This is going to offend those of you who believe in "toleration," if you fit that description I'd suggest you close this site on three. One...two..three...
Well if you're still here then you can only blame yourself if you don't like this.
Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has said that President Bush and Secretary of State Condi Rice should "shut up." Why? Because they were the only political figures to state the fact that Syria and Iran are fueling the protests over a cartoon in a Danish newspaper. The Sheik happens to be the head of Hezbollah, a known terrorist group.
The article that reported this (http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060202102909990005&cid=774) seems to have all the facts, until we take a closer look. Does anyone else know that these cartoons were printed last year? If you said yes, good for you! Why are the Muslims just now making a fuss? Because Iran is under the international microscope and they don't like it. Iran has been pushed off newspaper front pages since these riots started. Iran is still shocked that their friends in Europe would actually dare to tell them what to do. But not shocked enough to just sit there and do nothing. Another question is...where did all the Danish flags come from? Apparently it took them this long to ship in enough for the protests...maybe that's their story..."we needed flags to burn and we couldn't get them any quicker." Right.
On the issue of the cartoons themselves, why shouldn't cartoons make fun of Mohammed? Newspapers can make fun of Christians, Jews, Jesus or any other person related with these beliefs. Why not Islam and why not Mohammed? Because the religion of Islam is the only one that believes that you should kill those who believe different. That's why.
Things like this make me wish the Crusades (a grudge held against Christians by the Muslims) were successful. I don't care how many people say. I don't care how many republicans say it. I don't care how many conservatives say it. Islam is not a religion of peace it is primarily concerned with killing dissenters. No other religion is this extreme...peace has no place in Islam...not the way "the Prophet" told it.