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Mohammed Cartoons redux: Make no apology for defending Western values; Update: Obama bows again

By Michelle Malkin • April 6, 2009 08:14 AM

Scroll for updates…Obama’s assuaging message to the Muslim world…

There is a reason we call Muslim mau-mau-ers the Religion of Perpetual Outrage. They will never give up until you give in. Three years after the Mohammed Cartoon conflagration, the grievance-mongers are still trying to extract contrition out of the Danes and others who stood up for the West and for free speech.

Unfortunately, the ROPO bullies squeezed conciliatory remarks from Former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. He didn’t say the exact words “I’m sorry,” but he might as well have tattooed it on his forehead:

New NATO chief pledges conciliation with Muslims

Former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Monday he would pay close attention to religious sensibilities in his new role as NATO chief in comments aimed at allaying Muslim concerns at his appointment.

Turkey had threatened to veto Rasmussen’s appointment over his handling of a 2006 crisis triggered by cartoons of Islam’s Prophet Mohammad in a Danish newspaper. His comments fell short of the outright apology which Turkish officials had hoped for.

“I respect Islam as one of the world’s major religions as well as its religious symbols,” Rasmussen said during a panel discussion at an Istanbul conference aimed at building bridges between the Muslim world and the West…

…”I was deeply distressed that the cartoons were seen by many Muslims as an attempt by Denmark to mark and insult or behave disrespectively toward Islam or the Prophet Mohammad. Nothing could be further from my mind,” Rasmussen said…

…”During my tenure as the secretary general of NATO I will pay close attention to the religious and cultural sensibilities of the different communities that populate our increasingly pluralistic and globalized world,” Rasmussen said.

How about telling the thugs to start paying attention to the sensibilities of civilized people who don’t wage riots, murder people, and issue death threats over cartoons?

How about a reminder of the cultural insensitivities of the Mo mob to tolerance and free speech?

And how about a reminder of the manufactured pretext that fanned the flames? Remember:

The rage was manufactured pretext. The cartoons had been published four months earlier with little fanfare. It wasn’t until a delegation of instigating Danish imams toured Egypt with the cartoons—plus a few inflammatory fake ones including an old image of a French hog-calling contest participant deceptively portrayed as “anti-Muslim”—that the fire started burning. Think the mainstream media will remember that? Not likely. They fell for the ruse and were slow to acknowledge it after American bloggers and Danish television exposed the scheme.

What was really behind Cartoon Rage? Muslim bullies were attempting to pressure Denmark over the International Atomic Energy Agency’s decision to report Iran to the UN Security Council for continuing with its nuclear research program. The chairmanship of the council was passing to Denmark at the time…

…Alas, Western journalists, analysts, and apologists were too clouded by their cowardice and conciliation to see through the smoke. More than 800 were injured in the ensuing riots and 130 people paid with their lives. The innocents included Italian Catholic priest Andrea Santoro, who was shot to death in Turkey on Feb. 5 by a teenage boy enraged by the illustrations. The Muslim gunman shouted “Allahu Akbar!” as he murdered Father Santoro while the priest knelt praying in his church. Several brave moderate Muslim editors who stood up to the madness were jailed, fined, and convicted of crimes related to insulting Islam.

Allahpundit raises a good question about our president’s role in NATO chief Rasmussen’s supplication to Turkish leaders: What did Obama do and when did he do it?

You will not hear a staunch, clear defense of Western values from the President of the United States on this fundamental issue of liberty vs. tyranny, to borrow Mark Levin’s phrase. Obama’s Bow –like Bush’s hand-holding and sword-dancing with the Wahabbis — is just the tip of the submission iceberg.

Does Rasmussen’s groveling or Obama’s silence speak for you? Literal and figurative curtsies to the Mo mob? Not in my name!

Lan astaslem: Arabic for “I will not submit/surrender”

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Related: Read this and this.

Poligazette weighs in on Rasmussen’s political apology.

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Update: Obama assuages the Muslim world…

President Barack Obama says the United States is not at war with Islam.
The U.S. president is trying to mend fences with a Muslim world that felt it had been blamed by America for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Speaking in Muslim-dominated Turkey, Obama acknowledged that relations between the United States and the Muslim world has been strained. So he said, “Let me say this as clearly as I can: The United States is not at war with Islam.”

And then he said:

But we will not forget 9/11 or WTC 1993 or the USS Cole bombing or Madrid or London or Bali or the Khobar Towers or the African embassy bombings or the Millenium plot or the NYC landmarks plot. And we will not turn a blind eye toward the misery that the sharia enforcers have caused around the world. The United States is not at war with Islam. But Islam’s warriors remain hell-bent on destroying our way of life. And that, let me say this as clearly as I can, will not stand.

In your dreams.

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Own a signed copy of Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard’s Mo cartoon. Westergaard has no regrets.

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#670160

On April 6th, 2009 at 4:31 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

Is the fight over?
Dang, I just made popcorn.
#670164

On April 6th, 2009 at 4:32 pm, sonofdy said:

Your prize: Having to swim through an off-topic flame war about whether or not an atheist commenter will roast in hell for having a different opinion about something from another thread (also off-topic) that had nothing to do with published comics about Mohammad (on which I believe they agreed with said atheist).

No give-backs on the prize. Enjoy.

The thread was about a comic??? I thought it was about whoes going to hell.

i.e everyone but me.
#670166

On April 6th, 2009 at 4:36 pm, Joy said:

God gave us the free will to enter a relationship with Him and forgave our sins through Christ’s sacrifice on the cross and His resurrection. We wouldn’t have a hope of salvation without it, and that much I’ll give you.

However, because our relationship with God is just that – a relationship (Father/child) – we have our end of the bargain to uphold. Being faithful is only a part of that. Our works, our ability to ask for forgiveness, our partaking in the sacraments, and our willingness to use our free will to follow God’s will are all part of that relationship.

If we choose not to uphold our end of the relationship, or choose not seek forgiveness and reconciliation or a relationship with God on any level, at the end of our lives God is not going to suddenly take back the gift of free will and take us to Heaven with him. He will respect that we’ve chosen we didn’t want a relationship with Him and not welcome us into paradise, because it’d be kind of silly for Him to give us free will only to say it really didn’t matter in the end, right?

EQ – Very well-said.
#670168

On April 6th, 2009 at 4:37 pm, 30 pcs of silver said:

On April 6th, 2009 at 3:10 pm, zeroangel said:
Salt in #220:

LOL! Yah I was just thinking the same thing.

Is this evidence that 30 pcs is Clairvoyant?

I had no idea that this thread would devolve into a discussion on Christianity vs atheism … honest, no idea.
#670170

On April 6th, 2009 at 4:39 pm, Salt said:

On April 6th, 2009 at 4:22 pm, chapoutier said:

Pretty soon you will be trying out the “wear all black, form-fitting clothes, grow a goatee and shave my eyebrows so their pointy” atheism.

Hmm… I think you’re confusing Nihilism with Atheism.

Can’t help but quote South Park since we’re so far off topic:

Let us make it abundantly clear: if you hate life, truly hate the sun, and need to smoke and drink coffee, you are Goth. If, however, you like dressing in black ’cause it’s “fun,” enjoy putting sparkles on your cheeks and following the occult while avoiding things that are bad for your health, then you are most likely a d&^*bag vampire wannabe boner.
#670177

On April 6th, 2009 at 4:44 pm, Joy said:

Zero – R4L told me I’m going to hell too! We have more in common that we thought.

I think the most alarming thing to me over just about anything else in this world is that a Christian would feel apparent glee or some other feeling of triumph or satisfaction that another human being would end up burning in flames for all eternity.
#670179

On April 6th, 2009 at 4:46 pm, chapoutier said:

Hmm… I think you’re confusing Nihilism with Atheism.

You clearly haven’t seen the show “Atheist Viewpoint” on cable access.
#670191

On April 6th, 2009 at 4:56 pm, right4life said:

On April 6th, 2009 at 4:44 pm, Joy said:
Zero – R4L told me I’m going to hell too! We have more in common that we thought.

why don’t you post your proof? bet ya can’t ‘honey’
#670192

On April 6th, 2009 at 4:58 pm, right4life said:

oh and since less-than-zero has made accusations that he cannot back up..here’s thread with him…

and what a couple posters said about him…

On April 1st, 2009 at 2:31 am, hitcharide said:
Yohann, it’s my fault. I attempted to use reason, logic and fact with someone who doesn’t recognize such things.

On April 1st, 2009 at 11:08 pm, yohannbiimu said:
zero, I am going to say this, and then take my leave of you, because you are ignorant. You come here all high and mighty, believing that you are armed with facts and the truth, and you are armed with nothing.

link

you can read it for yourselves.
#670198

On April 6th, 2009 at 5:04 pm, right4life said:

I’m surprised anyone is stupid enough to believe zero’s lies…but you know what they say ‘there’s one born every minute’
#670234

On April 6th, 2009 at 6:12 pm, Salt said:

On April 6th, 2009 at 4:58 pm, right4life said:

you can read it for yourselves.

Yes, we certainly all can and most all of us have, repeatedly over several threads, in fact. We definitely do not need to for it to spill into several more future threads.
#670242

On April 6th, 2009 at 6:39 pm, Patronedheart said:

On April 6th, 2009 at 4:26 pm, Salt said:
On April 6th, 2009 at 4:20 pm, Patronedheart said:

I win! What’s my prize?

Your prize: Having to swim through an off-topic flame war about whether or not an atheist commenter will roast in hell for having a different opinion about something from another thread (also off-topic) that had nothing to do with published comics about Mohammad (on which I believe they agreed with said atheist).

No give-backs on the prize. Enjoy.

Did I say 200? Oh! I only meant 20! hehe.
#670263

On April 6th, 2009 at 7:13 pm, right4life said:

On April 6th, 2009 at 6:12 pm, Salt said:

don’t like it? don’t read it.

how hard is this?
#670278

On April 6th, 2009 at 7:33 pm, fred5676 said:

“America’s relationship with the Muslim world cannot and will not be based on opposition to al Qaida,” he said. “We seek broad engagement based upon mutual interests and mutual respect.”

Says it all – Obama wants to ‘engage’ with countries sympathetic/supporting Al Qaida???

Not as MY F’n president!!
#670282

On April 6th, 2009 at 7:44 pm, MtsEdge said:

mutual interests

like what??? LOL
#670290

On April 6th, 2009 at 8:05 pm, happyscrapper said:

O.K. I just finished reading through this entire thread. Whew! My pick for the best post of the thread was this one:

On April 6th, 2009 at 3:15 pm, sonofdy said:
Okay, so today we learned we are all hellbound, obama is the anti-christ, and zombies have lost thier power to deflect a topic.

At least you aren’t all calling each other icelanders.

I know I will hate myself in the morning for saying this, but I don’t think Zero deserved the kind of crap that was thrown at him by that thick skulled, rigid, fundamentalist religious extremist fanatic who I will not name. Now don’t get me wrong. I still don’t like Zero much. But that judgmental creep was really getting on my nerves. By the way, the reason Zero is, shall we say, not my favorite person, is because he can be such a pompous jerk, NOT because he is an atheist. Just wanted to claify that.
#670295

On April 6th, 2009 at 8:15 pm, right4life said:

On April 6th, 2009 at 8:05 pm, happyscrapper

if you’re talking about me, have the guts to say so. since I’m apparently the villian OOOOHH in this thread..

and if you are, I’ll repeat what zero said to me, F YOU.
#670297

On April 6th, 2009 at 8:17 pm, right4life said:

I hardly said anything at all to zero, and I actually agreed with him.

some of you posters are just full of sh** get a clue, get a life, and mind your own business.

wackos.
#670304

On April 6th, 2009 at 8:30 pm, John Deaux said:

happy,

It was the F You that really got things going. Zero said it and R4L took it personal.

I just want y’all to kiss and make up. Of course, it’s possible you’re both dudes and that’s a whole other thread.

Happy and chap, it wasn’t any of us this time!
#670307

On April 6th, 2009 at 8:32 pm, right4life said:

On April 6th, 2009 at 8:30 pm, John Deaux said

I’m not surprised zero lied about me, but I am surprised that a supposed ‘christian’ like EQ would.

and I know zero wouldn’t say things like that to my face…he’s just a punk-a** boy.
#670312

On April 6th, 2009 at 8:45 pm, right4life said:

what I find amazing about this whole thread is that I actually agreed with zero, it was a waste of time to try to proselytize him.

then he goes off on me, and EQ starts lying about me…and then they say I’m upset cause I wanted to proselytize zero…

as far as I’m concerned most people on this thread are either woefully ignorant, or just can’t read.

I wouldn’t cast pearls before swine and try to proselytize that moron zero. I make fun of his dumb a** all the time. I enjoy making him look stupid, which is real easy.

as far as ‘condmening him to hell’ oh please, since everyone is SOOO concerned about that…hows this? ZERO CAN GO TO HELL…and so can the rest of you lying wackos, and you know who you are.

this has been the weirdest thread of any I have been on, on this, or any other site.
#670313

On April 6th, 2009 at 8:45 pm, John Deaux said:

R4L,

I suspect EQ thought you were being judgemental.

In any case, we still all agree that Obama is bad, but not necessarily anti-Christ bad.

Oh, and zombies have lost their off thread tangent touch.
#670316

On April 6th, 2009 at 8:48 pm, right4life said:

On April 6th, 2009 at 8:45 pm, John Deaux said:
R4L,

I suspect EQ thought you were being judgemental.

at this point, I don’t care what she thinks…as far as I’m concerned she’s nothing more than a liar.

maybe it was just a bad time of the month….
#670317

On April 6th, 2009 at 8:50 pm, MtsEdge said:

as far as ‘condmening him to hell’ oh please, since everyone is SOOO concerned about that

r4l, FWIW there were only a handful of posters out of perhaps thousands who read this blog who jumped on you. I personally didn’t think you were condemning anyone, I looked up the verses you quoted (in my KJV ) and they were exactly as you stated. It is more of a concern to me that I don’t personally act in a way that would make those verses apply to me, but I think I understand what you were trying to do (minus the cussing of course ).
#670319

On April 6th, 2009 at 8:53 pm, right4life said:

On April 6th, 2009 at 8:50 pm, MtsEdge said:

thank you very much!

this has been a very strange thread…
#670320

On April 6th, 2009 at 8:56 pm, MtsEdge said:

this has been a very strange thread…

ditto – but we can learn a lot from controversy – I know I have
#670321

On April 6th, 2009 at 9:01 pm, right4life said:

the controvery is fun, the lies are annoying…but its to expected from some people…

I always enjoy stirring it up…
#670324

On April 6th, 2009 at 9:03 pm, right4life said:

I don’t personally act in a way that would make those verses apply to me

oh I think if you’re really His, you cannot…He keeps you…because we would blow it if we could…
#670326

On April 6th, 2009 at 9:05 pm, MtsEdge said:

r4l, I know you like to mix it up….
#670329

On April 6th, 2009 at 9:07 pm, MtsEdge said:

oh I think if you’re really His, you cannot…He keeps you…because we would blow it if we could…

I agree, we’d blow it if we could.

P.S. That reminds me of Rom. 8:38-39. What an encouragement.
#670330

On April 6th, 2009 at 9:08 pm, right4life said:

have a great night my friend…(not be confused with mccain’s ‘my friends’)

may the Lord bless you and keep you, and may He make His face shine upon you and be gracious unto you….
#670333

On April 6th, 2009 at 9:18 pm, MtsEdge said:

…(not be confused with mccain’s ‘my friends’)

LOL

may the Lord bless you and keep you, and may He make His face shine upon you and be gracious unto you….

thanks – right back at ya

g’night
#670370

On April 6th, 2009 at 10:53 pm, garydt said:

Hell is reserved for all those who refuse to repent of their sins. Those who question that belief are truely gambling on eternity and no one can measure the length of an everlasting eternity. People like Zero are plowing into a china closet with out any thinking of “what if I am wrong” and whereas the Christians if they are wrong lose nothing.By the way BO with his military cuts and appeasements will destroy this nation in one term or less.
#670625

On April 7th, 2009 at 11:41 am, zeroangel said:

garydt:

It’s amazing to me that you haven’t yet read any rebuttal of Pascal’s Wager.