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The "How many people will be murdered over French Mohammad cartoon?" betting pool

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Posted by: tipper || 09/18/2012 20:43 || Comments || Link || [11145 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is there an over / under on this? Give me +10 / $10 US; I'm good for it...
Posted by: Raj || 09/18/2012 22:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Does that include suicide jackets that go wrong and guys dropping dead sniffing burning flags?
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 09/18/2012 22:44 Comments || Top||


Muslims Clash With Police In Europe As Governments Mull Limits Of Free Speech
European countries condemn the anti-US violence, but concerns are growing over the impact of the unrest.

The rage over a US-made anti-Islamic video spread to Europe over the weekend, when festivities took place between protesters and police in several cities even as mainstream Moslem community leaders joined European governments in condemning violence sparked by the film.

French police cooled for a few years
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
150 demonstrators who gathered outside the US embassy in Gay Paree on Saturday and 250 protesters were set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
in Belgium over the weekend after confrontations in the country's second city, Antwerp. Around 300 people chanted anti-US slogans outside the American Embassy in London on Sunday.

Moslem leaders in La Belle France and Belgium were quick to condemn the violence despite their outrage over the video, which mocks the Prophet Muhammad.

"Don't associate French Moslems with these marginalized events," said Mohamed Moussaoui, president of the French Council of the Moslem Religion. "Moslems should use legal and just means to defend their religion."

European governments have been united in condemning the anti-American violence in several mainly-Moslem countries and have expressed their support for Washington following the killing last week of J. Christopher Stevens, the US ambassador to Libya.

French President François Hollande summed up the mood by expressing "La Belle France's complete solidarity with the United States."

European media followed a similar line. "When US flags burn, embassies are vandalized, and diplomats are murdered, it is an attack on the West, and not just America," wrote the German tabloid Bild.

Behind the scenes, officials said European countries were putting diplomatic pressure on Moslem governments to condemn the violence, attempt to defuse anti-US tensions and increase security at Western embassies.

European diplomats noted that Egypt's Islamist President Mohammad Morsi finally issued a statement condemning the attack that killed Stevens after holding talks with European Union
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officials in Brussels on Thursday -- although an angry phone call from US President Barack Obama
This is a teachable moment...
is reported to have helped persuade Morsi to speak out.

Despite the support for the United States, however, there is concern in Europe that the scale of anti-American feeling unleashed by the low-budget video represents Obama's failure to reach out to the Moslem world, and that his re-election prospects may be jeopardized.

Karim Emile Bitar of the Institute for International and Strategic Relations in Gay Paree warned TV coverage of the recent attacks could produce an effect similar to 1979's assault on the US embassy in Tehran, which was followed by a drawn-out hostage crisis.

"My first reaction, when I saw the images coming out of Egypt and Libya, was to ask if Barack Obama risked ending up like Jimmy Carter
... the worst president ever. Maybe the second worst. The votes aren't all in yet...
," Bitar told La Belle France 24 television. The hostage crisis is believed to have cost Carter re-election the following year.

"What's worrying now is that these incidents could allow the radical right in America to get ahead in the debate, using stereotypical caricatures of the Moslem world."

That prospect worries people on a continent where a poll published last week showed 71 percent approve of Obama's foreign policy.

However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
analysts said Europeans hope the violence will fade. They stressed it's too early to speculate over American and European support for Arab Spring revolutions that toppled dictators who had kept a lid on Islamist extremism in countries such as Libya, Tunisia and Egypt.

"I don't think that we're seeing, for the moment, any kind of wider misgivings about whether Europe was right to support the revolutions," said Anthony Dworkin, a US foreign policy specialist at the European Council on Foreign Relations. "America confronts deep-seated suspicion across the Middle East and these things develop over time," he added in a telephone interview from London. "This is not just about Obama."

Although European governments have been united in their condemnation of the violence provoked by the "Innocence of Moslems" video, officials said they would probably disagree about whether to ban such provocative works.

The ongoing unrest is rekindling debate from 2005, when cartoons representing the Prophet Muhammad also provoked violent protests after they were published in a Danish newspaper.

EU counties were divided back then between those who supported calls for international restrictions on what's perceived as insults to religion and others who backed freedom of speech regardless of the offence it causes believers.

Germany has now barred Terry Jones, an American evangelist preacher who supported the film, from entry and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle is seeking to ban a far-right group from organizing a screening of the film.

"Insulting other religions is prohibited by the criminal code," he told ARD television on Sunday. "There are also questions of maintaining public order and the public peace."

However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
opposition parties warned against violating fundamental rights of free speech. "From what I've seen, this film is filled with crass stupidity, but not criminal content," Green party human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
front man Volker Beck told the news magazine Der Spiegel.

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Posted by: trailing wife || 09/18/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11146 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We'll continue to see domesticated Muslims mouthing words of accomodation while the wild ones continue to denegrate nonMuslims, I expect.
Posted by: Varmint Oppressor of the Hatfields7975 || 09/18/2012 2:36 Comments || Top||

#2  The EUSSR has always hated people being restricted from preventing people from saying what they like.

This is an excuse to curtail freedom, no wonder the EUSSR loves it.

After all the mo-vid was just the after-attack justification, the real reason was al-libi getting his 72 white raisins.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/18/2012 7:36 Comments || Top||

#3 
"Don't associate French Moslems with these marginalized events," said Mohamed Moussaoui, president of the French Council of the Moslem Religion. "Moslems should use legal and just means to defend their religion."


Like killing school kids and torching every car in sight?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/18/2012 12:04 Comments || Top||



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