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Libel against Holy Prophet Muhammed appears at U of W
SEATTLE, Feb. 5 (al-masakin)--libelous caricature insulting the Holy Prophet Muhammad, salah lahu alhi wasallam, God's final messenger, have appeared on the University of Washington campus in Seattle.
The leaflet being anonymously distributed on campus declares "Free Speech" at the top followed by a graphic insult to Islam and rasulallah followed by a quote from Wendell Philips which declares, inter alia, that "no religion has the right to tell another what to say...what images to display or what images not to display."
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Protests against cartoons continue across region
Compiled by Daily Star staff
Syria stepped up security at Western embassies on Sunday after being criticized for failing to protect the Danish and Norwegian embassies from attacks. Crowds protesting against the publication by newspapers in Denmark and Norway of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad set fire to their embassies in Damascus on Saturday. The demonstrators also damaged the Swedish Embassy and tried to storm the French mission but were held off by riot police. No one was hurt in the violence.
"More protection has been placed on diplomatic missions. Syria is committed to international conventions regarding the protection of foreign embassies," the Syrian Foreign Ministry said.
"The Foreign Ministry expresses its regret regarding the violent acts which accompanied the protests and caused material damage at some embassies," it said in a statement.
Western countries said the responsibility lies with the Syrian government. The French ambassador toured the site of the two burned embassies on Sunday and the United States blamed Syria for not protecting the complexes.
"The United States condemns in the strongest terms the burning of the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus, Syria ... which also damaged the Chilean and Swedish embassies," White House spokes-man Scott McClellan said.
"The government of Syria's failure to provide protection to diplomatic premises, in the face of warnings that violence was planned, is inexcusable," he said.
The world's leading Islamic body condemned the burning of the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus.
"Overreactions surpassing the limits of peaceful democratic acts ... are dangerous and detrimental to the efforts to defend the legitimate case of the Muslim world," the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) said in a statement.
OIC Secretary General Ekmaleddine Ihsanoglu "expresses his disapproval over these regrettable and deplorable incidents," the body said.
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said there was no justification for the violence. "We stand in solidarity with the Danish government in its call for calm and its demand that all its diplomats and diplomatic premises are properly protected. It's incumbent on the Syrian authorities to act in this regard."
Fearing for their safety, scores of Danish and Norwegian citizens left Damascus by plane on Sunday. They were driven to the airport in buses and escorted by Syrian police. Both Denmark and Norway have urged their nationals to leave Syria.
"I am horrified to see the way violence and attacks are spreading throughout the Middle East," Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller told reporters.
"The actions in Lebanon and Syria yesterday are beyond comprehension and totally unacceptable," he said
The demonstrations in Damascus began peacefully with protesters gathering outside the building housing the Danish Embassy. But they began throwing stones and eventually broke through police barricades. Some scrambled up concrete barriers protecting the embassy, climbed into the building and set a fire.
"With our blood and souls we defend you, O Prophet of God!" the demonstrators chanted. Some replaced Danish flag with a green flag printed with the words: "There is no god but God and Mohammad is the messenger of God."
Demonstrators moved onto the Norwegian Embassy, about 6 kilometers away, also setting fire to it before being dispersed by police using tear gas and water cannons.
Hundreds of Syrian police and troops barricaded the road leading to the French Embassy, but protesters were able to break through briefly before fleeing from the force of water cannons.
Syria's grand Mufti Badreddine Hassoun, told the government newspaper Al-Thawra that the attackers did their country harm.
"We feel sorrow that these people who were driven by passion reached the stage where they have undermined our dialogue with the Norwegian and Danes," he said.
Protests against the cartoons continued across the region.
Iraq's Transport Ministry said it will freeze contracts with Denmark and Norway and announced it "will not accept any reconstruction money" from either countries.
A spokesman on behalf of Transport Minister Salam al-Malaki said he did not know the value of contracts between Iraq and Norway and Denmark, which has more than 500 troops in Iraq.
Earlier on Sunday, militant groups called for attacks on Danish troops in Iraq and people from all countries where cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad have been published.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered his commerce minister to study canceling all trade contracts with European countries whose newspapers have published the caricatures, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported. - Agencies
05-02-2006
VATICAN CITY, Zenit: The Holy See condemned the publication of caricatures of Mohammed in the Western press, as well as the violent reaction of the Muslim world.
Today in Damascus, Syrian, Muslim demonstrators torched the Norwegian Embassy and the building housing the Danish Embassy. This follows the publication in a Danish newspaper of what the protesters deemed to be 12 blasphemous cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed.
Thousands of angry Muslims protested in other cities, including Islamabad, Pakistan; Baghdad, Iraq; Khartoum, Sudan; Jakarta, Indonesia; and the Palestinian territories.
In an unsigned statement released by the Vatican press office Saturday, the Holy See stated: "The freedom of thought and expression, confirmed in the Declaration of Human Rights, can not include the right to offend religious feelings of the faithful. That principle obviously applies to any religion."
"This principle applies obviously to any religion," the Vatican said in response to several requests for the Church's position.
Provocation
Coexistence, the statement continued, calls for "a climate of mutual respect to favor peace among men and nations."
The statement continued: "Moreover, these forms of exasperated criticism or derision of others manifest a lack of human sensitivity and may constitute in some cases an inadmissible provocation.
"A reading of history shows that wounds that exist in the life of peoples are not cured this way."
The Vatican clarified that the government cannot be held responsible for the actions of the press in its country, but the "authorities might and should intervene eventually according to the principles of national legislation."
The statement also acknowledges that "violent actions of protest are equally deplorable."
"Reaction in the face of offense cannot fail the true spirit of all religion," the Vatican said. "Real or verbal intolerance, no matter where it comes from, as action or reaction, is always a serious threat to peace."
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Mr. President of U of W Muslim Students Association:
Leaflets depicting the graphic insult to Islam created by a well known
Danish "journalist" have surfaced on the University of Washington
campus on the bulletin board on the north side of the Suzzallo and
Allen libraries. I was wondering if you are aware of this? What your
student group intends to do about it, if anything?
Cf. coverage of this event on Indybay:
http://indybay.org/news/2006/02/1800319.php
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If a religion causes you to act like this, your religion is a farse and your god is a coward!
Lemme guess
All the idiots who fall for this line have one just a very few: the zionist "only Jews matter" god, or the Christian "I'm a drooling moron" god, or...
Civilized woman