The reaction to the Danish cartoons of the
Prophet Muhammad Cartoons from the Islamic community itself, politicians
and the news media firstly has been unacceptable and even comical. On
the one hand many imams, leaders of the Muslims community have seen the
cartoons and yet they next do oppose others to see it and why?
"Torornto Star - Publication of cartoons defended
Magazine reprints controversial images Small bookstore chain
refuses to sell issue Feb. 14, 2006. 01:00 AM OTTAWA—Ezra Levant, publisher of
The Western Standard, says publications that refused to show the Danish
cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad did so out of cowardice, and hid behind
political correctness and religious sensitivity. ... "The (Toronto) Star
doesn't want to offend religion?" he said. "The Star pokes fun at Christian
ministers and (U.S. President) George Bush's Christianity ... we live in a
liberal society where we get to debate these things without fear. And the Star
probably goes farther than anybody, except maybe the CBC, in offending
Christians." ... Western Standard reporter Kevin Steel argues that North
America's journalism community seems "to have buckled" in the face of
accusations of political incorrectness, pointing out that the CBC, the Toronto
Star, The Globe and Mail and the National Post all decided not to print the
cartoons.. "Journalists have never allowed themselves to be so restrained by
the sensitivities of other religions," he wrote. "When western artists
submerged a Jesus figure in urine or smeared a portrait of the Virgin Mother
in elephant dung, news editors did not shy away from broadcasting the
offending images.".. Don't tell me that 100 editors, publishers, TV producers
have uniformly and unanimously suddenly got religion. I have not seen this
uniformity when there is a court-ordered publication ban," he said. "It's a de
facto publication ban and the enforcement is not Canada's constitutionally
valid laws, but a de facto fatwa issued from the streets of Tehran."..
Meanwhile, a small newspaper in largely Muslim Azerbaijan published a
derogatory caption over a picture of Jesus Christ in what the editor said was
a response to the Danish caricatures. .. And an Iranian newspaper's contest
for cartoons about the Holocaust, launched yesterday, quickly drew two entries
— one from Brazil and one from Australia, the paper said."
The Jewish
Free Press and Western Standard Magazine, both Calgary-based, are among the
first publications in Canada to print the cartoons depicting the Prophet
Muhammad . Around 40,000 issues of Western Standard were published with the
cartoons. I support their free speech attempts but I do not
believe firstly that everyone has the same right of free speech in Canada, not
especialy the Christians even now too, not even to be equally heard by
the news media too from my own personal last 25 years of experiences in
Canada's West and in the East.. I support free speech for it is a clear
measure of how perverse the society is, and in the Islamic countries freedom
of speech and freedom of religion are denied cause they are clearly
perverse. I have also said it before in Canada too when you use your
free speech to speak against any of the wicked they likely will also set the
law against you to try to obstruct justice.
You have to be a non
Christian, a Jew, Gay or even Muslim to get Canada's supreme court's
attention still? "Supreme Court refuses to hear Kempling appeal "The
enemies of free speech have gained a victory," said Chris Kempling, a Quesnel
secondary school counsellor and evangelical Christian, after learning two
weeks ago that the Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear his
freedom-of-speech case stemming from disputes with the British Columbia
College of Teachers. The Teacher Chris Kempling was suspended
because he wrote published letters critical of homosexual behavior was
properly punished with a one-month suspension, the British Columbia Supreme
Court firstly had ruled. Calling it “a sad day for all Canadians who
value the free exchange of ideas in the public square,” he vowed to continue
the fight to be free to express his point of view on homosexual behaviour
which has led to repeated suspensions from his job and successive court
battles with the college.
DID YOU ALSO NOTICE
ALL THESE REAL BIG HYPOCRITES WHO SAY THEY ALSO NOW DO BELIEVE IN FREEDOM OF
SPEECH, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, WHAT THEY MOSTLY STILL THEY DO BELIEVE
IN IS ONLY IN THEIR OWN RELIGION, BE IS A SECULAR OR AN ISLAMIC ONE, AND THEY
BELIEVE IN THEIR OWN FREE SPEECH ONLY AND NOT THAT OF OTHERS. AND THAT
IS WHAT THE ISLAMIC CARTOON PROTESTS EVEN BY THE NEWS MEDIA
IS TRULY NOW ABOUT.
and what about
the Canadian TV Station Attacking Church Yet Again "
Toronto-based Vision television aired the first of its big-budget miniseries
The Secret Files of the Inquisition. Alberta Nokes, While responsible
historians have debunked the so-called “black legends” of the Inquisition,
Vision’s website promotion paints a black portrait of the Inquisition’s “reign
of terror that would endure for more than 600 years. Vision’s online
promotional material for Secret Files of the Inquisition includes some of the
classic anti-Catholic slurs including the set-piece of a lurid tale of a
beautiful young woman and her priest-lover. The synopsis for last night’s
first episode reads: “Among those caught in the terrifying grip of the
Inquisition are Beatrice de Planisoles, a beautiful noblewoman, and village
priest Pierre Clergue, her secret lover – and betrayer.” Secret Files of
the Inquisition is only the latest of Vision’s shots at Catholicism. In
October 2005, Vision gave Fr. Karl Clemens, a self-proclaimed “gay” priest, a
platform to attack the Church’s teaching on homosexuality. Fr. Clemens
was followed by editorial commentary from Vision’s regular program host
Marianne Meed Ward in which she gave a vitriolic attack on the Catholic Church
saying the Vatican is "hunting people who have publicly admitted being gay."
She added, "This would be comical if it weren't so
diabolical. TORONTO, January 9, 2006
(LifeSiteNews.com) - Vision TV, the Toronto-based broadcaster that bills
itself as “Canada's multi-faith and multicultural broadcaster,” is positioning
itself as a leader in anti-Catholic media punditry. The broadcaster’s most
recent round comes in the form of a programme on NDP MP Charlie Angus’ very
public conflict with Catholic teaching on same sex “marriage.” British
Evangelicals celebrated the defeat of segments of the Racial and
Religious Hatred Bill that they say could have criminalized Christians for
preaching Biblical values. In a budget bill approved by the US
Congress funds were given to grassroots groups who provide marriage
education and relationship skills for low-income couples in order to avert
divorce (unlike as in Canada where divorce is encouraged) .. and what
about in Canada? Canadian Legal aid even does not provide money
generally to contest a divorce.. and the "Supreme Court out of line with
swingers decision too... It does not take any wise person to know that sex
swapping, adultery is still immoral.
But Truly anyone demanding
or threatening Death, for any cartoons is now really an unacceptable
approach, agenda! One that is a criminal offense in Canada still too.
And all of the Muslims now demanding this is both indicative of the huge
vast moral gap between the too often hypocritical religious Islam and
the rest of the world, and their Religious extremism, false domination
which instead brings us in direct contrast death, violence, and
slavery to the false demands of a minority group who often themselves do not
practice what they preach to others. Their false threatening of any others,
their attempts to also strip them of their human rights in the name of Islamic
law that only a small segment of society believes in, is really now also
quite unacceptable and very intolerable. The Muslims are
advancing now an really totally unacceptable agenda : they want to us all to
sacrifice our rights and freedom for their oppressive society, one that lets
the Imams, mullahs dictate to us all what is said and when. A
perverted agenda that Jesus himself had abandoned us from and had
set us free now from even centuries ago. ..
The personal
Religious Submission to any others is also now always voluntarily and
unenforceable. These bad People who are wrongfully trying to enslave us, to
have control over us, even with their false religious, Islamic demands
they will rather if we let them cause us to go crazy, mental, even cause
they now are also in reality themselves demonically led too. And these bad
people they will always be around and try to do so but we should not heed to
their false demands now not even for one moment too.
Everyone's Freedom
of speech or freedom of religion is righfuly not a right to slander,
abuse, insult any others who do not think like us.. the Jews, Christians,
Muslims too, and all persons now have the same human rights too but not
in practise starting in canada. all of their protests should be
conducted peacefully... reject violence as a way to express
discontent... governments around the world should protect the lives, human
rights and property of all citizens, even the diplomats against any
violence.. be respectful, protect property, protect the lives of all of
the innocent citizens, diplomats who are serving their countries overseas too.
“Huge chasm” between Muslims and the West". Politically correct. Freedom
of Religion or freedom of speech is acceptable only if it is an Islamic
one... ". Face it the West's fascination with the Islamic
Cartoon's as well is they are rightfully really tired of Islam
continually shoved down their throats, they do not want anything to do with
that oppressive religion. Australian prime minister John Howard also has said
he considered the violent reactions to the cartoons “are completely
disproportionate to the offence that could possibly have been given”.
Rightfully also do tell all of the Muslims Imams in Canada to pray for and to
practice now real peace in Canada and rather not be a part of the too many
religious hypocrites. Montreal Muslim leaders said today they respect free
speech and freedom of the press, but don't want those values to be used to
promote Islamophobia. It is not the free speech of the others that
causes today's rightfully vast Islamophobia but rather the undeniable,
unacceptable violent, murderous negative acts of the Muslims themselves
still. What about Muslims demonstrating for freedom of speech,
freedom of religion of all faiths in the Muslim world firstly too.. what it
would be not allowed? they would likely be killed for it.. how hypocritically
of them to demonstrate in Canada against the other's freedom of speech
worldwide.
Flemming Rose, the Jyllands-Posten editor who made the
original decision to publish the cartoons, spoke about his actions, the
reaction and the bigger issues at stake—freedom of speech and false religious
sensitivity. " if any religion—it doesn't matter if it's Islam, Christianity,
Buddhism, any religion—tries to impose its own taboos on the public
domain. When I go to a mosque, I behave by the rules that exist in that
holy house. I will not stand up and make a cartoon of the holy prophet in a
mosque. But I think if any religion insists that I, as a non-Muslim, should
submit to their taboos, then I don't think they're showing me respect. I think
they're asking for my submission. This is a key issue in this debate." Others
have said that The “caricature war” between the Moslem world and the West in
all likelihood has an artificial cause and is likely to develop into a
“war of civilisations” Some belive that “the fuss around the caricatures was
made artificially” and the caricature uproar provides a “pretext for
showing how coherent Moslems are”. The Protest over caricatures of the Prophet
has become just another excuse to promote Islam world wide The
controversy over Danish caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad has mushroomed
and it has predictably escalated rapidly with imams around the world
fanning the fire their Friday's mosque sermons.European nations also
have a long time ago decided not to give any more grounds to the rapid rise of
Islam.. Local politics, too, are a complicating factor. Militant Danish
and European Muslims helped push Arabs to join the fray and
more confrontation are expected still to come.