Another protest, this time Sydney Australia

[Dan O.]

One would naturally assume that behead was related to behind just as headquarters is related to hindquarters.

 

[WildCat]

I love this quote from the article:

Breaking her silence almost a week after she created a national stir, the 28-year-old university educated woman claimed she did not know what the word "behead" meant.
She insisted her eldest child picked up the poster from the ground and waved it above his head, so she took a photograph of him, not comprehending the sinister message portrayed on the sign.
"I did not know what beheading was," she said.

So she let her kid pick a poster up from the ground and wave it around when she didn't even know what it meant? Then she takes a picture of him doing that? And, being university educated, she can speak English well enough to insist she's "a good mum," but she doesn't know what "behead" means? Puh-lease!

I can buy that excuse, it's not the kind of word you encounter every day and she's only been in the country for 2 years and seems genuinely remorseful.


Meanwhile, the Department of State has warned Americans to stay away from the demonstrations, where they will presumably be at risk of getting beheaded (): http://m.smh.com.au/national/us-warning-for-citizens-20120920-268w1.html

 

[MG1962]

I can buy that excuse, it's not the kind of word you encounter every day and she's only been in the country for 2 years and seems genuinely remorseful.


Meanwhile, the Department of State has warned Americans to stay away from the demonstrations, where they will presumably be at risk of getting beheaded (): http://m.smh.com.au/national/us-warning-for-citizens-20120920-268w1.html

And why don't they these bloody protests to Canberra, like where the actual embassy is - Oh wait that would take effort.

 

[TimCallahan]

I can buy that excuse, it's not the kind of word you encounter every day and she's only been in the country for 2 years and seems genuinely remorseful.


Meanwhile, the Department of State has warned Americans to stay away from the demonstrations, where they will presumably be at risk of getting beheaded (): http://m.smh.com.au/national/us-warning-for-citizens-20120920-268w1.html

So, what did she think it meant? Be nice to people who insult the Prophet? And if she didn't know what something meant, why did she let her kid pick up the poster and display it. Why did she even photograph him displaying it? For all she knew it could have meant something obscene or "behead" might have been something positive, like "bless." Would she have let her kid display a sign saying "Bless all those who insult the Prophet"?