Chicken Run!

[cryowizard]

I can't fucking believe this! We checkened out. Again. In the face of "muslim outrage". We have kissed their ass hoping this would help us in Iraq...sigh...and this Administration is considered a hard Republican one...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington on Friday condemned caricatures in European newspapers of the Prophet Mohammad, siding with Muslims who are outraged that the publications put press freedom over respect for religion.

By inserting itself into a dispute that has become a lightning rod for anti-European sentiment across the Muslim world, the United States could help its own battered image among Muslims.

"These cartoons are indeed offensive to the belief of Muslims," State Department spokesman Kurtis Cooper said in answer to a question. "We all fully recognize and respect freedom of the press and expression but it must be coupled with press responsibility. Inciting religious or ethnic hatreds in this manner is not acceptable."

"We call for tolerance and respect for all communities for their religious beliefs and practices," he added.

Major U.S. publications have not republished the cartoons, which include depictions of Mohammad as a terrorist. That is in contrast to European media, which responded to the criticism against the original Danish newspaper that printed the caricatures by republishing the offensive images themselves.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060203/pl_nm/religion_cartoons_usa_dc

Comments

[rkatsyv.livejournal.com]

we now look like fucking double-standarding fools

No, my friend, much worse. We look like cowards. Muslim culture actually respects people who are good liars (double-standards, etc.) but they absolutely despise any signs of weakness or cowardice.

I expected them to maintain a line

Oh, they do, it just isn't a very straight line :) Soon after 9/11 White House held an after-Ramadan celebration dinner where W invited all the prominent Muslim clerics in the land. Some ass-kissing commenced. Many of those clerics are (and were) known for the extremist rhetoric they spew from the pulpits of their mosques.