Euro Appeasement

[gilliam]

… when one of their smallest members came under attack for … defending the values and norms the EU is based on, there was nothing but silence from Europe’s capitals. That silence has been heard and understood in the Muslim world.This is from today’s Opinion Journal and on the face of it appears to be an accurate assessment. …

Read the whole thing…
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[contemplative]

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Islam: The Score

 

[MikeWM]

They are entitled, under free speech, to print such cartoons. It doesn’t mean we have to agree that it is a good idea to do so.

‘To believe strongly in the right to publish is not a moral imperative to publish’ to quote today’s editorial in the Observer

Mike

 

[Matt25]

asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=5301

The European Union condemned the attacks in Damascus, as well as at its offices in the Palestinian territories, as “utterly unacceptable”
dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1892837,00.html

“We view this development with the greatest concern,” German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told policymakers at a high-level security conference in Munich. “We do not yet have a war of cultures, but we are further apart from the dialogue that we hoped for.” However Steinmeier said there was never an excuse for violence.
“We can imagine that Muslims feel hurt and offended by the cartoons, but in no way does this justify calls for violence or attacks on European institutions or citizens.” Freedom of the press and speech is an “immovable” condition for democracy, Steinmeier said, but he warned that it must be used sensitively when it concerned other cultures and religions.

“Those who enjoy the right of free speech and freedom must exercise that right carefully.”

agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200602031931-1214-RT1-CRO-0-NF82&page=0&id=agionline-eng.italyonline

Rome, Feb. 3 - Gianfranco Fini stresses the “extremely fine line” that separates satire from the risk of offering a pretext to extremist Islamic groups to re-launch the “crazy possibility of a holy war against the West”. The vice premier and foreign minister spoke on the subject of the vignettes on Islam, and said “only personal sensitivity allows for the identification of the line, extremely fine, that separates satire, which is by its very nature scathing, from vulgar blasphemy that is insulting to all believers”. According to Fini, this is the reason why, on one hand, it is right to publish vignettes as a sign of challenge to Islamic fanaticism and as an affirmation of the freedom of press, and on the other it is necessary to reflect on the fact that we are offering a pretext for the most radical Islamic groups to mass against unbelievers and to re-launch a holy war against the West".

observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,1702538,00.html

Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, strongly condemned the re-publication of the cartoons, as did the American State Department.

'These cartoons are indeed offensive to the belief of Muslims,’ State Department spokesman Kurtis Cooper said. 'We all fully recognise and respect freedom of the press and expression, but it must be coupled with press responsibility. Inciting religious or ethnic hatreds in this manner is not acceptable.'

 

[Joe_Kelley]

i notice that no one has informed the Moslems that their protests only draw more attention to the cartoons and provide the paper and cartoonists with free publicity.

 

[Matt25]

Joe Kelley:

i notice that no one has informed the Moslems that their protests only draw more attention to the cartoons and provide the paper and cartoonists with free publicity.

When you say “the Muslims” do you mean that all the worlds Muslims, over a billion, have protested against these cartoons? Or do you mean the small minority of the worlds Muslims who have protested? Or do you mean the tiny tiny minority of Muslims who have behaved in unlawful and reprehensible way’s? Or do you just dislike Muslims anyway whatever the facts?

 

[manualman]

In fairness, I clearly saw TV footage last night of obvious muslims clerics standing in front of some of the violence scenes trying desperately to push the people back and disperse the crowd.

Credit given for credit due!