Imam inserts insulting images
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Cartoons controversy based on twisted facts
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Date......: 9 Febr 2006
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Imam inserts insulting images
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Cartoons controversy based on twisted facts
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09Feb06
Dutch F16's have been deployed to keep the protests against the Danish
cartoons from getting out of hand, protests that up until now have cost
the lives of 14 people. The Prime Minister of Denmark 'Mr Rasmussen told
a news conference in Copenhagen "we are now facing a growing global
crisis" over the cartoons', re****ts the BBC {1}. Iran has cut off trade
relations. In spite of all of the excitement, little of the official
story -believed by friend and foe alike- appears to add up. What is
clear is that a Danish Muslim leader inserted insulting cartoons and
other images into the larger collection of Danish cartoons, with which
he then went on to generate publicity in the Middle East.
'"We're seeing ourselves characterised as an intolerant people or as
enemies of Islam as a religion. That picture is false. Extremists and
radicals who seek a clash of cultures and religions are spreading it,"
Mr Rasmussen said {1}.' Which image is fake and who are the extremists?
Three insulting images added by Imam
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Let us begin with the image. The BBC re****ts: 'The Jyllands-Posten
cartoons do not include some images that may have had a role in bringing
the issue to international attention {2}.' According to the BBC there
has been talk of a 'misunderstanding' concerning the three additional
images in question {3}: 'Three images in particular have done the
rounds, in Gaza for example, which are re****ted to be considerably more
obscene and were mistakenly assumed to have been part of the
Jyllands-Posten set.' One of the pictures concerns a blurry photocopy of
a man wearing a pig snout {4}. This has nothing to do with an insult to
the prophet Mohammed, but is instead a photo {5} from an annual French
festival {6} where the squealing of pigs is imitated: 'It was re****tedly
circulated by Danish Muslims to illustrate the atmosphere of
Islamophobia which they say they live under', re****ts the BBC. The
Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet re****ts that the man in the picture is
shocked that his masked face has come to cause so much misery {7}; the
photographer has labeled the situation 'totally bizarre' and is
considering legal action.
On February 2nd The Counter Terrorism Blog wrote that the photocopy was
distributed by the Danish imam Ahmad Abu Laban, the head of the Islamic
Society of Denmark {8}. Laban, who received little sympathy from either
the newspaper or the Danish Prime Minister after the twelve cartoons
were published, went on a tour through the Middle East looking to make
news, just as he had earlier announced he would {9}: '"We want to
internationalize this issue so that the Danish government would realize
that the cartoons were not only insulting to Muslims in Denmark but also
to Muslims worldwide," said Abu Laban. "It was decided to take such a
step because it is wrong to turn a blind eye to the fact that some
European countries discriminate against their Muslims on the grounds
that they are not democratic and that they can not understand western
culture."' The Counter Terrorism Blog revealed {10} that the Muslim
delegation then inserted pictures into the series of cartoons from the
Danish newspaper: '(...) the Danish Muslim delegation showed much more
than the 12 cartoons published by Jyllands Posten. In the booklet it
presented during its tour of the Middle East, the delegation included
other cartoons of Mohammed that were highly offensive, including one
where the Prophet has a pig face. But these additional pictures were NOT
published by the newspaper, but were completely fabricated by the
delegation and inserted in the booklet (which has been obtained and made
available to me by Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet). The delegation has
claimed that the differentiation was made to their interlocutors, even
though the claim has not been independently verified. In any case, the
action was a deliberate malicious and irresponsible deed carried out by
a notorious Islamist (...)'. That ****trayal is a possible reference to
this statement {11}: '"We love bin Laden, we love Saddam Hussein, and
anyone who is willing to destroy the U.S"', said Laban, as quoted in the
Jerusalem Post.
This also supplies the extremist component to this story - to which the
Danish Prime Minister alluded. Flemming Rose, culture editor of the
Danish newspaper-in-question, elaborates on this further {12}: '"All of
that gratuitous rubbish was trumped around to trigger a campaign of
senseless hatred," Rose said. (...) International terrorism expert
Lorenzo Vidino, of the Wa****ngton, D.C.-based Investigative Project
{13}, said he believes the additional drawings "added fuel to the fire."
"The original cartoons were offensive, but these were worse," he said.
"It was really nasty stuff." Vidino, author of the recently published
"Al Qaeda in Europe: The New Battleground of International Jihad {14},"
said the ****tfolio itself made no distinctions between the sets of
drawings. "They said they made the distinction in their presentations.
Did they? That's impossible to know. But I do know that in Arabic chat
rooms, people were talking about the Danes showing pictures of the
prophet Muhammad as a pig." Vidino said the group's leader, Ahmed Abu
Laban, describes himself as a moderate imam but has past ties to radical
Islamists, such as serving as a translator for top al-Qaida aide Ayman
al-Zawahri in the early 1990s.'
Cui bono? [Who benefits from this? - Ap.]
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The all-im****tant question of who stands to benefit from the situation
is in this case partially addressed by Druze leader and head of the
Lebanese Progressive Socialist Party Walid Jumblatt {15} who says that
'the Danish office burnings were directed by the regime of Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad in part using undercover soldiers acting as
rioters {16}. Later, during the (ABC)radio interview {17}, Jumblatt
clarified he thinks Syria worked together with Iran to orchestrate the
riots. "All over the Islamic world there were civilized protests except
in Lebanon and Syria," said Jumblatt. "I suggest the Syrian government
and regime with their allies were behind these attacks."' For Syria the
appeal may lie with the distraction that the controversy offers from the
ongoing investigation into the death of the Lebanese leader Hariri {18}.
Iran can use the dispute to reinforce its anti-Western kamikaze attitude
in advance of the coming war {19} that Israel and the United States are
now preparing for. These last two countries view the circumstances
surrounding the cartoons positively because it casts 'the Muslims' in a
negative light, which will suit them well during the lead-up to the
coming war against Iran.
Worldwide retreat into the trench of fundamentalism
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The cartoon situation is part of a worldwide rightward ****ft towards
fundamentalism and intractability. In the chaos created by
disinformation and the lack of reliable information, many people cling
to powerful symbols and powerful leaders. It is a retreat into the
trenches, orchestrated by those who are disseminating the disinformation
and submitted to by those who, in the face of a glut of disinformation
and meaningless news, are in no position to define an alternate course.
The logical reaction is to become defensive, and to hold that position
by attacking. Examples of this can be seen in the election victory of
Hamas, the fundamentalist extremism of the American President Bush and
the Iranian President Ahmadinejad, statements by Chirac concerning
France's willingness to use nuclear weapons, the 'fundamentalizing' of
immigrant youth in The Netherlands, the strained relations between
French youth and the French government, and measures introduced all over
the world limiting people's freedom. It can even be seen in this rap
video {20}, in which it is once again made clear that both sides -
Westerners and non-Westerners, Christians and Muslims, seculars and
believers - are walking headfirst into the trap that has been set with
the help of multiple forms of psychological warfare, designed to turn
people against each other and play one side off against the other.
LINKS
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{1} article BBC.:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4690338.stm
{2} article BBC.: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4693292.stm
{3} picture 1...: http://ekstrabladet.dk/grafik/nettet/tegninger38.jpg
picture 2...: http://ekstrabladet.dk/grafik/nettet/tegninger40.jpg
picture 3...: http://ekstrabladet.dk/grafik/nettet/tegninger39.jpg
{4} photocopy...: http://ekstrabladet.dk/grafik/nettet/tegninger38.jpg
{5} photo.......:
http://www.neandernews.com/wp-content/themes/images/pigsquealcontest.jpg
{6} festival....: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8959820
{7} Danish paper: http://www.neandernews.com/?cat=6
{8} Laban.......:
http://counterterror.typepad.com/the_counterterrorism_blog/2006/02/fabricated_cart.html
{9} Announcement:
http://islamonline.net/English/News/2005-11/18/article02.shtml
{10} Added pics..:
http://counterterror.typepad.com/the_counterterrorism_blog/2006/02/fabricated_cart.html
{11} Statement...:
http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:qr5xvnvb4uEJ:www.jewishsf.com/bk020913/i10.shtml
{12} F. Rose.....:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-wopig084617877feb08,0,4626851,print.story?coll=ny-worldnews-print
{13} Inv. Project: http://www.investigativeproject.org/
{14} Vidino......:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591024331/sr=1-1/qid=1139440555/ref=sr_1_1/103-1270228-9856613?%5Fencoding=UTF8
{15} W. Jumblatt.:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4348129.stm
{16} W. Jumblatt.:
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48716
{17} ABC Radio...:
http://www.johnbatchelorshow.com/audio/Jumblatt_Walid%20Unaired%20Edit.mp3
{18} Death Hariri:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/27/bush.hariri/index.html
{19} Coming war..: http://www.daanspeak.com/IranAttack01Eng.html
{20} Rap video...:
http://www.investigativeproject.org/videos/DIRTY-KUFFAR_Hi.wmv
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