Shocking, I tell ya!

As a precedent for putting this editor to death, the prosecution cited the example of Mohammed himself.

And yet, we're still hoping for a "reformation" of islam. Just don't look to its founder for any support for that hope.

I wish anybody in the MSM in this country has the courage of Muhammad al-Asadi.

He denies the charges of offending Islam, under which he is being tried.

Hell, what doesn't offend Islam ?

Better watch out europe before passing any blasphomy laws.

Alec Baldwin insists the chill wind of censorship is still blowing stronger in the US. I mean, come on, that Bennish teacher was suspended for fact-free political rants during a geography class. It's the same thing people!

/

And our media complains about secrecy over a hunting accident.

The paper’s website reported that the prosecution lawyers cited precedents from Muslim history when the prophet was insulted by a woman and then praised her killer.

Feminists? Are you going to criticize Islam now?

*Crickets* *Sound of pin dropping*

With each passing day, with each story reflecting the madness and perversity that is called Islam, I grow more and more horrified. Then, I become even more puzzled and distraught by the seeming inability of our vaunted Western civilization to call this the monstrosity it is.
I don'r know what to say or think anymore ...

Nothing on the front page of Reporters Without Borders.

This is just another aberration to Western sensibilities. Unbelievably savage! Will the MSM in our country publish this article?

Probably not, but I am going to print it out, and hand it to my student who is doing his internship with the Houston Chronicle.

#9 Gang of One

All the Muslims have to do is keep it up. Those of us that get our news from the internet and blogs still make up a very small part of the population. But all the riots, beheadings, the burkas, lopping off hands are making its way into livingrooms Worldwide. At some point the major stations will have to cover the insanity that is Islam. And all that has to happen is for Muslims to continue to be Muslims. They are their own worst adveertizement. Its perfect.

A Yemeni newspaper editor is on trial for his life after publishing the Danish Mohammed cartoons

And, of course, they will also charge the imam who went touring with fake cartoons, or ones he made himself, right?

Muslim version of the Spanish Inquisition...
-- DRG --....
;>P

The guy that planned the bombing of the USS Cole gets a jail sentenc ein Yemen, and then everyone seems to looks the other way while he escapes.

But being the editor of a newspaper that printed the Mad Mo pix, that is a death penalty offense?

And when the poor bastard is beheaded for his transgression.it won't make the MSM here either as that would make the ROP look even more barbaric than this does.

The paper’s website reported that the prosecution lawyers cited precedents from Muslim history when the prophet was insulted by a woman and then praised her killer.

I thought that Moose-lims were insulted by the mere existence of women?

That is an unbelievably brave stand for that Yemeni man to take. The society there is particularly harsh. Very little robbery - because hands get chopped off for stealing. Tongues get cut out for lying to officials. Public lashings. I wish there was some way someone could help him.

This guy has balls. I bet the MSM give him as much support as Hollywood did to Theo Van Gogh. Sad. It will be up to the web to make sue this guy gets off the hook.

GOP House Panel Votes to Block Ports Deal
By LIZ SIDOT Mar 8, 8:04 PM (ET)

WASHINGTON (AP) - In a congressional election-year repudiation of President Bush, a House panel dominated by Republicans voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to block a Dubai-owned firm from taking control of some U.S port operations. Democrats clamored for a vote in the Senate, too.

By 62-2, the House Appropriations Committee voted to bar DP World, run by the government of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, from holding leases or contracts at U.S. ports. The landslide vote was the strongest signal yet that more than three weeks of White House efforts to stunt congressional opposition to the deal have not been successful.

Bush has promised to veto any such measure passed by Congress. But there is widespread public opposition to the deal and the GOP fears losing its advantage on the issue of national security in this fall's elections.

The White House said the president's position was unchanged.

-- DRG --....
;>P

#12 TimK

They are their own worst adveertizement.

About a year after September 11th, there was a news article indignant because a recent poll showed that Americans had a more negative view of Islam than before.

They wondered how this could possibly be, when there had been so much education about Islam in the preceding year.

In their world, ignorance and only ignorance causes negative opinions about a group, so it was inconceivable that the American people could be learning more about Islam and thinking less of it.

Do we still have diplomatic relations with Yemen? Could something be done, pressure be put on through the State Department on this guy's behalf?

#12 TimK
I predict that day's trip point to be this Friday @ UCLA.

#21 Silhouette,

The more I learn about Islam, the more I despise it. Remember, I respect both the Outlaws and HA. Not sayin' they're the good guys, but they ain't Mohammedans.

Islam is nothing but the world's most nasty and successful street gang.

ROPMA™

...go right on ahead Muslims, keep showing us your souls that you would have us emulate..

I support this editor's right to free speech.

Our dialy example of RoPers showing how pious they are by killing one of their own to protect Allah (pork tenderloin for everyone). The silver lining is they're going through the motions of a trial before carrying on. How comforting.

I'm new here and appreciate all I've learned from lizards over the last couple of years reading LGF.

/nervously sits down

This has nothing whatsoever to do with islam. Islam is a religion of peace. You don’t need to see cartoons of the most holy prophet mohammad. Yemeni journalists die all the time there is nothing wrong with that. Go back to your menial jobs and live out your worthless lives never questioning us again. We are the MSM we are in charge. You will conform to the dictates of politically correct thought police. Now drink your victory coffee.

The paper’s website reported that the prosecution lawyers cited precedents from Muslim history when the prophet was insulted by a woman and then praised her killer.

Maybe the prophet wasn't a moderate Muslim.

The English-language newspaper has had its licence to publish suspended...

They license their newspapers, and still this happens? Obviously, members of the licensing board need to be flogged.

# 27 ABS

Welcome!

good post!

#27 Abu Bin Squid

I'm new here

Welcome Abu! Very nice first post! Don't be nervous, jump right in. :)

27 Abu Bin Squid
Bles you! Welcome!
ROFL on your pork comment!

# 29 J R

"licence to publish"

Thank God for the 1st amendment -- no such thing in the USA!

Gosh, I would hate to go back and see what drivel I wrote for my first post. Abu, you done good.

# 34 m w

My first post was like 3 words long!
:-)

Welcome Abu! Glad to have you!

#32 St Pancake

Bles you!

Oh, the spelling Sisters are going to be all over you for that one.

/ hides from the ruler

OT

CHARLES

Former U.S. diplomat Ann Wright, speaking at UCSD, expresses sympathy for Bin Laden. Listen to her moonbattiness at The Indepundit, courtesy of Lt. Smash.

She's a 16 year veteran of the State Department.

I have to go burn my speakers, install some new ones.

#37 mama winger
ROFL, i am tired. I screwed up Jheka's name on the other thread. Lol, I typed in Khaki!

Greetings Abu Bin Squid!

#30 Buckaroo

Thank you.

#31 Mama Winger

I promised myself to keep to the side, but thanks for your "welcome". I needed that. Had to say hi to you and tell you how I appreciate your son (sons?) service and his upcoming return to Wis. is much deserved, I'm sure.

Flatlander out.

#39 St P

Khaki? OH NO ! :)

#27 Abu Bin Squid,

Welcome to the Club™.

We promise not to behead you :-)

#27 Abu Bin Squid

/nervously sits down

Oh, hey, you don't have to stand up to type. We're not that formal here.

Welcome aboard :-)

#41 Abu

Aw, thanks. I like you already :)

We should expect at least nothing less from the ROP™

Yemeni prosecutors have called for a newspaper editor to be sentenced to death for showing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad

gulp!

#44 nonic

We're not that formal here.

Now you tell me.

/ takes off girdle and puts on mu-mu

mama winger

Well, two more days until Spring Break. I am wondering if I can stand waiting. Am in the process of getting "slap happy".

48 mama winger
Lol, you are getting slap happy also. :)

#49 St P

Well put on your mu-mu, girl and party on! LOL!

# 47 z

Oh, like you were ever gonna go to Yemen!

They haven't even blocked your site yet!
:-)

They're helpfully giving Europe a example to follow.

A French weekly has re-printed the dastardly cartoons.....

'It is unacceptable that religious groups are setting down the rules for the rights of the press and freedom of expression. It is not up to religious groups to decide what to publish or not – we would be back in 1938 if we accepted this,' Charlie Hebdo editor Philippe Val told Reuters.

Abu Bin Squid

Welcome aboard

Is your nic a reference to Naval service per chance?

And is there a better example of the ancient thinking which permeates this regime than the entire sentence, from which I quoted above:

The English-language newspaper has had its licence to publish suspended, although its staff have continued to produce material online.

"Let them type at their computers; what harm can they do? But we have shut down the presses, so hundreds of copies of their blasphemy will not be printed and passed out in the streets."

As the saying goes, if the web won't come to Mohamed, Mohamed will go to the web. I think that's how it goes.

51 mama winger
Rofl, I am!

abu bin squid:

Have you been drunk to the point of vomiting in Asia or Africa?

I'd say Europe is doing the burka dance pretty well all by itself, Salem.

OK, only 1.2 billion cartoons to go.

/uncouth on

Has any major American paper printed the dreaded cartoons?

I don't think so.

The Yemen Observer Newspaperr has been shut down but they're still up on the web...
Yemen Observer

The lawyers, commissioned by Sheik Abdul-Majid Zindani, the Chairman of Islah Shura Council and led by Mohammed Al-Shawish, also called for the confiscation of all the newspaper’s property and assets, and for financial compensation to be paid to be the Muslim’s ‘Finance House’, which last existed during the time of the Caliphs, 1200 years ago. They recounted a story in which a lady was killed during the Prophet’s lifetime after she insulted him, and that the Prophet then praised the killer.

Ed

Not every Sailor dedicated their life to getting drunk in every port.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.

(But a good many of us did)
:)

#58 Ed of many names

Have you been drunk to the point of vomiting in Asia or Africa?

ED! Where are your manners?

The proper form would be "Hello, I'm Ed. Have you been drunk to the point of vomiting in Asia or Africa?"

Were you raised in a barn? :)

#55 V.I.A.

Sorry, no. Was too stupid to consider service in the early '80s.

The Quran reported to the Police

A broad alliance of grass-roots movements have gone to the prosecutors of several states to hinder the dissemination of the Quran. According to the indictment, the Quran is not just a religious and historic book, but also a political book, which is incompatible with the constiution. The decisive count of the indictment “is in the Quran’s status vis a vis the Federal Republic of Germany’s constitution”. In the appendices to the indictment, 200 points have been listed “where the Quran is against and claims itself above the constitution.” The indictment is against the 200 verses of 114 suras (ED:chapters) of the Quran that are not compatible with the constitution, including demagoguery, incitement to murder, murder and mutilation, war, acceptance of thievery against infidels, meaning all non-Moslems. Verses are also pointed out where the equal rights of men and women are not upheld and where people of different faiths are oppressed.

This has been tried before, in India:

The Calcutta Quran Petition

Koenraad Elst: Banning the Quran?

There is even grimmer reading, however, in dozens of Quran verses that go further than mere doctrinal disputation and actually enjoin the Muslims to go out and fight the ‘infidels.’ The core text of Islam is not merely disrespectful towards other religions, it extols killing and glorifies dying in the war against the non-Muslims. If the text of the Quran should not be clear enough, one must bear in mind that it is a companion volume to Muhammad’s life story as a religious leader and military conqueror. Consequently, if one should have doubts about the meaning of jihad, literally ‘effort’ but in practice ‘war against the infidels,’ one need merely put the verses in their real-life context. Muhammad understood and used the term unambiguously in the sense of ‘war,’ not some ethereal or metaphorical ‘struggle against the evil in ourselves’ but an actual war involving horses, weapons, stratagems and blood. The Quran explicitly teaches hatred, hostility and the use of force against other religions and their adherents. By KifKif’s own standards, it clearly exceeds the “limits of freedom of expression.”

#61 Ringo

The Philadelphia Inquirer printed the turban-bomb Mohammed. I guess that's pretty major(?) 5th or 6th largest city in the country, and the Inquirer is the only game in town.

Welcome Nu Abu! Tough initiation rituals here, as you can see (#58), but you are off to a great start! I think my first post was 3 letters:

ACK!

zombie

gulp!

Hey, Zombie, could you email me? I wanted to talk to you about something. Click on ze name!

#58 Ed of Many Names

No sir. Domestic hurler. Except for those golf trips to Ireland!

Appreciate your service, sir.

#69 Abu Bin Squid

:wanna see me pull a quran verse outta my ass?
:aw Bullwinkle, you can't pull a quran verse outta your ass.
:and why not! mohammed did it didn't he?

/iiappc

/and welcome to use as well

So did Van Gogh. So might other cartoonists. But, not to worry, the gutless Jihadi supporting dhimmified NYT will never have that to fear.

No, they WON'T charge that duplicitous, dissembling and calumniating 'imam'!

Its fine to shout, "Death to America!" but God forbid Muslims should ever THINK about what it means to "Kill an American!"

Domestic hurler

Hehehe, can I use that?

There's also a suit for psychological damages...
Yemenis seek compensation in cartoon row

Yemeni Islamist lawyers filed a suit yesterday demanding compensation for “psychological damages” from three journalists on trial for reprinting cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH).

The 10 lawyers said they suffered after seeing the controversial images, which the journalists say they republished to show Muslims how insulting they were, not to deride the Prophet (PBUH).

“We demand the journalists pay a large compensation for the psychological damages they inflicted upon us when they printed these images that insulted our beloved Prophet,” one of the lawyers said, reading from a document in court.

Suck on this...
(((:~Oالله
...so sue me.

And, lest we forget, "Its in the Koran!"

Share with friends-of-freedom everywhere:
InTheKoran.mp3

...Muslim history when the prophet was insulted by a woman and then praised her killer.

From the Sirat Rasul Allah, by Ibn Ishaq (A. Guillaume's translation "The Life of Muhammad") page 675, 676:

"UMAYR B. ADIYY'S JOURNEY TO KILL ASMA D. MARWAN
"She was of B. Umayyya b. Zayd. When Abu Afak had been killed she displayed disaffection. Abdullah b. al-Harith b. Al-Fudayl from his father said that she was married to a man of B. Khatma called Yazid b. Zayd. Blaming Islam and its followers she said:
"I despise B. Malik and al-Nabit
and Auf and B. al-Khazraj.
You obey a stranger who is none of yours,
One not of Murad or Madhhij. {1}
Do you expect good from him after the killing of your chiefs
Like a hungry man waiting for a cook's broth?
Is there no man of pride who would attack him by :
And cut off the hopes of those who expect aught from him?"
Hassan b. Thabit answered her:
"Banu Wa'il and B. Waqif and Khatma
Are inferior to B. al-Khazrahj.
When she called for folly woe to her in her weeping,
For death is coming.
She stirred up a man of glorious origin,
Noble in his going out and in his coming in.
Before midnight he dyed her in her blood
And incurred no guilt thereby."

When the apostle heard what she had said he said, "Who will rid me of Marwan's daughter?" Umayr b. Adiy al-Khatmi who was with him heard him, and that very night he went to her house and killed her. In the morning he came to the apostle and told him what he had done and he [Muhammad] said, "You have helped God and His apostle, O Umayr!" When he asked if he would have to bear any evil consequences the apostle said, "Two goats won't butt their heads about her", so Umayr went back to his people.

Now there was a great commotion among B. Khatma that day about the affair of bint [girl] Marwan. She had five sons, and when Umayr went to them from the apostle he said, "I have killed bint Marwan, O sons of Khatma. Withstand me if you can; don't keep me waiting." That was the first day Islam became powerful among B. Khatma; before that those who were Muslims concealed the fact. The first of them to accept Islam was Umayr b. Adiy who was called the "Reader", and Abdullah b. Aus and Khuzayma b. Thabit. The day after Bint Marwan was killed the men of B. Khatma became Muslims because they feared for their lives."

{1} The note reads "Two tribes of Yamani origin."

Asma bint Marwan

#4 Ringo-
He denies the charges of offending Islam, under which he is being tried.

Hell, what doesn't offend Islam?

Uh, how about flying airplanes with innocent people onboard into buildings killing thousands of innocent men and women?

Islam is offensive to the rest of us.

But, but, Yemen is an ally of President Bush in the War Against Terror. They arrest Al-Qaeda militants. ...then let them escape...

Surely an Allied Court won't kill a newspaper editor!

What a hilarious thread ( not counting the original theme - did you notice that in the post @ # 76 that the sons of this unfortunate woman became muslims out of FEAR? )

/girdles, mumus, typing while standing ROFL plus remembering my first posts which were timid questions about the mechanics of posting.
I'm still behind the parade when it comes to timely posts.

What are you all talking about now, I wonder?

Welcome, Abu

see? everyone went away!

well then I'm off to the sound thread, too.

Hmmm, blasphemy laws, eh? Well, let's see. Does that mean all Christians can now take anyone on the street to court who they hear shout "G-- damnit!"...? Afterall, it is one of the 10 Commandments to not take the Name of the Lord your G-- in vain. It is blasphemy and goes against the basic 10 tenets of Christianity. And couldn't a Christian argue that hearing someone blaspheme their G-- was just so offensive to them?

I am not being serious here, as I, as a Christian, do not expect others to abide by the rules of my faith. However, if we are going to enforce sharia, how about we start enforcing the rules of Christianity too. No more taking the name of G-- in vain anywhere. Not in movies, not on TV, not the casual person on the street. The punishment, since one of the 10 commandments was broken, is death. How do you like that Dhimmi Media and Dhimmi LLLs?

the prophet was insulted by a woman and then praised her killer

This explains a lot about the behaviour of muslims.
Insult = death sentence.

#83 Van Impe

Or,

women = dirt

Offend Islam, and they want you dead. Protest Bush, who is supposedly taking away civil liberties and nothing happens. (except loosing elections for the dems)

Further to #83

insult a camel = 40 year war

More hadiths about: the prophet of peace ordering to kill his critics

I'm sure he'll get a fair trial.............

Coming soon to a state near you.

#2 thinkingmom

"And yet, we're still hoping for a "reformation" of islam. Just don't look to its founder for any support for that hope."

I heard a blurb on the radio this morning that said a recent poll showed that half of Americans have an unfavorable view of islam. That is up from about 22% in 2002. The word is getting out. People are beginning to see the true islam, and they don't like it. I would imagine that all of the Left falls within the half that does not have an unfavorable view of islam; but if the poll question were to be altered just slightly, and to replace islam with Christianity, the Left would probably unanimously say they have a negative view of Christianity.

All I can point out is that to see the most obvious difference between Islamic and Judao/Christian values, compare Mo's praising of the killer of a woman who INSULTED her to David's reaction to a guy who helped his mortal enemy, King Saul, commit suicide.

Islam is poison, it seems.

#29Jack Reacher 3/8/2006 05:45PM PST

The paper’s website reported that the prosecution lawyers cited precedents from Muslim history when the prophet was insulted by a woman and then praised her killer.

new rotating title?:

"Was Mohammed a Moderate Muslim?"