Salam

Once again a woman crossing the street brings a riot to a stand still.

[url=http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/iraq/082701iraqplane/im:/060226/4... Riots[/url]

Omrow

Well you can't say muslims donot give women respect!

On the other hand the wierdness of it makes me chuckle.

[size=18]Shaykh Hamza Yusuf on Danish TV! [/size]

[size=18][url=http://www.dr.dk/extention/playWindowsMedianyheder.aframe?id=198722&List... [/url][/size]

they showed a clip of that Al-Ghorabaa guy who was also on Newsnight... :roll:

lol his californian accent throws me off every time i hear him

"I don't think we should gratuitously print things for some sacred right to offend others, I don't think it's conducive to civilization or to what the British call "the gentleman"

- That captures it in it's entirety.

"Arabs love danish cheese - and it's good cheese!"

lol hwo can people not like this guy

Just like the intelligence on WMD was closely examined [i]after[/i] the war Danish politicians are only [i]now [/i]dealing with the initial response to the cartoons.

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[size=14][b]Twisted text gives gov't headache in cartoon crisis[/b][/size]

[b]The opposition attacks the government over what it calls a misinterpretation of a letter from Muslim ambassadors[/b]

The interpretation of two convoluted passages from 11 Muslim ambassadors sent to the prime minister has taken on a central role in pinning blame for exacerbating the Mohammed cartoon crisis.

The ambassadors sent the letter, written in English, to the prime minister on 12 October, nearly two weeks after the Jyllands-Posten cartoons of the prophet Mohammed were published, causing Danish Muslims to openly protest.

In the letter, the ambassadors requested a meeting with the prime minister to discuss what they said was a negative attitude of Muslims' role in Danish society.

The cartoons, however, were the last of four examples the ambassadors brought up to illustrate an 'on-going smearing campaign' of Islam and Muslims.

They also referred to Radio Holger, a radio station that had its license revoked for making hate speech, MP and mayoral candidate Louise Frevert's 'derogatory remarks' towards Muslims, and the minister of culture's comments about 'war against Muslims'.

'We deplore these statements and publications and urge Your Excellency's government to take all those responsible to task under the law of the land. … We rest assured that you will take all steps necessary,' wrote the ambassadors.

Despite being mentioned last, the Mohammed caricatures were a central element of the ambassadors' complaint.

'We are hoping for understanding about Muslims' feelings about Mohammed. And we're hoping for an apology from Jyllands-Posten,' said Mascud Effendy Hutasuhut, minister counsellor at the Indonesian Embassy in October.

Rasmussen refused to hold a meeting with the ambassadors.

'The reason for my rejection is that they sent a letter to me where the conclusion was that I should take legal steps against the press. I can't do that. I won't do that,' Rasmussen said in December.

Rasmussen's refusal to meet with the ambassadors reportedly angered the Egyptian government to such an extent that the Danish foreign ministry, four days after the prime minister's initial refusal, warned its ambassadors that the situation could degenerate.

On Saturday, daily newspaper Politiken reported that Egypt had played a key role in spreading the conflict in the Mid-East. In October, it warned that the situation could 'escalate'.

Members of the prime minister's Liberal Party maintained that their interpretation of the letter is the correct one.

'I can't interpret the letter any other way than that they want us to take steps against Jyllands-Posten,' said Troels Lund Poulsen, the Liberal Party foreign policy spokesman.

The opposition is demanding an official Danish translation of the letter, as well as a full investigation of the government's handling of the situation.

'The government's responsibility for the situation is much larger than previously believed. It all started with a bad interpretation of the letter from the ambassadors in October,' said Frank Aaen, spokesman for the Red-Green Alliance.

[url=http://www.cphpost.dk/get/94000.html]Copenhagen Post [/url]

[b]Islam seen as a new threat after defeat of Fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism.[/b]

BBC - 1 March 2006

[b]Writers issue cartoon row warning [/b]

Salman Rushdie is among a dozen writers to have put their names to a statement in a French weekly paper warning against Islamic "totalitarianism".

The writers say the violence sparked by the publication of cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad shows the need to fight for secular values and freedom.

The statement is published in Charlie Hebdo, one of several European papers to reprint the caricatures.

The images, first published in Denmark, have angered Muslims across the world.

One showed the Prophet Muhammad, whose depiction is banned in Islam, as a terrorist bomber.

Many newspapers defended their decision to reprint the cartoons on the grounds of freedom of expression.

'Global threat'

Almost all of those who have signed the statement have experienced difficulties with Islamic militancy first-hand, says the BBC's Caroline Wyatt in Paris.

They include Dutch MP and filmmaker Ayaan Hirsi Ali and exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen.

"After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new global threat: Islamism," the manifesto says.

"We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all."

The clashes over the cartoons "revealed the necessity of the struggle for these universal values," the statement continues.

"It is not a clash of civilisations nor an antagonism of West and East that we are witnessing, but a global struggle that confronts democrats and theocrats."

The writers said they refused to accept that Muslim men and women "should be deprived of their rights to equality, liberty or secularity in the name of respect for culture or tradition".

They also said they would not give up their critical spirit out of fear of being accused of Islamophobia.

"Islamism is a reactionary ideology which kills equality, freedom and secularism wherever it is present," the writers added, saying it is nurtured by fears and frustrations.

Full text: Writers' statement on cartoons

" After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new global totalitarian threat: Islamism.

We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.

Recent events, prompted by the publication of drawings of Muhammad in European newspapers, have revealed the necessity of the struggle for these universal values.

This struggle will not be won by arms, but in the ideological field.
It is not a clash of civilisations nor an antagonism between West and East that we are witnessing, but a global struggle that confronts democrats and theocrats.

Like all totalitarian ideologies, Islamism is nurtured by fear and frustration.

Preachers of hatred play on these feelings to build the forces with which they can impose a world where liberty is crushed and inequality reigns.
But we say this, loud and clear: nothing, not even despair, justifies choosing darkness, totalitarianism and hatred.

Islamism is a reactionary ideology that kills equality, freedom and secularism wherever it is present.

Its victory can only lead to a world of injustice and domination: men over women, fundamentalists over others.

On the contrary, we must ensure access to universal rights for the oppressed or those discriminated against.

We reject the "cultural relativism" which implies an acceptance that men and women of Muslim culture are deprived of the right to equality, freedom and secularism in the name of the respect for certain cultures and traditions.

We refuse to renounce our critical spirit out of fear of being accused of "Islamophobia", a wretched concept that confuses criticism of Islam as a religion and stigmatisation of those who believe in it.

We defend the universality of the freedom of expression, so that a critical spirit can exist in every continent, towards each and every maltreatment and dogma.

We appeal to democrats and free spirits in every country that our century may be one of light and not dark. "

Signed by:

Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Somali-born Dutch MP
Taslima Nasreen - exiled Bangladeshi writer, with fatwa issued ordering her execution
Bernard-Henri Levy - French philosopher
Chahla Chafiq - Iranian writer exiled in France
Caroline Fourest - French writer
Irshad Manji - Ugandan refugee and writer living in Canada
Mehdi Mozaffari - Iranian academic exiled in Denmark
Maryam Namazie - Iranian writer living in Britain
Salman Rushdie - Indian-born British writer with fatwa issued ordering his execution for The Satanic Verses
Antoine Sfeir - director of French review examining Middle East
Ibn Warraq - US academic of Indian/Pakistani origin
Philippe Val - director of Charlie Hebdo

[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4763520.stm]Letter[/url]

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"Augustus" wrote:

lol his californian accent throws me off every time i hear him

"Arabs love danish cheese - and it's good cheese!"

lol hwo can people not like this guy

:o

Alhamdulillah. When a voice of reason speaks, thorns hide away.

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[size=18]Pakistan blocks blogs on cartoons[/size]

Pakistan telecom authorities have blocked several websites inviting people to draw cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, it has emerged.

Instructions were issued to internet service providers across Pakistan on 27 February to block about a dozen websites of various origins.

The ban comes amid protests in several Muslim countries against the cartoons, first published in Denmark last year.

Islamic tradition prohibits caricatures of the Prophet.

[b]Hosted site[/b]

Bloggers in Pakistan became first became aware of the ban on 28 February when they were unable to access a popular blog hosting site, Blogspot.

One of the blocked sites is hosted on Blogspot, which led to the blocking of all web journals hosted on the site.

The Pakistan bloggers found their blogs blocked, even though their blogs are not connected with the cartoons.

They say they have still been able to edit and update their blogs, but not able to read them.

Many are using anonymizers - a service which allows people to surf sites without being identified - to access their sites, while the US blogging community has sent out suggestions for ways in which Blogspot can be accessed.

The BBC's Aamer Ahmed Khan in Karachi says the blocking is unlikely to turn into a major freedom of expression issue in Pakistan as there seems to be a consensus against allowing such freedom to extend to irreverent treatment of religious figures.

Pakistani bloggers agree the blocking of Blogspot cannot be intentional, but are hoping the authorities realise the problem soon and rectify it, he said.

There are many ways of blocking specific sites without letting it affect the entire hosting facility, bloggers say.

Pakistan, meanwhile, is seeking an internationally applicable law against blasphemy.

[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4771846.stm]BBC News[/url]

Paki also block dog blogs.

[b]Iranian President: US always needs an Enemy. Now Its Islam[/b]

Washington Post - Sunday 5 March 2006

Islam Is the Enemy West Needs

Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami, whose foreign policy was defined by a quest for what he called a "dialogue between civilizations," warned Saturday that tensions between the Islamic world and the West are taking the shape of a new Cold War.

Khatami, speaking at a government conference promoting interfaith dialogue, said the West was largely responsible. Islam was being cast as the "enemy of humanity" by governments reverting to the polarized worldview that divided the planet for 50 years after World War II, he said.

The West "needs an enemy, and this time it is Islam," Khatami said. "And Islamophobia becomes a part of all policies of the great powers, of hegemonic powers.

"We are not very far from the era of the Cold War that inflicted a lot of damage on the world."

The bleak assessment drew a bold line under the damaging difference in perceptions that drove the controversy over cartoons of the prophet Muhammad first published in a Danish newspaper last autumn.

Depiction of the prophet is banned by most schools of Islamic thought, and many Muslims interpreted each successive publication of the cartoons as a deliberate insult. But many Westerners interpreted those objections as tantamount to censorship, insisting the core issue was not the feelings of Muslims but freedom of expression.

Khatami said he took deep offense at that insistence and contended that defining the question as one of freedom amounted to brushing aside the sacred dignity that stands at the core of any religion.

"The affront to the prophet was an act, not an idea," he said. "The tragedy is that this inhumane act is justified in the name of freedom."

"Defilement is an action, not an idea, and therefore it is not freedom of expression. It does treachery to freedom of expression," Khatami said. "Secondly, it is a part of a trend that enrages Islamism around the world. Therefore it has to be interpreted in this context."

Khatami suggested that the bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra, Iraq, last month was an extension of the trend. "If we go behind the idea," he said, "it leads to the destruction of holy shrines and killing of human beings."

Khatami spoke at a state-sponsored conference on "respect for religious sanctities and divine prophets." The hall where the conference was held, appropriately enough, stands on a fault line.

The headgear around the tables suggested a genuine diversity of faiths: the black and white turbans of both Shiite and Sunni Islam; the peaked cap of an Orthodox archbishop; and, in a prominent place near the front, the extravagantly fur-lined hats of four ultra-Orthodox Jews, who were flown in for the occasion.

"We are Jews but not Zionists," said Rabbi Ahron Cohen, of Manchester, England, invoking the distinction between those who follow Judaism as a faith and religious Zionists who believe the Jews have a Biblical right to Israel as a homeland.

"The root cause of the problem in the Middle East is the Zionists," Cohen said. "But really, the whole concept is flawed, and that's what the people in this country believe, too, and we're with them."

In recent months, Iran has faced widespread accusations of anti-Semitism since Khatami's successor as president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" and dubbed the Holocaust a "myth."

Cohen said he was not bothered by Iran's plans to hold another conference, this one to publicly ask how Nazi Germany could have killed 6 million Jews before and during World War II.

"I don't find it offensive at all," Cohen said. "If people want to debate the details of the Holocaust, they're welcome to.
"We happen to know. We were involved."

[url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/04/AR200603... Post[/url]

"(*_Khamzat" wrote:

"Augustus" wrote:

lol his californian accent throws me off every time i hear him

"Arabs love danish cheese - and it's good cheese!"

lol hwo can people not like this guy

:o

Alhamdulillah. When a voice of reason speaks, thorns hide away.

Aye!

[size=18]Shaykh Hamza Yusuf in Denmark: [/size]

[size=16]Challenges of Co-Existence. [/size]

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It's too soon to unstickify this thread; it's not over yet :roll: . There's going to be a march in Trafalger Square tomorrow in support of [url=http://marchforfreeexpression.blogspot.com/]'Freedom of Expression'[/url].

The organisers originally welcomed T-shirts and placards bearing the Danish cartoons. This unsurprisingly attracted support for the demo from people who have an axe to grind against Muslims e.g. BNP, Jihadwatch.com, dhimmiphobes etc. This led [url=http://www.globalcivility.com/]Global Civility[/url] (Muslim Action Committee) to call for nation-wide counter-demos to be scheduled for the same day.

After a meeting with a Muslim who is going to speak at the 'Freedom of Expression' demo the organisers have barred the display of the cartoons. They now say that they want Muslims to be able to join the demo without being offended. But the decision to bar the cartoons came with less than 48 hours notice. It remains to be seen whether the Islamaphobes will turn up and whether they'll get into a ruckus with Muslims who are there either to support 'Freedom of Expression' or to stop the display of the cartoons.

The Global Civility campaign has cancelled the nation-wide counter demos but not the one in Birmingham.

[url=http://johnnyvoid.blogspot.com/]More info[/url]

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[size=18]Hundreds join free speech rally[/size]

A 300-strong demonstration championing free speech in London's Trafalgar Square has got off to a peaceful start.

The protest was organised in response to the uproar over cartoons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, which appeared in some European newspapers.

Organisers said it is not anti-Muslim and have asked the BNP to stay away.

The Muslim Action Committee staged a counter-protest in Birmingham over fears London protesters would carry placards of the satirical cartoons.

[b]Blog site
[/b]
The free speech movement was born from a blog site on the internet and rallied hundreds from across the political spectrum to join Saturday's rally,

Organiser Peter Risdon said: "We are in favour of free speech and not against Muslims. They are our neighbours and our friends."

Dr Evan Harris MP, Liberal Democrat human rights spokesman, will be joined by women's rights campaigner Maryam Namazie and Keith Porteous Wood, of the National Secular Society, to speak at the rally.

Initial plans to print the controversial cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad onto banners as a way of expressing support for the Danish cartoonists were shelved.

[b]'Potential threat'[/b]

"There is no way in the present climate that they could be construed as anything other than a potential threat," said Mr Risdon.

"We have asked people not to bring them."

Ismaeel-Haneef Hijazi, of the Muslim Action Committee formed in the wake of the controversial publication of the cartoons, is calling for "global civility" and is not against the organisers' message.

But the group fears the event may be disrupted by BNP members and antagonists.

He said 300 protesters joined a two-hour counter-rally in Victoria Square, Birmingham, on Saturday morning.

The latest rallies follow demonstrations around the world including a trouble-free 5,000-strong pro-Islam rally in Trafalgar Square in February.

[url=http://www.therevival.co.uk/forums/posting.php?mode=reply&t=1363]BBC News[/url]

Come on boys. Enough with the cartoon demos. Just cool it now.

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[size=18]Int'l Organization, Fund for Defending Prophet[/size]

MANAMA, March 24, 2006 (IslamOnline.net) - Muslim scholars wrapped up their two-day meeting in the Bahraini capital Manama Thursday night, March 23, announcing the establishment of an international organization and a fund for defending prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him) against defamatory attacks in the West.

"The International Organization for Defending the Prophet will be created to be the umbrella body of future conferences," according to the conference's communiqué.

Some 300 Muslim scholars huddled together to explore a strategy to prevent a repeat of acts lampooning the Prophet.

Six imams from Denmark, where the controversy originated, also took part in the conference.

The nascent organization will be grouping four main bureaus to promote its goals.

"An economic office will be established to enhance and follow up relevant activities like boycott; a legal one to take and pursue legal actions against whoever insults Islam, the Qur'an and the Prophet; a third to coordinate Muslim efforts and promote dialogue with non-Muslims and a fourth to conduct studies and researches and organize seminars," said the statement.

[b]Fund[/b]

The participants also decided to set up an international fund to finance activities on projecting the true image of Islam and the Prophet in the West.

"The international fund for defending the Prophet will finance projects and activities of the organization," read the statement.

Saudi Sheikh Salman Al-Ouda, the conference's secretary general, said the capital proposed for the fund will be 100 million euros.

Twelve cartoons, including one showing the Prophet with a bomb-shaped turban, were first published by Danish daily Jyllands-Posten in September and reprinted by European newspapers on claims of freedom of expression.

The drawings, considered blasphemous under Islam, have triggered massive and sometimes violent demonstrations across the Muslim world.

The cartoons have prompted Muslim minorities in many Western countries to champion local campaigns to raise awareness of the merits and characteristics of the Prophet.

IslamOnline.net launched Tuesday, March 21, a multi-lingual website to acquaint non-Muslims with the prophet.

[b]Positive Arla[/b]

The conference also praised stance of the Danish-Swedish dairy firm Arla, which denounced the Prophet cartoons.

"The move is a right step to initiate dialogue between the conference and the firm on taking reciprocal steps towards its initiative," the scholars said in their statement.

The Danish firm denounced on Sunday, March 19, the Prophet cartoon in full page advertisements taken out in papers across the Middle East.

"The Arla Foods company denounces and rejects the cartoons published by the Danish newspaper (Jyllands-Posten) and refuses any justifications for the act," the corporation said.

Muslim participants, however, underlined the need to abide by the economic boycott as a civilized way to defend the Prophet against the odious attacks.

[b]Apology[/b]

The Muslim scholars further reiterated their demand for an official apology from the Danish government and the newspaper at issue for the "publication" of the cartoons.

"This apology should include floating the true image of Islam and the Prophet and his role," said the statement.

Denmark's prime minister has said he regretted the hurt caused to Muslims but refuses to apologize on behalf of the paper. The editor of Jyllands-Posten has apologized for offending Muslims but defended the paper's right to publish the cartoons.

The scholars also called for promoting dialogue between Muslims and the West based on mutual respect.

"The relationship between Muslims and the West must be founded on peaceful co-existence and mutual respect."

The participants further urged to work out an international resolution banning the desecration of religious sanctities.

The Muslim world's two main political bodies -- the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and the Arab League -– are seeking a UN resolution, backed by possible sanctions, to protect religions in response to the furor.

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and European External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner have further suggested that the EU and the OIC could draft a joint UN resolution calling for religious tolerance.

Danish Muslims said on March 17 they were now planning to take the publication of the blasphemous cartoons to the world body.

The move comes after Denmark's State Prosecutor Henning Fode turned down charges against the Posten over its publication of the cartoons.

[url=http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2006-03/24/article02.shtml]Islam...

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[size=18]Danish Muslims Want "Court's Word" in Cartoons Crisis[/size]

COPENHAGEN, March 31, 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Danish Muslims have filed a lawsuit against mass-circulation Jyllands Posten for printing cartoons that lampooned Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him).

"Now the wronged have to use all legal measures to get the court's word and not just a government official on whether the Jyllands-Posten's cartoons and article were legal," Michael Christiani Havemann, the lawyer representing the Copenhagen-based European Committee for Honoring the Prophet, which groups 27 organizations, said Thursday, March 30, in a statement carried by Reuters.

The lawsuit comes two weeks after Denmark's top prosecutor decided not to press criminal charges against the paper for publishing the cartoons.

Henning Fode argued that the paper did not violate the Danish freedom of expression laws by commissioning and printing the cartoons.

Last September, the daily ran 12 cartoons including portrayals of the Prophet wearing a bomb-shaped turban and another showing him as a knife-wielding nomad flanked by shrouded women.

The lawyer argues in his case that the cartoons depicted Prophet Muhammad as "belligerent, oppressing women, criminal, crazy and unintelligent, and a connection is made between the Prophet and terror," according to the Associated Press.

He said the cartoons were published "solely to provoke and mock not only Prophet Muhammad but also the Muslim population."

The drawings, considered blasphemous under Islam, have triggered massive and sometimes violent demonstrations across the Muslim world and strained the Muslim-West ties.

[b]Fine[/b]

The lawsuit, filed in the western city of Aarhus where the Posten is based, sought $16,100 in damages from the daily's editor-in-chief Carsten Juste and culture editor Flemming Rose, who commissioned the drawings.

"We're seeking judgment for both the text and the drawings which were gratuitously defamatory and injurious," Havemann told the AP.

Danish Muslims have said they were planning to take the Prophet cartoons to the United Nations after the prosecutor's snub.

The paper and the Danish government have repeatedly refused to apologize for publishing the cartoons.

The daily has always defended its action as being in accordance with the freedom of expression principle entrenched in the Danish constitution.

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and European External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner recently suggested that the EU and the Organization of the Islamic Conference co-draft a UN resolution promoting religious tolerance.

The OIC and the Arab League, the Muslim world's two main political bodies, are seeking a UN resolution, backed by possible sanctions, to protect religions following the publication of the provocative cartoons.

[url=http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2006-03/31/article03.shtml]Islam...

Two positive news stories in a row!

(not put on newsblog though... should I?)

MAKE THAT 3 BOSS!!!................

3 now, gotta be a newssblog on this............

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[size=18]Tony Blair & Other Leaders Respond to Memorandum[/size]

The memorandum written by Shaykh-ul-Islam Prof. Dr. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri on the publication of the caricatures of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW) has been welcomed by world leaders who have shown great interest in it. Many replies have been received in this regard. Furthermore embassy missions in Islamabad have replied very positively on behalf of their governments.

[b]The Prime Minister of Britain, Tony Blair, has replied thanking Shaykh-ul-Islam for the memorandum and that the views expressed in the memorandum have been carefully noted.[/b]

[b]The Prime Minister of Denmark[/b], Anders Fogh Rasmussen, has sent a detailed reply presenting his government’s stance on the issue, which is well known to every body now. He has said that he has taken note of the comments of Shaykh-ul-Islam.

[b]The Prime Minister of Sweden[/b], Göran Persson, has appreciated the memorandum and has directed the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to take further action in this regard.

[b]The President of the Republic of Ireland[/b], Mary McAleese, has replied saying the memorandum has been fully taken into account. The [b]Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland,[/b] Bertie Ahern, T.D, has also replied similarly. The [b]government of Holland [/b]also replied positively to the memorandum.

[b]The British High Commissioner in Pakistan, Mark Lyall Grant, has greatly appreciated the memorandum and has called on Shaykh-ul-Islam to stand up and be counted as a moderate voice, if the clash of civilisations is not to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. [/b]

The Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Pakistan, Dr. Gunter Mulack, agreed with the memorandum that the publication of the caricatures was insulting and distasteful causing unnecessary tension and unrest. He agreed with peaceful protest in this regard.

[b]The embassy of the Vatican in Pakistan replied positively to the memorandum upon which they will take the necessary action. [/b]

[b]The Chairman of the upper house of Parliament in Pakistan-the Senate, Mian Muhammad Soomro, relying to the memorandum acknowledged Shaykh-ul-Islam as a social reformer[/b]. [i]He said that Shaykh-ul-Islam has successfully dealt with the issue surrounding the publication of the caricatures of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW) while at the same time not letting the tolerant image of Islam be tainted[/i]. He was referring to the violent protests carried out by some extremists which served the purpose of painting all Muslims and Islam as intolerant, extremist and backward in the International media. He added that the memorandum will be placed in the Senate library.

Minhaj.org recently reported on the reply of the [b]United Nations commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Louise Arbour, in which she said that she appreciated the concerns of Shaykh-ul-Islam expressed in the Memorandum. She said that the memorandum will be taken up by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights[/b].

Salam

Arabs simply cannot resist Danish butter. *

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4884798.stm

Omrow

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* Although I think butter is just an excuse to import the DVDs.

Imagine....

a petition sent to the United Nations

showing how strong the Ummah feel about the cartoon issue and the opposition towards it

and then imagine thousands of muslims, if not hundreds of thousands signing it

imagine it was FIFTEEN KILOMETERS LONG....yes 15KM long petition, sent to the UN

well no need to imagine...........Minhaj Ul Quran, Youth league has created the 15km long petition and is in the process of getting people to sign it Inshallah

imagine their faces when UPS deliver that to the UN doors

can we have a pic? full size?

:twisted:

when it becomes available, you can do im sure

[b]A New Trend in Protest[/b]

The initial months of the year 2006 brought confusion and chaos affecting the world at large when the blasphemous caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) were published first in "Jallandus Posten", and later in some other European newspapers. Resultantly, Muslims all over the world recorded their protest showing deep love and intimacy with the last Prophet of God. However, in some countries the furore was at its peak putting on fire the Danish Embassies and engulfing precious lives. In Pakistan too, five men lost their lives in the fiery protest in addition to setting on fire the public property, needless to mention Punjab provincial Assembly. At that grave and critical juncture, Minhaj-ul-Quran Youth League and Mustafavi Students Movement decided to adopt a distinct but civilized and meaningful way of demonstration by introducing a new trend in protest.

Full Story: http://www.minhaj.org/org/index.php?contents=text&tid=275&lang=en

she beat me to it

but thats the link for what i was saying, the 15km long petition sent to the UN and has been acknowledged

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The youth delegation was warmly received by UN Country Office Director Mr Haulien Sue, who appreciated the activity and promised to send the banner along with the memorandum to UN Headquarters, New York, America, and it would be placed in the record room where it would be available to be seen on UN website of historical documents. The youth leadership, while exchanging views with Mr Hamlien Sue, demanded that UN must play its influential role, taking the concrete steps towards the blasphemous laws under the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.

the pics u wanted...

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oops i missed readin your intial post there Hayder regarding the petition, over a million people signed it mashallah....

I got to sign it too, it was during the mehfils we had in the evening every night starting from 1st-11th Rabi-ul-Awal.

Three people were [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7240481.stm]arrested today[/url] in Denmark over allegedly plotting to try to kill one of cartoonists. (apparently one has been released, the two others will be held until deportation - Not what you would expect as the result for attempted Murder... maybe they messed up? )

There is also a rumour going around that the paper that originally printed "as a sign of support" will reprint them tomorrow. No idea if this is one of the normal chinese whispers, or the paper actually trying to provoke a reaction.

Is that petition written on paper? Hasnt the paper ripped yet? Or is it on cloth?
i think that the petition is a big wow factor

we had a petition in my school two years back, it wass a petition to end all petitions haha

I dunno about that.

As a result of muslims all over the world boycotting anything Dainish, Denmarks president has had to re-classify the country as a third world country.

Now thats power you cant buy