Arab governments incited mobs to violence

Most of the opining about the Danish cartoons has been about free speech and how the Muslim mobs shouldn’t have gone on a rampage. But as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice noted Wednesday, some Arab governments and Islamic leaders deserve blame for inciting the violence. “I don’t have any doubt. . . . Iran and Syria have gone out of their way to inflame sentiment and to use this to their own purposes, and the world ought to call them on it,” Rice told reporters.
Also, some of the images that were used to incite the mobs were phony, such as a photo taken from a pig-squealing contest that was purported to be mocking Islam. The New York Times also has an interesting article on how and why the protests slowly built up momentum.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee

12 Comments

  1. CF
    Posted February 9, 2006 at 2:14 pm | Permalink

    Condi-lies neglected to mention the government that started the whole thing by pushing the story: Saudi Arabia.

    But I’m sure that was just an oversight on her part. An honest mistake, you understand.

    http://www.weblog.ro/soj/2006-02-05/Muslim+Cartoon+Controversy%3A+What+the+Media+Isn%27t+Telling+You.html#66675

  2. Jed
    Posted February 9, 2006 at 2:24 pm | Permalink

    Sounds to me like the Saudi government is taking lessons in distraction from their good friend Bushllit!

  3. Nathan
    Posted February 9, 2006 at 2:51 pm | Permalink

    Was there any link to the Saudi newspapers that showed what this blogger says about them fanning the flames?

    Just wondering, I did not see any.

  4. Ian Santiago
    Posted February 9, 2006 at 5:41 pm | Permalink

    Congo-Leeza should shut her lying mouth because she is no longer credible.

    Viva La Raza Blanco!!

  5. Jed
    Posted February 9, 2006 at 5:49 pm | Permalink

    Nathan,Here’s one for you, you poor Google-deprived person: http://www.arabnews.com/

  6. Joe Williams
    Posted February 9, 2006 at 9:01 pm | Permalink

    Rice has gonads. :) I like it! Tell it as it is!

    Rice in 08′

  7. Ian Santiago
    Posted February 9, 2006 at 9:06 pm | Permalink

    Yes I agree, Uncle Ben’s in 2008!

    Viva la Holohoax!!

  8. kansassam
    Posted February 10, 2006 at 6:15 am | Permalink

    According to this story, the cartoons were published in a Muslim newspaper 4 months ago… no riots!

    http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48746

  9. CrusaderX
    Posted February 10, 2006 at 3:31 pm | Permalink

    Philip,So the Muslim big-wigs hate the West just like the average run-of-the-mill Muslim? Big surprise there.

  10. Sum1
    Posted February 11, 2006 at 8:03 am | Permalink

    Everyone keeps asking how the Muslims can be so upset about a cartoon.

    I can see how a situation like this could easily develop in the US.

    Remember when the religious rights’ handlers got them all excited that they bore down on the home Terry Schiavo was in?

    Then think of the uproar over a tv show recently.

    You would think the christians who didn’t like their faith being portrayed in a tv show would be able to empathize with the Muslims who feel they are being ridiculed.

  11. R Lewis
    Posted February 11, 2006 at 4:02 pm | Permalink

    Boy I hope no one draws cartoons of the Jehovah Witnesses….There will be mllions at your door and some of those are pedophileshttp://www.silentlambs.org

  12. Ahmad
    Posted February 12, 2006 at 4:09 am | Permalink

    Boy I hope no one draws cartoons of the atheists….There will be mllions at your door and some of those are pedophiles