'Toon Update: From Monday Into Tuesday ...
And we start Tuesday with this link to Michelle Malkin. It seems as though Iran was unhappy over the cartoons today, and decided to take the extremist route. They attempted to set fire to the Danish Embassy.
This report comes from the New York Times.
Muslim anger over Danish cartoons that satirized the Prophet Muhammad continued to swell across the Middle East and elsewhere in the world on Monday, turning violent in Afghanistan, where at least five protesters died and more than a dozen police officers and protesters were wounded.
As the unrest gained momentum, European diplomats worked the telephones and fanned out across the Muslim world, urging their counterparts to issue statements that might help calm the unrest that had destroyed the Danish Consulate in Lebanon and the Danish and Norwegian Embassies in Syria on Saturday.
On Monday, protesters turned out in Turkey, Indonesia, India, Thailand and even New Zealand, where newspapers recently reprinted the cartoons. A teenager died in Somalia on Monday when the police set off a stampede by firing into the air to disperse protesters.
Crowds in the Iranian capital, Tehran, set fire to the Danish Embassy and broke the windows of the embassy of Austria, which now holds the presidency of the European Union. Thousands of students demonstrated in Cairo.
The diplomacy was complicated by other international issues and domestic politics in countries where protests have occurred, with the most significant demonstrations localized in what Cristina Gallach, a spokeswoman for Javier Solana, the European Union's foreign policy chief, called "very peculiar" places, including Iran, Syria and the Gaza Strip.
Iran, for example, is facing international pressure to halt its nuclear program, and Syria has been isolated internationally since the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister, Rafik Hariri, last year.
Ms. Gallach said Monday, "What we have to ask is that Arab leaders, and Arabs themselves, who see the importance of having good relations with Europe and the Western world, come out and speak clearly about the importance of not letting the situation deteriorate to the point that the only one who suffers is moderate Islam."
She said Mr. Solana had spoken to leaders of the Organization of the Islamic Conference and the Gulf Cooperation Council as well as representatives of the Arab League and diplomats in several Arab countries. European Union representatives have also called on government ministers across the Muslim world.
Arab governments have met the growing wave of protests with tacit acceptance, if not support, while seeking to prevent violence.
Qatar's Chamber of Commerce said it had halted dealings with Danish and Norwegian delegations, urging other Muslim states to follow suit. In cities where protests are unheard of, like Dubai, demonstrations against Denmark have been held openly. In some, demonstrators were bused in, paid for by the government. An official at a religious affairs ministry in the United Arab Emirates, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: "You have no choice but to join the chorus. Anyone who doesn't speak up will look as if they tacitly accept the prophet to be insulted."
Ihsan Bu-Huhleiga, a Saudi economist and member of the Shura consultative assembly, said, "It seems like the Danes did not take the issue seriously at all in the beginning."
The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten originally published the 12 cartoons last September, and they were republished in European news media in the last week.
Danish diplomats see an even heavier hand in some of the violence. "Syria has failed to protect a diplomatic mission," said Thomas May, consulate general for Denmark in Dubai, adding that "if you look at the pictures, you can see that the security people turned their backs" after the attack on the embassy in Syria.
"Everybody was hoping that when the newspaper came out with an apology, and our prime minister came out with a personal apology, this would have cooled things," he said. "What more can we do?"
This is quickly spinning out of control. Apologies aren't working. It's about high time that these nations either get serious about quelling this sort of violence, and keeping it to a low roar in Europe, or else there will be consequences. Eventually, these animals will go after an embassy where the owners will take it as an act of war, and there will be retaliations. Iran's already facing the UN Security Council, thanks to the IAEA, and this isn't helping their case. In addition to this today, Iran demanded that the IAEA turn off their cameras in their nuclear facilities.
I think not.
In addition to the violence cited above, Michelle Malkin also linked to this map which shows the hot spots in the world over these stupid cartoons. The map lists nations supporting the Danish cartoonists, and their freedom of expression, nations that have violence erupting, nations that have perpetrated acts of war, and nations that are neutral.
And it seems as though my better half was rather prophetic. With little violence coming to light earlier today, and more moderate Muslims stepping forward, it looked as though tempers might have been claming down. Typical that a nation like Iran decided to up the ante. All I know is something is going to have to give way, and soon, before this spreads to an out-of-control state across the globe. Right now, it is centered in dense Muslim population centers. And the only reason I can see that France has started burning again is it seems tyhe rioters ran out of cars to burn.
And has anyone noticed that none of the protesters have gone after any other embassies aside from those for Denmark, Norway, and today the Austrian embassy was targeted? I can venture a guess as to why this has happened. Any other nation would take their embassies being attacked as an act of war, and I doubt those governments would like to see the retaliation of a nation like America, Great Britain, France, or Germany. All four nations take exception to their sovereign soil being targeted. Further, if these nations aren't careful, they could find their allies in America and Europe turning their backs on those regions for this behavior.
Publius II
And we start Tuesday with this link to Michelle Malkin. It seems as though Iran was unhappy over the cartoons today, and decided to take the extremist route. They attempted to set fire to the Danish Embassy.
This report comes from the New York Times.
Muslim anger over Danish cartoons that satirized the Prophet Muhammad continued to swell across the Middle East and elsewhere in the world on Monday, turning violent in Afghanistan, where at least five protesters died and more than a dozen police officers and protesters were wounded.
As the unrest gained momentum, European diplomats worked the telephones and fanned out across the Muslim world, urging their counterparts to issue statements that might help calm the unrest that had destroyed the Danish Consulate in Lebanon and the Danish and Norwegian Embassies in Syria on Saturday.
On Monday, protesters turned out in Turkey, Indonesia, India, Thailand and even New Zealand, where newspapers recently reprinted the cartoons. A teenager died in Somalia on Monday when the police set off a stampede by firing into the air to disperse protesters.
Crowds in the Iranian capital, Tehran, set fire to the Danish Embassy and broke the windows of the embassy of Austria, which now holds the presidency of the European Union. Thousands of students demonstrated in Cairo.
The diplomacy was complicated by other international issues and domestic politics in countries where protests have occurred, with the most significant demonstrations localized in what Cristina Gallach, a spokeswoman for Javier Solana, the European Union's foreign policy chief, called "very peculiar" places, including Iran, Syria and the Gaza Strip.
Iran, for example, is facing international pressure to halt its nuclear program, and Syria has been isolated internationally since the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister, Rafik Hariri, last year.
Ms. Gallach said Monday, "What we have to ask is that Arab leaders, and Arabs themselves, who see the importance of having good relations with Europe and the Western world, come out and speak clearly about the importance of not letting the situation deteriorate to the point that the only one who suffers is moderate Islam."
She said Mr. Solana had spoken to leaders of the Organization of the Islamic Conference and the Gulf Cooperation Council as well as representatives of the Arab League and diplomats in several Arab countries. European Union representatives have also called on government ministers across the Muslim world.
Arab governments have met the growing wave of protests with tacit acceptance, if not support, while seeking to prevent violence.
Qatar's Chamber of Commerce said it had halted dealings with Danish and Norwegian delegations, urging other Muslim states to follow suit. In cities where protests are unheard of, like Dubai, demonstrations against Denmark have been held openly. In some, demonstrators were bused in, paid for by the government. An official at a religious affairs ministry in the United Arab Emirates, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: "You have no choice but to join the chorus. Anyone who doesn't speak up will look as if they tacitly accept the prophet to be insulted."
Ihsan Bu-Huhleiga, a Saudi economist and member of the Shura consultative assembly, said, "It seems like the Danes did not take the issue seriously at all in the beginning."
The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten originally published the 12 cartoons last September, and they were republished in European news media in the last week.
Danish diplomats see an even heavier hand in some of the violence. "Syria has failed to protect a diplomatic mission," said Thomas May, consulate general for Denmark in Dubai, adding that "if you look at the pictures, you can see that the security people turned their backs" after the attack on the embassy in Syria.
"Everybody was hoping that when the newspaper came out with an apology, and our prime minister came out with a personal apology, this would have cooled things," he said. "What more can we do?"
This is quickly spinning out of control. Apologies aren't working. It's about high time that these nations either get serious about quelling this sort of violence, and keeping it to a low roar in Europe, or else there will be consequences. Eventually, these animals will go after an embassy where the owners will take it as an act of war, and there will be retaliations. Iran's already facing the UN Security Council, thanks to the IAEA, and this isn't helping their case. In addition to this today, Iran demanded that the IAEA turn off their cameras in their nuclear facilities.
I think not.
In addition to the violence cited above, Michelle Malkin also linked to this map which shows the hot spots in the world over these stupid cartoons. The map lists nations supporting the Danish cartoonists, and their freedom of expression, nations that have violence erupting, nations that have perpetrated acts of war, and nations that are neutral.
And it seems as though my better half was rather prophetic. With little violence coming to light earlier today, and more moderate Muslims stepping forward, it looked as though tempers might have been claming down. Typical that a nation like Iran decided to up the ante. All I know is something is going to have to give way, and soon, before this spreads to an out-of-control state across the globe. Right now, it is centered in dense Muslim population centers. And the only reason I can see that France has started burning again is it seems tyhe rioters ran out of cars to burn.
And has anyone noticed that none of the protesters have gone after any other embassies aside from those for Denmark, Norway, and today the Austrian embassy was targeted? I can venture a guess as to why this has happened. Any other nation would take their embassies being attacked as an act of war, and I doubt those governments would like to see the retaliation of a nation like America, Great Britain, France, or Germany. All four nations take exception to their sovereign soil being targeted. Further, if these nations aren't careful, they could find their allies in America and Europe turning their backs on those regions for this behavior.
Publius II
posted by Syd And Vaughn | 1:20 AM
1 Comments:
I've yet to see the Muslim clerics asking for peace-oops -I forgot, that's what they preach. Their concept of "peace" seems to be to riot knowing there would be death and destruction. Who are these Moderate Muslims? What is a Moderate Muslim? A jihad is declared. Do the moderates ignore it? As I've said many times, the bottom line in this war and this is part of it, is Islam vs. Civilization. Rawriter
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