Protest As 4 Muslims Jailed Over MoToons Demo

The four arrested / The Case for Profiling

Four Muslim men were recently jailed for taking part in the 2006 protest against the Mohammed cartoons at the Danish embassy in London [BBC: Four men jailed over cartoon demo].

Some UK Muslims weren't too happy about the decision:

French Court Rules In Favour Of Charlie Hebdo

Good news on the cartoon-jihad front.

Two Islamic groups tried to sue Charlie Hebdo, a French weekly newspaper, for publishing the dreaded motoons of blasphemy and supposedly "inciting hatred against Muslims". Fortunately, they lost the case.

BBC: [...] A French court has ruled in favour of weekly Charlie Hebdo, rejecting accusations by Islamic groups who said it incited hatred against Muslims.

The cartoons were covered by freedom of expression laws and were not an attack on Islam, but fundamentalists, it said.

The case was seen as an important test for freedom of expression in France.

Applause broke out in the courtroom at the announcement of the verdict, which ruled that the three cartoons published in February 2006 were not insulting to the Muslim community, the AFP news agency reports.

Editor Philippe Val had rejected the allegations, saying the cartoons were not an attack on Muslims, but on terrorists.

He said the ruling was a victory for secular French Muslims.

"This debate was necessary," he said.

The case had been brought by the Grand Mosque of Paris and the Union of French Islamic Organisations. [...]

Cartoon Jihad Continues

Charlie Hebdo, a French weekly newspaper, is being sued by two Islamic groups for publishing the dreaded motoons of blasphemy and hence "inciting hatred against Muslims".

Reuters: Danish cartoon row goes to French court next week

PARIS, (Reuters) - The row over Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad will be replayed in a French court next week when two influential Islamic groups sue a Paris satirical weekly for inciting hatred against Muslims by printing the caricatures. The two Muslim associations aim to show that reprinting the cartoons was a provocation equal to anti-Semitic acts or Holocaust denial that are already banned under French law, Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Paris Grand Mosque, said on Friday. The cartoons, originally published in 2005 in the Danish daily Jyllens-Posten (sic), provoked violent protests in Asia, Africa and the Middle East that left 50 people dead. Several European publications reprinted them as an affirmation of free speech. The weekly Charlie Hebdo, which put out a special edition with the cartoons, argued religions are not beyond criticism and letting Muslims censor the media would curtail a basic right. "Free speech is not the issue here. The issue is that, in France, racism is not an opinion, it is a crime," said Francis Szpiner, lawyer for the Grand Mosque, which has sued along with the Union of French Islamic Organisations (UOIF). "Two of those caricatures make a link between Muslims and Muslim terrorists. That has a name and it's called racism."

Here they go, playing the race card again. (Hint: Islam = not a race)

Also on LGF: The Cartoon Jihad's Legal Front

Update: Sarkozy is with Charlie Hebdo: "I prefer an excess of cartoons than the absence of cartoons".

Jyllands-Posten Wins Motoons Libel Case

Yahoo! News: AARHUS, Denmark (Reuters) - A court ruled on Thursday that a Danish newspaper did not libel Muslims by printing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that unleashed a storm of protests in the Islamic world.

Seven Danish Muslim organisations brought the case, saying the paper had libelled them with the images, which included one depicting the Prophet with a bomb in his turban, by implying Muslims were terrorists.

Jyllands-Posten, which published the 12 drawings in September last year, hailed the ruling, saying any other outcome would have been a catastrophe for a free press.

Wafa Sultan On The Motoons

Wafa Sultan on Danish TV. Enjoy.

"Call us murderers and we'll kill you"

A very good article on Pope Rage and the recurring phenomenon of Islamic Rage (motoons anyone?):

Jihadists don't care about logic

George Jonas, National Post: To counter any suggestion that Islam is a violent religion, Muslims attacked churches in the West Bank, Gaza and Basra this week.
...What did the Pope do? As most readers know, he quoted a remark made by the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaeologus: "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."
..."The infidelity and tyranny of the Pope will only be stopped by a major attack," announced al-Qaeda from its cave on the Afghan-Pakistani border. Al-Qaeda's political arm in New York, a.k.a. the United Nations, took no position, only using the opportunity to condemn Israel for one thing or another.

Why do some Muslims have such an uncanny talent for proving the case of their critics? When accused of violence, they threaten violence. Better still, they engage in it. "Call us unruly and we riot," they say, in essence. "Call us murderers, and we kill you." Don't they see that this makes them a joke?

Well, no, they don't -- and they're right. Saying such things may make someone a joke in a debating society, but Islamofascists fight in a different arena. They don't care about winning the debate; what they want to win is their Kampf, better known these days as Jihad.

Lo and behold, they're winning it. By now the whole world tiptoes around the sensibilities of medieval fanatics. We take pains not to offend ululating fossils who cheer suicide bombers. Or raise them. We prop up rickety regimes whose sole contribution to modern times is to nurture ancient grievances and revive barbaric customs. We worry about the feelings -- feelings! -- of people who stone their loved ones for sexual missteps. We pussyfoot to protect the delicate psyche of oily ogres who amputate the hands of petty thieves, issue fatwas on novelists and cover up their hapless wives and sisters to the eyeballs.

We do this, obviously, not because we're impressed by the logic of the Islamofascist line -- "call us murderers and we'll kill you" -- but because we're intimidated by it. The Jihadists don't care about the quality of their argument. One doesn't have to, if one's aim isn't to persuade, but to coerce. The mullahs of militant Islam aren't worried about proving their critics' case. So some pundits think we're proving Benedict XVI or Manuel II right, imams Choudary and Malin might say. Big deal. Logic may be essential for pundits. It isn't essential for our followers who are willing to blow themselves up to get their way.

More here.

Football Is Against Islam

"O people of Britain, we invite to Islam, to accept it as the truth and to worship and obey Allah exclusively and not associate partners with Him. If you accept, then Allah promises you contentment in this life and Paradise in the Hereafter. If you decline, Allah promises you misery in this life, and severe punishment in the Hereafter. The decision is yours O people of Britain."

This comes from the Saved Sect website, an extremist Muslim organisation which calls for the establishment of an Islamic State in Britain. This is the same organisation that proclaims on its website that "football is a new religion", is unislamic and calls Muslims in England to throw away their St. George flags!

We call upon all Muslims to take heed from this message and to remove any flags they may posses however big or small and to advise others to do the same, be they neighbours, family, relatives or friends.

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The fact of the matter is that the English flag is not just a symbol of support for a football team; rather it contains the Christian cross and carries a history of brutality towards the Muslims.

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Furthermore, the Messenger of Allah (SAW) said: “Whoever imitates a people is one of them.” Imitating the Kuffaar in their deen is an act of kufr and this is what holding up, waving or displaying the Christian cross (i.e. the St George flag) amounts to.

The following is today's Jihad Watch post on the Saved Sect football article.

Jihadist site: Soccer is against Islam, from Jihad Watch:

A British jihadists website has warned Muslims against being drawn in to what they described as "the new religion of soccer."

The Saved Sect website, which calls on Muslims to work to establish an Islamic state in Britain, has attacked "football fever," saying that soccer has "captivated the masses, dedicating their time and effort towards it."
Comparing the allegiance of soccer fans to Islam and jihad, the organization said: "Football is the deen (religion) by which people live their lives by and are willing to die for. Their jihad is to fight against those who are arch rivals against their team. Their da'wah (call, invitation) is to publicize, defend and justify their team, inviting others to support them in this."...

Claiming that soccer plants the seeds of nationalism, and is therefore part of a "colonial crusader scheme" to divide Muslims and cause them to stray from the vision of a unified Islamic identity, the website told readers: "The sad fact of the matter is that many Muslims have fallen for this new religion and they too carry the national flag.
The statement, aimed at calling on British Muslims to disassociate themselves with the World Cup in Germany, ended with a quote by Islam's prophet, Muhammad, condemning nationalism.

The quote is the following:

The Messenger Muhammad (SAW) severely condemned nationalism and those who call for it when he said: "He is not from us who calls for nationalism, fights for nationalism and dies for nationalism." [Sunan Abee Daawud]

The Saved Sect on the MoToons protests:

The demonstration that took place shortly after the publication of the Danish cartoons in London was peaceful and trouble free – so we all thought until the media 'lying' machine whipped the masses into a frenzy claiming that al-Qaeda had taken to the streets of London. The public were being told that death threats and murder were being incited by Muslims in the UK because "they refuse to accept our freedom of speech". The ignorance of the general masses with regards to the sensitivity of such an issue concerning Muslims was played upon and used to further the already savage media crusade, forcing the government to make a stance and show their condemnation in line with the falsely generated public opinion. The natural consequences of which were that action was to be taken.

British media decision not to reprint Muhammad cartoons a "disastrous miscalculation"

Dhimmi Watch brought my attention to a FT article in which the author, John Lloyd, critises the lack of courage (read: utter dhimmitude) of the British media in relation to the (non) publication of the MoToons of Controversy in the UK. Some excerpts:

Liberals have lost some important battles in the struggle to preserve democratic standards in the face of extremism. One was lost here in Britain, and by my profession, namely the decision by all British newspapers not to reprint the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten.

The papers' decision was encouraged by the Labour government and accompanied by a good deal of sage self-congratulation that wisdom had prevailed.

The fact that journalism's central task is to relate or show to people what is happening was put to one side, even though in this case what was happening was, inter alia, murders, burnings, riots and boycotts. Now that the smoke has literally cleared, we can see more clearly what that decision was: a disastrous miscalculation.

The fourth estate acted on the possibility rather than the actuality of a threat, putting it in the same league as the management of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, which took off the play Behzti after it was attacked by militant Sikhs, and, more recently, the organisers of last month's London exhibition of the paintings of Maqbool Fida Husain.

Husain was targeted by Hindu militants because he painted nude gods and goddesses, which happens to be common in Hindu art and sculpture. But militants in any faith community are driven by competitive pressures as much as the keenest business leader. If the Muslims win a trick, why shouldn't the Sikhs? And the Hindus? The only faith that hasn't generally won these kind of contests is that of the Christians, who last month had to put up with seeing Madonna perform while hanging from a cross....

"Without fear or favour" has been a motto of the press. But in the case of the cartoons, it showed fear, and did itself and the communities to which the pro-ban militants claim allegiance no favours. Fundamentalist, violent Islam has, of course, a world- conquering ideology that no other religion now possesses.

A crucial debate is going on within Islam. While the keenest and most violent spirits of this war seek to win the fight by exporting it to the lands of the Crusaders and the Jews, their non-violent co-religionists are engaged in a struggle of opinions that must now involve us all. This debate is going on in the only place it can - in western Europe, where there are many diverse Muslim communities, and where the traditions and freedoms necessary for open argument exist.

In this context, acceptance of limits on debate serve Muslim communities ill. The defeat of the proposed law on incitement to religious hatred was a victory for free speech, but also for Muslims. When powerful figures in religious-ethnic communities seek to preserve their authoritarian status and confine argument, their first targets are their dissenting co-religionists....

Politiken Publishes MoToons

Via Snaphanen

Politiken, a major Danish newspaper, publishes the 12 dreaded motoons. Furthermore, Harper's published a new motoon.

Canada's Largest Retail Bookseller Pulls Harper's Off The Shelves

I blogged a bit more than a week ago about Harper's publishing the dreaded MoToons in its June issue. Now Indigo, Canada's largest bookseller, has removed all copies of Harper's from its stores.

Indigo pulls controversial Harper's off the shelves

J. Adams | Globe and Mail Update | 27/05/06
Canada's largest retail bookseller has removed all copies of the June issue of Harper's Magazine from its 260 stores, claiming an article by New York cartoonist Art Spiegelman could foment protests similar to those that occurred this year in reaction to the publication in a Danish newspaper of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.
Indigo Books and Music took the action this week when its executives noticed that the 10-page Harper's article, titled Drawing Blood, reproduced all 12 cartoons first published last September by Jyllands-Posten (The Morning Newspaper).
[...] In a memo obtained by The Globe and Mail that was e-mailed to Indigo managers yesterday about “what to do if customers question Indigo's censorship” of Harper's, employees are told to say that “the decision was made based on the fact that the content about to be published has been known to ignite demonstrations around the world. Indigo [and its subsidiaries] Chapters and Coles will not carry this particular issue of the magazine but will continue to carry other issues of this publication in the future.”

Freaking dhimmis.

UK Charges Two Over Cartoon Protest

Via LGF: Finally, a mere three months later, British authorities have charged two Muslims over the London motoons protests:

The former UK head of radical Islamic group al-Muhajiroun has been charged over the Muslim cartoon protests in London in February, said Scotland Yard.
Anjem Choudary, 39, of Ilford, Essex, was charged with organising the protest without notifying the police.
A second man, Abdul Muhid, 18 (or 23 according to the BBC), of East London, was charged with two counts of soliciting to murder.

Cartoon Jihad Still On!

LGF reports today that the web site of Ansar al-Sunna has posted a hit list of German newspapers that printed the JP MoToons.

The lastest on the Cartoon War

Comedy Central: officially dhimmis.
UPDATE: Check out proposed new logos for Comedy Central at Michelle Malkin.

From Plus Ultra: Comedy Central censored the image of Mohammed out of this week's episode of South Park. Visit Plus Ultra for all the screenshots.
On the other hand, from Nordish hopeful signs of anti-dhimmitude:

An Estonian newspaper publishes the MoToons. Same for The Free Enquirer, which publishes the Mo Bomb-Head Toon with... a can of peas on his head :)! (Peas be upon him)

South Park on the Cartoon Jihad

Via Michelle Malkin and The Political Pitbull:

South Park has aired an episode about the MoToons Jihad and the defense of Free Speech. Download the video here. The anti-dhimmi guy's take:

Freedom of speech is at stake here, don't you all see? If anything, we should all make cartoons of Mohammed and show the terrorists and the extremists that we are all united in the belief that every person has a right to say what they want. Look people, it's been really easy for us to stand up for free speech lately. For the past few decades, we haven't had to risk anything to defend it. One of those times is right now. And if we aren't willing to risk what we have now, then we just believe in free speech, but won't defend it.

Batwa on Enemy of Free Speech!

Via Islamophobic:

The man pictured (right and below) apparently complained to the police about ""offense" caused by an Iranian communist who had a placard with the Mohammed cartoons (see top left picture), at last weeks March For Free Expression rally in London."

Has anyone seen this enemy of Free Speech?

According to Nordish: [...] He said he felt "threatened" by the banner as it was "inciting religious hatred".

I'm reposting the video of the MoToons protests below.
What kind of society lets the hate-filled people you can see in the video go free yet summons a guy for holding a placard with cartoons??!!