A comparison...life & death vs. cartoons.

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Life and death:


Tuesday, 7 February 2006, 08:38 GMT

Four people have been killed and 20 injured in twin bombings in a crowded market in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
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Thursday, 2 February 2006, 19:35 GMT

At least 10 people have been killed and 52 injured in two car bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
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Wednesday, 1 February 2006, 16:41 GMT

At least eight Iraqis have been killed and more than 30 injured by a suicide bombing in Baghdad, police say.
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Sunday, 29 January 2006, 06:19 GMT

At least 10 people have been killed in a bomb attack south of Baghdad, Iraqi police say.
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Monday, 23 January 2006, 17:44 GMT

At least three people have been killed and six wounded a suicide car bomb attack close to the Iranian embassy in Baghdad, officials have said.
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Thursday, 19 January 2006, 17:24 GMT

At least 15 people have been killed and 26 wounded in two near-simultaneous bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, Iraqi police say.
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Wednesday, 18 January 2006, 18:06 GMT

At least 10 Iraqis have been killed and an African engineer kidnapped in an ambush in the west of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official says.
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Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 23:46 GMT

Gunmen dressed as Iraqi police have shot dead seven men who were apparently working for a catering firm supplying security forces in Baghdad.
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Wednesday, 4 January 2006, 19:09 GMT

At least 36 people were killed in a suicide bombing at a Shia funeral north of Baghdad. Across Iraq, more than 50 people died.
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Wednesday, 4 January 2006, 10:14 GMT

At least three people were killed and 13 wounded when a car bomb exploded outside a police station in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, officials said.
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Monday, 2 January 2006, 13:27 GMT

A suicide car bomber has killed at least seven people in an attack on a bus of police recruits north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
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  • No widespread protests.



A few cartoons.

A Danish newspaper publishes some highly controversial cartoons of Allah followed by a number of European newspapers.
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  • Jordanian lawmakers demand that the government cancel economic and cultural agreements with Denmark, Norway, New Zealand and other nations where the caricatures were published.
  • Palestinian supermarkets remove Danish products from the shelves in the West Bank.
  • Riot police in New Delhi fire tear gas and water cannons to disperse hundreds of demonstrating university students, who chanted slogans and burned a Danish flag.
  • About 30 Muslim newspaper delivery employees strike in southern Austria after the country's second-largest daily printed the caricatures.
  • Turkey's Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul says media freedoms cannot be limitless and that hostility against Muslims is replacing anti-Semitism in the West.
  • More than 4,000 protesters displaying an effigy of a Danish journalist rally in the southern Iraqi city of Kut demanding the severing of all ties with countries where the caricatures were published and the withdrawal of the Danish contingent.
  • Supermarkets in Baghdad boycott Danish products.
  • Thousands of rampaging Muslim demonstrators set fire to the Danish diplomatic mission in Beirut and Damascus.
  • Iranian protesters hurl stones and firebombs at the Danish Embassy in Tehran.
  • Iranian protesters burn Danish and French flags, throw stones at the Austrian Embassy, breaking windows and starting small fires in Tehran.
  • Afghan police fire on some 2,000 protesters as they tried to break into Bagram airbase.
  • Indonesian Muslims protest against Denmark, shout in front of the building housing the Danish Embassy in Jakarta and burn flags.
  • Palestinians chant Islamic slogans as they burn a Danish flags.
  • Pakistani Islamists burn the Danish & French flags.
  • Turks chant slogans against Denmark, burn an effigy of Danish PM Rasmussen, during demonstrations in Istanbul and protesters shout slogans as they burn a Danish flag in front of the French consulate in Istanbul.
  • Supporters of Algerian Islamic Party Movement for Peace and Society (MSP) burn Danish flags during a rally in Algiers.
  • Jordanians shout slogans during a sit-in front of the Danish consulate in Amman.
  • Kashmiri Shia Muslims shout slogans in Srinagar.
  • Thousands of Muslims scuffle with policemen during a protest in New Delhi.
  • Thai Muslim protesters demonstrate outside the Danish embassy in Bangkok.
  • Iran cuts all trade ties with Denmark.
  • Denmark lists 14 countries it says Danes should not visit unless strictly necessary, amid Muslim outrage over the cartoons.
  • etc.

life & death vs. cartoons....
 
Darat said:
And your point is?
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That is for each JREFer to decide for themselves. My take on it is cartoons of Allah are more important than the wholesale slaughter of muslims in Iraq. And it's not apples and oranges.
 
a_unique_person said:
Treating 'blasphemy' that seriously, you mean.
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Is cold-blooded murder not 'blasphemy' too in Islam?


"And slay not the soul which God has forbidden except for the just cause..." (Koran 17:33)

If anyone killed a person not in retaliation for murder or to spread mischief in the land, it would be as if he killed the whole of mankind. (Surah Al-Maaida 5:32)
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a_unique_person said:
The Iraqi 'resistance' is seen by many as resistance to American imperialism. YMMV.
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Every link I provided above it was muslim on muslim violence. And that is only 5 weeks in 2006. Resisting American imperialism by blowing up muslims...interesting.
 
a_unique_person said:
The Iraqi 'resistance' is seen by many as resistance to American imperialism. YMMV.
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Well, I might have been sympathetic to their 'resistance' to 'American imperialism' if they had a problem with 'imperialism' itself.

Which is not the case with Muslims; to wit, it is completely OK to conquer land and peoples for Allah. This is not called 'imperialism' and is considered perfectly acceptible under Islam.

Now, any foreign power that takes land from Muslims IS considered 'imperialism' and is a grave sin to Allah. Allah hates all unbelievers who take land from Muslims; under Islam, NO land, once conquered for Allah, can EVER be finally renounced.

Which is why Israel will have problems with it's neighbors for the forseeable future...
 
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DavidJames said:
apparently it's to create as many threads as possible on the same general topic.
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Well lets explore that. I have made 3 threads that reference the cartoon jihad. Ryokan has made 4. Therefore I failed to make "as many threads as possible on the same general topic" at JREF.

But I appreciate the hint. No more topics about the Cartoon Jihad.
 
bignickel said:
Now, any foreign power that takes land from Muslims IS considered 'imperialism' and is a grave sin to Allah. Allah hates all unbelievers who take land from Muslims; under Islam, NO land, once conquered for Allah, can EVER be finally renounced.
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They have designs on most of Spain, Greece, and the Balkans?
 
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