Cartoon Rage II - 'New Danish insults to Islam'
This entry was posted on 10/7/2006 7:18 PM and is filed under Religion,Terror.
Thanks to
Jihad Watch for bringing to light the Associated Press article of October 7, "
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood denounces what it calls 'new Danish insults to Islam." "
The Brotherhood's condemnation came a day after word spread about a Web video showing young members of a populist Danish political party mocking Islam's Prophet Muhammad."
"The video showed people in their 20s and 30s participating in a drawing contest at a summer camp for the Danish People's Party Youth last August. They appeared to have been drinking alcohol.
The footage shows a woman presenting a drawing of a camel and saying it has "the head of Muhammad" and beer bottles as humps. The group laughs as the woman, who was not identified, explained the drawing.
"Muslims are shocked by this new Danish insult," the Muslim Brotherhood said in a statement issued Saturday. It described the drawing as "the ugliest for God's most honorable human being, peace be upon him."
Kenneth Christensen, chairman of the Danish People's Party Youth -- known for its anti-immigration stance -- refused to apologize Friday for the actions of its members, but acknowledged they were problematic.
"It is bad style because it overshadows our political line," Christensen said. But he added that he believed it was "OK to poke fun at Muhammad, Jesus or Bill Clinton."
The Brotherhood, which enjoys wide popularity in Egypt and across the Arab World, urged Muslims on Saturday to boycott products from Denmark and any other country that would allow such an 'insult.'"
Now, as we know, Islam is a religion of peace. Those who claim otherwise must be killed. But wait! More noteworthy than the predictable Muslim outrage over a Dutch drawing was the Muslim Brotherhood's supposed call to Muslims to
"express denouncement through peaceful means, by demonstrations and protests."
Wow. The Brotherhood charter says,
"God is our objective, the Quran is our Constitution, the Prophet is our leader, struggle is our way, and death for the sake of God is the highest of our aspirations." (See
here.) From the same
Wikipedia article,
"Many of the Brotherhood's writings in the Arab world and in the US have argued that the September 11th attacks were a proper response to US actions in the world. In the US, the EU, and throughout the Arab world, the Brotherhood is often regarded by experts as the source of all modern jihadi terrorism."
Note also that these are the same guys who
assassinated Anwar Sadat in 1981. So, while it's nice(?) that they advocate peaceful demonstrations this round against selected Dutch, is it wrong of me to be skeptical?
