The Cartoon Intifada

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Monday, February 6, 2006

The Cartoon Intifada

The "V" stands for "Victory." They view this as war

Evidence that the Unrest Over the Danish Caricatures is a Cartoon Intifada

The French riots were an Intifada. The Australian riots were an Intifada. The cartoon protests now sweeping the world are also an Intifada. They are not, as the mainstream media presents, a protest against religious insensitivity. Most obviously, the thousands of Danish flags that have been supplied for burning contain the Christian cross. Here, in a continuously updated entry, is the rest of the evidence.

Prediction: There will be a discovery that Hizbut Tehrir (HT) is the driving force of incitement behind the Cartoon Intifada. It is crucial to understand HT as the ideological integrator of the global jihad, as this must-read explains. HT was behind the French Intifada and the violence following the false Koran desecration allegations.

What is an Intifada?

I define an Intifada as a form of protracted violence with no other fully adequate name to convey the following elements:

-primarily Muslim participants with a uniquely Islamic orientation

-participation of both ritually observant and non-observant community elements

-a majority non-Muslim society

-hatred of non-Muslims as a dominant theme

-lack of emphasis on improving conditions for the agitators

-anti-Semitism

-rejection of majority culture norms to a large degree as well as resistance to accommodation

-terrorism against civilians, destruction of private property and attacks on non-Muslim houses of worship

-an increase of Muslim separatism and a decrease of societal integration as an end-product

The Evidence

Primarily Muslim Participants with a Uniquely Islamic Orientation

This one is obvious.

A Majority Non-Muslim Society

The unrest this time is occuring in many non-Muslim countries.

Hatred of Non-Muslims as a Dominant Theme

Belgium Muslim Leader Calls on Arabs to Use Danish Flag as Toilet Paper

Anti-Semitism

Islamic Group Posts Anti-Jew Cartoons

Iranian President: Caricatures Showed "Maximum Resentment of the Zionists (Jews) Ruling these Countries against Islam"

Terrorism Against Civilians, Destruction of Private Property and Attacks on Non-Muslim Houses of Worship

Catholic Priest Shot, Killed at Church in Turkey
"Teenage murderer shouted 'God is great' (Allahu akbar) as he escaped"

See also:

We are Witnessing an Intifada Redux

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While the circulation of an anti-Jewish cartoon is certainly a rephrensible act of anti-semitism, there is no question in my mind that no Jews of any affiliation will be running widly through the streets burning Danish flags or burning down consulates and embassies. Make no mistake about it. This cartoon is a vitriolic display for antipathy for Jews and tramples on the memory of those who perished during the Holocaust. The world should clearly and vociferously condemn it, but unlike the Arabs the Jews will not seek violent retribution.

#1 FERN SIDMAN on 2006-02-07 02:52 (Reply)

How about this one?

Iran to publish Holocaust cartoons
http://www.news.com.au/story/print/0,10119,18066746,00.html

From correspondents in Tehran
07-02-2006
From: Agence France-Presse

IRAN'S largest selling newspaper announced today it was holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

"It will be an international cartoon contest about the Holocaust," said Farid Mortazavi, the graphics editor for Hamshahri newspaper - which is published by Teheran's conservative municipality.
He said the plan was to turn the tables on the assertion that newspapers can print offensive material in the name of freedom of expression.

"The Western papers printed these sacrilegious cartoons on the pretext of freedom of expression, so let's see if they mean what they say and also print these Holocaust cartoons," he said.

Iran's fiercely anti-Israeli regime is supportive of so-called Holocaust revisionist historians, who maintain the systematic slaughter by the Nazis of mainland Europe's Jews as well as other groups during World War II has been either invented or exaggerated.

Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prompted international anger when he dismissed the systematic slaughter by the Nazis of mainland Europe's Jews as a "myth" used to justify the creation of Israel.

Mr Mortazavi said tomorrow's edition of the paper will invite cartoonists to enter the competition, with "private individuals" offering gold coins to the best 12 artists - the same number of cartoons that appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

Last week, the Iranian foreign ministry also invited British Prime Minister Tony Blair to Teheran to take part in a planned conference on the Holocaust, even though the idea has been branded by Mr Blair as "shocking, ridiculous, stupid".

Mr Blair also said Mr Ahmadinejad "should come and see the evidence of the Holocaust himself in the countries of Europe", to which Iran responded by saying it was willing to send a team of "independent investigators".

#2 Juanita on 2006-02-07 06:08 (Reply)

In re cartoons of Mohammed, you might also be interested in this one.

respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline

#3 Daniel in Brookline (Link) on 2006-02-07 16:43 (Reply)

If West countries believe freedom of expression, why prison every talk about the myth Holocaust? Poor men, prophets are best created of God. Your insult to prophets is similar that one want dust to sun. But it returns in his eye! Also why CNN, BBC, Fox news, ... deceive people with forged news? It's sufficient see the Iraq war news. Why didn't find any nuclear weapon in Iraq? Also news of Iran. All of this news are lie & forged. I think freedom of expression is a lie.

#4 justice on 2006-02-11 15:20 (Reply)

Justice:

Perhaps we should keep to one topic at a time...

First: not all Western countries make it a crime to deny the Holocaust. The countries that do, are the ones who made the Holocaust happen... and they are afraid (and rightly so!) of it happening again.

You complain about "insult to prophets", and I assume you mean insults to Muhammad. That argument would be much more convincing, if the Muslim world (and Arab world) didn't work so hard at insulting Jews.

In re "forged news" -- sorry, there is no comparison here. CNN, BBC, and Fox news are all part of a Free Press -- they are not allowed to incite to violence, but other than that, they can say just about anything they like. They can insult the American president; they can publish scandals that will cause an entire government to fall. Can the press of Iran accomplish that? How about the press of Saudi Arabia?

"I think the freedom of expression is a lie." Sir, if I were you, I'd be grateful to the Internet, and to this blog, for giving you the freedom of expression to say such things.

Freedom of expression, in the end, is the freedom to say and print things that your neighbor doesn't like, or that your government doesn't like. CNN etc. do that all the time. If you have the freedom to speak out against your own government, then your freedom of expression is NOT a lie, and you should be grateful that you have it. Millions of people, all over the world, do not.

respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline

#4.1 Daniel in Brookline (Link) on 2006-02-11 16:19 (Reply)

Daniel,

That was quite eloquent. You should be a blogger.

--Barak

#4.1.1 Barak (Link) on 2006-02-12 08:21 (Reply)

Thanks, Barak! Let me go see if daniel-in-brookline.com is taken.

respectfully,
DiB

#4.1.1.1 Daniel in Brookline (Link) on 2006-02-13 19:19 (Reply)

What the danish cartoons seek to show is the violent intollerance of Islam. And, guess what! The murder and mayhem by Muslim fanatics worldwide is nothing but a vindication of those cartoonists statements.

When debating the issue, what many forget is that those aren't the cartoons that really got these riots off the ground. It was these:

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/02/danish-imams-busted.html

Please note that it was a MUSLIM (or a few) who concocted the three most offensive images, NOT the Danes. Now if he (they) isn't(aren't) punished by Islam, either there really is no offense here, or it is permissable to make otherwise "forbidden" images for the purpose of slandering your enemy, i.e., for propaganda purposes.

Either way, that changes everything. It means that all this critical introspection we are going through, about how we maybe shouldn't offend the sensibilities of those who are so insensitive as to go postal at the drop of pin, is just letting ourselves be made fools of by the terrorists and their surrogates. It serves no usefull purpose, because they don't care what we do. They will always hate us, anyway. The real issue is not whether we are too free, but rather whether they are too violent. And, they ARE!

More info at these links:

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/004530.htm

http://www.neandernews.com/?p=54

http://counterterror.typepad.com/the_counterterrorism_blog/2006/02/fabricated_cart.html

These barbarians have no business dictating anything to us. And we have no business being ashamed before the very same kind of fascism we fought and defeated in WWII.

#5 ytba on 2006-02-14 08:05 (Reply)

Call it expression, call it whatever you want, I will call it revisionist history. Personally, I like this take on it

http://www.online-information.org/education/holocaust/iran_holocaust_cartoons.html

#6 Coming to an End (Link) on 2006-02-15 19:38 (Reply)

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