Eagle editorial cartoonist Richard Crowson has a column on today’s opinion pages about the uproar over the Danish cartoons depicting Muhammad and the power of graphic images. He writes: “I should be elated. I should be doing cartwheels up and down the hallways of The Wichita Eagle. After years of scribbling in relative obscurity, hacking off a state representative here, a school board member there, I have just received news that I have the power to cause international incidents.” Instead, Crowson says, he is saddened by the deep fissure between the Muslim world and the Western democracies, and the lack of support for press freedom.
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When this started I read a couple of well known bloggers who noted how odd it was that these WACKO’s all over the world protesting just happened to have Danish flags handy to burn. Seems that they werent the only ones.
Most of the MSM took the bait but a few folks have figured it out.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113921315124065893-zbYtnrL_2B4o6J3IpzpBxPlKntA_20060215.html?mod=blogs
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-2_7_06_TL.html
http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20060207-091645-1684r.htm
The real story here is not what everyone seems to think it is.
These European hypocrites should close their mouths about free speech until they stop jailing those who question the “holohoax”!
EUROPEAN MEDIA PROVOKES MUSLIMS TO INFLAME ZIONIST “CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS”Christopher BollynAmerican Free Press
“Under the guise of free speech, a leading Danish newspaper published a dozen provocative anti-Islamic cartoons clearly designed to offend Muslims. The predictable result has greatly increased the possibility of violence and left Denmark in a costly and dangerous predicament.
Four months after Jyllands-Posten (JP), Denmark’s most widely read morning paper, published 12 anti-Islamic cartoons, Danes woke up to the fact that there is a very high price to be paid for promoting the “clash of civilizations.”
The fact that the editors behind the anti-Islamic images claim to be exercising free speech while refusing to address Europe’s strict censorship laws regarding discussion of the Holocaust and the ongoing imprisonment of historical revisionists reveals the existence of a more sinister agenda behind the provocative cartoons.
“Agents of certain persuasion” are behind the egregious affront to Islam in order to provoke Muslims, Professor Mikael Rothstein of the University of Copenhagen told the BBC. The key “agent” is Flemming Rose, the cultural editor of JP, who commissioned cartoonists to produce the blasphemous images and then published them in Denmark’s leading morning paper last September.
The International Herald Tribune, which reported on the offensive cartoons on January 1, noted that even the liberalism of Rose had its limits when it came to criticism of Zionist leaders and their crimes. Rose also has clear ties to the Zionist Neo-Cons behind the “war on terror.”
Rose told the international paper owned by The New York Times that “he would not publish a cartoon of Israel’s Ariel Sharon strangling a Palestinian baby, since that could be construed as ‘racist.’”…
Viva La Raza Blanco!!
The link for that story is here, sorry.
http://www.mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=508448
I guess everybody needs somebody to blame for their problems.
I think the bottom line to this is: Assuming Clerics started the brewhaha over the cartoons, the fact that the Muslim population is going to the extremes by burning Danish embassies, threatening the editor of the paper, and in essence freaking out, shows the world what a regime under Muslim rule would look like.
I, for one, wouldn’t want to live in an environment such as that. Say the wrong thing, and opps, another head goes flying. Big deal. Done it in the name of Allah. Right neighborly of em. Pass the prayer mat.
Prepare for a lot of illegal immigration from Europe as EURABIA takes shape.
The Europeans have messed around appeasing these people and in a few years they’re going to end up with civil strife the likes of which have not been seen since the dark ages. And they’ll be begging us to come save their asses.
Crusade,anyone?
The lies of democracy and multiracialism are being made plain. A great cleansing is soon coming and in the near future there will not be a jew, negro or muslim left in Holy Europe!
Viva La Raza Blanco!!
Yes Ian, let’s scapegoat the Jews for Arab’s atrocious actions of burning embassies and killing people. Then we can blame the Americans for Hitler’s extermination of 6 million Jews.
CruX,
There was no holocau$t, it is a hoax! Also, it is the jews who rewrote the immigration laws that allowed muslims and other third worlders into White Nations. It was also the jews who wrote hate crimes and hate speech laws that have seen White jailed and persucted for even questioning those evil, dstructive immigration policies!
V.L.R.B!!
What Crowson, the Eagle and other MSM pukes don’t get is that they have a huge burden of responsibility. Hiding behind their God-given constitutional right of ‘free press’, they have taken upon themselves to spin, slant, agitate, plagiarize, and even lie. Who holds the MSM accountable? With pending mergers that build MSM empires even bigger, the problem will get worse. In the old days, the media was the truth. That has changed. Today, it is up to the public to discern the truth by reading, researching, filtering, and supporting the few outlets that do tell the truth. Does that take time from your already busy schedules? Yep! But, once you find and act on the truth, you will spend less time and money dealing with the outcomes based on truth than the outcomes based on MSM-generated actions.
Ian,Sure, and I bet you think Gen. Patton’s reports of the 101st Airborne coming into contact with and liberating the Aushweitz concentration camp was a fabrication too. The Nuremberg war crimes trial was also a big Jewish plot as well wasn’t it? Ah, DENIAL… The last bastion of the anti-Semitic Revisionist! Cumfy Ian?
it is the jews who rewrote the immigration laws that allowed muslims and other third worlders into White Nations.
Hey Ian,NEWSFLASH! YOUR ancestors are from Cuba,correct? that means YOUR ancestors were a part of those 3rd worlders you love to hate so much! Also, those Jews you claim rewrote those immigration laws, MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR YOUR 3RD WORLD ANCESTORS TO EMIGRATE TO THE U.S. So, Ian, why don’t you thank those Jews? It’s long overdue.
My ancestors are all White and Christian and not at all like the non-White refuse that has been allowed in since the treason of the 1965 Immigration Act.
Viva La Raza Blanco!!
JM..
Yer right, they are willing to die by the thousands. Then again…think of it..
The devote Muslims:Have no beerWear ragsHave no superbowlHave no futureHave no carsHave no televisionHave no radioHave no (fill in the blank)And they are told if they die for Allah, they will go to their version of paradise….
Scary, huh?
What everybody seems to be missing here is that political cartoons are intended to be offensive! Their entire history is of insulting, lampooning and in general deflating images and egos. Hogarth was less than respectful of the British upper and upper middle classes and Nast’s portraits of Boss Tweed weren’t as flattering as they could have been.The job of the cartoonist is to ridicule everything that, in his opinion, needs ridiculing. Generally that only works when what he’s ridiculing was ridiculous to begin with, so when you find a cartoon that’s truly offensive, it’s likely well deserved.
Methinks Ian doth protest too much! Wonder what skeletons in his family tree he’s trying so hard to keep buried?
As I have said before…..You think the cartoons pissed them off??Wait until they find out he was gay!
by H. Millard
“HEY, MAN,” said Homeless Jack, “Pope Benedict XVI recently indicated that, in his opinion, Christianity has it over Islam partly as a result of Christianity being more flexible because the Bible is capable of being ‘adapted and applied to new situations,’ while the Koran, which Muslims believe contains the literal words of God, isn’t so easily adapted.
“Did you get that? The pope thinks this adaptability to suit ever-changing human tastes and fashions is a plus for Christianity. Good grief! Put that way, Christianity is less about God and more about humans. Now, in fact, religions are about ultimate concerns and they don’t require a god or gods, but did I miss something here? You know I’m not a Christian, man, and that I follow Arman’s teachings, but doesn’t Christianity believe in a God? Isn’t God supposed to be the big guy in charge? Didn’t God give some rules so humans would do what God wants and not what humans necessarily want?
“How flexible is Christianity, man? Geez, you just have to pick up the daily newspaper for examples. Homosexuality was once a sin in Christianity. Now, homosexuals can be married in many Christian churches. Maybe bestiality will be accepted next. Hey, if enough people want something, the Bible can be interpreted to allow it because, again, it can be ‘adapted and applied to new situations.’
“Now, why do you think homosexuality would be outlawed by God, man? I’ll tell you why. I figure that God, for His own reasons, and it has to do with the spinning and evolution and other things I told you about, wants life to multiply. And homosexuality doesn’t cut it, man. It satisfies the mating urge, but bears no fruit. No life is given to so-called lifeless minerals.
“I’ll say it again, man. The most important part of all living things, including humans, is our genetic material. That’s where the spark is. That’s where you’ll find the Essence. We are our genes and our genes are us. Everything else is secondary and should serve the purpose of preserving, protecting, and propagating our genetic material. Cynics may say that life is no more than dirt in another form, man, but even if that’s true, we’re still self-replicating dirt and we can think about what we are, and that’s cool. Homosexuality doesn’t lead to propagation of our genetic material. It’s a dead end. It logically leads to fewer humans. It makes no more of us. That’s why the Big Guy has banned it.
“Christianity has become a yuppie consensus religion. Whatever is wanted by the majority of tiny humans clustered under the Bell Curve while being manipulated by those who control the mechanisms of conditioning — the government and the media — is okay with the new Christian God.
“Anyway, man, I also wanted to give you my thoughts on this controversy about cartoons of Mohammad that first showed up in a newspaper in Denmark and then spread to other European nations. Those who don’t know anything about Islam might be excused if they think the outrage of the Muslims is primarily caused because the cartoons ridicule Mohammad. In fact, the controversy is more basic than that. Mohammad could have been pictured as looking like Mel Gibson and he could have been seen protecting little children and small animals, and Muslims would have still been outraged. You know why? Because it is a major taboo in Islam to ever show the face of Mohammad. Muslims believe that doing so is a step on the path to the development of a personality cult around Mohammad and takes the focus off God.
“But here’s what really got me about this whole thing, man. Some of the Europeans are screaming about free speech rights. French and German newspapers also published the offending cartoons and the German newspaper Die Welt even ran a smarmy editorial defending the cartoons by saying ‘The protests from Muslims would be taken more seriously if they were less hypocritical.’
“Actually, the elites in France and Germany are the ones who are hypocritical. Do you suppose the French and German newspapers — Die Welt, for example — would run cartoons with caricatures of Jews and the Holocaust? Of course not. They won’t touch the subject. It’s off limits. But screwing with Muslims about something that’s very important to them is not off limits. Man, someone should check on the religion of the publishers and editors of these European newspapers. In ‘free-speech’ Germany, you can’t even read certain books or raise your arm a certain way, and now some Germans are saying it’s okay to publish these smears of Islam because of free speech rights. Hypocrites. I’m for real free speech, man, but I’m not for free speech when it is not even-handed.
“The unhypocritical French and Germans and even those unhypocritical English are too busy persecuting intellectuals and non-Jewish Whites with some White consciousness who are asking questions about the Holocaust and about the nature of man and who are rejecting the blending mentality of this Dark Age.
“Because the current orthodoxy in our world is all screwed up, with values being turned upside down and with people believing the stupidest things, we live in a Dark Age. We’re in an age of ignorance, man. We’re in a time when material things are valued over what really matters and where lies are said to be the truth. We’re in an age when genes are said to not be important and where transient things are said to be important.
“What do I mean? I’ll tell you. The Europeans are pissed off at Muslims for invading their lands, but they fail to see that the real long-term problem isn’t so much the religion of Islam, but the genes of the invaders. That’s where their extinction really lies. Now, beliefs are important but they are secondary to genes. Would the Europeans be happy if all the non-European Muslims converted to Christianity but then bred the European genotype away? They probably would be, because they’re so blinded to reality. And, as they head toward extinction, few would even understand that without their genes going on into the future, their faith or belief systems moving forward are meaningless in the bigger picture of existence.
“See, the European Whites have so identified with alien Christianity that they think they and Christianity are one, when they’re really not. Because they believe this, some of them want to have the Muslims all assimilate into their populations. It’s false thinking, man. We see that in America also. It’s a total rejection of genes, which are what is really important, and a false belief that even if someone is genetically not like you, so long as they have your language, your religion, your whatever, they’re ‘just like you.’ Big mistake, man. The truth of nature is that no one is just like you unless their genes are very much like your genes.
“The real way for Europeans to stop their own genocide — and when you strip all of this back to its core, that’s what this is really about — is for them to increase their own birth rates by all means possible and to stop accepting non-Europeans into their midst. Where the hell is it written that every single foot of earth has to have people of every single race? Screw this multi-cultural and multi-racial nonsense, man. It’s time to retribalize. It’s time for the White Tribe to start expanding again.
“It’s friggin’ madness, the way things are going, man. What idiot thinks he’s done the right things in life if his philosophies or religion or nation go forward — but his genes do not? It’s insane. ‘Oh, I’m so happy. When I die, America will still be here.’ Why would that make someone happy if America has none of his genes, man? It’s absurd. Nothing, and I mean nothing, goes forward from us if our genes don’t survive.
“Live long and multiply right, man. If you want to send prayers to God, have kids. Many, many, many, kids. And then have some more.”
http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=7840
Viva la Raza Blanco!!
Jed, Conceptually I agree with you, but have you kept a scorecard of Crowson political slant, even in the sexual deviant Clinton years? A good OpEd columnist or cartoonist should have the talent and the will to lampoon Pelosi as well as Bush. Haven’t seen a lot of Kerry, Pelosi, Kennedy and other socialist libs in Crowson’s lampoon have ya?
VIVA De MEDIA REVOLT Ian!
ID,So he kicks the ass that’s sticking up the highest! Sounds about right to me!