I think its hilarious that it only took a few cartoons for thousands of muslims to resort to barbaric activities.

2/9/2006 1:33:56 PM

they're only reacting like the stone age people they are

2/9/2006 1:47:21 PM

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"Here you go... amazingly, it basically says a lot of the things I have been saying! And no, I didn't cheat from there, I just came upon it now."

At what point in that article did it offer a solution instead of more whining about how you aren't allowed to deny blatant historical fact?

2/9/2006 3:40:28 PM

do these people not have jobs...I mean I'd honestly want to take a couple days of work to set shit on fire..but my boss wouldnt let me

2/9/2006 4:23:24 PM

Anti-cartoon protests go online

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"Almost 1,000 Danish websites have been defaced by Islamic hackers protesting about controversial cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad. The attacks typically replace home pages with pro-Islam messages and condemn the publication of the images. Hack attack monitoring group Zone-H said the defacements were done both by hacker groups and individuals. Zone-H said some hackers left moderate messages but many called for a violent response to the cartoons' publication. Fast response "We have never seen so many defacements that are politically targeted in such a short time," said Roberto Preatoni, founder and administrator of Zone-H. "What is extraordinary for this Danish case is the speed in which the community united," he added. Mr Preatoni said monitoring of hacker chat channels revealed that hackers and groups in different Islamic nations had banded together to make the protests more effective. Attacks were known to have come from groups in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Indonesia. Many of the groups involved in the attacks were well known, said Mr Preatoni, but some new ones had emerged as the attacks unfolded. There was even evidence that the protests had brought one older hacker out of retirement just to make his feelings known. Mouse and keyboard, Eyewire Hackers used net chat channels to co-ordinate attacks It was now rare for real world disputes to be without a digital equivalent, said Mr Preatoni and many hackers used website attacks and defacements to make their contribution to political protests. Many of the messages that replaced the home pages on hacked sites simply condemned the publication of the cartoons in Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten on 30 September 2005. Some messages called for boycotts of Danish goods. Other messages warned against mocking Muhammad and some told the Danes to expect a violent response. More than 900 Danish websites have suffered defacement during the wave of attacks, said Mr Preatoni. He added that a further 1600 Western sites have also been attacked and defaced as part of the same protest. Many of the defacements were cleared up quickly, said Mr Preatoni. "Generally a defacement, if it's happening on a home page, is usually replaced within a day." However, he added, secondary defacements buried within a website can last for months or years before they are found and removed by website administrators. It was likely that many of the Western sites hacked came from ready prepared lists of sites that were vulnerable to attack. However, said Mr Preatoni, readily available scanning tools made it easy to find and profile those Danish sites ripe for defacement. Most of the sites targeted were run by small organisations and companies that do not have dedicated security workers and cannot keep up with the latest alerts and patches for vulnerabilities. So far, said Mr Preatoni, there was little evidence that western hacker groups were taking any action in retaliation for the Islamic attacks. "

2/9/2006 4:59:32 PM

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"do these people not have jobs"

No. That's exactly the fucking problem in many cases.

2/9/2006 5:15:29 PM

buy gold, silver, and palladium

2/9/2006 5:16:33 PM

we should tell them that it was really Kim Jong Ill who drew them.

2/9/2006 5:25:21 PM

^^ But the Gold market just crashed! It was the quickest fall in market history. Surely we should wait until it hits bottom before buying base metals.

2/9/2006 8:48:52 PM

Meanwhile, in Bizaro-World:

2/9/2006 9:18:41 PM

^ lol

2/9/2006 9:37:06 PM

I love how wacko fundamentalist Christians like to poke fun at wacko fundamentalist Muslims, when the only real difference is degrees of civility.

LOOK AT THEM TRYING TO FORCE THEIR BELIEFS ON OTHER PEOPLE! THEY CRAZY, YO. THEY GET OUTRAGED OVER EVERYTHING!

2/9/2006 10:33:02 PM

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"when the only real difference is degrees of civility."

Yes, so? What difference could you be expecting? Everyone has and always will try to push their beliefs on others (atheists too). The only difference there can be is the degree of civility.

I hate everything you stand for, but resign myself to yelling at you on the internet. It isn't morally different from hunting you down and breaking both your legs (in both cases I want you to capitulate so that I will stop yelling or put the sledge hammer down).

Their location on the spectrum from "asking nicely" to "total warfare" is a tiny bit closer to "total warfare" than the extreme of our society, thus making them sufficiently uncivil to make them barbaric compared to the average one of us. (conversely, it also makes us pansies).

2/10/2006 12:27:13 AM

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"Everyone has and always will try to push their beliefs on others (atheists too)."

i wish that was said more often

2/10/2006 1:36:08 AM

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"the only real difference is degrees of civility."

You act as though this is a minor, unimportant difference.

There is a world of difference between lobbying through legal channels and burning down buildings.

2/10/2006 2:29:40 AM

Not really.

They're poking fun at their ability to get outraged at the drop of a hat (check)
and their desire to force their beliefs on others (check)
and to limit other people's rights (check)
and their propensity for hypocracy when it comes to violence (check)

That people in the slums of the Middle East are more violent than the richest nation on Earth's upper class isn't all that shocking.

Trust me; it's funny to non-fundamentalists.


Not to mention that there actualy are many moderate Muslim voices speaking out against the riots.



[Edited on February 10, 2006 at 7:09 AM. Reason : .]

2/10/2006 7:03:03 AM

degrees of civility....a bum on the street and a guy who will rob and kill you.

1. Both want your money (check)
2. Both are willing to take illegal steps to get it (panhandling for one, and theft for another) (check)
3. Both need the money (check)

Degrees of civilty are very important

2/10/2006 7:50:43 AM

boonedocks: "b, bu, but the Christians..."

2/10/2006 10:34:55 AM

2/10/2006 10:56:56 AM

2/10/2006 11:18:25 AM

THOSE CARTOONS ARE OFFENSIVE

AND I'M SURE THE GOOD PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE EAST ARE GOING TO PROVE THEM ALL WRONG

2/10/2006 11:25:48 AM

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"Not to mention that there actualy are many moderate MuslimChristians voices speaking out against the riotsfundamentalists."

2/10/2006 11:28:48 AM

oh shit

its spread to africa

kenyan forces apparently shot at protestors

2/10/2006 3:46:53 PM

2/10/2006 7:54:53 PM

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"b, bu, but the Christians..."

When did I say what the Muslims were doing was ok?

I'm just pointing out the humor.

2/10/2006 8:00:21 PM

I usually laugh at cox and forkum, but this cartoon just has me saying WTF

2/10/2006 8:06:09 PM

[Edited on February 10, 2006 at 10:45 PM. Reason : another]

2/10/2006 10:41:54 PM

that gun needs decency and common sense written on it as well.

2/11/2006 11:01:08 AM

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hahahahahhaahahahahahaha

2/11/2006 11:17:05 AM

good grief...

2/11/2006 7:16:11 PM

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"In a speech marking the 27th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution Saturday, Ahmadinejad linked his public rage with Israel and the cartoons satirizing Islam's most revered figure. "Now in the West insulting the prophet is allowed, but questioning the Holocaust is considered a crime," he said. "We ask, why do you insult the prophet? The response is that it is a matter of freedom, while in fact they (who insult the founder of Islam) are hostages of the Zionists. And the people of the U.S. and Europe should pay a heavy price for becoming hostages to Zionists."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060212/ap_on_re_mi_ea/prophet_drawings


AMERICA SHOULD BE PUNISHED

FOR BEING IN THAT HEMISPHERE.

2/11/2006 8:04:34 PM

fuckin nuke em and get it over with

2/11/2006 9:23:37 PM

This is the sort of news you expect to see in The Onion. These people are ridiculous. I am embarassed for moderate islamics.

2/11/2006 11:09:54 PM

Protesters burn an effigy of President Bush in Peshawar.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/02/14/pakistan.cartoons.ap/index.html

Damn President Bush and his cartoons.

2/14/2006 1:25:31 PM

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"they're only reacting like the stone age people they are"

2/14/2006 1:35:29 PM

Now they've simply gone too far. . .



The Colonel never hurt anyone.

2/15/2006 10:02:42 AM

you'd think they would've drawn cartoons of the colonel with a chicken for a hat.

2/15/2006 10:15:45 AM

Haha.

2/15/2006 10:19:49 AM

damnit, i wrote a well thought out reply to the letter in the technician
but then internet explorer crashed before gmail saved it

(stupid beta, im sticking with ff)

2/15/2006 10:42:50 AM

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"that gun needs decency and common sense written on it as well."

If that were the case it'd be aimed at a church

2/15/2006 11:01:27 AM

perhaps they thought the C stood for Cartoons

2/15/2006 11:10:37 AM

2/22/2006 9:52:21 AM

Stand Up For Denmark! - Christopher Hitchens

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"And there remains the question of Denmark: a small democracy, which resisted Hitler bravely and protected its Jews as well as itself. Denmark is a fellow member of NATO and a country that sends its soldiers to help in the defense and reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan. And what is its reward from Washington? Not a word of solidarity, but instead some creepy words of apology to those who have attacked its freedom, its trade, its citizens, and its embassies. For shame. Surely here is a case that can be taken up by those who worry that America is too casual and arrogant with its allies. I feel terrible that I have taken so long to get around to this, but I wonder if anyone might feel like joining me in gathering outside the Danish Embassy in Washington, in a quiet and composed manner, to affirm some elementary friendship. Those who like the idea might contact me at christopher.hitchens@yahoo.com, and those who live in other cities with Danish consulates might wish to initiate a stand for decency on their own account."

http://www.slate.com/id/2136714/

2/22/2006 10:41:20 AM