Oxymoronic quote of the day

"It's an uncivilized act. It's heinous." -- Hanifah Maidin, youth spokesman for the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, on that Danish newspaper's decision to publish caricatures of Mohammed.

Meanwhile,

• In Indonesia, 150 Muslim demonstrators "hurled eggs at the Danish Embassy," and then stormed the place;
• thousands of Iraqis protested in the streets after prayers, burning Danish flags;
• Saudi Arabia recalled its Danish ambassador;
• Calls for boycotts of Danish goods and bomb threats against Danish interests have multiplied across the Muslim world;
• 800 Pakistanis demonstrated in Islamabad, chanting "Death to Denmark" and "Death to France" (a French newspaper had reprinted some of the cartoons);
• Palestinian militants threw a bomb at a French cultural center in Gaza City and protesters in Ramallah chanted "Bin Laden our beloved, Denmark must be blown up;"
• An imam at the Omari Mosque in Gaza City told 9,000 worshippers that those behind the drawings should have their heads cut off.

But it's the cartoon that's "uncivilzed" and "heinous." Yep.

Elsewhere: Check out these "lovely" anti-Jewish/anti-Israel cartoons from "Radio Islam."

Michelle Malkin notes a "bin Laden-as-Christ" painting. (Hey -- where are all those Christians fundies threatening death, murder, mayhem and decapitation?) In addition, she has a photo spread of various Muslim fundie nutjobs screaming, yelling and carrying on about the friggin' Mohammed cartoons.

The Philly Inquirer: "It has a lot to do with the difference in belief about freedom," said Mahmoud Mustafa Ayoub, a professor of Islamic studies at Temple University and a native of Lebanon. "The essential difference is how freedom is understood. I believe that my freedom ends where the dignity and respect for all the prophets begins."

How about that definition of "freedom"? Sounds great -- circa 1200 A.D.

Posted by Hube at February 3, 2006 07:30 PM | TrackBack