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| Iran may cancel ties with Europe amid cartoon outrage |
| 2006-02-04 |
| Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered the government on Saturday to study scrapping contracts with European countries where cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad have been published, the official IRNA news agency reported. Ahmadinejad has ordered Commerce Minister Masoud Mirkazemi to set up a committee to "consider and cancel economic contracts with the countries that started the hateful action", said the report. The Iranian president also slammed the publication of the cartoons as an "insult" to Islam, saying that the cartoons showed Western media's "rudeness." On Friday, former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani also condemned the cartoons as "loathsome", but called on Muslims to refrain from extremist moves. Meanwhile, several Iranian cities, including the capital Tehran, witnessed rallies staged by thousands of angry demonstrators protesting against the cartoons, IRNA said. Danish daily Jyllands-Poste published 12 cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad last September, including one depicting the Islamic religion's founder wearing a bomb-shaped turban. Over the past few days, the cartoons, which are considered blasphemous by most Muslims, were reprinted in some other European papers, which provoked an outrage in the Muslim world and a boycott of Danish products in most Muslim countries. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #7 thank GOD |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-02-04 18:12 |
| #6 At least it didn't involve Maddie Halfbright. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-02-04 17:33 |
| #5 now, Maxine....you're just begging .com to come up with pix NONE of us want to see...... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-02-04 17:32 |
| #4 Imagine a man who has a personal exercise routine involving a vacuum cleaner, a tube of ky, and a dvd showing various farmyard animals. Imagine that one day he forgets to draw the curtains while doing his workout, and when it is over he looks up to see that all his neighbours are staring in through the window. This is what the Islamic world has done. The rest of the world is embarrassed and would like to look away, but cannot. They are transfixed by the spectacle, and don't know whether to laugh or scream. |
| Posted by: Maxine 2006-02-04 17:28 |
| #3 Kind of like when the muslims call the jews dogs, and pigs, and openly say it is ok to kill any infidel. Tough shit boys. |
| Posted by: Sputch Spegum6518 2006-02-04 14:39 |
| #2 ROFLMAO! Variety man! |
| Posted by: 6 2006-02-04 12:43 |
| #1 Hix in stix nix rude pix. |
| Posted by: Whutch Threth6418 2006-02-04 11:41 |