taqiya, Abu Laban has praised the boycott of Danish goods on al Jazeera, while condemning it on Danish TV.