Afghanistan Joins Mohammed Sketch Hatefest

Photo of Matthew Sheffield.

Cartoon of Mohammed as a dogIslamic radicals continue to spread irrational hate against the Swedish Mohammed dog sketches, this time in Afghanistan where a newspaper there called for the imprisonment of the newspaper editors who printed one of the cartoons:

Afghanistan on Saturday condemned the printing of a sketch of Islam's Prophet Mohammad with the body of a dog in a Swedish newspaper, calling it hostile towards the Muslim world.

The sketch has also drawn condemnation from neighbouring Pakistan, which said it was blasphemous. Muslims believe images of the Prophet are forbidden and consider dogs to be impure.

"Our Holy Prophet's cartoon in a Swedish paper has provoked all Afghans," wrote The Kabul Times, publishing a statement by religious scholars, imams and the Ministry of Islamic Guidance.

"The sold-out enemies of Islam draw the cartoon of the respected Prophet of Islam once more. This has disturbed the Islamic world and aroused the indignation of all Muslims," the statement said.

It demanded those responsible be handed over to a court for prosecution and punishment.


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islam Is Lame

From everything I've read Mohammed was a dog. All one needs to do is to pick up a translation of the Koran.  

Islam is for the dogs

Piss on them.

The arrogance of these

The arrogance of these islamist scholars, imams, and Ministry of Islamic Guidance is staggering.  Further, it unmasks their desire to rule the world a la the Taliban.

This has disturbed the Islamic world and aroused the indignation of all Muslims," the statement said.

It demanded those responsible be handed over to a court for prosecution and punishment.

Let me see if I have this straight.  They refuse to acknowledge Sweden's rule of law regarding free speech, and the demand handing over citizens of another country to their religious tribunal for prosecution and punishment. 

Scary, very scary.  If anyone doesn't believe their goal is a new caliphate, this "small" story nicely connects the important dots.  Not that we'll hear a thing about it in the drive-by media.

 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

I dunno ... Looks more like

I dunno ... Looks more like Cat Stevens to me.

Come on, Islamists.  Could be worse.  It could be splattered with elephant dung ... Or floating in a pickle jar of the artist's urine.

actually drill

based on the tail it looks like a mule

Supreme Court,  National Security,  Borders,  Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.  

Or, most-offensive of all art by far...

Paid-for using even one penny of MY taxes, regardless of artistic quality (or lack of same) because of the principles (or lack of same...) involved!  I don't care if Jesse Helms & Jesse Jackson both agree 100% that it's the most wonderful art in the world, I do not want to pay for it on April 15th.
JMR

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The more we print and the

The more we print and the more we use him in comedy the quicker they will get over it. They ridicule other religions so they should expect and receive it back. Until they show tolerance and respect for others we should go out of our way to p!ss them off. Unfortunately their is know courage here, unless of course you are bashing another religion or republicans. But if it is muslums or gays or democrats or illegal's or whatever it is hands off. The muslums and others use PC as their tool agaist us.

I don't know what the problem is

 I would use their Afhganistan newspaper, gather up the Imams, put a bullet in their head, same for their editors, then ask who wants to be the next immy and editor who won't screw it up again.

 If need be, rinse and repeat.

 They will get the message very quickly.

 Then I'd run a contest in their local paper for Mohammed jokes, and whoever showed up screaming and cursing in rageboy fashion would get bullets in their heads.

 They'ed all get the message real quickly.

 It's pretty clear, when you have an enemy they need to die. Well, the world has an enemy and they need to die.

I know it's "not that easy" - translators I'm sure are even in very short supply still, but sooner or later someone in charge is going to realize that is how you "win the people".

 Since so many of them are supposedly just repressed, the only solution to modernize them is to execute the loudest opressors with a swift vengeance. I'd wager half the rest of them immediately wonder if they have the safest radical belief system going.

 I suspect the largest of problems is we view their yapping as free speech, all too often.

 I'm sure the liberals would claim I'd become worse than even them, but of course very soon there wouldn't be any of them left, so we could retire.

 Isn't it true that the surge it appears, did exactly that - "won the hearts and minds" ?

 That's what the radicals have been doing, killing everyone that doesn't match their radical crap. That's how they get their power.

It's about time that the people in charge figure out if we don't just KILL the enemy they will continue. That means their imams, start slaying, and get on with it.

I know I know. Poor Al Sadr and his Madhi army, Saddam and his sunni batthist party killed his daddy, and we have a thousand psychologists ready to help him, and we need him alive so we can talk him into the new modern world. HOGWASH.

 The way to talk them into the new modern world is to kill jerkoffs like Al Sadr, not invite to become part of the process. After you kill the Al Sadr's, what's left automatically becomes part of the process.

 I wish the psycho-balling crybaby treehuggers would get out of the way. Kill the radical morons, and kill the idiot that pops up, and do it again, swiftly.

 People had better start understanding that is what is going to have to be done eventually, and the longer we wait the worse it is going to get.

 Libs ought to have figured it out first. They never supposed they could change Falwell's mind, so what makes them think they can change Sadr's ?

 I guess it's the "reformed KKK'ers" like their very own Grand Cyclops Klu Klux Klan Democrat Senator Byrd that gives them a hopeful glimmer.

It shows the secularist basis of their religion.

Why would an omnipotent being that they call "Allah" need anyone to "protect" their image or reputation?

It's all about the mastery and absolute control over their "followers".

 

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic

All these events of Muslim

All these events of Muslim backlash as a result of the smallest smite against Islam says how suffocatingly restrictive their society is. A long time ago, if you rejected Christianity, you were treated terribly too but a Western evolution in the form of freedom of expression in its different forms shook all that up. Now we have modern freedoms clashing with ancient Sharia-based beliefs. It's this type of stringent attachment to a religion that helped lead to the Spanish Inquisition.

The Spanish Inquisition

and all such persecutions, have nothing to do with religion and everything to do with corrupt men trying to further increase their secular power.

 

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic

I disagree c5

The same logic says "rape isn't about sex, it's about control".  Poppycock.  Without a sex drive, rape is nothing and foreign.

"corrupt men trying to further increase their secular power" with religion as their bludgeon. Without a desire to get closer to heaven, there is no following, and the avenue to secular power is nonexistent.

~LYDSEXICS UNTIE!~

I thought it was pretty

I thought it was pretty clear I wasn't faulting Islam itself.

}}---> Pussyfootin

I'm not faulting Catholicism - Martin Luther

~LYDSEXICS UNTIE!~

"The prophet as rondellhund."

more here

Supreme Court,  National Security,  Borders,  Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.  

I think I understand the

I think I understand the double standard now. The U.S. sould show "restraint" and "understanding" of the religion of peace after 9-11.

Place a crucifix in urine, or a statue of the Virgin Mary in dung...we need to call that "art".

However, the Islamo-facists can go off the deep end, loot, riot and kill after the publication of a cartoon that looks like something my 9 year old niece scribbled.

It's all clear to me now... 

However,

However, the Islamo-facists can go off the deep end, loot, riot and kill after the publication of a cartoon that looks like something my 9 year old niece scribbled.

Oh, come on, Con! I'm sure your 9 yr. old niece is Rembrandt compared to this.  Even in doodle mode while being bored in social studies class, or chatting on the phone ...

Claymation bloodfest

Mike Vick vs Mohammed.  Now there's a celebrity death match I'd pay to see.

~LYDSEXICS UNTIE!~

Actually, you're right

Actually, you're right drill. She is a pretty good artist for her age. I was really going to say it was my 3 year old niece, but I didn't want to be accused of being TOO insensitive.  

That's a dog?

You know, it would seem to me that anyone who gets riled up over something like... this sketch of a dog, uhm, mohammed... uh... "thingy" is mighty insecure. I've seen stuff on the restroom wall at work that's got a more recognizeable artistic quality than this thing.

Or perhaps they believe that if enough people start laughing at Mohammed -or tacky, poorly drawn sketches of him- that Islam will cease to exist?

That's pretty much what I

That's pretty much what I was thinking too. How does anyone; religious extremist or not; get offended by such a crappy little picture anyway?

I way preferred the one of Alah with the bomb shaped turbin.