Can you imagine Mohammed, peace be on him, would approve of the violence and political nonsense around someone drawing a picture of him? He was a man who played such a vital life, played many roles, and I feel he would be completely aghast and ashamed at the mismanagement of his principles and disregard for his love of life. I support this petition.
I support this petition. I also wish American newspapers would get behind this a publish the cartoons. This is an issue of Free Press and Free Expression. No other country should be able to tell another what to publish.
Our precious Western freedoms are under attack by an intolerant, violent group of Islamofascists. We must not let ourseleves become dhimmi roadkill on their highway to global Sharia.
All these burnings and threats is more an exanple of islams weaknesses a religion that rest in it self do NOT have the need for defending it self with voilence.
I support this petition and the Danish people. We will NOT be intimidated by your ugly attacks on our freedoms! I am an American and I stand with the Danish people. Freedom for all people!
I support this petition. Will those who strap bombs on their sons to commit murder of innocent civilians now accuse the civilized world of being "insensitive." If these barbarians cannot be assimilate into civil societies, they must be exterminated.
I wholeheartedly support this petition. Only when the Muslim world stands up and marches in protest against televised beheadings will I listen to any of their prattle about how "responsibility" needs to be exercised in freedom of expression. Me and my fellow Americans live in the 21st century; perhaps the Middle East would care to join us?
I support this petition.
Freedom is under attack from fanaticism on all fronts, from the religious fanatics in the white house and the religious fanatics east, and it must not be tolerated. This weary patriot proudly stands with the Danish people.
As an American, I strongly support this petition.
Intimidation, ugly and frightening, must not win out!
If we lose our free speech rights all else is lost.
I Don't support this petition.
because this is not a freedom of speech; this is a sort of insulting and ignoring others' feelings and believes. If we respect others they will respect us. We should be aware of that.
I do not support this petition.because Many people forget that Freedom of Expression can only function effectively in society when it used responsibly. If responsibility is not used then extreme right wing groups use freedom of expression to demonise a particular social group in this case Muslims. History shows how Jews were demonised under the same banner of Freedom of Expression by the Nazis in Europe.
I definitely support this petition.
It is ridiculous to have Muslims in countries that don't even practice human rights dictate what Denmark's press can or cannot do.
Where were these "champions of religion" after 911? After Somalia? After the terrorist attack on Kobar Towers in Saudi Arabia? After terrorist bombing of the USS Cole? After terrorist bombing of embassies in Tanzaniza and the Sudan? After terrorist bombing of commuter trains in Spain, after the terroriswt bombings in London. Where were the Muslim outcries of injustice!
THERE WAS NO OUTCRY! And after 911, Palestinians were dancing gleefully in the streets and wore 911 t-shirts with Bin Laden on them. Where is the respect there? Where was the outcry of injustice there? It wasn't there for obvious reasons!!
DENMARK, I APPLAUD YOUR RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH!
I Totally and Proudly Support this Petition. It is a cartoon and only a cartoon! IF you (the Muslims who are rioting, this is not toward the good muslims going about thier general business) are going force your belief's and your intolerance upon Denmark and the rest of the world, maybe something has to be done about your Fundementalist belief system.
I understand your anger but understand this, you are acting like criminals and savages. What right do you think you have destoying the property of the Danish Consulate. What right have you to act like a mob. Freedom of Speech is a Fundemental to Modern Society and if you do not like it, then you have alot to learn about civilization.
As for Nany 745: Your an apologist and no better then those filthy mob's sacking the Danish Consulate!
I support this petition: Muslims blew up Buddha statues in Afghanistan and redicule the rews religion... why is it then up to them to decide, what we can and can not draw?
I support this petition.
Muslims.., don't over react, please!. The cartoons are just tell you, what the West tingks about your believes: to be suicide bomers (for killing innocents) and will get virgins in heaven - it's nonsense for the West.
Here in western sociaties a religion has a place in hearts when its jobs bring good lifes for mankind.
Freedom will never bowdown before Submission, never!, but towards Love, yes!!!
I support this petition.
to all of u muslims who write in here.. i understand your feelings and your anger since it been said that mohammed must not be portrayed but i wonder if u have seen those drawings? ore have u just seen those drawings that the MUSLIM delegation from denmark had with them as they traveled arab couintries? cause if u have seen them then u should know that none of those drawings is from jyllandsposten but were made by those muslims who went to arab countrys. so what is your reaction to them?? those drawings where far worse than those publishied in jyllandsposten!! so why is there no reaction against those imans and other defenders of the muslims?? i wonder if that is because they are muslims.. in those drawings that they shown in arab countrys muhammed was shown as a phedophile.. and one drawing shown a muslim being f..... by a dog.. and none of those offendiong drawings has even been shown in denmark.. they were made by those muslims saying that we should respect the fact that mohammed is a holy man that must not be portraied.. so can one of u please tell me why u have no hard feelings about those muslims??? is it beacause denmark is a small country that is easy to pick on? ore is it because u r opressed and dont the truth from lie?? ore just ignorant to own faults??...
I support this petition.Viva freedom of speech!!, religion is something you personally choose for, but most moslims (I don't say all)are forced into believing. I think it has to be possible to laugh with every religion.
PS. I'm a convinced atheïst.
Hi All,
I'am a 26 years old Muslim who had a relitvely good education and open mind to all sort of things, BUT the pictures had efinded me and still are, there are no resonse to insult prophets not freedom of speech nor egnornce.
For all of you who had saied before that the picture were not enttended to harm Muslim feelings then PLEASE tell me what they were for (.....?......)
I'am aginst vaiolince and i think burning the empessy is a wrong thing like the cartoon but the poycot is strong feeling exprations.
for all the people who think they could effende there religon under the freedom of speech,Please we have not insulted any religon befor and WE WONT (aginst Islam religon, IN FACT we must pelaive in them respcit them and NEVER insult them in any way.
One last thing.......... since the day i heard about the cartoons EVERY DAY when i here anything about this cartoon the tairs fell my ayes (some emotional stress that i hope no one feel it)
Thank you all
Peace be upon those who follow the right path.
I do not support this petition.
I have some words to share with respected readers:
1- Mohammad (PBUH) was NOT sent ONLY to Arabs. He is a universal messenger and a prophet, so he was sent to you who read this message and to all people in the world. So why do those artists insult a great, decent, honest person who was sent to guide people to follow the right path and thus be saved in the Day of Judgment.
2- Freedom of speech does not (at all) mean insulting others, especially a person (like Mohammad PBUH) who never insulted any one in his life or in his teaching.
3- It has been proved through history that anyone who tried in any means to insult the prophet of Islam, such a person was punished severely in this life by Allah (God) the almighty. So we can draw a valid conclusion and let's wait and observe such conclusion. This is a special request, please see what might happen to those people in terms of their health, wealth, etc.
4- I'm not supporting any act of violence against those artists, officials, properties, etc, but I'm inferring some conclusions from the past.
5- Do not ignite the hatred among nations and people. If you do not want to be a Muslim and believe in Mohammad, it is up to you, you will be held responsible about yourself in the Day of Judgment. BUT do not insult millions of Muslims who believe in, respect, and follow Mohammad (peace be upon him)
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I proudly support this petition.
It's about damn tim esomeone stand up to these fundamentalist wackos.
This Mohammed guy below has the audacity to talk about hypocracy and arrogance? Has he ever seen what gets published in the middle east? No ridicule or insults hurled by Muslims in their own press - are you joking? Case in point several papers in the middle east are set to release similar cartoons mocking the Danish. How childish is that? Of course, the Danish will show them what it means to be civilized. Instead of calling for violence and boycotts, they will laugh off these ignorant, chicken-**** cowards, who can't even get it together to overthrow their oppressive governments so that they might know what a free press is like. So a bunch of nut job fundamentalists in Arab counties are going to dictate to Denmark what the Danish can put in their own papers?
Get real jack off...
Intended Insults: Unintended Consequences
By Khalid Baig
Posted: 6 Muharram 1427, 5 February 2006
On 31 January, Carsten Juste, editor-in-chief of Jyllands-Posten, published an open letter to Muslims saying he was sorry that Muslims took offence from the cartoons (which his cultural editor had commissioned for the express purpose of causing offence). In that caricature of an apology he did not admit that the paper had done anything wrong. Rather he blamed the Muslims' poor understanding of the Danish culture for their getting so upset. Then he wondered, as did many media pundits, why Muslims were not buying his apology.
He also said in a separate comment that had he known the extent of Muslim anger, he would not have published those cartoons. Since then the same cartoons have been reproduced by one newspaper after another in Europe. How could these "especially commissioned works of art" be reproduced by other papers? Only if Jyllands-Posten, the original copyright holder, gave them permission to do so. That it should continue to let others reprint these despicable cartoons, while claiming that it had expressed its regret, is only fitting in a drama that continues to reveal the depths of hypocrisy in which Europe is mired today.
In a different setting, Jan Lund, the paper's foreign editor was more open. In his Guardian interview he said. "We apologised for hurting the feelings of a lot of Muslims in this. But we don't apologise for printing the cartoons." (Translation: I am sorry your father was killed. But I am not sorry for firing at him.)
And in the theatre of the absurd, the United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, offered his own wise counsel. Even as the offending cartoons continued to be reprinted, he urged Muslims to accept the publisher's apology (which was never offered) and forget everything. "What is important is that the newspaper that initially publish
I support this petition.
We also urge you to kick all of
them out of your country if they
cannot abide by your laws and customs.
Anyone coming to a country and then
trying to exert their own laws and
beliefs on that country do not
deserve to be allowed to remain.
I support this petition.
We also urge you to kick all of
them out of your country if they
cannot abide by your laws and customs.
Anyone coming to a country and then
trying to exert their own laws and
beliefs on that country do not
deserve to be allowed to remain.
I support free speech, and this petition.
Isn't it ironic -- and stupid -- that some people burn and kill to protest being portrayed as people who burn and kill?
For shame!
I do not support this petition.
You are causing hatered between nations. Do not use religion as a mechanism to cause trouble around the world, be civilized and let us be nice to each other
I support this petition. I wholly support the Danish government and hope they will make the same decision in principle now that they did against Hitler. Stand on your priciple, faith and your freedoms that your country lives by.
It took great courage for Jyllands-Posten and other papers to publish the cartoons to make the essential point that we don't live under Islamic Law and will not submit to the intimidation of Islamic thugs. I hope that everyone continues to support them, especially the U.S. Government.
I do not respect Islam or the believers of this primitive, totalitarian religion and as a free man, I will openly and unapologetically oppose them. Fight back against Islamofascism by speaking out against their tactics of violence and by righteously rejecting their religion!
I support this petition. The muslims have no right to force their Islamic laws and religious beleifs onto non-muslims...stay strong Denmark! From the U.S.A.
