In case you wanted to see the actual cartoons that sparked the recent protests, and a whole host of other images of Mohammed through the ages, here is a mirror to the extensive Zombietime Mohammed archive. Face-of-Muhammed.blogspot.com offers fewer historical images, but has a map of the Cartoon War.
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This cartoon was published in September in some obscure Danish newspaper and is supposedly brought to some cleric in Syria or Egypt and publicized in the Middle East to provide an alibi for anti-Western demonstrations that make all Moslems look like morons. What’s really happening here?
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I actually heard one very short clip on All Things Considered that reported the “anti-cartoon” demonstration outside the U.S. military base in Afghanistan had nothing to do with Mohammed and was about Pakistanis being hired to work on the base.
It’s all very fishy. But I can’t tell if it’s a scam to make westerners think that Muslims are irrational tempermental idiots, or if it’s a scam to make Muslims think that the West is truly ignorint, offensive, and immoral. I’m assuming everyone is being scammed and no one is being told the whole story.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060209_cartoon_protesters_puppets/
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Truthdig’s Middle Eastern columnist says that we shouldn’t believe the hype about homespun religious anger: Middle Eastern leaders stoke religious riots because it makes their secular governments look tame in comparison.
it may be a scam, but real buildings which house embassies (and not just Denmark’s) have been distroyed, real companies with Scandanavian links have lost their livelihood in arab countries, real people have been hurt and died.
No one’s denying that… it just seems to my that someone’s not getting the whole story.
From yesterday’s Morning Edition:
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“Protests against cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad have led to a number of deaths and damage to Danish missions in several countries. The Danish cartoons came to worldwide attention in part because of Ahmed Abu Laban, the religious director of the Muslim Society in Copenhagen. Steve Inskeep talks to Laban.”
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(Real Audio — 5 min.)
Another good piece on Morning Edition today:
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“The publication of cariticatures of the Prophet Muhammed in a Danish newspaper — and subsequently around Europe — has caused unprecedented economic problems for Denmark. It has also triggered a debate among Danes over freedom of speech and religious multi-culturalism.”